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In the news today: A study of Swaziland women finds people don't know most rapes aren't committed by strangers. Another piece says rape is a war crime being committed in Colombia, and often not reported. More »
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Every weekend for the past decade, Luis Soriano has strapped pouches painted with the word "Biblioburro" to two donkeys and loaded them with books for villagers near his home in Colombia. Soriano, a 36 year old schoolteacher, got the idea after watching the effect reading had on his pupils. Now 300 people regularly borrow books, and Soriano's collection has grown from 70 to over 4,800 titles. He is often greeted by groups of children waiting for him to read to them, but his route can be dangerous: Two years ago, bandits tied him to a tree. Finding that he had no money, one of the bandits stole the book Brida, the story of an Irish girl and her search for knowledge, by Brazilian novelist Paulo Coelho. [IHT] More »
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Ah, the fall semester of college. The crisp air, the drinking, the mostly-ignorant references to crypto-fascist texts spewed by someone who just took his first philosophy course! Which brings us to "James", a Columbia University student who wrote an "anti-feminist manifesto" on his Facebook page earlier this year in which he references Marx, Eve Ensler, and the Gnostic Sophia. (The Facebook page, which we are not linking to here, is currently set to 'private'.) According to a tipster, James was at a party in Columbia's East Campus dorm this past Sunday where a heated argument broke out after James began jawing to a Barnard student that he's never met an intellectual feminist in his life. (The tipster says the Barnard student slapped him and that the two "had to be broken up before the girl ripped the boy to shreds.") If only James could use those three dollar words to buy himself a clue. A shiny nickel to any reader who gets through James' marginally coherent screed, which is after the jump. More »
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