Elephant mother reunited with calf (video)
If this video doesn’t make you melt, you might not be alive. It’s really an adorable moment captured on film. A young baby elephant is trapped in a well and can’t get out. It’s mother waits for it,...
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Amnesty International suggests being gay is a “choice,” in story about Uganda...
An odd quote from Amnesty International in response to the increasing furor over Uganda’s effort to pass legislation mandating the death penalty for gays, for anyone who rents a room to them, for...
View ArticleHerd of buffalo rescue their baby from 5 lions, 2 crocs (video)
The video, circa 2007, from Kruger National Park in South Africa is of a herd of buffalo accidentally walking into a group of 5 or so lions. The lions attack and are able to tackle a baby buffalo, the...
View ArticleLion Whisperer in South Africa literally frolics with lions (video)
Kevin Richardson is known as the Lion Whisperer, or the Lion King. He manages 38 lions, all bred in captivity, in his own lion park, and has developed quite an amazingly cuddly and playful...
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Pat Robertson says Africans can raise the dead
Pat Robertson, our favorite Republican former presidential candidate and religious right leader, seemed to suggest on his TV show this week that Africans have the power to “raise the dead.” Talk about...
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Catholics suspend priest for blowing whistle on sex abuse of minors in Africa
The Catholic Church reportedly suspended a Ugandan priest for blowing the whistle on child sex abuse in that country. The priest was told to apologize and help cover up the crimes, because, he was...
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Homophobia Inc. and America’s newest export: Hate (Part 1 of 3)
I’m willing to bet that not many of you have heard of the World Congress of Families (WCF). Or if you have heard of them, you think they’re just another fringe anti-gay hate group. Think again. In...
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African poachers kill 300 elephants with cyanide, worst slaughter in 25 years
A horrific story from the Telegraph about African poachers killing 300 elephants, and countless other animals, with cyanide. They’re saying it’s the worst carnage they’ve seen in southern Africa in 25...
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Uganda passes law mandating life imprisonment for gays
The Ugandan legislature has passed legislation making “aggravated homosexuality” a crime punishable by life in prison. The new law will also require straight Ugandans to report “homosexual activities”...
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Stunning video of Kevin Richardson frolicking with lions and hyenas
Yet another wonderful video from the man many call the Lion Whisperer, Kevin Richardson. A hyena. Follow @aravosis (I’m told that in order to better see my Facebook posts in your feed, you need to...
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Nigerian police round up 100s of gays after everything gay is banned
A horrific development in Nigeria, as police round up 168 “suspected” gays. According to human rights activists, cited by the AP, the police obtained a list of suspected gays by torturing someone. Tell...
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Reflections on capitalism: Who are the Unpeople of the world?
This piece, an update of something I wrote in January 2012, is a comment on capitalism and highly pertinent today. It’s also the editorial bridge for an episode of a new radio show/podcast I’m...
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How Nigeria’s anti-gay law will turn straight people gay (funny vid)
Nigerian-British comedian Ikenna Azuike does a cute video about how Nigeria’s draconian new anti-gay law is going to end up turning all the straight people gay. A number of African countries, like...
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Paper publishes “Uganda’s 200 top homos,” as prez says oral sex is western...
In response to their president’s decision to sign into law yesterday a draconian piece of legislation making it illegal to be gay in Uganda, one of the country’s leading newspapers has published a list...
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Head of Anglican church: We must discriminate against gays lest someone think...
In a horrific statement, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican church, the Archbishop of Canterbury, said that Anglicans must discriminate against gays, lest bigots in Africa think Anglicans...
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Nigerian “Taliban” kidnap 300 schoolgirls, threaten to sell them
Islamic terrorists kidnapped 300 schoolgirls in Nigeria last month, as part of a larger terrorist insurgency to take over northern Nigeria and turn it into a medieval Islamic state governed by sharia...
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Helping the kidnapped Nigerian school girls
This piece has two purposes. I want to jump on something we covered earlier on this site — the 300 school-age girls abducted in Nigeria — and to re-introduce you to one of my favorite commenters, RJ...
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Ebola scare grows in west Africa
The news from Africa is growing worse by the hour. As we’d reported the other day, there’s a growing Ebola scare in a handful of African countries, and things seem to be getting worse, as the...
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The latest on the African Ebola outbreak
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has declared an Ebola outbreak. The government says that as many as 13 patients may have died from the disease, including a doctor and a few nurses. The...
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Grindr security glitch exposes gay users in Uganda, Russian Kremlin
I wrote this morning about the disturbing security glitch in the popular gay smartphone app “Grindr,” which permits anyone with an Internet connection — including people who are not registered with...
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