Bush Allies, Falling Down on Jobs It’s also true that the jobless rate “is understating the labor market distress,” says Jared Bernstein of the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal think tank. If you lose your job, it’s tougher to find…
The New Pentagon Papers
From MoveOn via mrpsyklops: “Salon.com has just broken a major story detailing how the Pentagon created a special office to manipulate intelligence data on Iraq and WMDs. It’s written by Karen Kwiatkowski, a military officer who watched this unit at…
The 14 Defining Characteristics Of Fascism
The 14 Defining Characteristics Of Fascism Posted April 7, 2003 thepeoplesvoice.org by Dr. Lawrence Britt Dr. Lawrence Britt has examined the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia) and several Latin American regimes. Britt found 14…
Today’s Miscellany
How Bush Helped My Marriage McClellan gets reamed about Bush’s service record From therevealerfeed—Unfortunately, I don’t read Hebrew: Too hum-drum? Max Gross recommends J.T. Waldman’s “180-page graphic novel [about] an orphan… taken to a brothel. She meets an alcoholic, lecherous…
Bush & Jobs
The following comes to you courtesy of rightchristians Jobs flatlined under Bush–a touch of the overseer’s lash It is all of that, but I’d go one step further: flatlined jobs are exactly what Bush wants. To them, the chart above…
Co-Abode: Single Mothers Share Housing
I’ve meant several times to mention this here, and keep forgetting: Co-abode: Single Mothers Share Housing I no longer remember where I first heard it mentioned, but it sounds like a great idea. Here’s the basic stuff from their site.…
Abomination
The Kroger bakery was selling “margarine croissants.”
It’s Already Tuesday Afternoon?
Three times today, SEMagic posted an entry in a community when I meant it for my personal journal or vice versa. It seems to be going to wherever I’d posted last, even when I check to be sure that I’ve…
Fundamentalism Redux
First—why does the Cobb library have a separate category for “Christianity—Controversial literature” in their catalog? Is that an official Dewey designation, their own thing, what? I’ve never run across it in any other system before. I’m into one of my…
Fundamentalism
shunra, this caused me to think of you. rightchristians is being accused of anti-Semitism for daring to post an excerpt of someone else’s article on the effects of Jewish fundamentalism on Israeli politics. I read an incredibly good article several…