March 2011
1 post
20Everythings: Choose your own adventure:... →
20everythings:
Chances are, if it weren’t for facebook status updates this day would have gone unnoticed in your life. The women’s movement is over, isn’t it? I know for a fact that you have better things to be doing with your $54 Victoria’s Secret Bombshell bra than burn it…and feminist, isn’t that just another…
June 2009
7 posts
Obama Extends Benefits To Gay Federal Employees →
tylercoates:
via Gawker:
According to the AP, a ceremony announcing the move, which “would give partners of federal employees access to health care and financial benefits such as relocation fees for moves,” will take place inside the Oval Office.
Interestingly, the move comes the day after two prominent gay men, activist David Mixner and blogger Andy Towle, announced that they would boycott...
The deprivations of the formerly affluent Nouveau Poor are real enough, but the situation of the already poor suggests that they do not necessarily presage a greener, more harmonious future with a flatter distribution of wealth. There are no data yet on the effects of the recession on measures of inequality, but historically the effect of downturns is to increase, not decrease, class...
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