Monday Morning Linkage

[pantryslut]

It's not going to become a habit, but I wanted to share.

1) Manufacturer discontinues anesthetic used for lethal injections and throws capital punishment practice in the U.S. into serious disarray.

2) Laura Antoniou discusses spirituality and cultural appropriation in the BDSM community in a keynote speech for SW Leather 2011 entitled, with a nod to Lea Delaria, "Here's A Dollar, Buy a Culture."

"I know you’re so thrilled you have a spiritual practice that speaks to you. I know seeking ecstasy is exciting, fulfilling, transcendent; it brings you to the divine, it brings out the divine in you, it changes your state of being, it’s the neatest thing since Angry Birds.

But that does not give you the right to take on a culture not your own in a thoughtless, uneducated, insular, and yes, appropriating manner."

Comments

[thette.livejournal.com]

If they do discontinue thiopenthal worldwide, it's going to be difficult for anesthesiologists, too. It's currently the only approved barbiturate for intravenous anesthesia here, and Hospira are the only manufacturers.

[imnotandrei.livejournal.com]

Looking at the article, it looked like there was a British manufacturer, but I wouldn't rely on a newspaper's last-paragraph assertion. ;)

[lcohen]

the antoniou speech was terrific--thanks for the link.