Category: Freedom & Politics

BlogHers Act - Educational Freedom

BlogHer is launching a new initiative, BlogHers Act, to bring together their 11,000 women blogger members (and subsequently their audiences) to make a difference in a single global cause, as well as to identify the top four issues that women online want the U.S. Presidential candidates to address in the ‘08 election year.
The founders [...]

Parenting Mags Refuse to Review Secular Book

It seems that some parenting magazines are refusing to review a new secular parenting book, Parenting Beyond Belief, because it might offend religious subscribers.

Social Responsibility and Bratz Dolls

This morning I was catching up on some blog reading and got to this post by IzzyMom: a call to action to ask Scholastic to remove Bratz books from their offerings at school fairs. Her post got me thinking about this whole idea of businesses being “socially responsible.”
I’m still exploring my feelings on this [...]

Only in America

Only in America… I got a good morning chuckle out of this one!

VA Tech: Nothing “Could Have Been Done”

Like many people, I’ve been flipping channels and watching the news unfold about this tragedy at VA Tech. It’s a horrible thing that happened, but I am getting really annoyed watching the media speculate about how it “could have been prevented.” Is the emergency response team at VA Tech up to speed? There were [...]