Other than the newspaper, I haven’t had much time to read lately. Between two toddlers and running a household, reading doesn’t happen much- and it’s not that I am watching much TV either. Perhaps an hour or two in the evening at the most. I suppose I could read instead, but since […]
Female walk signs introduced in Sweden
Thursday, May 01, 2008 | 10:22 AM
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Gender-conscious Sweden plans to make room for women on its crosswalk signs.
The government has ordered the National Road Administration to design a female alternative to the walking-man signs found at pedestrian crossings. A government spokesman says the order […]
I have come to the belief that the best way to encourage any kind of change is to scare mothers into believing that something is bad, dangerous or harmful to their babies. The media latch onto ANYTHING that could possibly harm a baby. It works. Today’s issue for me is bisphenol A […]
I can’t believe that I regularly find myself reading about rising food prices and increases in the number of people globally who cannot afford food and resort to eating mud cookies or sorghum soup for dinner. And here in the US we are concerned with converting our corn to bio-diesel instead of leaving it […]
