Health Tips

I love the clerks in my local grocery store. The same women scan and weigh and slide my yogurt and tortilla chips every week. At first they appear pretty gruff and I confess to wondering if they love or hate…

from: http://blog.sojo.net/2010/06/30/convenience-and-its-consequences/

Not long ago, President Barack Obama ordered the creation of a commission that would report back to him with policy recommendations on cutting the federal deficit.And as great leaders throughout history have proved, the most effective way to tend to any intergenerational crisis is to create a bipartisan commission to study it — but only after midterm elections.You, the public, are only asked to suspend your disbelief and accept that the president is deeply worried about the deficit, the huge national debt and the federal spending explosion. As a candidate, after all, the president assured…

from: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/06/30/spend_baby_spend_106148.html

Salon, by Glenn Greenwald Posted By: morecowbell- Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:30:27 GMT A newly released study from students at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government provides the latest evidence of how thoroughly devoted the American establishment media is to amplifying and serving (rather than checking) government officials. This new study examines how waterboarding has been discussed by America’s four largest newspapers over the past 100 years, and finds that the technique, almost invariably, was unequivocally referred to as "torture" ” until the U.S. Government began openly using it and insisting that it was not torture, at which time these newspapers obediently ceased describing it that way:

from: http://www.newmediablog.com/2010/06/new-study-documents-medias-servitude-to-government/