May. 6th, 2007

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After 21 years of happy marriage, Malaysian court enforces divorce on couple who don't want it, forbids them from living together, and gives custody of 6 of the 7 children to the husband and forbids the mother from seeing him or them.

Why? Because this is Malaysia, she's Muslim, and he's Hindu - it's illegal for Hindus to marry Muslims and not convert to Islam, it's illegal for Muslims to convert to other faiths, and it's illegal to raise the children of Muslims as anything but Muslims.
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In the wake of the passing of the hate crimes bill in the US (and it's soon-to-be veto by Bush) Pam's House Blend examines "Who is it OK to hate?"

It's a history of where the hate crimes laws came from, what they mean, and then goes into 22 case studies of people raped, beaten, and murdered because they were or were believed to be gay.
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Gee, I wonder what happens when you let Frank Zappa design his own Hustler photo shoot?

Might it be THING-FISH?

If Frank Zappa and Hustler weren't enough to tell you already, this is not work-safe. Yarr, here the be boobies.

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