vintage everyday: Ann Miller waves a bike, ca. 1946

Ann Miller waves from a bike, ca. 1946

people would love this bike today!

via vintage everyday: Ann Miller waves a bike, ca. 1946.

Auto recalls speed up, are on track to break a record – Los Angeles Times

(Ditlow does not get the point – it’s not so much that they are being more aggressive about identifying defects – they all have been putting out shoddy product for years and have not bothered to notify anyone or just send out letters to owners of newer cars to stop on by for a check up and not that they might die because of a defect.)

“It’s not because automakers are turning out more defective vehicles than ever. Rather, Ditlow said, they are being more aggressive about identifying defects, culling through their records and looking at problems with past models in an effort to avoid being the center of the next crisis.”

via Auto recalls speed up, are on track to break a record – Los Angeles Times.

The importance of celebrating IDAHOT in Lebanon

Hummus For Thought

idahot event

To speak of fighting homophobia in Lebanon might strike as an odd thing to do for some of you. After all, what decency might be found in some parts of Lebanon, mostly in and around Beirut, is dwarfed by the overwhelming discrimination suffered in the rest of the country.

The Current Situation

Lebanon’s LGBTIQ population can be legally targeted under the now-notorious Article 534 which states that sexual relations “contradicting the laws of nature” are punishable offenses. Of course, anyone with a basic understanding of sexuality knows that there is absolutely nothing unnatural about homosexuality. There is literally not a single evidence suggesting so, and a mountain of evidence suggesting the opposite.

In fact, that’s exactly what a judge ruled on January 28th 2014. When an unnamed transgender woman was accused of having sex with a man, Judge Naji El Dahdad of Jdeide Court rejected the case, stating that:

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Insult to injury in Turkey in the aftermath of the Soma Tragedy

Cannot “like” this burtality but it does show Erdogan’s contempt for people

Human Rights in Turkey

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The Bag Lady

Night Owl Poetry - Dorinda Duclos

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Displaced, job lost, she takes
to the streets in search of the
impossible

A wheel squeaks on a cart
as she pushes, the basket
filled with boxes and bags

A treasure trove
of all she has left, memories
of a life left behind

Picking through the garbage can
She looks for a bite to eat, a piece of
bread, a tossed apple, hoping for
a scrap

Finding nothing,
she continues, afraid to stop
moving forward toward a destination
unknown

As the skies rain down
She finds no protection
from the elements that pound
her unprotected body

Talking to herself, she asks
why, as leering eyes
wait in anticipation, an opportunity
to take all that is left

And in the darkening night
a street lamp gives no comfort
only a soft glow illuminating
the eyes of a lost soul

©2014 Dorinda Duclos All Rights Reserved

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