Note: Cross posted from [wp angelfury] Battered Mothers Rights – A Human Rights Issue.Permalink “Media calls it TRAGEDIES these are OUTRAGES get it right media!! Crimes against others are not Tragedies they are OUTRAGES!!” Trag·e·dy (trj-d) n. pl. trag·e·dies – 1. A drama or literary work in which the main character is brought to ruin or suffers extreme sorrow, especially as a consequence of a tragic flaw, moral weakness, or inability to cope with unfavorable circumstances. OUTRAGES

Dealing With Canine Senility Ga ry Washington - Free-Dog-Tips.com As a result of an improved health care system, more dogs are living longer than ever before. The result is a corresponding increase in geriatric-related problems. Many of the health problems you find in older dogs mimic, to a large extent, those of their human counterpart. Canine Cognitive Dysfunction Syndrome (CCDS), for example, is similar to Alzheimer’s disease. With an aging dog population, CCD can and does present a pr

As a result of my recent posts in Amanda Hess’ “The Sexist” blog, many of you are reading the Monologues for the first time. Before you read my earlier posts, there’s something I want to clarify, but first, I will quote a recent Commentator on “The Sexist” in response to my post, “Murder and Mayhem”A guy named Danny commented, with my original comments in quotes, as follows (his entire comment, including my original comments, is in bold):This is not to say rape shouldn’t be illegal. After all,

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Austin, a gay 15-year-old from Michigan, with his mother, Nadia. BY BENOIT DENIZET-LEWIS New York Times Magazine Austin didn’t know what to wear to his first gay dance last spring. It was bad enough that the gangly 13-year-old from Sand Springs, Okla., had to go without his boyfriend at the time, a 14-year-old star athlete at another middle school, but there were also laundry issues. “I don’t have any clean clothes!” he complained to me by text message, his favored method of commun