Foodies Get Wobbly
Form In These Times: http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/14218/foodies_get_wobbly Food supply chain workers adopt the IWW’s radical actions to fight abusive employers. BY Michelle Chen December 2,...
View ArticleDon’t Slave Your Life Away: Why America Should Embrace a 4-Day Work Week
From Alternet: http://www.alternet.org/books/dont-slave-your-life-away-why-america-should-embrace-4-day-work-week Workers today are expected to be on call 24/7. By Bill Ivey November 28, 2012 The...
View ArticleWalmart’s New Health Care Policy Shifts Burden To Medicaid, Obamacare
From Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/01/walmart-health-care-policy-medicaid-obamacare_n_2220152.html Alice Hines 12/01/2012 Walmart, the nation’s largest private employer, plans...
View ArticleHow Girls Evolved to Shop, Rebecca Watson Skepticon 5
For what it is worth I think Evolutionary Psychology ranks up there with homeopathy and astrology as Pseudo-Scientific bullshit.
View ArticleCanada: Bill C-279 testimony met with jeers
From Xtra: http://www.xtra.ca/public/National/Bill_C279_testimony_met_with_jeers-12869.aspx FEDERAL NEWS / “Real Women of Canada” says bill will shield pedophiles Bradley Turcotte Thursday, November...
View ArticleTransgender Latinas Find a Refuge in Queens
From The New York Times: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/02/for-transgender-latinas-a-refuge-in-queens-away-from-streets/ By Julie Turkewitz and Juliet Linderman December 2, 2012, Two years...
View ArticleWalmart Ends Insurance For New Employees, Conservatives Blame Obamacare
From Addicting Info: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/12/02/walmart-ends-insurance-for-new-employees-conservatives-blame-obamacare/ By Justin Acuff 2012/12/02 Here’s a hint: if any article that...
View ArticlePaul Krugman: Republicans To Throw ‘One Long Tantrum’
From Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/03/paul-krugman-republicans_n_2230790.html By Bonnie Kavoussi 12/03/2012 If you thought that political gridlock would end with the...
View ArticleWhy It’s Hard to Replace the “Fiscal Cliff” Metaphor
From Common Dreams: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/12/03-0 by George Lakoff Published on Monday, December 3, 2012 by Common Dreams Writers on economics have been talking since the election about...
View ArticleWhat Do Crisis Pregnancy Centers and Gay Conversion Therapy Have in Common?
From RH Reality Check: http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/article/2012/12/02/when-religious-right-preys-on-vulnerable-can-consumer-protection-laws-provide-rem by Jessica Mason Pieklo, Senior Legal Analyst,...
View ArticleChristo-Fascist Pat Robertson On Gay Wedding At West Point: Robert E. Lee...
How interesting of Robertson to single out one of the worst traitors this nation has ever know as symbolizing some one we should be concerned about upsetting. Lee took up arms against his own nation,...
View ArticleDSM-5 Field Trials Discredit the American Psychiatric Association
From The Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/allen-frances/dsm-5-field-trials-discre_b_2047621.html Allen Frances 10/31/2012 The $3 million DSM-5 Field Trials have been a pure disaster from...
View ArticleTransgender Restroom Kerfuffle
I’m running this full post in part because of a comment Dianne left on my blog post: Canada: Bill C-279 testimony met with jeers I too have noticed how a couple of incidents first appeared in ultra...
View ArticleAnnouncing the December Project: Surviving the Holidays with the trans community
From The December Project: http://www.jenniferboylan.net/2012/12/01/announcing-the-december-project-negotiating-the-holidays-with-the-trans-community/ There from Here, USA Announcing the December...
View ArticleBlake Page, West Point Cadet, Quits Military Academy Over Religion
From Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/05/blake-page-west-point-cadet-quits-over-religion_n_2247067.html?utm_hp_ref=religion By Michael Hill 12/05/12 ALBANY, N.Y. — A cadet...
View ArticleDave Brubeck: 1920-2012
From The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/06/arts/music/dave-brubeck-jazz-musician-dies-at-91.html His Music Gave Jazz New Pop By BEN RATLIFF Published: December 5, 2012 Dave Brubeck,...
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