Yet a little more surfaced today on John McCain and his fine respect for women from his first wife, Carol: ‘My marriage ended because John McCain didn’t want to be 40, he wanted to be 25. You know that happens…it just does.’ Yep… It does happen. But, some would say that McCain is “a self-centred womaniser who effectively abandoned his crippled wife to ‘play the field’.” And that decription could fit considering he married “a former rodeo beauty queen,” quite possibly ”for...
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Honor Killing in Iraq – Update
About two weeks ago, I posted about this story of an honor killing in Iraq of a girl who had fallen in love with a British soldier. There is now an update from the Guardian, and it’s not good: “Five weeks ago Leila Hussein told The Observer the chilling story of how her husband had killed their 17-year-old daughter over her friendship with a British soldier in Basra. Now Leila, who had been in hiding, has been murdered –...
Conflicts Without End and Regionalization
Cross-posted at The Global Sociology Blog. The story that attracted my attention was from the Guardian: “A 90-year-old Rwandan genocide survivor has been stabbed and burned to death by a gang that included four assailants who had confessed to taking part in the 1994 slaughter. Generosa Mukanyonga, a widow who lost her husband and children during the 1994 killings, was murdered because of her petition for compensation, said Benoit Kaboyi, the executive secretary of Ibuka, a body representing genocide...
Music Break – The Wombats
Cross-posted at The Global Sociology Blog. The Wombats, “Backfired at the Disco”, from their Album A Guide to Love, Loss and Desperation . And “Let’s Dance to Joy Division” from the same album. Sphere: Related Content
Democracy = Free Sex Change Operations for Everybody!!
Via the BBC: “Cuba has authorised sex-change operations and will offer them free to qualifying citizens, officials say. The move is the latest in a series of policy changes implemented by President Raul Castro since he succeeded his elder brother, Fidel, in February. Raul Castro’s daughter, who heads the National Centre for Sex Education, spearheaded the changes in a country renowned for sexual conservatism. So far 28 transsexuals in the country have requested the operation. (…) Last month, for...
Gas Price Record Reaches $4 a Gallon
The national average gas price for a gallon of “regular unleaded rose 1.7 cents to $4.005, according the daily measure on the AAA’s Web site. That surpassed the previous record of $3.989 set Thursday. The milestone was expected after a surge in crude oil prices added more than $16 to a barrel of oil over the last 2 trading days. Crude settled at a record $138.54 a barrel Friday, up by $10.75, after setting an all-time intraday high of...
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