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  • Youth of America: Sign Up for Obamacare

    Sign up at healhcare.gov to learn more about Obamacare. October 1st is very near. This is when many will be able to sign up for the Affordable Care Act‘s mandated healthcare exchanges. Many on the Right want to see Millenials… Continue reading

    Youth of America: Sign Up for Obamacare
  • Wrong Turn: COIN Diplomacy and the Profits of War

    “War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.” — Carl von Clausewitz (On War) “The enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan.” — Carl von Clausewitz As much as we like to… Continue reading

    Wrong Turn: COIN Diplomacy and the Profits of War
  • ▶ BBC: Kings of Glam | YouTube

    Profiling the leading men of the glam rock era, Lisa Tarbuck guides us through the glittering careers of Marc Bolan, David Bowie, Noddy Holder, Brian Ferry, Elton John and honorary glam king Suzi Quatro. Industry men including producer Tony Visconti,… Continue reading

    ▶ BBC: Kings of Glam | YouTube
  • A Slow Death by the Proper Name…

    Since 1954, the World Meteorological Organization has been naming extreme storms after people. But we propose a new naming system. One that names extreme storms caused by climate change, after the policy makers who deny climate change and obstruct climate… Continue reading

    A Slow Death by the Proper Name…
  • Largest fast food strike ever today: 58 cities will be affected – Salon.com

    Fast food workers today plan to mount one-day walkouts against nearly a thousand stores in over fifty cities — the largest-ever mobilization against their growing, low-wage, non-union industry, which until last fall had never faced a substantial U.S. strike. The… Continue reading

    Largest fast food strike ever today: 58 cities will be affected – Salon.com
  • Quest for Fire

    Fire is just a particularly vigorous oxidation process, one that you can understand even if you weren’t paying attention in chemistry lessons at school, as indeed James May didn’t. So what’s need to create a fire, why is a flame… Continue reading

    Quest for Fire
  • The necessity of self-promotion

    Women may fail to win chairs because they do not cite themselves enough. One of academia’s deficiencies is that, though its lecture halls and graduate schools are replete with women, its higher echelons are not. Often, this is seen as… Continue reading

    The necessity of self-promotion
  • Poverty does bad things to your brain | Futurity

    Poverty and the worry that goes with it uses up so much mental energy that the poor have little room in their brains for anything else. As a result, people of limited means are more likely to make mistakes and… Continue reading

    Poverty does bad things to your brain | Futurity
  • ‘Shift’ Your Thinking about Coffee

    My good brother Angelo Fesperman has opened a new coffee shop in Denton, Texas: Shift Coffee located at 112 E. Prairie just two blocks east of Ravelin’s Bakery. It is in a nice quiet area off the square and without… Continue reading

    ‘Shift’ Your Thinking about Coffee
  • ▶ I’m a Ramblin’ Man | YouTube

    Waylon Jennings rendition. Song written by Ray Pennington. Related articles Awesome Photos Of Buddy Holly And Waylon Jennings In A Photo Booth (buzzfeed.com) RIP Tompall Glaser, Key Architect Of Country’s ‘Outlaw’ Sound (y108.cbslocal.com) Tompall Glaser, an original Nashville outlaw, dies… Continue reading

    ▶ I’m a Ramblin’ Man | YouTube