WFPman Tumbles

If you thought Target’s most notable day of the year was Black Friday, think again. Houston mother Michelle Hickman is planning an international “nurse-in”, to be held at all of their locations, next Tuesday December 28th . Hickman says she was harassed and humiliated by Target staff when she found a quiet space in the store to breastfeed her infant, and now wants to “make a stand in supp

Two of these trends are that liberals tend to have more activity in parts of the brain known as the insula and anterior cingulate cortex. Among other functions, the two regions overlap to an extent by dealing with cognitive conflict, in the insula’s case, while the anterior cingulate cortex helps in processing conflicting information. [10 Things You Didn’t Know About the Brain]

Conservatives, on the other hand, have demonstrated more activity in the amygdala, known as the brain’s “fear center.” “If you see a snake or a picture of a snake, the amygdala will light up — it’s a threat detector,” said Iacoboni.

—Life’s Extremes: Democrat vs. Republican | Genetics & Political Views | Liberals & Conservatives | Political Ideology | LiveScience

Occupy Detroit reoccupies Golden Gate neighborhood (by bobplaintv)

But in this case, the Plan B decision is the wrong policy and it seems like a wrong political move, too. Who’s going to be swayed by restricting teen access to the morning-after pill? Those most likely to applaud the decision are voters who almost certainly didn’t support the president in 2008 and won’t support him in 2012.

—Political Animal - The wrong call on Plan B

They refused to ask a few hundred thousand millionaires and billionaires to pay their fair share,” the president said in a statement. “It makes absolutely no sense to raise taxes on the middle class at a time when so many are still trying to get back on their feet.

—Senate Republicans reject measures to extend payroll tax break - latimes.com

Local 802 President Tino Gagliardi called management’s proposals “a matter of paucity of vision. Steel talks about how the opera is broke, but doesn’t understand that playing to large Lincoln Center audiences is the fastest way out of the fiscal crisis caused by his incompetent management.

—New York City Opera contract talks in crisis » peoplesworld

And in the specific case of austerity policies, this is even more of a fallacy: We have to find somewhere to make these tough cuts, we are told, because there is no money. None. Not a cent. The cupboard is bare. We are told this by our millionaire mayor, while he holds court with his fellow millionaires and supports state tax breaks for wealthy corporate interests (rejected yesterday by the Illinois House).

—Occupy’s Radicalism Prompts Disdain from Liberal Class — In These Times

Turning tainted or even contaminated food into “edible” and profitable stuff is so common in the United States that virtually all producers do it.

—FDA says it’s OK to turn bad food into sellable stuff » peoplesworld

Mubarak is Berlusconi is Bloomberg is Quan is Walker is pepper spray is broken politics bound to the past and we make no demands of them because free people constitute governments, not the other way around.

—Editorial: We Are Free People | The Occupied Wall Street Journal

Ideas that have gone extinct in Israel still wander the American landscape, as if it were a Jurassic Park of the mind. What’s going on?

—Why Are They So Angry?