The Fount of Useless Information
Your place for useless information that just might possibly be interesting.
The progressive case against Obama
Bottom line: The president is complicit in creating an increasingly unequal — and unjust — society
http://www.salon.com/2012/10/27/the_progressive_case_against_obama/
I am not totally sold on the author’s case for the third party. There is the plausible case …
Walmart supply chain: warehouse staff agencies accused of wage theft
‘They prey on people living on the edge,’ claim workers, who are already among the most vulnerable and lowest-paid in America
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/oct/18/walmart-supply-chain-agencies-accused-wage-theft
I can state with authority that this isn’t …
Is the middle class an endangered species?
After losing ground for four decades, middle America increasingly looks doomed. Here’s how it happened
http://www.salon.com/2012/10/24/is_the_middle_class_an_endangered_species/
This is likely to be a rambling post, brace yourself… I have felt in my gut for …
It seems that there is no longer any point in droning on and on about the ‘impending’ police state, it is now fully embedded in concrete:
Obama moves to make the War on Terror permanent
Complete with a newly coined, …
Longevity Traced to Grandmothers
http://www.voanews.com/content/grandmothers-longevity-24oct12/1532183.html
I talked a bit before about group evolution and that post-child-bearing adults are valuable to families. The grandmother hypothesis is a variation on the same theme. Looking over the wiki page it seems to …
Scientists aghast after colleagues convicted of manslaughter over Italy quake
http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/23/world/europe/italy-quake-scientists-guilty/index.html
This is what happens when ignorant people choose ignorance yet wind up in positions of power. The parallels here in the US are impossible to miss!…
Why can’t law enforcement admit their mistakes?
Their refusal to do so leads to countless wrongful convictions, but psychology says few will cop to misconduct
http://www.salon.com/2012/10/21/why_cant_law_enforcement_admit_their_mistakes/
Another in the line of posts on the American InJustice system…
This one speaks …
Why do elephants have hair on their heads? Scientists solve head-scratcher
http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/18/us/elephant-hair/index.html?hpt=hp_c3
In what I would consider a rather non-intuitive conclusion, it seems that, based on modeling, the sparse hair of the elephant actually contributes to cooling. The article is …
Sounds like great work by our domestic anti-terrorist agency, eh? Until you read this:
New York Federal Reserve ‘bomb’ plotter ensnared in FBI sting
Federal authorities arrest 21-year-old Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis who they say attempted to detonate a …
Conservatives’ HPV vaccine dilemma: are they anti-cancer, or just anti-sex?
Proof that vaccinating girls against the HPV virus does not cause promiscuity puts culture warriors in a spot
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/16/conservatives-hpv-vaccine-dilemma
I find this bit so amusing I am including it verbatim:…