From the Guardian: _Brazil yesterday became the first country to “take a public stand”:http://www.guardian.co.uk/aids/story/0,7369,1475965,00.html against the Bush administration’s massive Aids programme which is seen by many as seeking increasingly to press its anti-abortion, pro-abstinence sexual agenda on poorer countries._ In other words, they decided it wasn’t worth $40 million to make bad public health decisions. [...]
Posted by Chris in Sexuality on May 4th, 2005 | 1 Comment »
A group called “vision42″:http://www.vision42.org/ has proposed making the entire length of 42nd Street in New York City car-free. The existing street would become a pedestrian area with a light rail line down the center. As the New York Times points out, “the idea is not new”:http://www.vision42.org/news/articles/041805_nytimes/, but it seems like this time it may have [...]
Posted by Chris in Environment on May 3rd, 2005 | Comments Off
We saw the “Hitchhiker’s Guide movie”:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371724/ over the weekend, as you might have guessed. I liked it a lot, and so did Karen. I can imagine we’ll watch it again when it comes out on DVD. Of course, we also watched and liked “The Pirate Movie”:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084504/ this weekend, so we’re probably not the most stable [...]
Posted by Chris in Film on May 2nd, 2005 | 1 Comment »
In a depressingly unsuprising move, the State of Florida successfully sued to “prevent a pregnant 13-year-old ward of the state from having an abortion”:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4500245.stm on the grounds that she’s too immature to make the decision. The irony of this would be hilarious if it wasn’t so sickening. Fortunately “Fafblog can be witty”:http://fafblog.blogspot.com/2005/04/old-beyond-her-years-florida-has-no.html in ways that [...]
Posted by Chris in Government on May 2nd, 2005 | Comments Off
