Okay. Here they are: my first words on OTBKB about Madoff, the man who has brought so much anguish to members of my family. Today, EXACTLY  three months to the day that Bernard Madoff was arrested for running the largest Ponzi scheme in history, Madoff will plead guilty. That will be music to ...

This story truly troubles me because we have a legal commitment to treating under 16 year old as victims of exploitation where they are prostituted not as perpetrators. Unless, apparently, they decide not to. As in this case in Tyneside where a 15 year old girl was found to have lubricant and condom...

First up Fem Academ is starting an Oxfordshire Feminist Network - see "here and here for details and sign up! Walls Come Tumbling Down highlights Alastair Campbell's New Statesman initiative to find out what one sentence people would want in the next election manifesto. My suggestion would be: "To t...

I dagarna äger en stor FN-konferens, eller "högnivåmöte", rum i Wien för att "fira" att det nu är tio år sedan som UNGASS (generalförsamlingens specialsession om narkotika som utlöste "kriget mot narkotikan"). Drottning Silvia deltar som nickedocka, som i och f...

Why are so many parents abandoning their adult children? (see diaries of Keori and Angie, this week alone) I searched online, looking for answers, and surprisingly found this from October 1997. Decided to put it up for discussion: Bishops Urge Parents of Homosexuals to Accept Their Children, Themsel...

Brooklyn Beat of Deep in the Heart of Brooklyn had the pleasure of attending a lunchtime lecture today by Sir Salman Rushdie at St. Francis College today, as part of its Thomas J. Volpe Lecture Series on Global Business & Finance. He filed this report on his blog. Here's an excerpt, read mor...

I grew up around where Yoma Burmese is located, but never knew about it until recently. It’s a hole-in-the wall Burmese restaurant that’s easy to miss if you’re not looking for it. Always willing to try different ways of preparing bittermelon, I ordered the bittermelon with spicy b...

Here's an excerpt from a recent sermon by Tom Martinez.  Not only is he a photographer and photo contributor  to Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn, he is also the pastor of All Souls Bethlehem Church, a "funky little house church that rocks" in Kensington, Brooklyn. Open to the ...

Inte alls angående Jan Emanuel Johansson och hans socialdemokratiska patos, det vara bara den här meningen som fångade mitt öga. Men i en blogg har journalister ingen möjlighet att ställa kritiska frågor. Betyder det att "journalister" inte skulle veta hur kommentarsfunktionen funge...

Bevistade ju Susanne Dodillets disputation med "Är sex arbete?" för ett par veckor sedan. En sak borde nämnas om det förutom om själva avhandlingen som jag redan skrivit om. Radikalfeministen Jenny Westerstrand var också där och hade en del på hjärtat med anledning av att Dodillet...