Standing on a street corner with a friend watching some men dig a hole the other day, the topic of conversation ended up on an issue which has been occupying me for the last several weeks: the growing numbers of vacant homes across the United States. We were both in agreement that vacant homes are …
Daily Archives: 2 April, 2009
Striped Buckets
This is absolutely horrific. Hamid Karzai, our favourite puppet President, has just signed a bill which legalizes rape in marriage. Additional abridgements of women’s rights are also present in the bill. So much for the American “liberation” of Afghanistan; according to women’s rights advocates, things like this make Afghanistan worse for women today than it …