Archive for October, 2003
Mental
One in six U.S. prisoners is mentally ill. Many of them suffer from serious illnesses such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depression. There are three times as many men and women with mental illness in U.S. prisons as in mental health hospitals.
Postal
Does anybody know how the post office decides how many people should work at the window of a particular post office branch? It seems to me that there are far more people working the windows at the post office branches in the wealthier neighborhoods in Manhattan than in Queens, and more in Queens than in […]
Anti-American
Scholars outing rabid anti-Americanism in our own universities …. no, this isn’t the McCarthy hearings on un-American activities, it is the House Subcommittee on Select Education, Committee on Education and the Workforce U.S. House of Representatives. They are worried that university programs in Area Studies are not producing enough supporters of U.S. foreign policy. Rather […]
Disobedience
I haven’t written anything about the Diebold electronic voting scandal because Body and Soul has done such a good job, there seemed very little to add. And there are even sites devoted entirely to the topic. One such site, Blackboxvoting.com, became big news when Diebold tried to shut them down. But now there is a […]
Rape
Frankly, I’ve been quite shocked at the number of male bloggers who seem to feel that rape is justified if some certain “point” has passed in a sexual encounter. So I was happy to see this quote, which I think made the issue about as clear as it can be:
The notion that men are hard-wired […]
Inequality
I want to thank Nathan Newman for pointing out an article on an issue close to my heart: inequality. Ever since reading Amartya Sen’s book, Development as Freedom, I’ve thought a lot about his argument that even though the poor in rich countries have more money and goods than many people in the developing world, […]
Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart has already helped push more than two dozen national supermarket chains into bankruptcy over the past decade. That list includes names like Grand Union; Bruno’s, once Alabama’s largest supermarket chain; and Homeland Stores, formerly Oklahoma’s largest. And unionized supermarket workers fear that Wal-Mart’s invasion will oust them from the middle class by […]
Google is an remarkably powerful tool that can ease and enhance your Internet exploration. Google’s search options go beyond simple keywords, the Web, and even its own programmers. Let’s look at some of Google’s lesser-known options…
Well worth a look - some of these hints are remarkably useful. However, many features of Google can be accessed […]
Gummy
FYI:
Soft and chewy candy is generally categorized by the industry as either “gummy” if it has a primarily gelatin base, or “juju,” if it has primarily a starch base. (Deposition of Frank Galatolie, dated March 20, 2002 (”Galatolie Dep.”) at 130-31; Defendants’ 56.1 Statement (”Def.’s 56.1 Stmt.”) ¶ 3.) For purposes of uniformity, this Court […]
Untruths
Back in September Calpundit used the phrase “technical lie” to refer to Bush administration statements which are “carefully constructed to leave an incorrect impression — but that turns out to be technically true if you parse it closely enough.” Examples he gave then were in reference to stem cells, the famous “16 words,” and dividend […]
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