Pot Is Safer Than Booze: So Why Is Celebrating 4/20 a Crime, While It’s OK to...
From Alternet: http://www.alternet.org/drugs/pot-safer-booze-so-why-celebrating-420-crime-while-its-ok-get-wasted-st-paddys-day Happy 4/20. Don’t get arrested. By Kristen Gwynne April 19, 2013 I spent...
View ArticleEarth Day
This time of year is filled with Earth Day, birthdays and rebirth days not to mention Tina’s and my anniversary. It is a time of reflection as well as celebration. Yesterday we went to the Earth Day...
View ArticleCompanies won’t even look at resumes of the long-term unemployed
From The Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/04/15/companies-wont-even-look-at-resumes-of-the-long-term-unemployed/ Posted by Brad Plumer on April 15, 2013 Here’s one...
View ArticleReal Faces of the Minimum Wage
From Campaign for America’s Future: http://blog.ourfuture.org/20130421/real-faces-of-the-minimum-wage By Richard Eskow April 21, 2013 Corporate interests and their elected representatives have...
View ArticleThe Jobless Trap
From The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/22/opinion/krugman-the-jobless-trap.html?ref=paulkrugman&_r=1& By PAUL KRUGMAN Published: April 21, 2013 F.D.R. told us that the only...
View ArticleDove’s ‘real beauty sketches’ ad deserves some praise
From The Guardian UK: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/20/dove-real-beauty-sketches-ad-women-perfection Dove’s latest campaign to get women to be more confident about their looks...
View ArticleJason Somerville: The fairness of Fallon Fox
From Out Sports: http://www.outsports.com/2013/4/19/4244406/jason-somerville-fallon-fox-mma By Cyd Zeigler on Apr 19 2013 Over the past few weeks, we’ve heard a lot about Fallon Fox, the first...
View ArticleArticle Review: Long-Term Evaluation of Donor-Site Morbidity after Radial...
From Open Minded Health: http://openmindedhealth.com/2013/04/article-review-long-term-evaluation-of-donor-site-morbidity-after-radial-forearm-flap-phalloplasty-for-transsexual-men/ April 18, 2013 The...
View ArticleThe Tangle of the Sexes
From The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/21/opinion/sunday/the-tangle-of-the-sexes.html?ref=global By BOBBI CAROTHERS and HARRY REIS Published: April 20, 2013 MEN and women are so...
View ArticleAmid Much Tumult, France Approves ‘Marriage for All’
From The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/24/world/europe/france-approves-same-sex-marriage.html?ref=global-home&_r=1& By SCOTT SAYARE Published: April 23, 2013 PARIS — With a...
View ArticleGay vs. Trans Cultural Influence, and the Slow Evolution From Ignorance to...
From Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dana-beyer/gay-vs-trans-cultural-influence_b_3118538.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices Dana Beyer 04/22/2013 Over the past few weeks there have been...
View ArticleTransgender rights: the next big political movement
From The Guardian UK: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/23/transgender-rights-movement-gaining-momentum Akin to the marriage equality effort, there is a coalition forming to end...
View ArticleHBS: Play Ground for Frauds, Bullies and Self-Loathing...
Yesterday I posted a piece titled: Django Unchained: House Slaves Like Stephan and the “Girls” of HBS. I’ve gotten really sick of these bullies claiming some sort of right to decide who is or isn’t...
View ArticleBreaking: Rhode Island Senate Passes Same-Sex Marriage 26-12
From The New Civil Rights Movement: http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/breaking-rhode-island-senate-passes-same-sex-marriage-26-12/news/2013/04/24/65885 by David Badash on April 24, 2013 The full...
View ArticleGM salmon’s global HQ – 1,500m high in the Panamanian rainforest
From The Guardian UK: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/apr/24/genetically-modified-salmon-aquabounty-panama-united-states Supersized genetically modified salmon grown fast and fat and after...
View ArticleHouston’s Most Polluted Neighborhood Draws the Line at Alberta Tar Sands
From Yes Magazine: http://www.yesmagazine.org/peace-justice/houston-s-most-polluted-neighborhood-draws-line-keystone-tar-sands If the Keystone XL pipeline is approved, 90 percent of the tar sands...
View ArticleConfront Corporate Personhood: Take Back our Planet
From Common Dreams: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/04/24-6 by Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap and Heather Buckner Published on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 by Common Dreams With the 43rd anniversary of...
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