i have no words. just click the link: Lone Star Shelter

(thanks bayprairie for sending me this)

You should know this about us, the exiles from Katrina: Our brains are not working. The lobes have been disconnected. I can hold a few ideas in my head. Maybe two.

I know that paragraphs are supposed to lead one into another, come to a point. I can't think like that now.

This article examines the Japanese controversy over the "comfort women" (ianfu) system during Japan's Asia-Pacific War (1931-1945) and attempts to include that history in school textbooks.... The testimonies given by former comfort women in the 1990s forever changed the paradigm of historical research on the subject....

I post a regular Friday Cat Blogging in my photo blog. Thanks for checking it out!

For many states an online Sex Offender Registry has been around for a while. We have only had one here in California for two years. Now it seems that the Sex Offender Registry is going National.

As a parent I am grateful for easy access to this information - I want to know if my children are in danger taking a certain route to the drug store or even playing in the front yard - and also for the Amber Alerts, but sometimes a little voice in me questions the wisdom of Vigilante justice...which I think this encourages.

All mammals are protective of their young, and none more viciously than the most vicious animal on earth - Humans. Who among us can say that they would behave reasonably when confronted with a "known sex offender"?

A great compilation of woman-positive events, big and small, throughout the US.