But whether it’s happening at all or whether its existence has an impact of the incomes of the middle class and poor…those are no longer good questions. Unless, that is, your goal is blow smoke and fog in which case they’re still bad questions, though they may be effective ones.
Obama had his economic crisis — but without Depression-era 25 percent unemployment and bread lines, it wasn’t sufficient to force Republicans to cooperate or allow for dramatic presidential action.
The takeaway? The blood test method isn’t perfect, but it’s certainly interesting. With some tweaking doctors might be onto a proper clinical test for depression, but in the meantime one of the paper’s co-authors said at the very least establishing a physiological link to depression will hopefully get patients to look at their depression as a treatable condition rather than something that’s wrong with their minds. More at the Atlantic.
In an interview with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Jim Galloway, Handel lashed out at Planned Parenthood for a “vicious, vicious” campaign to hang onto its funding, but in doing so acknowledged that Komen’s decision to drop funding in the first place was a highly political reaction to pressure from anti-choice activists.
—That’s the whole argument! Komen wasn’t supposed to be political!
(Source: washingtonmonthly.com)
The Muppets Attack Fox News (by LeicesterSquareTV)
For many years even before the 2008 financial meltdown, the smartest and brightest of American graduates were pursuing careers on Wall Street rather than careers in science and engineering. Making financial products was easier and more lucrative than manufacturing hard goods.
MoveOn - Beauty - they shape the female body to look one way when in reality it is a false conception.
While females bare the brunt of this onslaught in our modern times; I think men too, are more and more being made to conform to a certain look.
(Source: youtube.com)
Great picture, great caption.
