Happy Late Mother's Day

Consider this: In American politics today, the “perfect” mother is one who does not work and stays home with her children. Unless she’s poor. Poor women who want to stay home with their children are called lazy, welfare cheats. If you’re poor, you can only be a good mother by working.

- Lisa Wade in sociologicalimages

Read a Book

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Chomsky on Health Care

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Heck of a Job, Scott Brown

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B Roll

Jesus Loves Soft Rock

This one should be right up Unbeatable's alley.





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Readings: Foreign Investment

Investments in emerging markets have done better than investments in the U.S. in the 2000s. China and Japan have continued to buy U.S. debt, not because they are impressed with Silicon Valley's growth potential, but in order to cripple American manufacturing by keeping the dollar artificially high and the yuan and the yen artificially low. Their debt purchases are part of their strategic industrial policies on behalf of their own export-oriented manufacturers, not a vote of confidence in future American economic dynamism.

- Michael Lind in The Clintonites Were Wrong

Jerk

I apologize in advance but certain actions taken today have forced my hand.

War is Peace

Dear President Obama,
I hate to break it to you but a non-violent movement could have halted Hitler's armies. A robust German peace movement would have stopped WWII before it started.

Where Have all the Fishmongers Gone

My brother keeps talking about how much he misses his days in London when he had a butcher and a fishmonger on his block.