The Things You Don’t Think About When You Can Afford To Feed Yourself
Lo these 20 years ago, when I was in high school, I worked as a cashier in a grocery store (it was the stone age, when scanners were just coming into wide use; I had to ring things up by hand). One of the things I had to learn was how to ring up customers [...]
...read moreNew Carnival of the Feminists Is Up
Kactus at Superbabymama is hosting the 20th Carnival of the Feminists, with a broad theme of Women and Poverty. Lots of great stuff over there, so be sure to check it out.
...read moreSylvia Rivera spins like a dreidel in her grave
I’m posting this here because I said I would, and because this comment doesn’t exactly jibe with tekanji’s stated objective. There’s a thread on calling a truce on the sex wars over at Alas.
...read moreThe “Ghetto Tax”
The Brookings Institution has issued a report documenting what people who live in the “ghetto” already know: it’s expensive to be one of the urban poor: Drivers from low-income neighborhoods of New York, Hartford and Baltimore, insuring identical cars and with the same driving records as those from middle-class neighborhoods, paid $400 more on average [...]
...read moreSolving the Homelessness Crisis
Jess sends on this article about a controversial Seattle program which gives homeless alcoholics a place to live — and allows them to drink in their rooms. These are the “unsympathetic homeless” who beg, drink, urinate and vomit in public — and they are probably the most difficult to get off the streets, said Bill [...]
...read moreIt’s the Birth Control, Stupid
Give women the tools to prevent unintended pregnancy and they will. The problem is, a lot of women aren’t getting those tools. A new statistical analysis, published this month, shows that poor and uneducated women have fallen farther behind their more affluent peers in their ability to control fertility and plan childbearing. The nation’s overall [...]
...read moreSo, What Were You Planning on Doing in the DR With That Viagra, Rush?
So Rush Limbaugh was caught at the Palm Beach airport on the way back from the Dominican Republic with Viagra in his suitcase, for which he did not have a prescription (it was made out by his doctor to another doctor, probably to hide the fact that he’s using it). And while it’s fun to [...]
...read morePromises, Promises
5,000 units of public housing are to be razed in New Orleans, and there doesn’t appear to be any firm plan to ensure that the residents of those units are guaranteed spots in the new housing units that are planned but not yet underway. Smells fishy to me. The announcement, made by Housing and Urban [...]
...read moreStudy Finds Female Genital Mutilation Can Increase Risk that Mothers or Their Babies Will Die In Childbirth By 50%
Scary. The first large medical study of female genital cutting has found that the procedure has deadly consequences when the women give birth, raising by more than 50 percent the likelihood that the woman or her baby will die. Rates of serious medical complications surrounding childbirth, such as bleeding, also rose substantially in women who [...]
...read moreMore Fat (Politics)
This is a follow-up to my post on fat jokes in the liberal blogosphere, in which I shamelessly ripped off the far more eloquent Chris Clarke. But I only addressed part of Chris’s post; the rest I will discuss here. In the beginning of the post, Chris slammed those in the liberal blogosphere who will [...]
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