Kate Spencer: On Seeing Lena Dunham Naked
When I was 10 years old, some moms in my fifth grade class organized an end of the year pool party for our entire grade. It was one of the first times I can recall being sent into a tailspin of anxiety for weeks, because it meant I had to wear a bathing suit in front of my classmates. After many…
Basically the only thing you missed last night…
US religious lobbyists funneling cash for Canadian pro-life policies | The Vancouver Observer
Research on tax filings and joint ventures of charitable organizations show support for Canada’s pro-life movement from Catholic groups in the United States, as well as increasing support for the cause among MPs aligned with religious organizations.
THE REAL BATTLE IN 2012 AND BEYOND
It’s not merely Republicans versus Democrats, or conservatives versus liberals. The larger battle is between regressives and progressives.
Regressives want to take this nation backward — to before Social Security, unemployment insurance, and Medicare; before civil rights and voting rights; before regulations designed to protect the environment, workers, consumers, and investors. They want to sabotage much of what this nation has achieved over the last century. And they’re out to do it by making the rich far richer, turning Americans against one another in competition for a smaller and smaller slice of the pie, substituting private morality for public morality, and opening the floodgates to big money in politics.
Progressives are determined to take this nation forward — toward equal opportunity, tolerance and openness, adequate protection against corporate and Wall Street abuses, and an economy and democracy that are working for all of us.
The upcoming election is critical but it’s not the end of this contest. It will go on for years. It will require that you understand what’s at stake. And that you energize, mobilize, and organize others.
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
Henry David Thoreau, August 19, 1851, Journals (1838-1859),
The Beatles join the student strike: Abbey Road Casseroles!
via Jacques Keroack (clever haha)
EI Will Lower Your Pay Because You’re An Unfortunate Loser
Have you ever had to go on EI? Ever had to go on it more then once? Guess what: the government of Canada thinks your a loser.
Thats right folks, you will now get less pay the more often you apply for EI. Not because you quit work (remember EI is only for people who are laid off) but because you were unfortunate enough to be in a circumstance where your work wasn’t permanent. Maybe you’re a seasonal worker? Maybe you just got unlucky in a few jobs and now you need EI to help you along until you gain more gainful employment. TOO BAD LOSER. You get less money because, apparently, you suck.
I’m not usually so inarticulate but this actually makes me just plain angry. What else could the government possibly thinking. Honest hard working people, who need assistance to get by between jobs, are aparently of no use to this government and should just get lost. No, I MEAN LITERALLY GET LOST. Move an hour away at the very least to find a job. Come on, it’s your Canadian duty.
What country are we living?
Macleans vs. Reality aka The “Fuck it, nobody under 50 reads this, we know who our audience is” Cover.
Robert Reich: Why Obama Should Be Attacking Casino Capitalism -- Both Romney's Bain and JPMorgan
I wish President Obama would draw the obvious connection between Bain Capital and JPMorgan Chase.
That way his so-called “attack” on private equity is neither a personal attack on Mitt Romney nor a generalized attack on American business.
It’s an attack on a particular kind of capitalism that…
My very first podcast so I thought I’d put it up. I’ll put up the podcasts that followed in the next few days and hopefully lead to a brand new podcast I’m working on. The same name and the same topics with, hopefully, improved production by a very novice podcaster.
Enjoy.
-Ryan Painter
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Great birthday kick off. :)
