Here’s the PLO’s logo… See that red swath? That’s Israel. Not a portion thereof. You can’t negotiate with people who don’t recognize your right to exist. End. Of. Story.
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First the bad news, and this is really interesting… The researchers collected dust — containing cockroach, mouse and cat allergens — from the upper half of the beds of 239 children, 7 or 8 years old, all from middle-income families … Continue reading
Lucky Bag involves police leaving a “bag in a public location filled with valuables such as an iPod or cash,” so when someone picks it up, BINGO! Summons! They’ll make their quotas in no time. However given that the law … Continue reading
You heard about the beauty pagent mom who went on TV and claimed she gave her 8-year-old daughter Botox injections and “virgin waxes,” right? You probably wondered to yourself whether something like this could really be true, right? Turns out … Continue reading
[Photographs: J. Kenji Lopez-Alt unless otherwise labeled] Anyone who moves around in burgercentric circles knows of the battle that’s been brewing for the last few years between the three major heavyweights of the high-quality fast-food burger* world. Of the three, … Continue reading
Before last year’s midterm elections, Obama made the false claim that Republican leaders in Congress were “pushing to make privatizing Social Security a key part of their legislative agenda.” The GOP leadership wasn’t pushing to allow Americans to invest Social … Continue reading
Does Obama ever do anything right? Not often, but sure. And when he does, I shut up about it. Cartoonists and columnists who promote government policy are an embarrassment. But that’s what “liberal” media outlets want in the age of … Continue reading
Pancreatic tumor cells use fructose to divide and proliferate, U.S. researchers said on Monday in a study that challenges the common wisdom that all sugars are the same. Tumor cells fed both glucose and fructose used the two sugars in … Continue reading
“You wanna test how damn serious I am about leaving this world, screw with my check that pays for this apartment and food. Try it. See how serious I am. I don’t care,” the California man said. “I have no … Continue reading
via streetsblog.org What’s so confusing about this whole argument is that when you look at the absolutely idiotic design of the street, you realize there’s plenty of room for a 5′ bike lane in the middle. The residents and community … Continue reading
The folks at CNN certainly failed to remember how their network reacted on November 18, 2002, after Bob Woodward broke the “scoop” that Fox News president Roger Ailes had sent a memo on the War on Terror to Karl Rove, … Continue reading
Google patched the security hole earlier this month with the release of Android 2.3.4, although that version, and possibly Android 3, still cause devices synchronizing with Picasa web albums to transmit sensitive data through unencrypted channels, the researchers said. Based … Continue reading
It is naive to believe any business would put moral considerations before profits. Even the “don’t be evil” Google enters a “devil’s pact” with Verizon when the price is right. So it comes as no big surprise that GM has … Continue reading
Ty Pennington and the philanthropic crew of ABC’s “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” have been giving families the houses of their dreams through sweeping seven-day renovations and reconstructions since the series premiered in 2004. The uplifting reality show brokers in hardest-luck … Continue reading
via gothamist.com There’s no question that blocking a bike lane in the course of a police emergency is a legitimate thing. The question is, are a pair of cruisers blocking a bike lane to have lunch in the course of … Continue reading
The new senior vice president of government affairs for Comcast Corp. in Washington, Meredith Attwell Baker, faces a host of lobbying limits because of her position on the Federal Communications Commission when the agency approved the cable company’s $30 billion … Continue reading
There isn’t a ton of new information in this NPR piece on how police still can’t stand the fact that people record them with cameras and cameraphones, but it’s one of the first articles on the subject that has actually … Continue reading
In a conversation about race, when one immediately thinks of black Americans when one hears food stamps, is not that a clear indicator of prejudice and stereotyping? If you said yes, then check out the latest column from Salon’s Joan … Continue reading
My book, Republic of Noise: The Loss of Solitude in Schools and Culture, will be released by Rowman & Littlefield in November and is already available for pre-ordering. In the book, I discuss group work, the folly of the “big … Continue reading