- There Goes All of Your Free Time: Almost All of Star Trek and the ’90s X-Men Cartoon Are Streaming on Netflix | The Mary Sue • by Susana Polo
- This is insufferable. I am only half way through Doctor Who, Elfquest, The Venture Bros., and Wonder Woman 101, a new patch dropped this week, and now I can watch all of Next Generation, Voyager, Enterprise and two seasons of the Original Series of Star Trek, and all of the 1992 X-Men Series instantly on Netflix.
When on earth am I going to find the time to dick around on the internet?!
- The Light of the Sun: The Root Recommends
- Jill Scott’s characteristic groove and sultry voice is back with her newest album, The Light of the Sun. Her first album in four years, The Light of the Sun pleases with its blend of Philly-brewed neo-soul, throwback jazz accompaniments and Scott’s silky, organic vocals.
Scott infuses her seductive and infectious music styling with hip-hop elements…
- Michele Bachmann: Husband Received $137,000 in Medicaid Funds
- …has been collecting annual Medicaid payments totaling more than $137,000 for the treatment of patients since 2005, according to new figures obtained by NBC News.
The previously unreported payments are on top of the $24,000 in federal and state funds that Bachmann…
- In Africa, Chinese Migrant Workers Marry Black Women | The Root
- Sigh. While the trend might well be the key to changing some numbers when it comes to the dating scene in China, it’s clear that adjustments to racial attitudes, stereotypes and standards of beauty that devalue black women — here in the U.S. as well as abroad — won’t be such an easy fix.
- Van Jones: Saving the American Dream | The Root
- After Van Jones, former White House special adviser for green jobs, resigned from the position in 2009 amid controversy and misconceptions over his political activities …he took a year off.
“I just went around the country talking to people and listening,” Jones told The Root. He repeatedly encountered the same kinds of stories: Veterans with no employment opportunities upon returning from the battlefield. Young college graduates who can’t find jobs. The long-term unemployed who fear that, at age 40 or 50, they may never work again. Homeowners saddled with underwater mortgages, struggling to keep their houses. Cops, firefighters, teachers and nurses slashed from city budgets.
…Jones talked to The Root about his vision for the movement, his sudden legal action against Fox News and why liberals have been so quiet for the past two years.
- Gay Rights: Lessons From the Harlem Renaissance | The Root
- New York in 1929. Harlem, to be specific. It was actually a pretty gay place. Like the rest of the city, Harlem was home to countless gay bars. At the annual Hamilton Lodge drag ball, hundreds of drag queens competed for the top prize while thousands of straight Harlemites and other New Yorkers crowded in to get a look.
The “fairy,” as he was termed at the time — even by gays themselves — was often sought as an emcee even at mainstream nightclub shows. …
Many hotly insist that even if racism doesn’t pervade black lives to the same degree as it once did, it’s still one of America’s most urgent problems. If you think so, then it means that no one gets a pass for quietly “not condoning” homosexuality as opposed to calling gay people degenerates. It’s all on a continuum of the same thing.
- Roberts Court Strikes Down Medical Privacy Law in Gift to Pharmaceutical Companies | People For the American Way Blog
- …Sorrell v. IMS Health, a 6-3 Court … struck down a common-sense medical privacy law passed by Vermont. As part of its comprehensive regulation of pharmaceuticals, the state requires pharmacies to retain certain information about prescriptions and the doctors that order them. Knowing that the drug companies would love to take advantage of this information in order to target doctors to sell more of their product, Vermont protected medical privacy by prohibiting the sale to or use of this data by drug companies without the prescribing doctor’s authorization.
According to the Roberts Court, the law allows anyone else to use the data for any other purpose and therefore cannot be defended as protecting medical privacy. It therefore characterizes the law as targeting speech based on the identity of the speaker and the content of the message, thereby triggering heightened First Amendment scrutiny…
- Michael B. Keegan: Why I Support “The Ronald Reagan Tax Reform Act of 2011″
- A key element of the Reagan lore believed by today’s GOP is that Reagan’s embrace of “trickle-down economics” is what caused any and all economic growth since the 1980s. In fact, after Reagan implemented his initial tax-slashing plan in 1981, the federal budget deficit started to rapidly balloon. Reagan and his economic advisers were forced to scramble and raised corporate taxes to calm the deficit expansion and stop the economy from spiraling downward. Between 1982 and 1984, Reagan implemented four tax hikes.
- Court Lets Corporations Off the Hook For Failing to Warn of Their Dangerous Drugs | Corporate Court | People For the American Way Blog
- …PLIVA v. Mensing, a case involving a woman seriously injured by the generic drugs she took. Since the manufacturer knew that the risks were much greater than had been believed at the time the FDA approved its labeling, she sued in state court over its failure to warn of those risks. Today, the five conservatives ruled that she has no right to file such a lawsuit.
- Change.org: Activism or ‘Slacktivism’? – The Bay Citizen
- Over the past two months, the group’s profile has skyrocketed…
“Social media tools can be very effective if they complement offline campaigns,” said Jillian C. York, director of international freedom of expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco nonprofit organization that advocates for civil rights on the Web. “But I don’t think signing a petition does anything useful.” …
[Nevertheless, I will continue to sign petitions. -L]
“On Twitter and Facebook…they’re just people who are concerned but they don’t have any experience or background in how to get the word out,” said al-Nafjan, a post-doctoral student living in Riyadh. “Change.org is more empowering. They assign people to campaigns who know the ins and outs.” …
Change.org shed its nonprofit status and began to break even six months ago, Rattray said. He said it planned to charge for its more sophisticated services, like building membership for nonprofits seeking to raise money.
- Budget Cuts to Hit Health Care for Poor Californians – Quality of Life – The Bay Citizen
- The new state budget, which takes effect Friday, will cut almost $5 billion from the state’s Health and Human Services Agency.
- Seeking Armageddon for the Radio Network that Falsely Predicted It – The Bay Citizen
- The world did not end on May 21 as Harold Camping, an Oakland evangelist, predicted. But some would still like to see Armageddon — for Camping’s radio empire.
Several people have filed complaints with the Federal Communications Commission demanding that the licenses of dozens of AM and FM radio stations owned by Family Radio, Camping’s broadcast ministry, be revoked. …
[My bookmarks live at delicious.com/camryl. In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. Also, signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
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