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31 Aug 2010
(thanks Brian)
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If you've spent much time on the internet in the past few years, thee's a good chance you've seen this ad before. There's a story behind it.
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I know it's not actually a miracle, but it does seem miraculous. Awesome.
(I wonder are babies really stiff when they come out, from being cooped up in there, and then when they get out and can stretch out properly for the first time, is it the best stretch EVER! Aaaaahhh...)
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Like a lot of people, I had a rather rose-tinted view of Castro and the Cuban revolution growing up. Until, that is, I read Before Night Falls, the powerful and harrowing autobiography of Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas. (It was later made into a movie starring Javier Bardem - and Johnny Depp in drag). Quite apart from the horrific treatment of homosexuals and people living with HIV/AIDS, the book also brings home the bald fact that Cuba is essentially an open prison.
However, in recent years, thanks mostly to the efforts of Castro's neice Mariela Castro, Cuba has made great advances in it's treatment of the LGBT community. And now, in an interview with a Mexican journalist, Castro himself has acknowledged that post-revolutionary Cuba's persecution of gay people was "a great injustice", and that "If anyone is responsible, it is me".
I'll at least give him points for taking responsibility. That's certainly refreshing!
Read the full interview HERE. It's a translation, and reads a little oddly.
"Yes", he remembers, "it was a time of great injustice. A great injustice!", he repeats emphatically, "no matter who did it. If it was us who did it, us... I am trying to define my responsibility in all that because, of course, I don't hold that type of prejudice."
It is known that among his oldest of friends, there are homosexuals.
But then, how was that hatred against the 'different' established?
He believes all was the result of a spontaneous reaction in the revolutionary ranks, which came from tradition.
"In earlier Cuba blacks were not the only ones discriminated against; women were also discriminated and, of course, homosexuals...
"Yes, yes. But not in the Cuba of the 'new' morality, the pride of those revolutionaries on the inside and on the outside..."
Who, then, was directly or indirectly responsible for not putting a stop to what was happening in Cuban society? The Party? Because the Communist Party of Cuba still does not 'explicitly' ban discrimination based on sexual orientation.
"No" says Fidel, "If someone is responsible, it's me..."
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31 Aug 2010
Though she needn't have - she does a great job.
Robyn performs Bjork's Hyperballad in front of Bjork (and a very staid, formal audience) in Sweden, where Bjork was being honoured with the 2010 Polar Music Prize.
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A bit of good news for drinkers for a change. Moderate drinkers live longest, but more surprisingly, it turns out even heavy drinkers live longer than nondrinkers. Though they are also more likely to sleep with me, so, swings and roundabouts...
One of the most contentious issues in the vast literature about alcohol consumption has been the consistent finding that those who don't drink actually tend to die sooner than those who do. The standard Alcoholics Anonymous explanation for this finding is that many of those who show up as abstainers in such research are actually former hard-core drunks who had already incurred health problems associated with drinking.
But a new paper in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research suggests that - for reasons that aren't entirely clear - abstaining from alcohol does actually tend to increase one's risk of dying even when you exclude former drinkers. The most shocking part? Abstainers' mortality rates are higher than those of heavy drinkers.
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31 Aug 2010
From today's Metro, and the Independent a couple of weeks ago. They seem to have the same picture editor...
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... who's thinking, "Feck the hegemony of gender-normative roles!" (or whatever the Chinese for that is).
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