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whee, global poverty, or agricultural subsidies
Fuel of tomorrow Originally uploaded by boubou1 LMB recently wrote about farm subsidies in the US and the damage they do. They affect the major ingredients and prices of the food we buy. there are five crops which receive huge, huge payouts from the US government: corn, soybeans, wheat, rice, and cotton. None of these […]
andrea gibson
1 third of the homeless men in this country are veterans and we have the nerve to “Support Our Troops” with pretty yellow ribbons while giving nothing but dirty looks to their outstretched hands watch this.
Why do women have second trimester abortions?
According to this study on women in England, summarized by The F-Word, 1. because they do not realize they are pregnant. 2. because they were unsure about having an abortion. 3. change or breakdown in relationship 4. service delays including waiting for appointments I imagine these reasons are very similar to why women here have […]
articles worth reading
Content analysis of O’Reilly’s rhetoric finds spin to be a ‘factor’ Bill O’Reilly may proclaim at the beginning of his program that viewers are entering the “No Spin Zone,” but a new study by Indiana University media researchers found that the Fox News personality consistently paints certain people and groups as villains and others as […]
Stop Dieting
Someone really needs to do something about companies like weight watchers. And our idea of fat people needs to change. Fat is not ugly or lazy or even unhealthy in many cases. And dieting does not work. There is a reason that fat people cannot stay thin after they diet and that thin people cannot […]
Small-fries
The media has handled the large number of Democratic presidential candidates badly. The Washington Post‘s David Broder declared (4/27/07) that “six of the eight declared candidates” at the Democrats’ debate in South Carolina “showed themselves to be both substantive and direct in their responses.” The other two he’s talking about are Kucinich and Gavel, who […]
“free trade”
Techdirt on the US’s interpretation of free trade and what it’s doing to poorer countries: the US is using free trade agreements around the world to force US-style intellectual property rules on the rest of the world — often at tremendous harm to those countries. It’s doubly ironic when you realize that intellectual property rules […]