More random links
- New Zealand Grants a River the Rights of Personhood
- Apparently not only humans (excepting those still in their mother's wombs) and corporations can be legal persons, rivers can too.
- In plain view: How child molesters get away with it.
- "The pedophile is often imagined as the dishevelled old man baldly offering candy to preschoolers. But the truth is that most of the time we have no clue what we are dealing with."
- Americans Confused About the Number of Protestants, Atheists, Mormons, and Muslims
- "The typical American badly underestimates how many Protestants there are in the country, notes the report, and overestimates the presence of religious minorities such as Mormon, Muslim, and atheist/agnostic." - A survey like this could really use an apatheist category to deal with the large group of nominally affiliated people. I suspect that that would shift the numbers somewhat.
- As it's revealed the Bond star was victim of domestic violence, why did Roger Moore's wives beat him up?
- "... both his two wives prior to Luisa attacked him, subjecting him to a string of batterings during their marriages. He recalls how he was scratched, punched and even hit over the head with a guitar, as well as having a brick thrown through his window by a jealous spouse. And though he has never gone into detail about life with Luisa — the mother of his children, and the only one of his previous wives still alive — everyone who knew them during their more than 30-year relationship has a tale to tell about her volatile behaviour." Yet another reminder that both men and women perpetrate domestic violence, with a 2007 study finding that "[i]n nonreciprocally violent relationships, women were the perpetrators in more than 70% of the cases."