macmind recommended 2. März 2013 18:58 Wertestreit in der CDU Schon lange nicht mehr konservativ from sueddeutsche.de:

Konservativ sollte es sein, Lebensformen mit Kindern zu fördern und sich nicht das Maul zu zerreißen, wie diese Lebensformen auszusehen haben. Konservative sollten die Natur bewahren und global dafür eintreten, statt nur davon zu reden. Konservativ sein, das könnte im Guten bedeuten: einen konstruktiven Standpunkt zu haben statt einer guten alten Zeit nachzutrauern, die es niemals gab.

macmind recommended Die Rechtsauslegerin der CDU from spiegel.de:

Auf dem Parteitag der CDU in Hannover konnte man nun abermals beobachten, dass die aus den Tiefen der Ortsvereine angereisten Parteimitglieder noch immer fremdeln mit diesen Großstadtmenschen: Wie einfach wäre doch die Welt, wenn man all diese Homosexuellen, Alleinerziehenden, Unverheirateten und Ausländerfreunde wieder zu Lande, zu Wasser und in der Luft bekämpfen könnte. Stattdessen muss man sie umarmen. Um des lieben Machterhalts Willen.

macmind recommended Voyager: the space explorers that are still boldly going to the stars from guardian.co.uk:

But even without power the two Voyagers will continue to serve us. In the largely empty, benign environment of interstellar space, these craft are likely to last for millions of years. They will outlive the pyramids, they're likely to outlive us, and perhaps even the Earth itself; the only record of our existence, circling the galaxy for ever. If other intelligent, technological creatures ever find them, as they drift for eons in deep space, the craft will reveal something about the beings that built them. Our size and dexterity can be inferred from their scale. Their engineering sophisticatio[…]

macmind recommended Parada: Serbische Erfolgskomödie über umkämpfte Schwulen-Parade from spiegel.de:

"Ein Freund hat mir erzählt, dass sein Teenager-Sohn schlecht gelaunt nach Hause kam, nachdem er 'Parada' gesehen hatte. Er hätte den Film scheiße gefunden, erzählte der Junge - weil er Schwule jetzt nicht mehr hassen könne. Für diese Leute habe ich den Film gemacht."

macmind recommended Dear Mr. Akin, I Want You to Imagine... from huffingtonpost.com:

You used the expression "legitimate" rape as if to imply there were such a thing as "illegitimate" rape. Let me try to explain to you what that does to the minds, hearts and souls of the millions of women on this planet who experience rape. It is a form of re-rape. The underlying assumption of your statement is that women and their experiences are not to be trusted. That their understanding of rape must be qualified by some higher, wiser authority. It delegitimizes and undermines and belittles the horror, invasion, desecration they experienced. It makes them feel as alone and powerless as they[…]

macmind recommended Ashley Judd Slaps Media in the Face for Speculation Over Her ‘Puffy’ Appearance from thedailybeast.com:

That women are joining in the ongoing disassembling of my appearance is salient. Patriarchy is not men. Patriarchy is a system in which both women and men participate. It privileges, inter alia, the interests of boys and men over the bodily integrity, autonomy, and dignity of girls and women. It is subtle, insidious, and never more dangerous than when women passionately deny that they themselves are engaging in it. This abnormal obsession with women’s faces and bodies has become so normal that we (I include myself at times—I absolutely fall for it still) have internalized patriarchy almost[…]

macmind recommended How Ayn Rand became the new right's version of Marx from guardian.co.uk:

Rand's is the philosophy of the psychopath, a misanthropic fantasy of cruelty, revenge and greed. Yet, as Gary Weiss shows in his new book, Ayn Rand Nation, she has become to the new right what Karl Marx once was to the left: a demigod at the head of a chiliastic cult. Almost one third of Americans, according to a recent poll, have read Atlas Shrugged, and it now sells hundreds of thousands of copies every year.

macmind recommended S.P.O.N. - Fragen Sie Frau Sibylle: Religion ist, wenn Männer unterdrücken from spiegel.de:

Warum verklären wir schreckliches Leid als hübsche Tradition? Im Namen der Religionen werden weltweit Frauen, Intellektuelle und Homosexuelle terrorisiert - und die Gewaltbereitschaft wächst sogar. Höchste Zeit, wieder für die Aufklärung zu kämpfen.

macmind recommended The New York Review of Books from nybooks.com:

Like George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind, Barack Obama’s Race to the Top program is part of what Pasi Sahlberg calls “the Global Education Reform Movement,” or GERM. GERM demands teaching to the test. GERM assumes that students must be constantly tested, and that the results of these tests are the most important measures and outcomes of education. The scores can be used not only to grade the quality of every school, but to punish or reward students, teachers, principals, and schools. Those at the top of the education system, the elected officials and leaders who make the rules, creat[…]

macmind recommended Archie gay marriage comic sells out in face of boycott call from guardian.co.uk:

I've been forced to explain homosexuality to my kids (aged 3 and 4) because their uncle is gay. This incredibly difficult and traumatic experience went as follows: Child: Why does Uncle Bob go everywhere with Pete? Me: Because they're in love, just like Mummy and Daddy are. Child: Oh. Can I have a biscuit? We're all scarred for life. Scarred, I tell you.

macmind recommended What to expect from the anti-gay marriage brigade from guardian.co.uk:

They're not homophobic. They'll make a point of saying so, that's how you know.

macmind recommended Young jobseekers told to work without pay or lose unemployment benefits from guardian.co.uk:

Britain's jobless young people are being sent to work for supermarkets and budget stores for up to two months for no pay and no guarantee of a job, the Guardian can reveal.

macmind recommended Why doesn't Britain make things any more? from guardian.co.uk:

So it is that you get a giant shopping centre such as Liverpool One describing itself as the largest urban regeneration project in Europe without any apparent irony. Or you hear American economists arguing that free trade may have reduced salaries for blue collar workers in the west, but they can now buy cheaper Chinese imports. In other words, you may have lost your factory workshop – but at least you've got a pound shop.

macmind recommended Why doesn't Britain make things any more? from guardian.co.uk:

The odd thing is that all this techno-utopianism came from men who would struggle to order a book off Amazon. Alistair Campbell tells a story about how Blair got his first-ever mobile phone after stepping down as prime minister in 2007. His first text to Campbell read: "This is amazing, you can send words on a phone."

macmind recommended Why doesn't Britain make things any more? from guardian.co.uk:

What's driven the de-industrial revolution? In significant part, it's a tale about where Britain is going, one that's been told by Conservative and Labour alike over the past 30 years. It's a simple message that comes in three parts. One, the old days of heavy industry are gone for good. The future lies in working with our brains, not our hands. Two, the job of government in economic policy is simply to get out of the way. Oh, and finally, we need to fling open our markets to trade with other countries because, despite the evidence of countless Wimbledons and World Cups, the Westminster elite […]