Sleep is a civil right.  And not just any sleep - good sleep, correct sleep, sleep that leaves you rested, is a civil right.

I feel weird stating that so strongly, but I feel like I almost never see it stated.  And isn't it pretty obvious? 

• Food is clearly a civil right
   
• Sleep, like food and a few other basics ( Read more... )

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"Contracting" in tech is a bullshit arrangement almost entirely skewed to favor the employer.

A true (independent) contractor arrangement requires tons of freedom on the contractor side - for example, they can't tell you where you work from, or what hours - only what they need done and to what standards.

Real "contracting" is also a *negotiated ( Read more... )

Isn't it funny how citizens of the US have heard almost nothing but bland reassurances about how that whole cost-of-an-entire-war-to-bail-out-the-banks thing worked out?

Yes, well. One of our country's greatest remaining investigative journalists has some news for you…the whole thing is an amazingly good read, but here's an important taste:

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Completely awesome infographic:


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This is kind of a big post for me:  I'm coming out of the closet, as it were, with my stance on a big issue.  I also intend this post to be a jumping-off point from which I do more with this issue, because I really feel that more needs to be done.

The issue is forced pregnancy.  And my stance on it is that I think it exists, in most societies ( Read more... )

Awesome author and thinker Cat Valente takes care of writing The Osama Is Dead Post for me.


The long-and-short-of-it:

Well, I don't know. Seems like one more corpse on the pile to me. Sorry, but this war, this decade of war has made me cynical. It's made me not believe in just government on any level, and made me wary and gunshy of my fellow ( Read more... )

Lord, I love Truth-Out.

Conservatives believe in individual responsibility alone, not social responsibility. They don't think government should help its citizens. That is, they don't think citizens should help each other. The part of government they want to cut is not the military (we have 174 bases around the world), not government subsidies to ( Read more... )

In Michigan as well as elsewhere, I've heard the attempted anti-union argument that "teachers make too much money anyway".  Now, I know a few teachers (experienced, in difficult subjects like science) and they do pretty well, so it's easy to see how some people might find that argument (i.e. "teachers make too much money, so there's something wrong ( Read more... )

As someone who has been involved in the protests in Madison for the past six days, I find the news media coverage of the momentous events in this town to in no way portray the reality of what is going on here. In their attempts to constantly be balanced, the news media seem to have lost all ability to be accurate.

via From the Front Lines in ( Read more... )