Migraines Linked to Higher Sex Drives

Susceptibility may be a plus, not a negative, in the bedroom, researchers find.

Posted on Jun 20, 2006 READ MORE  | 44 READS

Feminist Blogs Afire Over Oral Sex Debate

Salon wittily wades through a debate raging in the feminist blogosphere over whether the act of a woman performing oral sex on a man is inherently demeaning. It’s reg req’d for Salon, but Pandagon sums up most of the argument on her free site.

Posted on Jun 20, 2006 READ MORE  | 1030 READS

Episcopalians Reject Ban on Gay Bishops

Proof that not all religious groups are reflexively hateful and intolerant of homosexuality.

Posted on Jun 20, 2006 READ MORE  | 24 READS

Two Kidnapped U.S. Soldiers Tortured, Killed

The new leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Hamza al Muhajer, claimed responsibility for the killings, dealing a setback to U.S. efforts to seize momentum against Al Qaeda in the wake of killing Muhajer’s predecessor, Abu Musab al Zarqawi. Meanwhile, violence continued unabated in Iraq, with at least 18 people killed in attacks nationwide.

Posted on Jun 20, 2006 READ MORE  | 454 READS

Kerry, Feingold Unite in Iraq Withdrawal Call

The two senators appealed to the Senate—and to 3 million other Americans via e-mail—to back their call to withdraw combat troops from Iraq “by a hard and fast deadline.”

Book Blows Lid on America’s Torture and Interrogation

In his new book, ?The One Percent Doctrine,? Ron Suskind details how America’s torture of a mentally ill prisoner led the White House to pursue false leads in the war on terror.

Posted on Jun 20, 2006 READ MORE  | 68 READS

Fecal Matter in Soldiers’ Water? Sure, Says Senate

Senate Republicans shot down a measure that would have enacted oversight on the practices of private contractors in Iraq. As a result, companies like Halliburton are free to continue doing things like exposing U.S. soldiers in Iraq to water contaminated with fecal matter. The Nation has the details.

Posted on Jun 20, 2006 READ MORE  | 18 READS

Kerry: GOP Iraq Plan Is to ‘Lie and Die’

John Kerry, speaking with Don Imus, goes on the offensive against Republicans who keep insisting that Democrats only want to “cut and run.” Kerry says his plan is to redeploy to win the war on terror.

Posted on Jun 20, 2006 READ MORE  | 40 READS

Feds Getting Phone Data Without Warrants

Officials from the Dept. of Homeland Security and the FBI are paying private data brokers to gather personal phone record information—circumventing the need to obtain warrants for such data.

Posted on Jun 20, 2006 READ MORE  | 20 READS

A Suicide Occurs Every 4 Minutes Among Chinese Women

Every year, 1.5 million Chinese women attempt to take their own lives—and 150,000 succeed. Experts say that 70% to 80% of the suicide attempts have to do with husband-wife issues; in a society of arranged marriages, women frequently have next to no power.

Posted on Jun 20, 2006 READ MORE  | 144 READS

Robert Kennedy Jr. Plans to Sue Over Ohio Election Fraud

The environmental activist, fresh off his hugely talked-about Rolling Stone article on alleged election fraud in Ohio during the 2004 election, says in an interview that he plans to file a lawsuit against the main perpetrators of the fraud.

Posted on Jun 20, 2006 READ MORE  | 81 READS

Corporate Donations Shift Left

Companies in the insurance, pharmaceuticals and tobacco industries are boosting their share of contributions to Democrats this year, an indication that the traditionally Republican-friendly donors suspect Dems may soon end up holding the reins of power.

Posted on Jun 20, 2006 READ MORE  | 41 READS

Stolen Art at the J. Paul Getty Museum?

Negotiators for the J. Paul Getty Museum are meeting with Italian authorities to discuss the return of antiquities that Italy claims were stolen. For years Italian authorities have accused American museums of purchasing stolen art. Also, in New York, a former curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art faces charges of “knowingly buying stolen art.”

Posted on Jun 20, 2006 READ MORE  | 94 READS

Pentagon Still Classifies Homosexuality as a Disorder

A Pentagon document still lists homosexuality as a mental defect akin to retardation and impulse control disorder, decades after mental health experts abandoned the position.

Posted on Jun 20, 2006 READ MORE  | 39 READS

Gitmo and Afghanistan Interrogation Tactics Exposed

In a new book, a medical ethicist has compiled a list of interrogation techniques documented at U.S. detention centers in Guantanamo and Afghanistan. They include: external electric shocks; beating; punching with fists; use of truncheons; stretching or suspension (to tear ligaments or muscles to cause asphyxia) ...
UPDATE: An L.A. Times reporter writes that the barring of U.S. reporters from Gitmo “make[s] us all the more determined to question, probe and illuminate the actions of our government being waged in the country’s name.”

Posted on Jun 19, 2006 READ MORE  | 91 READS