Eating disorders do not run parallel alongside a track of bodily dissatisfaction, and the more we conflate the two, the less we’re tackling the true complexity of eating disorders, and the less we’re looking at the threads that unite patients more deeply than hating their thighs.
READ MORE: How I Learned the Mainstream Myth About Eating Disorders Was Wrong | Food | AlterNet
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
13 States Working Towards Smart, Sane Marijuana Laws | AlterNet
State legislatures have convened or are convening all around the country, and once again this year, marijuana decriminalization or legalization are hot topics at the statehouse.....
READ MORE: 13 States Working Towards Smart, Sane Marijuana Laws | Drugs | AlterNet
Obama Continues to Box In His Opposition - The Flylooper - Open Salon
Nothing could be more obvious – and to a progressive, encouraging.
Barack Obama has managed, particularly since the disaster of the 2010 midterm elections, to box in the GOP into narrower and narrower confines. And in doing so he has opened up a 15 point lead in some polls over his likely challenger, the erstwhile “severely conservative” Mitt Romney. Obama, by luck or design, is beginning to stand out as the only sane guy in the room.....
READ MORE.....Obama Continues to Box In His Opposition - The Flylooper - Open Salon
Barack Obama has managed, particularly since the disaster of the 2010 midterm elections, to box in the GOP into narrower and narrower confines. And in doing so he has opened up a 15 point lead in some polls over his likely challenger, the erstwhile “severely conservative” Mitt Romney. Obama, by luck or design, is beginning to stand out as the only sane guy in the room.....
Moyers: Meet the Shameless Plutocrats Choking What's Left of Our Democracy | AlterNet
Watching what’s happening to our democracy is like watching the cruise ship Costa Concordia founder and sink slowly into the sea off the coast of Italy, as the passengers, shorn of life vests, scramble for safety as best they can, while the captain trips and falls conveniently into a waiting life boat......
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Why the Right Wing Is Petrified of Letting Voters, Instead of the Electoral College, Pick Presidents | AlterNet
Right-wingers are truly worried that a plan reforming the way the president-electing Electoral College works is gaining legal ground and could bring the biggest change in the political landscape in decades. The National Popular Vote plan would replace the current system, in which states award Electoral College delegates to whomever wins the presidential vote in that state, with a new interstate agreement where a participating state’s delegates would be bound to the national popular vote winner.
READ MORE: Why the Right Wing Is Petrified of Letting Voters, Instead of the Electoral College, Pick Presidents | Election 2012 | AlterNet
Thursday, February 9, 2012
iEmpire: Apple's Sordid Business Practices Are Even Worse Than You Think | | AlterNet
New research goes beyond the New York Times to show just how disturbing labor conditions at Foxconn, the "Chinese hell factory," really are.
CLICK TO CONTINUE: iEmpire: Apple's Sordid Business Practices Are Even Worse Than You Think | | AlterNet
Sunday, February 5, 2012
New Rules for Radicals ~ 10 Ways to Spark Change/Alternet
What’s going on is that we are (finally!) in the first giddy months of a deep-current sea change in American politics, the kind of realignment that happens once every several decades. This change has put us into a whole new political era, one that runs by an entirely new set of rules — and one in which a great many impossible things may, all of a sudden, become possible.....
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