Archive | August, 2010

Other Medical Reasons for Taking Birth Control Pills

Birth Control Pills

Of course there is the obvious reason for taking birth control pills and that is birth control. However, that’s only small potatoes for some women. I’ve been on said pills since I was eighteen. I began taking them due to very bad periods and a severe lack of regulation. I have tried almost every type [...]

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Vision From Feeling Video Part II from TAM8. Starring Me!

Anita Ikonen

Anita Ikonen from Vision From Feeling did short spontaneous interviews with those who were willing to participate at TAM8. She may be a woo, but I happen to like her; she’s really sweet. I do find it strange that Anita asserts she is a skeptic about everything except her claim to be able to attain [...]

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Music is not Compatible with Islam

Nature's Dancefloor

And Islam gets even nuttier. Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said today that music is “not compatible” with the values of the Islamic republic, and should not be practised or taught in the country. In some of the most extreme comments by a senior regime figure since the 1979 revolution, Khamenei said: “Although music [...]

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A few notes on Israel and the Middle East

US Aid to Israel

I know I criticize Israel from time to time. To be clear, I do not consider myself anti-Israel necessarily; I just do not believe any nation or ideal is above criticism. They are not perfect, just as any nation is not perfect. Yet, I can’t help but wonder what exactly anti-Israel is. Do I believe [...]

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Proposition 8 has been declared unconstitutional. Finally.

Loving Relationships: Prop 8 Protest (May 26, 2009)

Prop 8 is overturned. Activists and progressives who are concerned with equality and justice just exhaled the biggest rainbow-colored breath. I have written about this divisive and ugly proposition and the following protest (one of the many). So how cool is this news on this blogger’s 48th birthday: Proposition 8, the horrible and neurotic (Who cares who [...]

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