Solitude and Hope: Y'all Come Visit!

BRAINFOOD FOR CURIOUS MINDS...


Solitude and Hope is a constantly updated resource for links to important news and entertainment events, as well as to displays of important photographic works. Some of the links will be to my companion website, Et Cetera: Publick and Privat Curiosities, which has rapidly gained a large audience in the blogger world.

Et Cetera presents thoughtful discussions of emerging news events, political commentary, discussions of the need to protect our basic human rights and promote greater acceptance of diversity. An eclectic site, it also presents humorous postings, as wells as important photographic slideshows and links to unique multi-media presentations.

Enjoy, learn and visit here frequently for new stuff all of the time!!!

NEW ARTICLES: OCTOBER 29, 2006:

Hannah Arendt: Commemorating a Life in Exile

Hot, Hot Beefcake for a Cause: The 2007 America's Heroes Calendar!!

Young People Getting Tired of MySpace...Moving On to Other Sites

South Park Mocks Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin...

N. J. Court Ruling on Same-Sex Partner Rights: A Video Commentary

Sharp-Shooting "Google Bombing" Campaign Targets Republican Candidates

New Jersey Court Rules That Marriage Statutes Protect Same-Sex Couples

Pablo Picasso: Happy Birthday!

Major Talent Agency Now Looking for New Stars from Internet Websites!!

MADONNA TALKS ABOUT CONTROVERSIAL ADOPTION ON OPRAH'S SHOW...

Free Wonderful Computer Applications for You: On-Line and to Download

A Video History of YouTube

Bush Faces Political Nightmare...

Comments on The Importance of Doubt

Obama Comes Home as a Star...

Losing the Idea of America...

Sex Scandals Dominate Midterm Elections!!!

U. S. Senator Barak Obama's new book, The Audacity of Hope, hits bookstore shelves with glowing reviews...

BRAINFOOD FOR CURIOUS MINDS...


Solitude and Hope is a constantly updated resource for links to important news and entertainment events, as well as to displays of important photographic works. Some of the links will be to my companion website, Et Cetera: Publick and Privat Curiosities, which has rapidly gained a large audience in the blogger world.

Et Cetera presents thoughtful discussions of emerging news events, political commentary, discussions of the need to protect our basic human rights and promote greater acceptance of diversity. An eclectic site, it also presents humorous postings, as wells as important photographic slideshows and links to unique multi-media presentations.

Enjoy, learn and visit here frequently for new stuff all of the time!!!

NEW ARTICLES: OCTOBER 27, 2006:

N. J. Court Ruling on Same-Sex Partner Rights: A Video Commentary

Sharp-Shooting "Google Bombing" Campaign Targets Republican Candidates

New Jersey Court Rules That Marriage Statutes Protect Same-Sex Couples

Pablo Picasso: Happy Birthday!

Major Talent Agency Now Looking for New Stars from Internet Websites!!

MADONNA TALKS ABOUT CONTROVERSIAL ADOPTION ON OPRAH'S SHOW...

Free Wonderful Computer Applications for You: On-Line and to Download

A Video History of YouTube

Bush Faces Political Nightmare...

Comments on The Importance of Doubt

Obama Comes Home as a Star...

Losing the Idea of America...

Sex Scandals Dominate Midterm Elections!!!

An Orderly Mind

U. S. Senator Barak Obama's new book, The Audacity of Hope, hits bookstore shelves with glowing reviews...

Hot, Hot Beefcake for a Cause: The 2007 America's Heroes Calendar!!

BRAINFOOD FOR CURIOUS MINDS...


Solitude and Hope is a constantly updated resource for links to important news and entertainment events, as well as to displays of important photographic works. Some of the links will be to my companion website, Et Cetera: Publick and Privat Curiosities, which has rapidly gained a large audience in the blogger world.

Et Cetera presents thoughtful discussions of emerging news events, political commentary, discussions of the need to protect our basic human rights and promote greater acceptance of diversity. An eclectic site, it also presents humorous postings, as wells as important photographic slideshows and links to unique multi-media presentations.

Enjoy, learn and visit here frequently for new stuff all of the time!!!

NEW ARTICLES: OCTOBER 26, 2006:

New Jersey Court Rules That Marriage Statutes Protect Same-Sex Couples

Pablo Picasso: Happy Birthday!

Major Talent Agency Now Looking for New Stars from Internet Websites!!

MADONNA TALKS ABOUT CONTROVERSIAL ADOPTION ON OPRAH'S SHOW...

Free Wonderful Computer Applications for You: On-Line and to Download

A Video History of YouTube

Bush Faces Political Nightmare...

Comments on The Importance of Doubt

Obama Comes Home as a Star...

Losing the Idea of America...

Sex Scandals Dominate Midterm Elections!!!

An Orderly Mind

U. S. Senator Barak Obama's new book, The Audacity of Hope, hits bookstore shelves with glowing reviews...

Hot, Hot Beefcake for a Cause: The 2007 America's Heroes Calendar!!

NOBLE PEACE PRIZE AWARDED TO ANTI-POVERTY PIONEER

Bangladesh’s Muhammad Yunus and his Grameen Bank have been awarded The 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. Mr. Yunus, an economist, founded the bank, which is one of the pioneers of micro-credit lending schemes for the poor in Bangladesh. The bank is renowned for lending money to the least well-off, especially women, so that they can launch their own businesses. Yunus, 65, is the first Noble Prize winner from Bangladesh, a poverty-stricken nation of about 141 million people.

For complete story, please go to: Nobel Peace Prize

A college dropout with twenty years of reporting experience, Gary Webb broke the biggest story of his career in August 1996, when he published “Dark Alliance,” a three-part series for the San Jose Mercury News that linked the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency to America’s crack-cocaine explosion via the Nicaraguan contras, a right-wing army that aimed to overthrow the leftist Sandinista government during the 1980s. Many reporters had written about the CIA’s collusion with contra drug smugglers, but nobody had ever discovered where those drugs ended up once they reached American soil. “Dark Alliance” provided the first dramatic answer to that mystery.

But in the months following its publication, the story was subjected to ferocious attacks by the nation’s biggest newspapers. Soon Webb found himself out of a job. After being assigned to a tiny regional bureau, Webb quit the newspaper and was never allowed to work in daily journalism again. On December 10, 2004, Webb committed suicide.

Read the entire story at: Et Cetera: Publick and Privat Curiosities

Everyone is very strongly encouraged to read the entire article, which is deeply compassionate:

The very touching article in its entirety, Mourning the Amish Tragedy, can be viewed at Et Cetera: Publick and Privat Curiosities. That article also presents an extremely moving Photographic Essay entitled Mourning the Tragedy

Frank Kameny: Human Rights Pioneer

Forty years ago, civil-rights pioneer, Frank Kameny, came to the aid of a frightened Library of Congress employee who was accused of “enjoying” the embrace of men. Kameny ended up being fired himself by the Federal Government for being gay.

Undaunted, he continued to fight for justice and equality with a tenacity and integrity that inspired many others to follow in his footsteps. This demonstrates that the gay rights movement actually pre-dated the New Left. Kameny’s courage helped start that human rights movement, leading to the achievement of the freedoms that many now enjoy.

On Oct. 6th, that same Library of Congress accepted Kameny’s papers and cemented his place in history’s pages. Professional archivists will now painstakingly sort thousands of documents, the gift of Charles Francis’s Kameny Project, which raised $75,000 to purchase and donate them,ensuring their availability to generations of students of U.S. civil rights. There is no better record of the torment that gays endured at the hands of their government in the 1950s and 1960s. And there could have been no finer tribute to Kameny than the ceremony at the Library. There weren't any dry eyes in the house after Frank accepted the tributes and took his seat.

The entire article is available for viewers at: Et Cetera: Publick and Privat Curiosities

Readers can view the complete, very disturbing article, accompanied by many photographs, at: Et Cetera: Publick and Privat Curiosities.