Am I the only one who has never seen such a headline? (Excluding religious wars and religious warfare, of course.) I'm pretty sure that shit just doesn't happen, at least in the US. Yet, just the other day, yet again some religionist snuffed some kid for being possessed by demons.
'Baby Doe' dad: Mom's boyfriend thought girl was possessed - SFGate
Good Morning! Let's focus on food this morning (recipés are welcome). Any other topics are also very welcome.
Jill Soloway and Jeffrey Tambor of Amazon's Transparent earned Emmy awards last night...Solloway for Best Director for a Comedy and Tambor for Lead Actor in a Comedy.
Soloway's male parent, who she apparently calls Moppa (or Mapa...spelling uncertain) is a transgender woman.
Thank you Mapa for coming out and coming to L.A. And coming here tonight. And something interesting about my Mapa, Carrie: She could, tomorrow, go and try to find an apartment, and in 32 states it would be legal for the landlord to look her in the eye and say, 'We don't rent to trans people.
We don't have a trans tipping point yet. We have a trans civil rights problem, so go to transequality.org and vote to pass the trans equality bill.
--Soloway
That caused the website for the National Center for Transgender Equality to crash.
This evening's music features Piedmont blues singer and guitarist Blind Willie Mctell. Enjoy!
Blind Willie McTell - Statesboro Blues
I might not be here when this posts, but I'll get here eventually
Last week's instalment reminded me of a long deferred project to write a series at the GOS about "Power to the People". Not just a slogan, that was a real goal, and while a goal, also a means to an end, or to many ends, which, taken together, would attain power for the people, adhering in the people, and serving the people. Circular, but in a meaningful way.
Howlin' Wolf - Little Red Rooster ( Chess )
Duke University Health System of Durham, NC has created a new clinic to treat children and teems with gender identity and development issues.
The clinic will address young people who are transgender or intersex as well as those who may have genital development or puberty issues.
The link above provides some background through the story of Hunter Schafer, one of Duke's patients.
Good morning 99percenters!
Morning news dump and music by Poco.
U.N.: Paris Climate Summit Pledges Won’t Avoid Warming
The greenhouse gas emission cuts being pledged by the world’s nations will fall short of restricting global warming to 2°C, the U.N.’s climate chief and UK government sources have warned.
Judge Carl Barbier of the Eastern District Court of Louisiana has allowed the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to intervene in Tristan Broussard's federal lawsuit against First Tower Loan, LLC.
Once upon a time various bleeding hearts tried to promote the idea that prisons weren't really merely punitive, or shouldn't be at any rate, nor mere retribution. Oh no, they expounded, they should be (and some of the more deluded claimed they actually were) rehabilitative. For a while there were efforts made to actually infuse a tiny slice of rehabilitative endeavors into our jails and prisons.
