We can’t just geoengineer our way out of climate change
From Rabble.Ca: http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/david-suzuki/2014/03/we-cant-just-geoengineer-our-way-out-climate-change By David Suzuki March 18, 2014 Because nature doesn’t always behave the same in...
View ArticleLiving in Certain “Desirable” Cities Isn’t Worth the Pain
Many years ago, when I was 20 I thought either Greenwich Village or the Haight Ashbury were the best most desirable places to live. My initial explorations showed me that even in 1967 New York City was...
View ArticleI Didn’t Find the American Dream in New York City
From Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christian-gabriel/new-york-city-unemployment_b_4690969.html Christian Gabriel 03/25/2014 I turned 31 a few months ago, and a month later I moved out...
View ArticleHow Wall Street Is Sucking Huge Amounts of Money from Los Angeles
From Alternet: http://www.alternet.org/economy/new-report-reveals-how-wall-street-impoverishes-los-angeles Finance industry rakes it in from dubious fees. By Les Leopold March 25, 2014 Los Angeles...
View ArticleAir Pollution = Biggest Environmental Health Risk, Says WHO
From Common Dreams: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/03/25-5 Andrea Germanos Published on Tuesday, March 25, 2014 by Common Dreams Air pollution is the world’s largest single environmental...
View ArticleThe Nation’s Most Segregated Schools Aren’t Where You’d Think They’d Be
From Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/26/new-york-schools-segregated_n_5034455.html Joy Resmovits 03/26/2014 NEW YORK — The nation’s most segregated schools aren’t in the deep...
View ArticleAnti-Trans Slurs and Drag: Who Exactly Is Transgender, and Does It Matter?
Years ago I argued that the term transgender should have a more limited meaning than it has come to have. With every one and their gender-queer emo cousin claiming to be transgender the term has come...
View ArticleOne Percenter Convicted Of Raping His Infant Child Dodges Jail Because He...
From Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/30/robert-richards-rape_n_5060386.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000013 by Ashley Alman 03/30/2014 A Delaware man convicted of raping his...
View ArticleDisturbing New Report: Air Pollution Killed 7 Million People in 2012—Or About...
From The Guardian UK: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/26/stillbirth-murder-miscarriage-pregnant-women-criminals Imagine if Jackie O got arrested for losing her son after smoking. Now...
View Article‘Shem***’ is not OK to use in any venue
From The San Diego LGBT Weekly: http://lgbtweekly.com/2014/03/27/shem-is-not-ok-to-use-in-any-venue/ Trans Progressive by Autumn Sandeen Thursday, March 27th, 2014 Reposted with permission I’ve had a...
View ArticleWalmart Admits: ‘Our Profits’ Depend on ‘Their Poverty’
From Common Dreams: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/03/26-6 Critics cite irony of annual report filing: ‘This is a company that everywhere it goes it creates poverty’ Lauren McCauley...
View ArticleThe real secret to making it as a writer: Be fabulously wealthy before you...
From Salon: http://www.salon.com/2014/03/30/the_real_secret_to_making_it_as_a_writer_be_fabulously_wealthy_before_you_even_start/ The sad fact of literary life is that it overwhelmingly rewards people...
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