On FOX, Race And Word Choice
Posted on May 3, 2014 in Political Cartoons
Men In America Are Sexually Assaulted Almost As Much As Women
Posted on May 3, 2014 in Articles
The Article: When Men Are Raped by Hanna Rosin in Slate.
The Text: Last year the National Crime Victimization Survey turned up a remarkable statistic. In asking 40,000 households about rape and sexual violence, the survey uncovered that 38 percent of incidents were against men. The number seemed so high that it prompted researcher Lara Stemple to call the Bureau of Justice Statistics to see if it maybe it had made a mistake, or changed its terminology. After all, in years past men had accounted for somewhere between 5 and 14 percent of rape and sexual violence victims. But no, it wasn’t a mistake, officials told her, although they couldn’t explain the rise beyond guessing that maybe it had something to do with the publicity surrounding former football coach Jerry Sandusky and the Penn State sex abuse scandal.
Stemple, who works with the Health and Human Rights Project at UCLA, had often wondered whether incidents of sexual violence against men were under-reported. She had once worked on prison reform and knew that jail is a place where sexual violence against men is routine but not counted in the general national statistics. Stemple began digging through existing surveys and discovered that her hunch was correct. The experience of men and women is “a lot closer than any of us would expect,” she says. For some kinds of victimization, men and women have roughly equal experiences. Stemple concluded that we need to “completely rethink our assumptions about sexual victimization,” and especially our fallback model that men are always the perpetrators and women the victims.
Noam Chomsky On How Markets Are A Recipe For Suicide
Posted on May 2, 2014 in Videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtIuUAtoVxM
We don’t live in a free market — rather, they’re distorted for those in positions of power, and there’s nothing ‘natural’ about that.
Kerry Drops The A-Bomb
Posted on May 2, 2014 in Political Cartoons
BREAKING: Kerry Confirms What Everyone Already Knows, Catches Hell Anyway Because Democracy
How Do You Solve A Problem Like Donald Sterling?
Posted on May 2, 2014 in Articles
The Article: How Do You Solve A Problem Like Donald Sterling? by Heidi Moore in The Guardian.
The Text: When we see a rich man abusing his power, we like to imagine we know the way to cause him pain: hit him where it hurts – in his bank account.
It rarely works. Fines, lost businesses, even bankruptcies are all mere potholes on the road to wealth. That’s why a boycott is such an ineffective path to shaming our errant oligarchs, particularly in the case of LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling.
Sterling is the Archie Bunker of NBA team owners, an unreconstructed racist who has long used epithets against his talented black players and who, most recently, asked his mixed-race girlfriend not to be seen with black people – including Magic Johnson – at Clippers games.
