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From the page: "And there are constant reminders that she's not responsible for the effect she has on Edward or Jacob. This bland passivity has been excused as a way of allowing female readers to project themselves into Bella's place, but the overall effect is a weird infantilization that has repellent overtones to an adult reader and hardly seems like an admirable model to foist upon our daughters (or sons)."

DON'T do this to your cat!


From the page: declawing is the process of actual amputation of each toe up to the first knuckle. Very tender nerve endings extend as far out as the base of the claw - which is why the claw itself will bleed if you clip it too low. "Declawing surgery results in cats bouncing off the walls of the recovery cage because of excruciating pain

Horrifying. To execute someone you KNOW is innocent... I don't even have words for how appalling that is.


From the page: But subsequent reviews found troubling problems with the arson finding. In 2004, as Willingham sat on death row protesting his innocence, an independent investigator reviewed the original report and concluded that the fire was accidental and that the initial investigation was based on "junk science". That report was sent to the governor's office and the Board of Pardons and Paroles, but Willingham's appeals were turned down and he was executed on February 17th 2004.

From the page: Now we have two economies. We have recovering banks while we have 10-plus percent unemployment and 17.5 percent underemployment. The gross thing about the Wall Street of the last decade is how much its success was not shared with society.