Let me rephrase that. GROW A GARDEN. Even learn urban techniques with small spaces. That 5 dollar fast food sandwich you bought the other day.. That could buy a large amount of seeds. Everyday is one day you can be planting something to feed yoursel... Read more »
Supreme Contempt
Recently President Obama made this remarkable statement, “Ultimately, I'm confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically ... Read more »
Christians Fight for Their Children’s God-Given Right to Bully Gay Kids
Writes Erin Gloria Ryan on Jezebel:
Read more »Despite the fact that there’s scant evidence in the Bible that Jesus was an asshole who commanded his followers to bully gay children to death, a group of American Christian parents seem to think Christ has called upon them to act like jerks. That’s why they’re actively working against the passage of anti-bullying laws at the state level — they believe that by making repeated, ongoing cruelty illegal, lawmakers are interfering with their Jesus loving child’s right to point out that homosexuality is wrong and bad and hellbound.
“Bullying children is wrong and bad” may sound like the most basic tenet of human decency, but if you ask conservative lobbying groups like Concerned Women for America and Focus on the Family, making it a crime to taunt someone until they kill themselves is akin to interfering with religious freedom. According to AlterNet’s Katherine Stewart, conservative groups across…
Sugar Shown To Be Toxic, Causing Cancer, Heart Disease
Although food activists have been warning for years of the dangers of the massive sugar overload in the American diet, and in particular the perils to our health from the ubiquitous High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS), only now has the scientific research confirming their concerns become so compelling that the mainstream media is taking what was once a minority viewpoint seriously. The most remarkable thing about this "60 Minutes" investigation by celebrity doctor Sanjay Gupta is the short shrift given to the sugar industry's right to reply. Gupta and CBS News dismiss the industry representative's protest against the research summarily, essentially calling him out for having nothing of substance to say. Bravo Dr. Gupta! You can read a transcript of the segment here. Read more »
Senator Al Franken: ‘Privacy is a Casualty’ of Google and Facebook’s Success
Nilay Patel reports on Senator Franken’s emergence as the congressional voice of the people against corporations, for The Verge:
Read more »Senator Al Franken gave a rousing speech to the American Bar Association’s Antitrust Section last night, calling for greater antitrust oversight of large media and tech companies as a way to ensure greater privacy protections for Americans. That’s not surprising by itself — Franken is the chair of the new Senate subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law, after all — but the senator took the opportunity to blast Google for its controversial new privacy policy and suggest that Facebook would soon have every incentive to share private data in the absence of meaningful competition.
Franken opened by talking about his opposition to both the NBC / Comcast merger and the failed AT&T / T-Mobile deal, but he was most blunt about the privacy threat facing internet users every day. Consumers are “out on a limb…
Medved says Medicaid is not redistribution of wealth!
Michael Medved starts out by coming out against all the redistribution of wealth. However, it turns out that he is in favor of Medicaid because he thinks Medicaid is not redistribution of wealth! Why you may ask does he think Medicaid is not redistribu... Read more »
Roku vs. Apple TV vs. Google TV
Apple TV just got a mild refresh; how does it stack up against your other choices for putting Web and PC content on your HDTV? OB Roundup There are plenty of Web video services that would look great on your HDTV, and there are several media hubs that c... Read more »
Rand Paul blocks Iran sanctions bill
http://youtu.be/KYn_4tSrD1s Jack Hunter agrees http://youtu.be/lUxXkPrR6fs Like son like father who are against this coming world war. read more Read more »
The Word "Libertarian" is on the Front Page of the NY Times
The headline reads: "Libertarian's Pet Cause Reaches Supreme Court" [Note: the web headline is different] It's about the Georgetown Professor (apparently a libertarian) who's behind the current suit against the individual mandate of Obama's health care... Read more »
Southern Poverty Law Center Takes Aim at Men’s Rights Websites
Chuck Rudd writes at the Good Men Project:
Read more »The Southern Poverty Law Center—a non-profit civil rights organization that made its bones going after the likes of the KKK and neo-Nazis—has turned its cannons on my virtual homeland: The Manosphere. The SPLC, created in 1971 by civil rights activist Morris Dees, publishes a quarterly “Intelligence Report” covering the latest movements and trends among so-called extremists and hate groups. This quarter’s issue features no less than three articles covering the Manosphere.
First, what is the SPLC’s stated purpose?
The Southern Poverty Law Center monitors hate groups and extremists throughout the United States and exposes their activities to law enforcement agencies, the media and the public. We’ve crippled some of the country’s most notorious hate groups by suing them for murders and other violent acts committed by their members.
To expose the rampant hatred and seething violence of the Manosphere, the group’s lengthiest piece mentions a handful of high-profile cases of men…
