Latin America Beats U.S. To Gay Marriage Punch

Send to KindleTweet Following in Mexico’s footsteps, female-led Argentina has passed gay marriage. According to The New York Times, the Senate voted 33 to 27 to legalize same sex marriages in the South American nation. The move is a win by President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, who has come head to head with the Roman [...]

Diaper Divas

Send to KindleTweet So apparently Ernie diapers aren’t enough. Try telling that to my niece, who shuns Cookie Monster and Elmo for big E. Apparently she should be moving on to denim. I think she’d prefer purple or pink diaps but that’s not in the cards. Yes, you heard it right, Huggies, a Kimberly-Clark company, [...]

Smack, Crackle, Pot: This Is Your Brain On Dope!

Send to KindleTweet Apparently, the war on drugs in NYC, or lack thereof, is the sexy story of the season. This is how we will close October. That and all the lives lost in the recent bombings in Iraq. Getting Deja vu? What struck me the most about all the articles about drugs in NYC [...]

American News April 26-May 2

Send to KindleTweet World Health Org. Releases Swine Flu Update The World Healthy Organization released a statement on April 27 about the outbreak of swine influenza A(H1N1) is evolving rapidly and the U.S. has reported 40 laboratory-confirmed human cases. Mexico has reported 26 confirmed human cases of infection with the same virus, including seven deaths, [...]

International News March 29-April 4

Send to KindleTweet Teen Hacker Hired To Consult On Cyber Crime Owen Thor Walker, an 18-year-old teenager hacker, was just hired as a cyber security consultant by New Zealand’s second largest telecommunications company, The Los Angeles Times reports. Walker had helped a criminal network either skimming bank accounts or damaging computer systems or infiltrating some [...]

Drugs, Arms & Human Trafficking January 26-31

Send to KindleTweet Customs Officers Arrest Sex Offender U.S. Customs and Border Protection Field Operations officers caught a man on a warrant for many child sex and child cruelty charges in Marietta, Ga, on January 19. Adolfo Maldonado Gomez, 52, a U.S. citizen was the subject of an outstanding arrest warrant from Cobb County, Marietta, Ga [...]

International News January 26-31

Send to KindleTweet Attacker Kills Kids, Adult At Belgian Nursery On January 23, a 25-year-old man attacked a Belgian nursery and killed two babies and a female childcare provider, The Times online reports. The knife-attacker, who is thought to be a psychiatric patient, had a black and white painted face and first tried to hurt [...]

Drugs, Arms & Human Trafficking January 19-25

Send to KindleTweet Customs Discovers Human Hostages U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents searched a Lancaster, California, home where a Salvadoran and an Ecuadorian national being held hostage by human smugglers, one for at least three weeks. One said he was beaten repeatedly and forced to go almost two weeks without food. The ICE investigated [...]

Charity ChocolateWhat: This fair trade organic chocolate company feeds the belly and the soul with its support of Indians in Mexico.

Send to KindleTweet In October, we learn that while many companies aims to raise money for charitable and nonprofit organizations, few donate a considerable percentage of profits. This is not the case with the most impressive Shaman Chocolates. The American company makes delicious chocolates without corn syrup, and donates all of its profits to support [...]

Retail & Celebrity Charity News Week of November 24

Send to KindleTweet Sam’s Club Launches Fair Trade Wine Warehouse retail chain Sam’s Club launched its first Fair Trade Certified wine, one of a small number of wines to receive recognition during the inaugural year of the Fair Trade Wine certification program in the U.S. Neu Direction is a 100% Malbec from the Lujan de [...]

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