February 2011
52 posts
January 2011
91 posts
“Gladys and Jamie Scott have each served 16 years of a life sentence. Their case...”
– Miss. Gov. Haley Barbour to free sisters sentenced to life in prison for robbery
“At one point, Jackson showed Gregory Exhibit No. 60—a photograph of an Iron...”
– Cameron Todd Willingham, Texas, and the death penalty : The New Yorker
Healing Sakina: Want to help Kelley... →
sheresists:
damekatharsis:
mizjenkins:
thecranium:
She is the black mother who was convicted of a felony and sentenced to jail time and probation for sending her two daughters to a school in a different district. As you have probably guessed, the school they attended is safer and whiter than the one in the girls’ neighborhood. The school hired a private detective to catch this woman. ...
Conscientious Redux: The horror of large numbers →
conscientious:
Hitler vs. Stalin: Who Was Worse?
Key quote: “Discussion of numbers can blunt our sense of the horrific personal character of each killing and the irreducible tragedy of each death. As anyone who has lost a loved one knows, the difference between zero and one is an infinity. Though we have a…
48 hours to save Brenda →
afterthecurtain:
http://allout.org/en/brenda/
Brenda Namigadde, a Ugandan lesbian in the UK, faces deportation THIS WEEK (tomorrow, on Friday 28th) back to the life-threatening persecution she fled eight years ago. With David Bahati, the Ugandan politician and author of the notorious “Kill the Gays” legislation, taking an interest in her case, Brenda faces clear and present danger if she’s...
“this is me i will send my children to white schools. they wil be able to use top...”
“In a survey of faculty at the University of Nebraska, 68% rated themselves in...”
– Illusory superiority - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Terrorism directed at 'liberal' and 'government'... →
“Kruger and Dunning proposed that, for a given skill, incompetent people will: 1....”
– Dunning–Kruger effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Gerbner, a pioneer researcher on the effects of television on society, argued...”
– Mean World Syndrome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
