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Thursday
11Mar2010

Israel | Palestine Peace Joke Update

DateThursday, March 11, 2010 at 7:27AM

Love | Peace In what we perceive to be a ‘how stupid does Israel think we are’ reaction to their ‘accidentally-timed’ announcement of building 1600 new housing units in Ramat Shlomo, Israel’s Prime Minister sought to put a different spin on the housing project, saying it might not be built for years.

Israel runs a masterfully-tight ship and the announcement was perfectly-timed, in our opinion.

The Jerusalem Post reports that US Vice President Joe Biden spoke at Tel Aviv University, saying he realized that construction in east Jerusalem “is a very touchy subject in Israel,” but because Israel’s decision to advance the housing project, in his view, “undermined the trust required to conduct the negotiations, I – at the request of President Obama – condemned it immediately.”

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Wednesday
10Mar2010

Catholic Sex Abuse | Vatican's Exorcist Says 'Devil's Living at the Vatican'

DateWednesday, March 10, 2010 at 7:16PM

RedTracker| Just in via the London Times. The chief exorcist of the Vatican Father Gabriele Amorth, a man who says he has dealt with 70,000 bases of demonic possession in 25 years, says that “the Devil is at work inside the Vatican”.

No word yet on whether the Devil has moved in permamently at the Vatican or just long enough to cause some serious embarassment over all new cases of sex abuse — popping up all over Europe.

Father Amorth says the problem is  “cardinals who do not believe in Jesus, and bishops who are linked to the Demon”.

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Wednesday
10Mar2010

One Tweet | Your 'Perfect' French Life | C'est Tout 

DateWednesday, March 10, 2010 at 6:56PM

Dots| I wrote What If the Sarkozy Marriage Rumors Are False? Think Jolie | Pitt and Madonna | Luz late this morning. After watching the mess of Madonna | Luz and Jolie | Pitt false rumors ignite the Internet, we’re totally cognizant that Twitter is becoming a rumor monger, a platform for saying anything about anybody.

Carla Bruni was featured tonight in Britain on a Sky News Art show. In the tape, she seemed darn happy with her husband. So the London Times has now weighed in with an explanation of what they believe happened with the French first couple. The French Sunday news magazine that gave credibility to the story has taken down the post. Read on at the London Times.

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Wednesday
10Mar2010

The Sexual Alignment of Aging Americans

DateWednesday, March 10, 2010 at 6:18PM

Body| Beauty| Sex New research was published today that reviews self-reported sexual actvity among older Americans. As you might expect men are having more sex and unfortunately for women, enjoying it more as well.

Devoted to positive sexuality in humans of every age, we’re a bit glum over the results.  We have a fantastic video from Dr. Christiane Northrup that gives the best advice for older women on how to be irresistible at every age. Read on Men & Women | Sexuality & Aging | SALE. The latter doesn’t involve a discount. It’s an investment in your future.  Photos from Dove’s Pro-Age campaign.

Note: the study has an exclusively heterosexual focus.

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Wednesday
10Mar2010

Oxymoron | Speaking Freely As a Fundamentalist

DateWednesday, March 10, 2010 at 1:47PM

Love | Peace Admittedly, I’m preparing to write about Jihad Jane aka Colleen La Rose and performed my usual writing ritual of looking for opposing views of the same question. My only problem it that after taking a look around MuslimConverts.com, I cannot go without bookmarking the website.

Have you ever noticed that ardent believers in every cause expect us to give up our simplest freedoms to support the greater good? The very page that condemns loose morals and inappropriate dress in Western women makes me force-close my browser as the only way of leaving without formalizing our relationship. So much for digital ethics of a different kind. Read on Fundamentalism, Free Speech & The Jihadist.

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Wednesday
10Mar2010

Israel's 'Bibi Express' Has Heaven In View 

DateWednesday, March 10, 2010 at 1:25PM

Love | Peace I’ve had a pretty chilling hour educating myself about Pastor Hagee and Benjamin Netanyahu, together in Jerusalem this week.

For certain, America’s Vice President should have stayed out of Israel, where he was handed a major embarassment yesterday in the form of new Jewish settlements.  We’re aware of the strong link between Israel and Fundamentalism. We’re well aware that Evangelists dream of nuclear war, so they get a rip-roaring trip to heaven (truly, Hagee’s own words are in the video). But the possibility of peace in the Middle East never seemed so impossible to us as it is today.

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Wednesday
10Mar2010

Acts of Kindness Spread Easily When a Few Ignite the Process

DateWednesday, March 10, 2010 at 7:45AM

RedTracker| Some of our most vivid scenes are of lawlessness and looting, out-of-control ‘bad acts’. Yet a handful of individuals can make a huge difference in spreading acts of kindness, generosity and cooperation.

The research was conducted by James Fowler, associate professor at UC San Diego in the Department of Political Science and Calit2’s Center for Wireless and Population Health Systems, and Nicholas Christakis of Harvard, who is professor of sociology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and professor of medicine and medical sociology at Harvard Medical School. Fowler and Christakis are coauthors of the recently published book “Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives.”

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Wednesday
10Mar2010

Early Chemical Competition in Cell's Embryonic Development

DateWednesday, March 10, 2010 at 7:28AM

RedTracker| Scientists have discovered important new information about the earliest phase of embryonic development. Studying fruit fly embryos (fertilized eggs) a Princeton University-led team has discovered protein competition for an important enzyme provides a mechanism to integrate different signals that direct early embroynic development.

These signals via the enzyme occur long before they interact with the organism’s DNA, overturning a current assumption. The fought-over enzyme, known as the mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK), is found in all complex organisms, ranging from yeast to humans.

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Wednesday
10Mar2010

Lizard Moms Pass On Gender-Specific Genes

DateWednesday, March 10, 2010 at 7:12AM

GreenBeings| Lizard moms have solved an evolutionary challenge of how to get the right fitness genes to the right gender. Brown anole female lizards mate with several males, then ‘shuffle their sperm deck’ to so speak, producing more sons with sperm from large fathers and more daughters from sperm with smaller ones.

“This species has figured out a clever way to pass on genes with gender-specific effects on fitness,” said Bob Cox, the lead author on the paper and a post-doctoral researcher at Dartmouth in Hanover, N.H. “Usually, when natural selection pulls genes in different directions for each gender, the species faces an evolutionary dilemma. But these lizards have solved this puzzle, they’ve figured out how to get the right genes into the right gender.”

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Wednesday
10Mar2010

Corruption Captures Half of Somalia Food Aid

DateWednesday, March 10, 2010 at 6:57AM

GlobalFutures| A new UN Security Council reports investigated food aid sent into Somalia, concluding that as much as half the food aid which serves about 2.5 million people and was worth $485 million in 2009 was diverted into a corrupt system of contractors, radical Islamist militants and local UN staff members.

The report shown to the NYTimes recomments that Secretary General Ban Ki-moon open an independent investigation into the World Food Program’s Somalia operations.

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Tuesday
09Mar2010

Nude | Purple Mag | Terry Richardson

DateTuesday, March 9, 2010 at 9:14PM

Private Studio| Richardson is his typical, predictable, campy photographer self. Nice girls, though.

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Tuesday
09Mar2010

Americans Use Drugs Like No Others

DateTuesday, March 9, 2010 at 8:53PM

HopeTracker| In America, over 40% of adults admit to using marijuana at some time in their lives, vs 22% among European adults. In the same study, the World Health Organization’s study of 85,000 households concludes that America has the highest drug use in the world.

With our extensive drug enforcement effort and Nancy Reagan’s ‘just so no’ approach to drugs, coupled with a chorus of Conservative and religious anti-drug admonitions, America is the drug using capital of the world.

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Tuesday
09Mar2010

Pope's Brother Swept Into Germany's Abuse Case

DateTuesday, March 9, 2010 at 8:37PM

RedTracker| The unfolding Catholic Church scandals in Germany and the Netherlands have now touched Pope Benedict’s brother, who has admitted to administering corporeal punishment, hitting children around the ears when they didn’t perform well at choir practice.

Monseignor Ratzinger referred to the headmaster in charge at the Regensburg school from 1953 to 1992 as being ‘very violent’.

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Tuesday
09Mar2010

Rumors Fly About Sarkozy|Bruni Split

DateTuesday, March 9, 2010 at 5:51PM

Beauty| Body| Sex Call us speechless! The Elysee Palace refused to comment to on rumors that the marriage of President Nicholas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni is on the rocks, with both parties having affiars.

The usually quiet French media reports that Bruni is having an affair with musician Benjamin Biolay (above right) and that Sarkozy is seeking solce with his ecology minister Chantal Jouanno.

UK’s First Post quotes Le Journal du Dimanche, who wrote: 

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Tuesday
09Mar2010

Victoria's Secret Celebrates Body Types

DateTuesday, March 9, 2010 at 4:00PM

Body| Beauty| Sex Victoria’s Secret models come in all sizes. Alessandra Ambrosio (left), last year’s highest-paid model, describes herself as voluptuous and curvy. Today’s Daily Mail disagrees. We like this photo because it underscores how easily our perceptions of one woman’s size changes, depending on the woman next to her. Doutzen Kroes and Brooklyn Decker are more voluptuous. Read on Victoria’s Ssecret Models | Skinny to Curvy

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