Headline Rewrite: Spending Cuts and Tax Breaks for the Rich Could Prompt Recession Next Year
I like how the headline on the article linked below cites only “tax increases” as the problem with next year’s budget. While there are some issues with taxes that will affect the middle class, the real issue are staring us right in the face in the text of the article: spending cuts and tax breaks [...]
Highly Educated…And On Welfare
There is a new reality out there for many PhD’s — the reality of poverty as their ranks increase but the job opportunities don’t. Read on: From Graduate School to Welfare – Graduate Students – The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Maybe the Government Needs to Regulate CEO Pay
After adjusting for inflation, we pay CEOs today four times what they made in the 1970′s. Pay-for-performance is the idea behind exorbitant CEO pay, but the fact is that CEO’s make big money whether their companies perform or not. CEO pay is a problem that is affecting us all as we struggle to afford housing, [...]
Overreach 1– Covenant Marriage
As promised, more on the topic of divorce and the Religious Right. In the mid-90′s a movement emerged to create a category of legal marriage called ‘Covenant Marriage”. This was both a response to high divorce rates and an attempt to legislate religious principles into the legal contract of marriage. from Wikipedia In 1997, Louisiana [...]
Making Trouble Elsewhere
I am not well read on Christopher Hitchens, and I find his support of the Iraq War inexplicable, but on the other hand he had the nerve to take on Mother Theresa. Are they sipping tea together somewhere on the edge of eternity, or is there a space large enough in collective memory that spirits [...]
Story Behind the Story
I’m linking to Xavier Onassis, EMT because once again we see in the news that a fire department stood by while a house burned. This is the second incident of this kind from Obion County, Tennessee. When I blogged about this the first time, Xavier responded with a passionate and informed comment in defense of [...]
The Silent Passing of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
The following is from Kmareka’s West Coast correspondent, Elaine Hirsch. Elaine Hirsch is kind of a jack-of-all-interests, from education and history to medicine and videogames. This makes it difficult to choose just one life path, so she is currently working as a writer for various education-related sites and writing about all these things instead. Currently, [...]
Occupy Providence Today
UPDATE: A picture of the throngs in downtown Providence! From the Occupy Providence Facebook Page, a public service announcement… On Saturday, October 15th at 5pm Rhode Islanders will gather in Burnside Park (Downtown Providence) to express a feeling of mass injustice and stand in solidarity with those occupying Wall Street in Liberty Square. This [...]
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