The penalty might sound pretty stiff. But get a load of the real math. When all the math is said and done, the true among comes out to around $0. And that … Continue reading Why the Goldman Sachs Settlement Is a $5 Billion Sham

Students at a New Zealand school are fighting back, using the power of media, after they were told their skirt hemlines were too short for school. And the reason why they were … Continue reading Students told to keep skirts below the knee because of boys and male staff

It is time for a Marshall Plan to address the problem. The Marshall Plan was when the United States GAVE Europe the equivalent of $180 Billion in today’s dollars to help the … Continue reading Bono: Time to Think Bigger About the Refugee Crisis – A New Marshall Plan

Yes to Sex gets partners to digitally confer their intentions and saves the data. To paraphrase one of the comments to this article: Nothing sets the mood better than “could you e-sign these documents please?” This is what it’s come to with the new mutual consent laws. As Chris here in the … Continue reading New app logs mutual consent to sex

The plan would cover $49.3 billion of Puerto Rico’s $72 billion debt, most of which is in the form of municipal bonds. What I like about their current plan: A potential sticking … Continue reading Puerto Rico Aims to Appease Congress With New Debt Proposal

As part of a series into the rising global phenomenon of online harassment, the Guardian commissioned research into the 70m comments left on its site since 2006 and discovered that of the … Continue reading The dark side of Guardian comments

Onerous planning regulations and cheap debt pushed house prices into the stratosphere – and it’s in the interests of the political elite to keep them there This is true. While wages have … Continue reading Why younger people can’t buy a house: money became too cheap

David Pemsel, chief executive of Guardian Media Group, says newspaper is undertaking testing of pop-up message asking readers to switch off ad-blockers The numbers are as high as 25% of readers in … Continue reading Guardian to consider preventing access to content if ad-blocking proliferates

What happens to children’s minds and bodies when parents cut out meat, dairy, and eggs. This article seems a bit propaganda-ish, take this quote: A 2014 study found that vegans eat 12 percent fewer … Continue reading Vegan preschools now exist. Do kids on vegan diets get enough nutrition?

Thunderclap Newman just died.. Interesting lyrics to his most famous song. Call out the instigators Because there’s something in the air We’ve got to get together sooner or later Because the revolution’s … Continue reading Thunderclap Newman – Something In The Air

The long-awaited “front page we hope to never publish” from the Boston Globe is here, and it is reportedly a “joke.” The Gawker article seems to find this “joke” offensive, a fake … Continue reading The Boston Globe Made a Joke

“You should have a breadth of backgrounds in Congress — and right now we just don’t.” Very cool! I like this quote from her: She had sought out the advice of an … Continue reading 24-Year-Old Erin Schrode Is Trying to Become the Youngest Woman Ever Elected to Congress