Grown folks music, right here. Pendergrass was just one of the artists you had to know from parent’s LP collections. Its funny how songs you learned as a kid while running around at barbecues, being toted around in carpools to church, at the barber shop or playing in the background while the family did...
Read more →“Poverty is the denial of human rights.” -Irene Khan, Former Head of Amnesty International, Author: The Unheard Truth: Poverty and Human Rights OR Update: Ushahidi does Haiti.
Read more →see if you pick up on the jabs being thrown then… h/t Gawker.tv via Gotcha Media
Read more →Not a good idea Jay.
Read more →ROBERTSON: omething happened a long time ago in Haiti and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French. Napoleon the Third and whatever. And they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, “We will serve you if you get us free from...
Read more →Rank Economics blog SIS ADPV 1 Becker-Posner Blog 783.24 2 Greg Mankiw’s Blog 756.38 20,245 3 RGE Monitor 332.17 4 Inside the Economist’s Mind 180.35 5 Neuroeconomics 102.36 6 Organizations & Markets 98.84 7 Freakonomics 94.09 8 Game Theorist 77.76 9 Vox Baby 76.19 42 10 John Lott’s Blog 52.13 1,501 11 Grasping Reality...
Read more →Guiliani, Matalin, Perino and others who insist nothing bad happened while W was president need to be directly and strongly countered. There are many reasons Obama was elected, and one main reason was to run our US government competently.
Read more →Gucci Mane is a prolific, oft jailed trap rapper from Atlanta. Diplo is a DJ and producer who is half of the group Major Lazer based out of the Philadelphia area. “Diplo Presents: Free Gucci (Best of The Cold War Mixtapes)” is a selection of some of the best tracks from Gucci Mane’s three...
Read more →Not everything a progressive could want, but he’s done as much as a President can do. In fact, he’s had one of the most jam packed years of legislative accomplishments by a US President.
Read more →Senator Gillibrand lays out her case against her potential primary challenger Harold Ford. “If Harold Ford wants to move from Tennessee and run in New York, he is welcome to do so and I welcome an honest comparison of our records and our work for New York. I will take a back seat to...
Read more →Parks and Recreation is the Wu-Tang of Comedy – watch more funny videos
Read more →Before some wing nut complains that Secretary of State Clinton made a statement about the Earthquake in Haiti faster than President Obama made about the failed Christmas Day attack?
Read more →Port au Prince shaken to dust by an earthquake that measured 7 on the Richter Scale yesterday.
Read more →The powerful menacing Negro stare. Yes, exactly: upon zooming in President Obama looks 400 times more uppity. Oh, not that Glenn is calling him uppity! Because Glenn never explicitly calls people the things he calls people: he always always quotes a reader or links to someone else saying the thing he is not personally...
Read more →This explains how community rating works to control premium creep and relate cost to the people’s ability to afford it Remarkably, in virtually all other industrialized nations, this issue is hardly ever raised. Community rating there has long been widely accepted and is unlikely to be abandoned in the foreseeable future. The health systems...
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