Per the Norm, Mainstream Media Gets It Wrong On Rape
Melissa McEwan of Shakesville on "lol your ugly ": "So there's this woman, Bernann McKinney, who was recently in the news for paying to have five puppies cloned from her dearly departed pet pit...
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Problems, and Government Interventions, Keep Growing
Problems, and Government Interventions, Keep Growing August 6, 2008William F. Shughart IIDetroit Free Press According to a recent Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, most Americans want government to “do more to solve problems.” As Congress...
Politicians, Voters Pillage Set-Aside Funds to Plug Budget Gaps
Politicians, Voters Pillage Set-Aside Funds to Plug Budget Gaps August 4, 2008Michael Reksulak Mirroring a $534 million shortfall in Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s 2008-09 proposed budget for Los Angeles, planned expenditures for California as a whole...
HIV Achilles Heel? Hopefully So.
Lee McGuire of KHOU-TV News on "Doctors may have found a way to destroy HIV": Paul and his team have zeroed in on a section of a key protein in HIV’s structure that does...
Things this rape survivor could do without hearing again in life…
As I've begun to unravel the tight ball of emotions related to my rape, I've been given a lot of advice, some good and some bad. Most of it is well-meaning, but not necessarily...
The Net Effect of Minimum Wage
The Net Effect of Minimum Wage July 29, 2008Art Carden Last week, the federal minimum wage increased from $5.85 per hour to $6.55 per hour. While some are celebrating the change as a boon for...
The Aftermath of Being Temporarily Owned By Another
Another excellent posting from Cara at The Curvature on Explaining Rape : The crime of rape is the imposition on another person’s body. The crime of rape is taking away another person’s right to...
LinkedIn Backup
For those of you (like me) using LinkedIn for professional networking, Jason Alba has some excellent advice about backing up your profile and connections. Why? Because you never know… Read it and heed it:...
Wal-Mart, Innovation, and Access
Wal-Mart, Innovation, and Access July 17, 2008Art Carden Last week, Wal-Mart’s revised application to build a new store in Cordova, a suburb of Memphis, Tennessee, was accepted by the local Land Use Control Board. ...
On Releasing Old Secrets
It was very difficult to make the decision to share the story of my rape publicly. After all of this time in denial (which ended abruptly in early May), I no longer wanted to...