RelentlesslyOptimistic

"Do strange beings appear in your bed to have sex with you?"

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The button Facebook needs

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Misguided toys: Squirter Barbie

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The Komen effect: Planned Parenthood raises $400K in 24 hours

 

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Cute Picture Break: Kids Letters To Soldiers

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Income Inequality is Bad for Society. Really Bad.

Research shows that a country's level of income inequality is linked to bad outcomes. Infant mortality, drug use, prison population, mental illness, high school drop outs, obesity, levels of distrust and homicide rates all increase proportionately to the level of income inequality.

From Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett‘s book, The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better: “Th[e] dissatisfaction [measured in this data is] a cost which the rich impose on the rest of society.”

[This is] a clear warning for those who might want to place low public expenditure and taxation at the top of their priorities. If you fail to avoid high inequality, you will need more prison and more police. You will have to deal with higher rates of mental illness, drug abuse and every other kind of problems. If keeping taxes and benefits down leads to wider income differences, the need to deal with ensuing social ills may  force you to raise public expenditure to cope.

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Cut Leaf Illustrations

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Stephen Hawking on aliens (and every other conspiracy theory in existence)

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Equality for the 1%

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This means Soylent Green is out, then

OKLAHOMA CITY — A Republican state senator from Oklahoma City introduced a bill Tuesday that would ban the use of aborted human fetuses in food, despite conceding that he's unaware of any company using such a practice.

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Newt's bumper sticker

 

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How to be a banker

And I'll charge others to play with the ball when you aren't using it.

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Presidential vacation days compared

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Martin Luther King, Jr: "Let no man pull you low enough to hate him"

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Bank of America is Using Your Money To:

"...activists with the Rainforest Action Network and The New Bottom Line affixed non-adhesive protest stickers to some 85 BoA ATMs throughout San Francisco. The stickers replaced the traditional menu items with 'a list of everything BoA customers’ money is being used for, including investment in coal-fired power plants, foreclosure on Americans’ homes, bankrolling of climate change, and paying for fat executive bonuses.'”

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