August 2012
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Philadelphia Homeless Feeding Ban Officially... →
A judge in Philadelphia has brought the gavel down on the homeless feeding ban in Philadelphia.
Federal Judge William H. Yohn Jr. released a 56-page opinion blocking Mayor Michael Nutter’s ban on feeding the homeless in public spaces, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports.
“It hardly needs to be said that plaintiffs’ food-sharing programs benefit the public interest,” Yohn...
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Janna Ryan, Paul Ryan's Wife, Lobbied For Cigar,... →
Janna Ryan was introduced to America on Saturday as a stay-at-home mom who has raised three children while her husband, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), built a career in Washington.
But the wife of Mitt Romney’s vice presidential pick spent a decade in Washington herself, first as a congressional aide and then as a corporate lobbyist, whose clients included the cigar industry, a logging company,...
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It’s election seasons! Gotten any strange...
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“- “Human remains or body parts (excluding hair and teeth).” No more...”
– Etsy Updates Prohibited Items List, Banning Electronic Bongs, Human Remains, Poison
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Happy Birthday Alfred Hitchcock: 10 Best Hitchcock... →
Today is the birthday of English filmmaker Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock. The master of suspense and psychological thrills, who made over 50 films in his six-decade-long career, would turn 113 years old if he were magically still alive today.
Huff Post Arts & Culture put together a slideshow of his 10 best films, including “The 39 Steps,” “Rebecca” and “Rear...
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George M. Young: What Will the Immortals Eat? →
It would be difficult to imagine a change more radical than the one Fedorov proposes. For Fedorov, only a radical restructuring of our world and of ourselves — he calls it “regulation of nature” — will do. If to achieve immortality means that we will continue to live more or less as we do now, only without dying, then in Fedorov’s view we will only be as immoral as...
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Social Security Funding Shortfall Hits $134... →
That’s an immense number that could use further explanation. Three ways to look at $134 trillion spread out over 75 years:
— $30.5 trillion in 2012 dollars. We all know that $134 trillion won’t buy nearly as much in 2086 as it would today. Social Security’s number crunchers project that annual inflation will average 2.8 percent in the long term, after a short period of slightly...
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