

By Cathy Ruse
Birth control mandate a sin against liberty
Independent voices from the TWT Communities

Television journalist Katie Couric urged University of Virginia graduates to take risks and persevere.
The metaphor is an easy one, overused and perhaps even a bit overwrought. We are forging forward into a digital frontier, leaving convention behind, traveling without guides into an uncharted virtual land where progress and profits are forever around the next bend.

As Azerbaijan prepares to host the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest next week, advocates say now is the time to increase pressure on the former Soviet republic for its human rights abuses.
North Korea's most famous accordion quintet has added a new 80s-era pop song to their repertoire: A-ha's "Hunting High and Low."

Mick Jagger will close out this season of NBC's "Saturday Night Live" as both host and, along with Foo Fighters and Arcade Fire, musical guest. He does so at a moment when his professional reputation is not exactly at its high-water mark.
May, it turns out, is a manly month, and a funny one at that.
The Grammy Award-winning country music trio Lady Antebellum performed a "mini-prom" for students of a southern Indiana town that was devastated by a tornado in early March.
Bruce Seidel is confident the future of food television won't be seen on television.
Tornadoes battered their school and homes, and spring break was spent cleaning up. Henryville has only begun to rebuild, but for one night, its high school students will get to put aside their worries for a private show by one of country music's biggest acts.
On one of the many days Leo Dunson wanted to die, the Iraq veteran put a gun to his temple and pulled the trigger. The loaded weapon misfired. For the troubled former soldier, it was another inexplicable failure, like his divorce or inability to make friends after returning from the war.
An online ad featuring Ashton Kutcher as an Indian man has been pulled offline after viewers called it racist.

An online ad featuring Ashton Kutcher as an Indian man has been pulled offline after viewers called it racist.
In a flashy presentation to advertisers, YouTube promoted its new channels of original programming, while pledging to spend $200 million to help market them.

YouTube is adding to its original programming by launching channels specializing in female dramas and U.S. Olympic athletes.
YouTube is adding to its original programming by launching channels specializing in female dramas and United States Olympic athletes.