Life has become back-ass backwards: Obese people now outnumber the hungry globally, but hardship for the undernourished is increasing amid a growing food crisis, the International Federation of the Red Cross warned on Thursday. ……
Either resigned to fate, or highly naive: Rebecca Sparks, who works at the town’s Barber Shop, says she’s not nervous: “I believe they’d tell us if there was a problem.” Ugly business, nuclear power. Near…
From McClatchy Newspapers: Sniping and snide remarks are out on Capitol Hill. Being nice — and seeking common ground, or at least appearing to — is suddenly in. Since returning from their summer recess earlier…
Once in a while, I come across something that both deeply saddens and pisses me off to no frickin’ end. In the horrific display of cold-hearted meaness overflowing in the two recent GOP presidential debates…
Even as US peoples are trying to keep their lives from being sucked down the financial toilet while trying to figure out which GOP presidential candidate is the most half-wit-crazed, attention has been slight on…
(Illustration found here). Being poor is getting further down and dirty. In an age where money is getting scarce for those on the bottom rung of the economic ladder, the prospects for any kind of…
Watching the ceremonies this morning in New York is way sad — not just for the innocents killed today a decade ago and their families, but also for the naive, near-pompous nationalism inspired by the…
In the wake of the more-recent events in Libya, the world wants to know much-more about the US CIA’s nefarious so-called ‘rendition‘ program, which led to all those “black sites” in at least seven countries where…
Coming upon the tenth anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, the stories are starting to pile up on the history of it all, though, the biggest single reminder of that event can be seen nowadays and…
(Illustration found here). “The economy makes it really tough right now,” said (Tyler) Mitchell. “People say, ‘You go to college, you get a degree, you’ll get a great job.’ Well nowadays, I don’t really think…