Wealthy Women Can Afford to Reject Marriage, but Poor Women Can’t
From The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/01/wealthy-women-can-afford-to-reject-marriage-but-poor-women-cant/283097/ Higher-income “single ladies” often push back against...
View ArticleAlcohol Is a Major Factor for Auto Crashes — So Why Are Govts Focusing on...
From Alternet: http://www.alternet.org/drugs/alcohol-such-huge-factor-car-crash-risks-its-wonder-why-govts-are-so-eager-catch-people-toking We should spend more time preventing alcohol fatalities. By...
View ArticleThe Costs of Austerity: Squandering $2.3 Trillion Yearly of our Productive...
From Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jakob-von-uexkull/costs-of-austerity-2-3-trillion_b_4595644.html Jakob von Uexkull 01/14/2014 The meaning of the term austerity has undergone a...
View Article“We made an indefensible mistake”: Grantland editor apologizes for story...
From Salon: http://www.salon.com/2014/01/21/we_made_an_indefensible_mistake_grantland_editor_apologizes_for_story_outing_trans_woman/ After a suicide and an outcry, editor in chief Bill Simmons...
View ArticleCan Everyone Stop Freaking Out Over Which Bathroom Transgender People Use?
From Vice: http://www.vice.com/read/can-everyone-stop-freaking-out-over-which-bathroom-transgender-people-use?utm_source=vicetwitterus By Paris Lees Jan 10 2014 There’s a crazy right wing conspiracy...
View ArticleDEA official freaks out at Senate hearing: Reckless marijuana legalization...
After all Marijuana Legalization could put a bunch of pigs out of work and harm the Prison Industrial Complex. From Raw Story:...
View ArticleDavos’ Elite Message Deserves ‘Fierce Resistance’ Not Applause
From Common Dreams: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/01/22-0 Corporations represented at global gathering are cause of crises they claim to want to solve Jon Queally Published on Wednesday,...
View ArticleThe Workers’ Scorecard on NAFTA
From Truth Out: http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/21370-the-workers-scorecard-on-nafta By David Bacon Thursday, 23 January 2014 Sold by its promoters as a migration-preventing device that ultimately...
View ArticleThe Infrastructure of American Democracy Is Dysfunctional
From The Nation: http://www.thenation.com/blog/178057/infrastructure-american-democracy-dysfunctional# John Nichols on January 22, 2014 President Obama’s second inaugural address touched on the...
View ArticleAnother Anti-Choicer Admits Real Purpose Of TRAP Laws
From Right Wing Watch: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/another-anti-choicer-admits-real-purpose-trap-laws by Miranda Blue on Friday, 1/24/2014 The latest issue of Rolling Stone has a great...
View ArticleFriday Night Fun and Culture: The Carter Family
The Carter Family, A.P, Sara and Maybelle stand tall in the annals of American Folk Music as well as Country Music. They contributed many of the songs every struggling folk guitar player must learn in...
View ArticleThe ‘Feminized Society’ Myth
From In These Times: http://inthesetimes.com/article/16157/our_feminized_society How the gender perception gap makes a female minority feel like a majority. BY Sady Doyle January 22, 2014...
View ArticleA Rand Paul Presidential Campaign Would Teach Americans Just How Vicious and...
From Alternet: http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/rand-paul-presidential-campaign-would-teach-americans-just-how-vicious-and-anti Not such a cozy guy. By Thom Hartmann January 23, 2014 It’s...
View ArticleWhy I Didn’t Watch the Grammys Last Night
Yes I know the Grammys were on last night. No I didn’t watch them. I watched Sherlock Holmes instead. I’ve never really been into “Pop Music”. I’ve always been more into genres that the Grammys only...
View ArticleClueless Rand Paul: Women Are Winning the ‘War on Women’
From Alternet: http://www.alternet.org/rand-paul-women-are-winning-war-women The Kentucky Senator mocks gender issues even as Republicans wage an assault on abortion rights. By Alex Kane January 27,...
View ArticlePaul Krugman slams the 1% for “paranoia” and “megalomania”
From Salon: http://www.salon.com/2014/01/27/paul_krugman_slams_the_1_for_paranoia_and_megalomania/ The New York Times columnist thinks the super-wealthy’s hatred for Obama is a sign of profound...
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