Moral Outrage Moments of the Week (and possibly year...)

[roh_wyn]

Reposted from gregoria44:

Alabama city to destroy Indian mound for retail store

That's right, folks. They're going to destroy a place of archaelogical/anthropological/spiritual importance...to build a Sam's Club.

ETA: There's a protest!

AUGUST 30TH
TWO PM TO FIVE PM (2-5 PM)
at the STONE MOUND behind KOHL'S ON OXFORD EXCHANGE in Oxford, Alabama

(Many thanks to the awesome gregoria44 for the protest reminder!)

From juno_magic on Twitter:

New Afghan legislation further diminishes women's rights

The revised bill allows husbands to starve their wives if the women deny their husbands sexual favors. Afghan laws are typically made of several types of fail, but this is fail of epic proportions, even by those standards.

Gawd, the world just gets more effed up everyday.

Comments

[lady-branwyn.livejournal.com]

That Indian mound is huge, at least compared to the ones I've seen in my state (which have been nominated for status as World Heritage sites). This makes me hate Walmart even more, if that were possible.
There are days when I don't want to go work and wish I didn't have to work for a living. Then I remind myself that I am lucky that I live in a country where I can be a wage-earner. Those poor women.

[roh-wyn.livejournal.com]

Inorite? Like we didn't have already have enough reason to think of Walmart as the scourge of our times. *rolls eyes*

I just have no words for the idiocy that passes for law in Afghanistan. Those poor women are living in a state of near-slavery...in the 21st century. I can't even wrap my mind around that.