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If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.” ~John F. Kennedy “We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both.” ~Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis “I believe that, as long as there [...]
Archive for October, 2011
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Tell Congress To Support Federal Funding For The National Science Foundation
October 31st, 2011 
Greg Laden I received the following email and urge readers to call your Senators and encourage them to support the National Science Foundation! Here’s why. Having worked in a Senate office, I can assure you that every call matters. The details: Call your Senators by 5:00 ET today to urge them to support the House Appropriations Committee [...]
Time to Carve your Halloween Pumpkin!
October 30th, 2011 Greg Laden So here are some ideas I found on the internet:
Redistribution of wealth
October 30th, 2011 Greg Laden “The laboring classes constitute the main part of our population. They should be protected in their efforts peaceably to assert their rights when endangered by aggregated capital, and all statutes on this subject should recognize the care of the State for honest toil, and be framed with a view of improving the condition of the [...]
Labor and Capital
October 30th, 2011 Greg Laden Who said: “Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.”
Discordant Democrats vs. Republican Dittoheads
October 30th, 2011 Greg Laden I was disturbed by a recent discussion on my favorite cable TV news channel. Anchors and pundits were discussing the different approaches used by the Republican vs. Democratic Party in the heath care reform fight. An anchor was pressing the two guests about this difference in strategy, challenging them with the idea that the Republicans [...]
Tags: The Baseline: How much sexual assault is there?
October 28th, 2011 Greg Laden Expanding on our earlier discussion… In the paper Anthropology’s “Fierce” Yanomami: Narratives of Sexual Politics in the Amazon, Sharon Tiffany and Kathleen Adams provide the following opening passage: Imagine a society in which one woman in every three is raped, usually by a man she knows, consider the consequences of living in a society where [...]
Scott Olsen to undergo brain surgery
October 27th, 2011 Greg Laden The protesting vet who was injured by police in Oakland will have to have brain surgery. He was in critical condition but has been upgraded to fair. It is not know if he has regained consciousness.
Gun control keeps suicides down
October 27th, 2011 Greg Laden Michael Bryant says: Most firearm deaths in Canada are suicides (over 75 per cent). Only 24 per cent are homicides. Suicides in Canada will go up if the Prime Minister isn’t careful about what he repeals. … Suicides dropped dramatically in Canada thanks to the federal gun registry. Not only do statistics prove as much, [...]
A Rape in Progress
October 27th, 2011 Greg Laden Early in 2009, my friend and colleague Sheril Kirshenbaum asked several bloggers to consider writing about rape during the month of June, as a coordinated effort to increase awareness and understanding of rape generally, and depending on the blogger, specific aspects of sexual assault and violence. (Sheril’s initial post back in 2009 is here) I [...]
“The Atheist’s Guide to Reality” Alex Rosenberg on Atheists Talk #139, October 30, 2011
October 27th, 2011 Greg Laden Many religions claim to hold the answers to life’s big questions: What is the meaning of life? Why are we here? From where do we get our morals? Some say it’s all because of God, and that leaves us atheists throwing our hands in the air. But now Alex Rosenberg has written a book just [...]
Michele Bachmann, Saint Cloud, Racism, Teabaggers and the Office of Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Education
October 27th, 2011 Greg Laden Just so you know, it’s all connected.
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