OBVIOUS LIE about poll workers in the NY Post.
I've found a blatant falsehood in a New York Post article:
View ArticleBeing beautiful would mean ...
It would be amazing to be beautiful. Not just pretty, or "put-together" but truly, really, beautiful. To have long graceful limbs and smooth perfect skin and large arresting eyes. Being beautiful would...
View ArticleEveryone is physically beautiful? The naked ugly truth
So, he says to me: I have never known a little girl that was not physically beautiful.You see, I HATE this kind of talk. I mean it sounds so nice right? Everyone is beautiful! Not just on the inside...
View ArticleShe runs in a plain dress.
This memory came to me, with all of the talk of religious tolerance. Christian heavy metal? Really?"No it's Awesome" Rebeckah, insisted as we went down in to the basement of the farm house. It was cool...
View ArticleBeautiful. Why not female bodybuilders?
I have a whole set of questions on this, and related topics:
View ArticleShe's so, dark, fat, nappy and big lipped.
This article is sort of clumsy. It seems like she's about to make the point that far too many of the black women we see in media as examples of beauty are still closer to a Eurocentric beauty model, or...
View ArticlePowerful, deadly machines-- raw emotions, no consequences.
Human beings are emotional and those emotions spill over in to the way that people drive. Emotions naturally also have an impact on the way that a pedestrian walks or a cyclist bikes, but I choose to...
View ArticleObama is addressing immigration, and I love his plan.
My dad is a bit more conservative than I am. I guess you could call him a an independent-- he has a rather dim view of both political parties and with good reason in some cases. He's older than me and...
View ArticleTwo choices: retain your dignity & get arrested, or bow and scrape and walk...
Why are some people so hostile and angry at cops? Cops risk their lives to keep our cities and towns safe, their jobs are not easy. So, why the hate? The poor relations start at a granular level: the...
View ArticleHomogenized everything: of dairy and economies.
There are many kinds of yogurt, but by far the most enjoyable and satisfying are those made from non-homogenized, whole milk. Homogenized milk has an unnaturally even consistency that prevents the...
View ArticleNot fearless.
Running in the city is one of the best ways to learn a neighborhood, and the surrounding neighborhoods and then the whole borough… and then the whole town and then the county. As day by day I grew...
View ArticleDon't leave the city.
WASHINGTON (AP)—According to data released March 24, African-Americans in search of wider spaces increasingly left big cities such as Detroit, Chicago and New York for the suburbs, typically in the...
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The class politics of shaming fat kids.
Here's what the state of Georgia is doing to "fight obesity" putting up ads like this one.:In media commentators ask "Are these ads unfair?" as if that were a question worthy of civil debate. My...
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How to keep women out of public places.
Verbal sexual harassment is the most often mentioned reason why other women I know don't go running outside. The harassment effectively blocks women from enjoying public spaces in the same way as men.
View ArticleHave you ever heard of a "failing" public school in a wealthy neighborhood?
Have you ever heard of a "failing" public school in a wealthy neighborhood? The worst schools in wealthy areas tend to be better than those rare flash-in-a-pan cases of "good" schools in poor districts.
View ArticleStarbucks steps up to fight unemployment, a good corporation?
Starbucks has just launched its Create Jobs for USA program, the coffee chain’s official response to America’s unemployment crisis. The program will donate money to a loan fund for “community...
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Electronic cigarettes: new laws prompted by hysteria and misinformation
My uncle smoked himself to death. And like so many people in our families and communities, he wanted to quit so very badly for years and years. He had tried over and over for 20 years and never broke...
View ArticleThe problem with "background checks" ...
Criminal background checks for guns aren't as good of an idea as they sound. When a person has served time for a crime (especially for the largely "victimless crimes" of prostitution and drugs) we need...
View ArticleGood schools, no great mystery.
One of the biggest problems in education (that no one seems to think about) is the negative impact of constantly reorganizing schools and curriculum and tests. Change itself may be making our schools...
View ArticleKilling the black body.
Abortion itself is not reproductive freedom, abortion is one of many technologies that can help make reproductive freedom a reality. Some other technologies are other types of contraception and methods...
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