OpEdNews » Sean Hannity's Ridiculous War against Socialism

OpEdNews » Sean Hannity's Ridiculous War against Socialism

Refuse to send your kids to socialized public schools and universities; refuse to use socialized roads and highways; refuse to call upon socialized police and fire departments; shut down the socialized air traffic control; refuse to visit socialized national parks; tell grandma that her Social Security and Medicare will have to be sent back to the government; demand the immediate dismantling of our socialized American military. Sarah Palin and her supporters in Alaska should refuse all forms of "redistributed wealth" by sending back their checks from the socialized oil program there.

Send it all back. I'm sure the entire roster of Neo-McCarthyite pundits enumerated above -- Limbaugh, Scarborough, Hannity and the like -- have already forgone their usage of these socialist services so we can assume they've figured out a ways to get by. How hard can it be really? I mean, who needs roads when there are hot-air balloons and jet packs. Socialist fire departments? A house fire will eventually burn itself out, won't it? As for the pre-socialist 50-percent poverty rate for the elderly? If we can put a man on the Moon (also a socialist program), we can invent some bootstraps that'll fit over grandma's therapeutic stockings.

Teen FightTube: Local students are posting video of school scuffles online - Local - San Luis Obispo

Teen FightTube: Local students are posting video of school scuffles online - Local - San Luis Obispo

The growing predominance of such videos online provides a glimpse into the savvy and growing multimedia youth culture. The number of youths using such sites continues to grow — challenging school officials with the task of navigating the new terrain and protecting students from intentional intimidation.

2 Kids + 0 Husbands = Family - Some Mothers, Single by Choice, Stick Together - NYTimes.com

2 Kids + 0 Husbands = Family - Some Mothers, Single by Choice, Stick Together - NYTimes.com

IN 1960, UNMARRIED MOTHERS accounted for about 5 percent of births in the United States. Now they are having almost 40 percent of the country’s babies. About half of these women are on their own, and the other half are living with a man at the time of the birth, according to Pamela Smock, a sociology professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The stock characters of the explosion of out-of-wedlock births are feckless fathers and hapless young mothers. It’s true that most unmarried mothers are still in their 20s — and less often in their teens — and have no more than a high-school education. But as television’s Murphy Brown predicted in the 1990s, an increasing number of unmarried mothers look a lot more like Fran McElhill and Nancy Clark — they are college-educated, and they are in their 30s, 40s and 50s.

Welfare Aid Not Growing As Economy Drops Off - NYTimes.com

Welfare Aid Not Growing As Economy Drops Off - NYTimes.com

Despite soaring unemployment and the worst economic crisis in decades, 18 states cut their welfare rolls last year, and nationally the number of people receiving cash assistance remained at or near the lowest in more than 40 years.

Is Membership in the Forest Lake Country Club Inherently 'Sensationalist'?

I see what Katon did as evidence of his commitment to
including and involving people from all walks of life and all races.
Katon took a stand for what was right. He stood up in front of his
friends at the club and told them what they were doing was wrong, and
when they refused to change, he decided to leave. I’m not saying that
Katon deserves a medal for the courage he showed that day, but I do
think this one incident revealed the depths of Katon’s personal
commitment to inclusion.

Are Romantic Movies Bad For You? - TIME

Are Romantic Movies Bad For You? - TIME

Last week, researchers at Heriot Watt University's Family and Personal Relationships Laboratory in Edinburgh, which studies best practices in relationship counseling, completed a study of 40 Hollywood romantic comedies released between 1995-2005. They found that problems typically reported by couples in relationship counseling at their counseling center reflect misconceptions about love and romance depicted in Hollywood films.

What Do Women Want? - Discovering What Ignites Female Desire - NYTimes.com

What Do Women Want? - Discovering What Ignites Female Desire - NYTimes.com

Meredith Chivers is a creator of bonobo pornography. She is a 36-year-old psychology professor at Queen’s University in the small city of Kingston, Ontario, a highly regarded scientist and a member of the editorial board of the world’s leading journal of sexual research, Archives of Sexual Behavior. The bonobo film was part of a series of related experiments she has carried out over the past several years. She found footage of bonobos, a species of ape, as they mated, and then, because the accompanying sounds were dull — “bonobos don’t seem to make much noise in sex,” she told me, “though the females give a kind of pleasure grin and make chirpy sounds” — she dubbed in some animated chimpanzee hooting and screeching. She showed the short movie to men and women, straight and gay. To the same subjects, she also showed clips of heterosexual sex, male and female homosexual sex, a man masturbating, a woman masturbating, a chiseled man walking naked on a beach and a well-toned woman doing calisthenics in the nude.

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Staff › Professor Julia Twigg - School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research - University of Kent

Staff › Professor Julia Twigg - School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research - University of Kent

Carework: I have a long-term interest in carework and in the care workforce. In particular I am interested in the ways in which carework is a species of bodywork, and I have written on this as an occupational category.
Paper: Carework as a form of bodywork (pdf)

http://www.kent.ac.uk/sspssr/staff/academic/twigg/care-body.pdf

Our National Eating Disorder

The New York Times > Magazine > Our National Eating Disorder

October 17, 2004
Our National Eating Disorder
By MICHAEL POLLAN

Carbophobia, the most recent in the centurylong series of food fads to wash over the American table, seems to have finally crested, though not before sweeping away entire bakeries and pasta companies in its path, panicking potato breeders into redesigning the spud, crumbling whole doughnut empires and, at least to my way of thinking, ruining an untold number of meals. America's food industry, more than happy to get behind any new diet as long as it doesn't actually involve eating less food, is still gung-ho on Low Carb, it's true, but in the last few weeks, I can report some modest success securing a crust of bread, and even the occasional noodle, at tables from which such staples were banned only a few months ago.

The origins of prejudice | The price of prejudice | The Economist

The origins of prejudice | The price of prejudice | The Economist

In addition, a majority of those imagining the encounter predicted that they would not pick the racist student as their partner. However, those who were actually present in the room showed no tendency to shun the white student, even when he had been rude about the black one. People, it seems, are rather more prejudiced than they think they are.

The origins of prejudice | The price of prejudice | The Economist

The origins of prejudice | The price of prejudice | The Economist

Not surprisingly, they reported that weight was the least important factor in their choice. However, their actual decisions revealed that no other attribute counted more heavily. In fact, they were willing to sacrifice quite a bit to have a thin team-mate. They would trade 11 IQ points—about 50% of the range of IQs available—for a colleague who was suitably slender.

In a second study the team asked another group, this time of students who were about to graduate, to consider hypothetical job opportunities at consulting firms. The positions varied in starting salary, location, holiday time and the sex of the potential boss.

When it came to salary, location and holiday, the students’ decisions matched their stated preferences. However, the boss’s sex turned out to be far more important than they said it was (this was true whether a student was male or female). In effect, they were willing to pay a 22% tax on their starting salary to have a male boss.

Cities Ranked and Rated

Cities Ranked and Rated

Cities Ranked and Rated, 2nd Edition, finally boils down all the variables into an overall city rating.

1. Gainesville, FL
2. Bellingham, WA
3. Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton, OR-WA
4. Colorado Springs, CO
5. Ann Arbor, MI
6. Ogden-Clearfield, UT
7. Asheville, NC
8. Fort Collins-Loveland, CO
9. San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA
10. Boise City-Nampa, ID

Obama the 'Magic Negro' - Los Angeles Times

Obama the 'Magic Negro' - Los Angeles Times

Obama the 'Magic Negro'
The Illinois senator lends himself to white America's idealized, less-than-real black man.

Sociologists Explore “Emotional Labor” of Black Professionals in the Workplace

News | American Sociological Association

Sociologists Explore “Emotional Labor” of Black Professionals in the Workplace
BOSTON — Black professionals make extra efforts in the workplace to fulfill what they believe are the expectations of their white colleagues, according to research to be presented today at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA).

Sociologists Marlese Durr of Wright State University and her co-author Adia Harvey Wingfield of Georgia State University argue that black professionals engage in two types of “emotional performance” in the workplace: General etiquette and racialized emotion maintenance.

Growing Income Gap among U.S. Families Suggests Increasing Economic Insecurity, Threat to Middle Class

News | American Sociological Association

December 17, 2008

Growing Income Gap among U.S. Families Suggests Increasing Economic Insecurity, Threat to Middle Class

WASHINGTON, DC — The incomes of American families with children have become increasingly stratified since 1975, with income inequality increasing two-thirds during a 30-year period, according to findings published in the December issue of the peer-reviewed science journal American Sociological Review.

“The gap between the ‘haves’ and the ‘have-nots’ is widening for families with children in the United States,” said Bruce Western, the study’s lead author and professor of sociology and director of the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy at Harvard University. “Inequality for these families has grown faster than the combined rates of inequality for all families and for men’s hourly wages.”

Dr. Anthony Greenwald/Unpublished Manuscripts

Dr. Anthony Greenwald/Unpublished Manuscripts

Anthony Greenwald, PhD
IN-PROGRESS MANUSCRIPTS & CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita

List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Math Gains Reported for U.S. Students - NYTimes.com

Math Gains Reported for U.S. Students - NYTimes.com

American fourth- and eighth-grade students made solid achievement gains in math in recent years and in two states showed spectacular progress, an international survey of student achievement released on Tuesday found. Science performance was flat.

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Mexico City Olympics

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From the Podium Stand | Community | USOC

Blog Post: Peggy Shinn Blog - From the Podium Stand | Community | USOC

Karl Marx tomb

By the way, I visited the Karl Marx tomb.... Por cierto, aproveché para visitar la tumba de Karl Mark...

How homosexuality may have evolved | Gender bending | The Economist

How homosexuality may have evolved | Gender bending | The Economist

Their first observation was that the number of sexual partners an individual claimed did correlate with that individual’s “gender identity”. The more feminine a man, the more masculine a woman, the higher the hit rate with the opposite sex—though women of all gender identities reported fewer partners than men did. (This paradox is normal in such studies. It probably reflects either male boasting or female bashfulness, but though it affects totals it does not seem to affect trends.)

When the relationships between twins were included in the statistical analysis (all genes in common for identical twins; a 50% overlap for the non-identical) the team was able to show that both atypical gender identity and its influence on the number of people of the opposite sex an individual claimed to have seduced were under a significant amount of genetic control. More directly, the study showed that heterosexuals with a homosexual twin tend to have more sexual partners than heterosexuals with a heterosexual twin.

According to the final crunching of the numbers, genes explain 27% of an individual’s gender identity and 59% of the variation in the number of sexual partners that people have. The team also measured the genetic component of sexual orientation and came up with a figure of 47%—more or less the same, therefore, as that from previous studies. The idea that it is having fecund relatives that sustains homosexuality thus looks quite plausible.

American Religious Identification Survey

The Graduate Center, CUNY

American Religious Identification Survey

Principal Investigators
Professor Barry A. Kosmin & Professor Egon Mayer Study Director
Dr. Ariela Keysar

Acknowledgements

The authors wish to acknowledge the dedicated professional collaboration of ICR - International Communications Research Corp. (Media, PA). Our thanks go especially to John DeWolf, Christopher Dinardo, Dale Kulp and their associates, who provided matchless and untiring collegial assistance in all phases of sampling, data collection, and data file preparation, further enhancing the fine reputation for quality research they had established in carrying out the National Survey of Religious Identification (NSRI) 1990.

This study was made possible by the generous support of the Posen Foundation.
List of Exhibits

1. Self-Described Religious Identification of U.S. Adult Population - 1990 and 2001
2. Household Membership in Church, Temple, Synagogue, or Mosque for Selected Religious Groups
3. Outlook of U.S. Adult Population: Religious or Secular
4. Outlook of U.S. Adult Men and Women: Religious or Secular
5. Outlook of U.S. Adults by Age: Religious or Secular
6. Outlook of Selected Race & Ethnic Groups of U.S. Adults: Religious or Secular
7. Switching In and Out Reported by Adults for Selected Religious Groups: Number of Adults by Current and Prior Religious Identification
8. Marital Status of Adult Population by Selected Religious Group
9. Percentage Divorced or Separated by Selected Religious Groups, 1990-2001
10. Percentage of Mixed Religion Families in Selected Religious Groups
11. Age and Gender Patterns of Selected Religious Groups, 2001
12. Age and Gender Patterns of Selected Religious Groups, 1990
13. Race and Ethnic Patterns Among Selected Religious Groups, 2001
14. Political Party Preference by Selected Religious Group
15. Distribution of Selected Religious Groups by State