A group called Birth Control Watch is suggesting that we ask the following questions to the candidates: 1. Do you support couples having access to safe and effective birth control options, including emergency contraception? 2. Do you agree that for women to achieve equality, they must have access to family…
This testimony by John Yoo is disgraceful on many levels. Yoo was commenting (or, rather, refusing to comment) on his previous "work" in Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel. Of course, in this Think Progress video, Yoo is doing his best to uphold the disgraceful actions of his former boss,…
I caught this video at Funny or Die:
Why grow grass when you can eat your front yard? Grass is no longer cool, according to this article in Time: The problem, as [architect and founder Fritz] Haeg sees it, is that the "hyper-manicured lawn" is looking increasingly out of date. In the 1950s, when suburbia first began to…
Here's a terrific article by Tim Karr of Free Press. Why not exert some intelligent political will and make certain that blistering high-speed broadband is available to anyone who wants it at a reasonable price? Karr's article comes with some disturbing statistics: Access to broadband today is held in the…