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22 December 11
It has been said that having no pubic hair is normative; however, findings from this study suggest that there is no one dominant pubic hair style. Given the growth rate of hair and women’s often sporadic hair removal, there is likely great diversity in the amount of pubic hair that women have at any given time. After all, pubic hair is in a constant state of growth, which suggests that pubic hair “style” may be a malleable concept.
Posted: 12:05 AM
12 October 11
More on Camila Vallejo and the Chilean student movement. I’m kinda obsessed.
Posted: 11:38 PM
Posted: 11:35 PM

Local officials on all sides would do well to remember that actual people’s lives are at stake here and spend a little less time cheering their strengthened bargaining positions, discussing who forced whose hand, and offering weak assurances that they don’t actually want to be doing what they are nevertheless doing–and a little more time figuring out how to fix this mess.

But regardless of how this ultimately gets resolved, the message has already been heard loud and clear: Not one, not two, but three arms of government in Topeka don’t care enough about prosecuting domestic violence to pay for it unless they are absolutely, positively, back-against-the-wall forced to.

— Topeka, Kansas went ahead and decriminalized domestic violence.
5 October 11
Last night, in between approving city expenditures and other routine agenda items, the Topeka, Kansas City Council debated one rather controversial one: decriminalizing domestic violence…
Posted: 2:05 PM
29 September 11

I have no patience

…for people who claim “religious freedom” means that they don’t actually have to do their jobs.

Themed by Hunson. Originally by Josh