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From the early 1900s to the 1970s, some 65,000 men and women were sterilized in [the USA], many without their knowledge, as part of a government eugenics program to keep so-called undesirables from reproducing. [via sex_and_race

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Gwen Stefani neuters Japanese street fashion to create spring's must-have accessory: Giggling geisha! [salon.com, via sex_and_race]

There was something that was really bugging me about Stefani's Harajuku girls, and this article nails it.

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Make no mistake: Real ID, in short, takes us one happy step closer to a total surveillance state, where everyone is stamped and everyone is watchable and everyone is traceable and unless you live way, way off the grid out in the increasingly nonexistent hinterlands, you cannot escape the spazzy and twitchy and paranoid eye of Homeland Security.

And for those Canadians keep track at home, the question is not going to be IF we ever adopt these kinds of technologies, but WHEN. We've always been lagging behind the U.S. on these kinds of things, but we've never wavered in adopting them. Except for nuclear weapons.