Tag: society
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November 07, 2009 10:47 AM EST --
I was talking to someone on the phone this morning and I mentioned that lived in London....., to which the gentleman automatically assumed I was talking about London, England!
After correcting this . . .
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November 07, 2009 06:25 PM EST --
On the Floor of the House of Representatives yesterday Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) made the following statemen:
"Why is it we have very finite resources for health care, but unlimited . . .
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November 06, 2009 02:06 PM EST --
Lewis --
The House Republicans just released their version of health reform. It's a disaster -- so outrageous that Democratic Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz has dubbed it . . .
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November 03, 2006 08:53 AM EST --
I am a child of the fifties, came of age in the sixties, procreated in the seventies, so maybe I'm out of touch with the present to a degree. I have wondered for quite a while now why a woman . . .
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January 13, 2009 04:37 PM EST --
I'm trying to do two things
I'm trying to do three things
Growing to nine, Oh, what the heck
Multi-tasking, whistle while you work
I guess primal screaming, a bit terse
Find the even keel, . . .
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February 21, 2009 05:33 PM EST --
When I was a child, besides being extremely weird, imaginary friends and all, I hated going to sleep at night. I was absolutely convinced that everything remotely interesting in the world must . . .
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November 02, 2009 12:51 PM EST --
Dear MoveOn member,
Here's the nightmare scenario: It's December. After a year of non-stop work by progressives and President Obama to pass real health care reform, the House has passed a strong . . .
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January 26, 2009 09:02 PM EST --
For months, people have been telling me that I am a direct descendant of Cesar (sometimes confused with Caesar, the palace) Perez, a worthless Lumpen and son-of-a-puta, who walked (or floated, . . .
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October 19, 2009 07:02 PM EDT --
Larry Langford is in trouble with the law. The mayor of Birmingham, Alabama has been accused of accepting bribes to steer business to friends when he was president of the Jefferson County Commission. . . .
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November 02, 2009 05:52 PM EST --
Author James Ray has decided that he will not be giving anymore motivational talks or leading any more Spiritual Warrior Seminars until the investigations of the sweat-lodge deaths are complete. . . .
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February 09, 2007 11:46 AM EST --
Dear Gather Animal Lovers,
Please join me in contacting Amazon to request that they stop selling materials devoted to promoting illegal animal fighting. Two of the items referred to in this article, Unleashed: . . .
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December 09, 2007 04:56 AM EST --
This is taken from http://www.originalintent.org/edu/fedincometax.php and is provided for informational purposes only.
Federal Income Tax
Federal income tax is a complex, and at . . .
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January 10, 2008 09:47 AM EST --
I am curious if people believe in intuition? If you do, do you use it?
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April 03, 2008 10:22 AM EDT --
We are already witnessing an alarming new trend, where advertisers are targeting very young children - and it is no longer with traditional products like toys and board games. Cell phones in . . .
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June 05, 2008 04:51 PM EDT --
Yesterday I saw something on the news that made my stomach turn. The security officer at a recycling center that is about a block away from my house was murdered; shot in the head over copper. . . .
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June 20, 2008 10:19 AM EDT --
On Memorial Day weekend, we acquired a new cat. Not by choice, and not the way we'd have wanted to - she simply wandered into our back yard and set up house on and under our deck.
We knew this . . .
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July 03, 2008 04:13 PM EDT --
Our educational system, I'm sad to say, is all ass-backwards. What we are teaching, obviously, is not conducive to a peaceful, progressive society. The proper use of handguns and condoms . . .
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November 06, 2008 09:08 AM EST --
I adopted Frankie a little over a year ago from the Brown County Humane Society in Indiana. After we bought our house a little over two years ago we knew we wanted to add another four legged friend to . . .
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January 25, 2009 10:41 AM EST --
The dictionary defines a lie as an intentionally false statement.
Arguably, being lied to is the worst act of treason. But what raises more than one eyebrow in a general and rather . . .
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March 21, 2009 09:44 AM EDT --
Research indicates there is a noteworthy shift, or a transformation, in public thinking and perceptions. Organized religions appear to be institutions at the top of the list of shifting attitudes, . . .
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