http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/12/28/morning-news-cliffs-victims-and-hate-groups Comments On: Morning News: Cliffs, Victims, and Hate Groups by Cienna Madrid en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Fri, 24 May 2013 15:45:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by I have always been... east coaster]]> Mon, 31 Dec 2012 22:53:48 -0800 The Stranger Posted by CbytheSea]]> Fri, 28 Dec 2012 16:33:40 -0800 The Stranger
"The law is a reaction to the US Magnitsky Act, which blacklists Russian officials accused of rights abuses. " (BBC link)

The LA Times completely misses that angle, interestingly enough.
Posted by treacle]]> Fri, 28 Dec 2012 14:30:51 -0800 The Stranger Posted by CbytheSea]]> Fri, 28 Dec 2012 13:06:24 -0800 The Stranger
Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe]]> Fri, 28 Dec 2012 11:55:55 -0800 The Stranger
From an article on the subject:

Some 3,400 Russian children were adopted by foreign families in 2011, almost one-third of the children going to American homes.

Over the same period, the number of children adopted by Russian citizens was 7,416.

In the past two decades Americans have adopted more than 60,000 Russian children.


Posted by thatsnotright]]> Fri, 28 Dec 2012 11:20:19 -0800 The Stranger
I'm not sure there's much they want to do, anyway - aside from WBC's noxious tactics, I don't think the majority of Baptists have any serious disagreements with WBC over homosexuality. And it's not like mainstream America (never mind mainstream Baptists) gave much of a fuck when they were only protesting funerals of murdered gays.
Posted by Matt from Denver]]> Fri, 28 Dec 2012 10:40:56 -0800 The Stranger
A 47-member inbred lawyer family that exclusively spends its time touring the nation with dayglo hate signs, making asses of themselves at funerals for soldiers and others, does not a CHURCH make. Obvs.

Tax them muthafuckahs. BIG TIME
Posted by merry]]> Fri, 28 Dec 2012 10:29:28 -0800 The Stranger
You know who should be really pissed at Westboro? Baptists. Talk about besmirching an entire denomination! (Pssst! Hey, Baptists: Satan is wearing a Phelps suit to undermine your religion and turn the nation away from God. Spreading hate instead of God's love, inciting hatred for the actual devout in return, spreading dissension and chaos. Do something about it.)
Posted by Brooklyn Reader]]> Fri, 28 Dec 2012 10:22:02 -0800 The Stranger really tastes like. Most mass-produced foods bearing that description don't have real vanilla in them. And most things that do, don't have enough.
Posted by Matt from Denver]]> Fri, 28 Dec 2012 09:45:25 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Michael of the Green]]> Fri, 28 Dec 2012 09:40:59 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Max Solomon]]> Fri, 28 Dec 2012 09:31:36 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Urgutha Forka]]> Fri, 28 Dec 2012 09:19:11 -0800 The Stranger Good points, although even though the lowest common denominator isn't necessarily a majority, it's still the largest minority. The modal response for "what's your favorite ice cream" is "vanilla." Not surprising I guess, but not really inspiring either. The largest minority of humans are unadventurous mouth breathers.
Posted by Urgutha Forka]]> Fri, 28 Dec 2012 09:18:28 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Matt the Engineer]]> Fri, 28 Dec 2012 09:07:42 -0800 The Stranger
Posted by Matt the Engineer]]> Fri, 28 Dec 2012 09:03:32 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty]]> Fri, 28 Dec 2012 08:54:11 -0800 The Stranger
Westboro baptist... I can't believe they haven't already been designated a hate group decades ago.

Women and domestic violence... Susan O'Leary, a clinical research psychologist at Stony Brook University in NY, has found some interesting evidence that women are often the initial aggressors in domestic violence but end up as the "victim" because they're more likely to suffer physical damage and report it. In other words, sometimes the women start the fights that get out of control.

Posted by Urgutha Forka]]> Fri, 28 Dec 2012 08:49:47 -0800 The Stranger
Furthermore, if you look at the last time NRA favorability dropped below unfavorability, it was 1995, when the NRA was railing hard against the common sense and extremely weak AWB.

If you think about that graph, you should not see that news as good.
Posted by Theodore Gorath]]> Fri, 28 Dec 2012 08:43:10 -0800 The Stranger http://www.gallup.com/poll/159578/nra-fa…
Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty]]> Fri, 28 Dec 2012 08:32:13 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Sir Vic]]> Fri, 28 Dec 2012 08:31:49 -0800 The Stranger
The sad thing is that Wikipedia is a grouping of the collective knowledge of the world...and apparently most people just want to read it to find out the happenings on the latest pop culture movie/book. It's a tad bit depressing.
Posted by Pick1]]> Fri, 28 Dec 2012 08:26:14 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Pick1]]> Fri, 28 Dec 2012 08:22:01 -0800 The Stranger
Zomg.
Posted by TVDinner]]> Fri, 28 Dec 2012 07:48:02 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Matt from Denver]]> Fri, 28 Dec 2012 07:40:02 -0800 The Stranger