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Drag Queen Daddy : What Do We Tell the Kid?
We are running the following important advice as a special service to our readers. It comes from ‘Dear Prudence: Advice on Manners and Morals’ from the online magazine Slate. Go here to read more from Prudence, to get her to … Continue reading
A Lesson From Canada (and Detroit) : Single Payer Health Care is Way to Go
‘Canada pays LESS for health care per person than the US — with far better results in terms of general wellness of the population.’By Tommie Sue Montgomery / The Rag Blog / December 13, 2008 See ‘If G.M. Were a … Continue reading
Ricardo Rachell and Criminal Justice in Harris County
The victim never mentioned facial scars when he identified Ricardo Rachell, above. Photo: Harris County Sheriff’s Office / Houston Chronicle. ‘This form of justice has become commonplace in Harris County with its history of unforgivable crime lab mistakes and outright … Continue reading
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Tagged Criminal Justice, DNA, Harris County, Houston, Prisons, Texas
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Sherman DeBrosse : Our Economic Trainwreck
‘The financial crisis involves a great deal more than shaky home mortgagers. The key problem is that our financial markets have been deregulated and, lacking policing, have engaged in a massive speculative binge.’ By Sherman DeBrosse / The Rag Blog … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Economic Collapse, Economy, Financial Crisis, Great Depression
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Gender Equity at UT-Austin : Still a Lot of Work to be Done
Gender equity on campus: Still a little behind? ‘Across colleges and ranks women’s salaries are lower than men’s by thousands of dollars, even when qualifications are the same.’ By Mercedes Lynn de Uriarte / The Rag Blog / December 12, … Continue reading
Bailout Bust : Southern Republicans Strike Out at Unions
Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich, left, listens to Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, speaking about the Senate’s rejection of an emergency $14 billion loan bailout for US auto companies, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2008, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Photo by Haraz N. … Continue reading
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Tagged Automobile Bailout, Automobile Industry, Congressional Bailout, Labor Unions, Republican Party, UAW
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Homophobic Hip Hopper Trick Trick Promotes Anti-Gay Violence
Gay hater Trick Trick opens for Ice Cube at Texas clubs. “He goes both ways. Either way he’s gay. Ain’t no other way to say, he’s a f**king faggot so I’m lettin’ off my AK. Bust ’em in his forehead. … Continue reading
Joseph E. Stiglitz on the Economic Crisis : Capitalist Fools
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and former Federal Reserve Board chairman Alan Greenspan bookend two decades of economic missteps. Photo illustration by Darrow / Vanity Fair. Behind the debate over remaking U.S. financial policy will be a debate over who’s to … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Greenspan, Capitalism, Economic Crisis, Economics, Economy, Henry Paulson
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Senate Report on Torture : Blood on Rummy’s Hands
Rummy the Impaler. Photo by Roger L. Wollenberg / UPISenate places blame on Rumsfeld:‘The abuse of detainees in U.S. custody cannot simply be attributed to the actions of “a few bad apples” acting on their own.’By Joby Warrick / December … Continue reading
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Tagged Bush Administration, Congress, Department of Defense, Guantanamo, Rumsfeld, Torture, War on Terror
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Bush Throws Polar Bears Under the Bus
Polar bear reacts to today’s news. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne announces revisions to Endangered Species Act. ‘To finally admit that the science compels the listing of the polar bear as threatened due to global warming, but then deny it the … Continue reading
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Tagged Bush Legacy, Endangered Species, Environment, EPA, Global Warming, Interior Department, Polar Bears
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HEALTH CARE / Western Medicine and the Dilemma of Life’s End
One version of life’s end: Charon the ferryman. I do not write these observations as a medical ethics expert, but merely as an 87 year old retired physician, a secularist, with cancer of the prostate; thus, with some insight into … Continue reading
