Things that make you go, hmm!

From the Feministe blog Conservative Exceptionalism {by Jill on 11.30.2009} This article on increasing rates of reliance on food stamps illustrates pretty clearly the right-wing mentality when it comes to social programs — any sort of government aid is a hand-out to the lazy until I need it. Then it’s still a hand-out to the [...]

The Economic Crisis And What Must Be Done : Information Clearing House - ICH

The Economic Crisis And What Must Be Done             : Information Clearing House -  ICH.

Excellent opinion from Hold Fast Blog

By Matt Browner Hamlin Cutting Pay, Wall St. vs Main St. October 23rd, 2009 Joe Nocera of the New York Times has an article today on Obama administration pay czar Kenneth Feinberg’s efforts to rein in top executive pay at banks bailed out by the American taxpayer. You know, a story on the novel subject [...]

Consciousness Capitalism: Corporations Are Now After Our Very Beings By Joe Bageant, AlterNet. Posted August 1, 2009. Capitalism has raped the resources of the world. Now corporations are left to strip human experience from life, then rent it back to us. A few years ago, compliments of the George W. Bush administration, I got an [...]

Thumbprint scanning children at school? Go past 4 minute mark for kid talking about it. I don’t have kids, so will have to ask around to see if this is true.

There is only one truth, that evil men and women get their way because good and noble do not have it in their hearts to confront them. Be it for their goodness; their compassion; or their capacity to love , they believe that goodness, compassion and love are innate in all humans. Sadly, this is [...]

What do you want the world to be?

“… All necessities provided. All anxieties tranquilized. All boredom amused.”