Commuting affects your mental health, your physical health, and even the way you think about other people. And these changes are more profound than you might think. The average commuter spends about an hour a day heading to and from work, but plenty spend as much as three hours commuting. Those hours we spend in… Read More »
American healthcare has received heavy criticism in recent decades due to its cost/outcome profile. The sources of poor performance in the United States are many, to be sure, and yet one source rarely gets mentioned, namely, primary care. Anyone following healthcare trends in the United States over the past decade will find few critiques of… Read More »
The owner of the barbers was confused, because he didn’t have the tools to cut a woman’s hair, and his shop was advertised as a men’s barbers Source: Barber shop owner fined $750 for refusing to cut a woman’s hair
Three more motorists have been confirmed killed by defective General Motors ignition switches, bringing the death toll to 80. Source: General Motors’ death toll rises to 80 in ignition-switch crisis
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Of course in the article at Jezebel nowhere does it suggest actually fucking your husband yourself. God (along with all gay misandry twisted female predators) forbid suggesting any kind of affection be acted out upon a male such as a simple hand job, or the never allowed to be mentioned fellatio. Fuck no. Just keep… Read More »
Patients’ medical records sit on shelves in an office, pictured Nov. 7, 2015. The most expensive aspects of medical care in the United States—administrative costs, and fixing medical errors—can be addressed by expanding Medicare benefits, for which those same administrative costs are lower. Cultura/Alamy Medicare turns 50 this week. It was signed into law July… Read More »
Recently, Louisiana became the latest state to attempt a massive ban on cash that would have resulted in making it illegal to use U.S. cash dollars in any secondhand transactions. The law, called R.S. 37:1866, made it illegal to, say, go to a garage sale and buy a lawn mower with cash dollars. That’s right:… Read More »
Everybody knows if you don’t pay to repair your car, you limit its life. The same is true with people. We need medical care to avoid becoming clunkers. For a half-century, Medicare has enabled seniors to get that care. But now the Obama administration is pressuring hospitals to skimp. Last week, the administration announced the… Read More »
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(Repeats without change to widen distribution) By Leah Schnurr (Reuters) – Canada’s prim capital is suddenly focused more on the state of people’s affairs than the affairs of the state. One in five Ottawa residents allegedly subscribed to adulterers’ website Ashley Madison, making one of the world’s coldest capitals among the hottest for extra-marital hookups… Read More »
Here’s What the Average American’s Finances Look Like. How do Yours Compare? via Here’s What the Average American’s Finances Look Like. How do Yours Compare? — The Motley Fool.
Earlier this month a guy named Todd Fassler was bitten by a rattlesnake in San Diego, KGTV San Diego reports. In itself this isn’t terribly unusual—the CDC estimates that roughly 7,000 to 8,000 people a year get bit by a venomous snake in the U.S. And somewhere between five and six people die from these bites… Read More »
People are social beings, we like to gather with like-minded people who are on the same wavelength as we are, and there is nothing wrong with having a small circle of friends for occasional social gatherings. It is a known fact that some people are more outgoing than others, but certain people simply fail to… Read More »
Communal Abuse and Cults Communal abuse is a type of abuse that is exerted, in part, by victims (survivors) upon each other in the course of aspiring for something good within a intentional community. Community abuse is almost always masterminded by a leader, and one hallmark of an abusive community is leader-on-member personal abuse. This… Read More »
Dick Cheney reemerges: Bloodthirsty veep is back to promote endless war — just in time for 2016 Dick Cheney and his silly advocacy group are back to preach neoconservatism to the converted Simon Maloy Follow Share 1K 163 Post 50 Topics: Dick Cheney, 2016 Elections, Liz Cheney, Republicans, Alliance for a Strong America, Neoconservatism, neoconservatives,… Read More »
America’s Seniors Find Middle-Class ‘Sweet Spot’ – The New York Times.
The city’s narcotics cops are being told to stop arresting suspects over the age of 40 — a major strategy shift designed to target younger dealers, who are more likely to carry guns and use them, The Post has learned. Top brass issued a directive that makes it all but impossible for cops to… Read More »
An estimated 6 million U.S. citizens are living abroad, and the U.S. is the only country within the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development that taxes citizens wherever they reside. via Americans Living Abroad Set Record for Giving Up Citizenship – Bloomberg Business.
Skiplagged founder Aktarer Zaman discusses United Airlines’ efforts to stop the website that helps people find “hidden city” ticket pairs. He speaks with Bloomberg’s Emily Chang on “Bloomberg West via Why Airlines Are Against ‘Hidden Cities’ – Bloomberg Business.
(Bloomberg) — Shoppers thronged grocery stores across Caracas today as deepening shortages led the government to put Venezuela’s food distribution under military protection. Long lines, some stretching for blocks, formed outside grocery stores in the South American country’s capital as residents search for scarce basic items such as detergent and chicken. “I’ve visited six stores… Read More »
In 1961, a DuPont toxicologist warned colleagues that exposure to their company’s increasingly popular Teflon chemicals enlarged the livers of rats and rabbits. Studies over the following decades found no safe level of exposure in animals and determined that humans, too, got sick when exposed to the chemicals — which were also seen to build… Read More »
“The family has requested that members of the media and the public respect its privacy during this extremely difficult time,” a family spokesman said in the statement. Getty had a restraining order against his former flame, and the unidentified woman had been placed under psychiatric care in the past after… Read More »
“These findings suggest that lifestyle practices that reduce bacterial dispersal — specifically, sanitation and drinking water treatment — might be an important cause of microbiome alterations,” the University of Alberta’s Jens Walter, senior author of the Papua New Guinea study, said in a news release. Sanitation practices are generally a good thing, but scientists say… Read More »
This is too awesome! So this girl was looking for a rich husband on a dating website. Her biography was very straight forward about her seeking a rich husband. In a quick summary, she is just a complete gold digger. But the email she received from the J.P. Morgan CEO was definitely not what she… Read More »
THE major factor driving increasing costs is the constant expansion of university administration. According to the Department of Education data, administrative positions at colleges and universities grew by 60 percent between 1993 and 2009, which Bloomberg reported was 10 times the rate of growth of tenured faculty positions. Even more strikingly, an analysis by a… Read More »
If it was a male teacher and a female student it would have been 7 years! Judge Gives Teacher Who Had Sex With Student 30 Days, Calls Her ‘Dangling Candy’.
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“This past month may be remembered as the moment the United States lost its role as the underwriter of the global economic system.” What Summers is referring to is the creation of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, a new banking consortium led by China that will back investment in Asian and emerging-market economies. This bank… Read More »
How Growers Gamed California’s Drought Consuming 80 percent of California’s developed water but accounting for only 2 percent of the state’s GDP, agriculture thrives while everyone else is parched. “I’ve been smiling all the way to the bank,” said pistachio farmer John Dean at a conference hosted this month by Paramount Farms, the mega-operation owned… Read More »
Barney Frank drops a bombshell: How a shocking anecdote explains the financial crisis Ever wonder why we waited six years to get a decent economic recovery? This new revelation will disgust you Topics: Barney Frank, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, economy, Financial Crisis, TARP, Banks, Wall Street, Foreclosures, Housing, Politics News Barney Frank (Credit: AP/J.… Read More »
Norsworthy has been in prison since 1987, serving a life sentence for second-degree murder. (S) he has twice delayed scheduled parole hearings in recent months. SACRAMENTO, Calif. —A federal judge on Thursday ordered California’s corrections department to provide a transgender inmate with sex change surgery, the first time such an operation has been ordered… Read More »
Rush Limbaugh’s biggest fans are women?!?! Jill Bond | 10 months ago | Public Enemies, Women You’d think that a sexist radio-host, with no integrity or moral compass that continually berates women, calls them sluts, and regularly refers to feminists as “feminazis,” would be a man that every women’s organization would shun, right? RIGHT? Wrong.… Read More »
Cloud gaming service OnLive said Wednesday that Sony has bought many of its assets, and the company will wind down operations on April 30. (Full disclosure: I began subscribing to OnLive late last year.) Users will continue to have access to OnLive’s services until April 30, including the OnLive Game Service, OnLive Desktop and SL… Read More »
Hedge fund executives have unleashed a tsunami of money the past few years aimed at getting New York’s politicians to close more public schools and expand charter schools. via Hedge fund execs’ money for charter schools may pay off – NY Daily News.
Ashely Judd Billy Joel Hugh Laurie Jim Carrey How can somebody so funny be secretly struggling with depression? Such is the case with celebrated comedic actor Jim Carrey, who has been very open about his long-term depression battle. In a 2008 interview with the British newspaper The Sun, Carrey described how his mental health issues… Read More »
hey seem as common as squawking gulls, and true Angelenos may not even bother to look up when one of the LAPD’s 17 helicopters rattles their windows, its spotlight searching for a car-jacked Camry or an assault suspect hiding under a jacaranda. In a city of 469 sprawling square miles, few doubt that more bad… Read More »
How The Sugar Industry Continues To Subvert Public Health Policies.
If it was some africian girl getting part of her sex organs cut off there would be killings in the street. But cut off some little white boys dick and all is well! Proof there is something in the water in flordia that makes all their brains just fucking turn upside down. DELRAY BEACH —… Read More »
Radley Balko is the author of “Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces” and blogs for The Washington Post at The Watch. America’s police forces are in the spotlight. After the police shooting deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., and 12-year-old Tamir Rice in Cleveland, as well as this past… Read More »
Daylight saving time strikes again Sunday at 2 a.m., at least for every state outside Hawaii and Arizona. Though DST has been part of life in the United States since World War I, its origin and effects remain misunderstood, even by some of the lawmakers responsible for it. Here are some common myths. Rachel Feltman… Read More »
For centuries, boys were top of the class. But these days, that’s no longer the case. A new study by the OECD, a club of mostly rich countries, examined how 15-year-old boys and girls performed at reading, mathematics and science. Boys still score somewhat better at maths, and in science the genders are roughly equal.… Read More »
Brian Buntz Popularized by the Russian economist Nikolai Kondratiev, long wave theory holds that decades of economic progress follow from technological breakthroughs such as was the case with the development of the steam engine, the railway, electrical and chemical engineering, automobiles, and computing technology. In the most recent period, the microprocessor is the single most… Read More »
Most people go to college primarily to get a piece of paper, and learning is something that happens incidentally. The perceived value of a diploma is so high, in fact, that 50,000 fake Ph.D.s are estimated to be purchased every year, a figure only made more striking by the fact that annually, only 40,000 Ph.D.s… Read More »
SAN FRANCISCO — A dog owner has filed a lawsuit against a pet food company alleging that thousands of dogs have been sickened or died from eating the company’s dry dog food. Pet owner Frank Lucido filed the suit on Feb. 5, in U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California against Nestle Purina… Read More »
E. coli: More than 80 percent of cases were a result of eating beef and row crops such as leafy green vegetables. Salmonella: Though this type of bacteria can end up in a large variety of foods, 77 percent of cases were related to eggs, chicken, beef, bean sprouts, pork and seeded fruits and vegetables… Read More »
“At that time, the FDA publically called the testing method invalid.7” The media will simply not call him on his bullshit! By Dr. Mercola New York’s Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman, has ordered GNC, Target, Walgreens, and Wal-Mart to immediately stop selling certain herbal supplements. The products include up to seven varieties — ginkgo biloba, St.… Read More »
How New England and Boston’s Snow Measures Up In The Record Books Jon Erdman Published: February 22, 2015 An over three-week snow siege has buried parts of New England with feet of snow. You may wonder if this extended snowy blitz is setting records. Below, we have a rundown of heaviest snowstorm, snowiest month and… Read More »