We Do — In North Carolina
Pam Spaulding, blogmistress of Pam’s House Blend, is an inspiration to all citizen journalists. Carrying a day job, living with chronic pain and disability, Pam tirelessly advocates for fairness and equal rights. Pam lives with her wife in North Carolina, they are an interracial couple. Pam campaigned, along with individuals, organizations and churches, against Amendment [...]
Race, Obesity and Willpower
Alice Randall has an op-ed in the New York Times that touches the third rail of weight, race and body image, Black Women and Fat. I’m not going to take the easy shot at her focus on behavior change and healthy eating. America as a whole needs to reject the junk diet that is killing [...]
Will We be Back to Freedom Fries?
Oh those French! First they refuse to pile on to Iraq when Pres. Bush whistled for them, now they’ve elected a socialist. Francois Hollande is the president elect. Tough for Wall Street, we’ll see how this plays on Main Street.
Super Moon
This is from Kathy Hodge who is doing an artist’s residency in Arizona. More cool pix and her journal are here.
Where’s the Tax Man When You Need Him?
The Trinity Broadcasting Network is an untaxed empire… The prosperity gospel preached by Paul and Janice Crouch, who built a single station into the world’s largest Christian television network, has worked out well for them. Mr. and Mrs. Crouch have his-and-her mansions one street apart in a gated community here, provided by the network using [...]
Nuclear Offline in Japan
As the US makes plans to build more nuclear power plants, Japan has found none of its existing nuclear facilities safe enough to operate.Public trust is lost… (Photo courtesy of The New Age.) By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) – Thousands of Japanese marched to celebrate the switching off of the last of [...]
Why Nurses Support the Affordable Care Act
Known by its opponents as ‘Obamacare’ because the very words, ‘affordable care’ would explain why it is urgently needed. I’m on an email list for medical professionals, just got this call to support affordable care. This is pretty much in sync with what we see and hear every day. Healthcare for private profit wastes resources [...]
Staying for Tea in Providence, Rhode Island
Reblogged from Tea Blog: Providence, Rhode Island is a place that I know well. So unlike some of the other places I have been writing about, my tea explorations here go beyond stopping at a place just once. I will share just two of several good tea spots that I have become very fond of [...]
Income Inequality, Consumer Debt, and the 1% vs. the 99% [Infographic]
Reblogged from The Cassandra Files: The differences between the 99% and the 1% don’t end with income. An up-close look at the distinctions between the haves and the have-not-so-muches. (Per my last post, pay particular attention to the credit card portion: despite the huge difference in income (average: $51k vs. $717k) and net worth, the average American has [...]
Not Above the Law
This case needs a day in court– Michael Appleton for The New York Times A judge has rejected Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s claim of diplomatic immunity in his effort to dismiss a civil suit filed by a hotel housekeeper who claimed that the French leader had sexually assaulted her. Justice Douglas E. McKeon of State Supreme Court [...]
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