News Heartbreaking: girls sell sex in Hong Kong for shopping money. Some coal plants are dumping waste into drinking water sources. How generous of them … According to the Guttmacher Institute, bans do not reduce the number of abortions. Unsafe abortions kill 70,000 women a year. Health care The Senate Finance Committee passed its bill, …
News US and Russia will work together to ensure a peaceful Iranian nuclear program. Health care The Senate Finance Committee votes on its health care bill today. Miscellaneous A Facebook addict goes cold turkey. The ‘new’ Michael Jackson single, "This Is It," is actually not that new. Found on Digg: this is so wrong.
A special weekend edition (since I found time to pop online)! News Obama’s "green jobs" advisor Van Jones resigns after (rather melodramatic, I think) furor from the right over recent comments. See my previous LOTD post for the context and this Huffington Post article on the saga. Also, while we’re at it, why don’t we …