Is Sarah Palin Newsweek cover sexist? Palin says yes.

Seeded on Thu Nov 19, 2009 6:21 AM EST (Christian Science Monitor)

She's posing in her old office clutching two Blackberries and leaning on an American flag. This was an OK photo for Runners World, she says, but not for a serious news story. It's sexist and out of context.

entertainment, newsweek, magazine-cover, sarah-palin, sexism, books, carribou-barbie

Torture (i.e. Tasering) for Tantrums

Seeded on Thu Nov 19, 2009 5:37 AM EST (digbysblog.blogspot.com)

I am very much against tasering, but I honestly believe that any mother who tells a policeman to taser her child should be tasered first, just so she knows what she's asking them to do.

technology, tasers, police, children, parenting, punitive-ha-ha-measures

Norton Buffalo - R. I. P.

Seeded on Mon Nov 2, 2009 2:36 PM EST (cmt.com)

One of the most versatile harpists in contemporary music, Norton Buffalo earned his greatest success in blues circles, but also proved himself adept in areas ranging from rock to country to even new age.

entertainment, blues, harmonica, norton-buffalo, steve-miller, roy-rogers, elvin-bishop, music

Analysis: Why Was Cliff Lee Pitching So Late?

Seeded on Mon Oct 19, 2009 3:40 PM EDT (The New York Times)

In baseball as in football, knowing when to punt can be a decisive advantage in a lengthy battle.

sports, baseball, dodgers, phillies, playoffs, relief, pitchers, torre, manuel

Oh, @!$%#! ( Global Warming and C02 Emissions )

Seeded on Thu Oct 15, 2009 5:51 AM EDT (AlterNet.org)

The IPCC says that by 2020 rich industrial countries must cut emissions 25 to 40 percent (compared with 1990) if the world is to have a fair chance of avoiding catastrophic climate change.

science, environment, earth, globe, world, global-warming, carbon, industry, greenhouse, jumping-jack-flash

Florida Coaches Have Confidence in Brantley

Seeded on Thu Oct 8, 2009 6:28 AM EDT (gainesville.com)

"John is ready. I think if he were someplace else, he'd be the starter. We just happen to have a Heisman Trophy winner who is our starting quarterback.

sports, college-football, sec, florida, lsu, tebow, heisman, concussion, rivalry

Woman's Shattered Life Shows Ground Beef Inspection Flaws

Seeded on Wed Oct 7, 2009 6:24 AM EDT (The New York Times)

The frozen hamburgers that the Smiths ate, which were made by the food giant Cargill, were labeled "American Chef's Selection Angus Beef Patties." Yet confidential grinding logs and other Cargill records show that the hamburgers were made from a mix of slaughterhouse trimmi …

health, meat, e-coli, hamburger, cargill, beef, feces, diarrhea, convulsions, siezure

The Rude Pundit on Alan Grayson

Seeded on Sun Oct 4, 2009 5:02 AM EDT (rudepundit.blogspot.com)

What ought to be happening is that Democrats should be using Grayson as their point person, sending him out to take a wrecking ball to the stick houses of arguments Republicans keep constructing.

politics, integrity, honesty, humor, congress, media, limbaugh, blitzer, grayson

When Is a Czar Not a Czar?

Seeded on Wed Sep 30, 2009 6:03 AM EDT (washingtonindependent.com)

so far this "czars" debate seems like a witch hunt egged on by sloppy reporting.

politics, government, executive, legislative, czar, director, head, advisor

Are Chicken and Fish as Unhealthy as Red Meat? | Health and Wellness

Seeded on Wed Sep 23, 2009 4:44 PM EDT (AlterNet.org)

Chickens make up over 95 percent of all the animals slaughtered in the U.S. The sheer numbers killed are astounding. Over 9 billion chickens are slaughtered each year. That's 24 million a day, 300 per second.

health, food, meat, environment, sustainability

ACORN: The Most Cost-Effective Investment the Government (and Foundations) Have Ever Made

Seeded on Wed Sep 23, 2009 4:32 PM EDT (AlterNet.org)

The real purpose of the right's attacks on ACORN is to destroy a remarkably successful 50-year-old grassroots model for defending the poor and workers.

politics, acorn, investment, taxes, spending, welfare, public

Village Wisdom by Hullabaloo

Seeded on Wed Sep 23, 2009 6:58 AM EDT (digbysblog.blogspot.com)

In any case, Todd is probably parroting the lazy narrative that's about to emerge about Afghanistan and without any self-consciousness whatsoever, falsely attribute to the public the attitudes of the Village --- as usual.

politics, pundits, propaganda, news, opinion, editorial, dc-villagers, msm, media

Jimi Hendrix

Seeded on Mon Sep 21, 2009 5:40 PM EDT (Rolling Stone)

Jimi made it beautiful and made it OK to make it beautiful.

entertainment, anniversary, guitar, hendrix, jimi, electricladyland

Paul Simpson, M.D.: Why Your Doctor May Have PTSD

Seeded on Mon Sep 21, 2009 4:54 PM EDT (CounterPunch)

The great fallacy here is the idea that medicine is just another industry that will function best through a free market Our health is too important to trust to an arrangement driven by greed.

health, medicine, insurance, reform, doctors, lawyers, ceos, hippocratic-oath, capitalism, profit

Bush Receives Award for Environmentalism

Seeded on Sat Sep 19, 2009 6:34 AM EDT (Daily Kos)

"As is well known, the basic problem with the environment is that there are too many people.

politics, environment, bush, emissions, satire

Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Seeded on Fri Sep 18, 2009 4:39 AM EDT (cdcr.ca.gov)

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) is cutting adult offender rehabilitation programs, reducing headquarters staff and creating new efficiencies to save over $280 million in response to the department's plan to achieve a $1.2 billion budget reduct …

us-news, prisons, corrections, san-quentin, budget-cuts, layoffs, rehabilitation, california

The Politics of Racism

Seeded on Thu Sep 17, 2009 6:16 AM EDT (prospect.org)

Today's grassroots right is by all appearances as socially conservative as ever, but its tone and its rhetoric are profoundly different than they were even a year ago. For the last 15 years, the right-wing populism has been substantially electrified by sexual anxiety.

race, discrimination, civil-rights, human-rights, politics, christian, evangelical, phobia, conservative, right-wing

Heart Procedure Results in Shocking Hospital Charge!

Wed Sep 16, 2009 5:41 AM EDT

My first significant exposure to the health care system in over 30 years started with a routine physical exam only a few short weeks ago.

Continue reading this entry ...

health, heart, insurance, hospital, medical

How We Sabotage Young Girls

Seeded on Mon Sep 14, 2009 6:18 AM EDT (AlterNet.org)

There is nothing wrong with being a nice person, nor is it my intent to undermine the unique sensibilities of women and girls. But girls need to have the tools to say no, to ask for what they need, and to say what they think.

health, gender, women, girls, emotional-development, stereotype, good-bad, equality

Less Than Serene

Seeded on Sun Sep 13, 2009 6:24 AM EDT (observer.com)

I was sitting courtside and I heard Serena Williams unleash some profanities and tell the lineswoman that if she called a foot fault again, "I'll stuff this racket down your throat."

sports, serena, tennis, us-open, foot-fault, disqualified, penalized, outburst, profanity, anger

"Death Bonds": Wall Street's Shocking New Plan to Reap Billions off Dying Americans

Seeded on Fri Sep 11, 2009 5:45 AM EDT (AlterNet.org)

Now we know why America's oligarchs are fighting to keep the rest of us stuck in the world's worst health care system: the more we die, the more billions Wall Street will earn.

business, wall-street, insurance, fraud, corruption, debt, profit, loss, goldman-sachs

'American Casino': How Our Nation's Financial Sector Became a Massive and Unregulated Gambling Operation

Seeded on Sun Sep 6, 2009 6:42 AM EDT (AlterNet.org)

Well, originally, whole areas of the population, specifically African Americans and other minorities, were "red-lined." There would literally be a red line around areas on realtors' maps. And you don't make a loan to people living inside those lines.

business, sub-prime, banking, loans, mortgages, interest, wall-street, corporate-accountability, criminal-lending-practices

Pat Robertson Recovering Following Heart Surgery

Seeded on Mon Aug 31, 2009 1:01 PM EDT (The Huffington Post)

Robertson, who has scaled back his official activities in recent years, was treated Aug. 19 at FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital for atrial fibrillation. He was released last Thursday, Roslan said.

health, heart, atrial-fibrillation, atrial-flutter, catheterization, ablation, surgery

Why I Hate Barack Obama! Pastor Steven Anderson Sermon

Seeded on Sun Aug 30, 2009 6:45 AM EDT (Crooks and Liars)

ANDERSON: You are going to tell me that I'm supposed to pray for the socialist devil, murderer, infanticide who wants to see young children and he wants to see babies killed through abortion and partial-birth (INAUDIBLE) everything? You are going to tell me I am supposed to pray …

politics, abortion, socialists, obama, right-wing-extremists

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