Pacific Views

Wednesday Reading

Ms. Magazine, who was kind enough to link to us, had an interesting post about what happened before Roe v. Wade when girls 'got in trouble'.

Over at To The Barricades, everybody's back, and Renaissance Woman has written a post about affirmative action pointing out that all else isn't equal. Stephen finds Krauthammer telling the truth about our Middle East adventures.

Civil war among liberals: Digby and Liberal Oasis weigh in, thanks to To The Barricades for the links.

Mad Kane has Dubya's Dream Email Questionnaire.

Uppity Negro on a stay of execution for Darnell Williams in order to perform DNA testing. Whatever the evidence shows, it's a positive trend that the justice system has begun to recognize its own fallibility.

Pedantry explains that the hostage taking practices in Iraq constitute grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions. Scroll up to read the story about his family's history in Russia and subsequent migration to Canada.

Thousand Yard Glare brings us the news that 400,000 of our fellow citizens have sent letters to congress requesting a 9-11 probe.

Rittenhouse Review discovers that Ishka Bibble was a real person and if you roam around over there you'll find lots more worth reading.

Ruminate This says that Charles Kuffner has the best Killer D blog coverage. I will not argue with her.

Daily Kos: In the 'nothing too petty' department, the Iraqi provisional authority (or whatever they're calling them today) has squashed plans for an Iraqi cell phone network because it was being set up according to the same standard used by the rest of the world, which of course excludes American telcoms from bidding. Some insightful comments about the energy reform fiasco. How Bush is getting into a world of unecessary trouble by officially coming out against gay marriage.

Beautiful Horizons brings us a look at Guatemalan politics, and just below that has an (interesting/depressing/insightful) post on Angola.

Ampersand discovers logical positivism.