Why the Meat at Wal-Mart Is So Awful
Cross-posted at the Writing on the Wal. On February 17, 2000, meatcutters at Wal-Mart's Jacksonville, Texas store voted to join an indepedent trade union. This was the culmination of the only...
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Desperation nation
(Click to enlarge)Something's going up for people struggling financially -- and it's not the minimum wage. The low-end consumer loan business is booming, with several states caving in to lobbyists'...
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Hey vaccine deniers–it’s just simple math
When dealing with those pushing pseudoscience, like the antivaccination cult, the most frustrating thing is that they tend to ignore and deny the most basic tenets of science. If denying the fact of...
View ArticleThe Pentagon is preparing for societal collapse due to Climate Change
Most of us on this site are well aware that climate change impacts will exacerbate marginal living in poor and desperate nations particularly those in Africa, South Asia and the Middle East. These...
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John Oliver BLASTS Zimmerman verdict
Last night, the Daily Show returned after a 2-week hiatus with John Oliver just ripping into the George Zimmerman verdict.Anyway, after all that, the entire Daily Show staff here was chomping at the...
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Politico's hit job on Bernie Sanders is proving awkward for journalism
Politico often embodies the worst of American political journalism, but this is bad even by those standards. "The socialist surge," the headline reads, continuing with the subhed "The rise of Bernie...
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Cartoon: The true history of the Confederate flag
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Sam Brownback (R-KS) Signs Sweeping Anti-LGBT Executive Order
Governor Sam Brownback today signed in a sweeping executive order with significant changes afoot - and many not imagined.EXECUTIVE ORDER 15-05 EXECUTIVE ORDER 15-05Preservation and Protection of...
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Thomas Piketty: “Germany has never repaid.”
In a blistering interview with the German newspaper Die Zeit, Piketty blasts Germany and it's history of repayment of debt over the years,...
View ArticleWingnut heads explode as California strikes 'lynching' language from the Law.
I clicked on an article about California removes 'lynching' language from state law over at Yahoo News this morning: Hoo-boy...I had suspected this would be rich in wingnut whining, but then I thought...
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An open letter to the people who hate Obama more than they love America
I meet you all the time. You hate Obama. You hate gay people. You hate black people, immigrants, Muslims, labor unions, women who want the right to make choices concerning their bodies, you hate em...
View ArticleA Cop's take on the Verdict
The verdict was ridiculous but not surprising. The only way I would describe the way that I feel is nausea. I am just sick that this guy got off and his lawyers are going to shamelessly be doing...
View ArticleKKK Praised in Text used in State-Funded Christian Schools
"the [Ku Klux] Klan in some areas of the country tried to be a means of reform, fighting the decline in morality and using the symbol of the cross... In some communities it achieved a certain...
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Marijuana legalization hurting Mexican drug cartels
There are a number of reasons to support legalization. Now you can add one more. Farmers in the storied “Golden Triangle” region of Mexico’s Sinaloa state, which has produced the country’s most...
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The tight link between unions, the middle class and inequality in two charts
As the chart above from Unions Work shows, over the past nearly hundred years of American history, when union density has been low, inequality has been high. Union density isn't the only factor in...
View ArticleJohn Oliver Cited by United States Court of Appeals
John Oliver is making his presence felt. After only about a year on the air, he's influenced the FCC on Net Neutrality (causing their comments to overload), formed his own Church to make a point about...
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Consumer Reports calls latest Tesla best vehicle they've ever tested, right...
Tesla's new Model S P85D, so good it drives conservatives crazy!Last week, Consumer Reportsdeclared the new $120,000 Tesla Model P85D the best car it has ever reviewed, so good in fact, that it broke...
View ArticleKareem Abdul-Jabbar on Bernie vs Trump
Great op-ed this morning in Washington Post by Kareem Abdul Jabbar titled This is the difference between Donald Trump and Bernie SandersJabbar summarized eloquently Trump's attacks on Megan Kelly and...
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Confederate flag-flying man in truck hits 4-year-old boy, gets beaten by crowd
The truck that hit 4-year-old Damajae Winn (also pictured)An 18-year-old Minnesota man and his 13-year-old girlfriend (back to that in a minute) claim they were innocently cruising a neighborhood in...
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Boston using prisoners like slave laborers to shovel snow in back-breaking...
The headline for the CBS News story in Boston is titled "MBTA Offers $30 an Hour to Shovel Out Tracks."The first five paragraphs describe just how severe the weather has been in Boston and how it may...
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