conuly

Lots of articles on a snowy day.

2013-12-14T15:14:07Z

Some NSA Officials Favor Giving Snowden Limited Amnesty For All The Wrong Reasons

http://bit.ly/1gxXlHZ

Feds joins battle on citrus disease

http://bit.ly/1b5jANq

Obama to review changes in spy policy

http://usat.ly/18JP52D

Tech giants team up in anti-snooping effort

On the one hand: good for them! On the other, I am even more uncomfortable with corporate influence in the government than I am with the NSA, and that is saying an awful lot.

http://usat.ly/19v5TaK

The Return of the Welfare Queen

http://bit.ly/19odyex

Federal judge declares Utah polygamy law unconstitutional

http://bit.ly/1bFgIKy

This Ethiopian village has gained wealth, but has bred hostility

Because they aren't Christians or Muslims, basically.

http://bit.ly/IShpWz

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY: A MATTER OF TRUST?

http://nyr.kr/18Dk0jK

IF YOU REFRAIN FROM TALKING ABOUT RACE, PEOPLE MIGHT THINK YOU’RE RACIST

As many commenters point out, not all of the "black" people on that modified Guess Who? board look unambiguously black. So there's that as well.

http://bit.ly/1k0V0oL

Surprise! Charity Buys 21 Sacred Katsinam for Hopi at Auction in Paris

http://bit.ly/IVI58J

Scientists discover double meaning in genetic code

http://bit.ly/1duyD6q

How cholera evolved to be one of the deadliest diseases in history

http://bit.ly/18IkCil

This study shows how a good metaphor can change the world

http://bit.ly/1bEyUAv

Inside the Rainbow Gulag: The Technicolor Rise and Fall of Lisa Frank

http://bit.ly/1hPDhRG

The second operating system hiding in every mobile phone

http://www.osnews.com/story/27416

A Pen That 3-D Prints Bone Right Onto Patients

http://bit.ly/JeNtEF

In Ukraine, skepticism greets new vow on E.U.

http://wapo.st/1cruH49

Kindergartener signs song for deaf mom. It's the most adorable time of the year!

http://cnn.it/1gxU7UM

Teacher accused of feeding autistic student hot sauce rehired.

Either Florida has a serious teacher shortage or they really hate disabled kids down there.

http://abcn.ws/1ctku7j

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Save 'em up, post them, repeat if necessary.

2013-12-11T15:49:55Z

6 year old accused of sexual harassment

http://bitly.com/Jewlzp

A pair of Philadelphians bringing their style of pretzel to Brooklyn

http://bitly.com/IF3a85

Breastfeeding mom kicked out of Conn. court

http://bit.ly/1iWMedu

Mars Curiosity rover finds life-supporting chemicals

http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/10/tech/mars-curiosity-rover/

200,000 people apply to live on Mars

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/12/10/tech/innovation/mars-one-plan/

Bernie Sanders Introduces New Health Care Legislation: Medicare For All

http://bit.ly/1gp9teg

Nearly Half of All U.S. Schoolchildren Live in Low-Income Households

http://bit.ly/1bWwVO1

An Organic Greenhouse Run by Farmers With Autism

http://bit.ly/1d58muI

Remote classroom illustrates China's education challenges

http://cnn.it/JeuWss

Big Brother spying is reaching scary levels

http://cnn.it/1e5s3b6

Storage Tips for Winter Vegetables

http://bit.ly/IPv2pk

What Happened On Easter Island — A New (Even Scarier) Scenario

http://n.pr/1f4jUjE

US job openings reach 5-year high, a hopeful sign

It seems to me that I've spent my adult life listening to people say "no, really, the economy is doing better now!"

http://yhoo.it/IFpluW

Girl in the Shadows: Dasani's Homeless Life

This is a long, 5-part article. I wasn't going to post it when I read it, because it is so very depressing in parts, but everybody else seems to be passing it around and I'd rather be a little depressing than very behind the times.

http://nyti.ms/1gkzlYC

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conuly @ 2013-11-02T08:58:00

2013-11-02T13:09:47Z

A War on the Poor

http://nyti.ms/1aMKr4u

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9/11 Suspects Can’t Mention being Tortured during Trial Testimony because Their Torture is Classified

http://bit.ly/16GQHWK

'Our members are panicking': Families brace as billions in food stamp cuts kick in (comments are, of course, racist, classist, and generally ist-ist as fuck.)

http://nbcnews.to/16RwT8A

THOSE PEOPLE

http://www.scarymommy.com/those-people/

Cash is better than cans at food banks

http://bit.ly/tUIP9l

http://momofftrack.com/2011/12/4340/

SHOULD YOU DONATE KRAFT DINNER TO THE FOOD BANK?

http://bit.ly/17DDy4F

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Articles!

2010-09-12T16:32:36Z

Testing, the Chinese Way

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Number of Families in Shelters Rises

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China Explores a Frontier Two Miles Deep

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Russia Uses Microsoft to Suppress Dissent
There are pictures

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Another article on food stamps

2010-01-03T07:41:12Z

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/us/03foodstamps.html

The comments are, as always, pretty sucky. "Why does that guy deserve food stamps, see his picture in the slideshow, he's covered with tattoos and who paid for it, whine whine whine!!!" Maybe he got the tattoos as birthday gifts, or before the recession, or from a friend at half price? Maybe it's none of your fucking business how his body looks? "How can that woman deserve food stamps, she used to make a lot of money, she's wasteful and terrible!!!" Well, aside from the fact that she lived off her savings for three years, while taking care of a disabled infant (and, much though I am loathe to say it, depending on the disability that might have eaten through her savings real fast, services not always being as good as they ought to be in our little backwards nation of America), who gives a fuck? Now she has a small child who needs to eat. For the love of...! "Well, if people think it's okay to take money from taxes...." What the FUCK do you think taxes are FOR? "California is at fault, they're too liberal, and look, they thought their liberal polices would end poverty but really, all they did is now they have 1/3 of welfare folks..." Assuming that commenter didn't just make that number up, no shit. California is the most populous state in the union, of course they'll have more of the welfare population than the rest of us. Proportionately speaking, though, they're far from leading the pack.

Oh, it's disgusting the way some people talk. It really is.

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Click here for the nifty interactive map.

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Two articles on the reality of poverty

2009-12-12T13:44:30Z

Well... the artificial reality of poverty anyway.

One about how the IRS audited this woman because - get this - she doesn't make enough money. Apparently, the only way you can live below the poverty line is if you're hiding income, and very stupidly as well.

And this article about how children on Medicaid are more likely to be treated with antipsychotics than children with private insurance.

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And here's Alternet's take on the food stamps article printed by the times

2009-12-04T08:15:27Z

Link the first
And the second.

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Use of food stamps is soaring lately.

2009-12-02T19:55:42Z

Clicky!

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What really gets me is how some of these people in this article talk. They're all going "Oh, well, a lot of people cheat the system but not me" or "I'm not one of those lazy people" or whatnot.

What do they think, that most people, given half a chance, would willingly choose to live on public assistance and charity rather than work? What nonsense! They can see looking at their own situations that this is not the case, but they cling to their old stories. Unbelievable.

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A few articles

2009-09-07T14:09:37Z

One about turning dumps into havens

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One about a man in Harlem who literally will walk into the middle of gang fights to break them up

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One on reading on the train - which is why trains beat cars, hands down!

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One on how homeless children are straining schools

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An NYT blog post on the importance of free play for children.

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Bunch of links and articles

2009-05-03T19:05:21Z

One on slums in Senegal built out of garbage

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A post by alchemia about autism in fiction (more or less)

An article about the High School of Transit Technology
It comes with a slideshow

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