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Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

The "Care Crisis"

AlterNet: Why Working Women Are Stuck in the 1950s

"For four decades, American women have entered the paid workforce -- on men's terms, not their own -- yet we have done precious little as a society to restructure the workplace or family life. The consequence of this "stalled revolution," a term coined by sociologist Arlie Hochschild, is a profound "care deficit." A broken healthcare system, which has left 47 million Americans without health coverage, means this care crisis is often a matter of life and death. Today the care crisis has replaced the feminine mystique as women's "problem that has no name." It is the elephant in the room -- at home, at work and in national politics -- gigantic but ignored."

By Ruth Rosen, The Nation

"Explosive" new Hersh scoop: Bush funneling money to Al Qaeda-related groups [VIDEO]

If this is true the entire administration should be handcuffed, dragged out of the government and put on trial.

"Explosive" new Hersh scoop: Bush funneling money to Al Qaeda-related groups [VIDEO]

The video is from CNN and is posted on Alternet.org.

The New Yorker piece is here.

The infidel Europeans love to hate. - By Anne Applebaum - Slate Magazine

"What to say to a man who tells you he prefers to obey God than to obey men, and who is consequently sure of entering the gates of Heaven by slitting your throat?" - Voltaire

Here is a very interesting article. I haven't had much use for religion for a long time. It seems to me that religion is a control mechanism used by greedy men that has done so much more damage than good. Galileo started the world of reason when he showed that the earth was not the center of the universe. All but the ancient religions ignore reason. The gods of the old religions were used to explain the world as best the society could. The modern religions demand that we have faith against reason.

The infidel Europeans love to hate. - By Anne Applebaum - Slate Magazine

In the article, notice the link to "Enlightenment fundamentalism or racism of the anti-racists?" . I haven't read it yet but I will.