Category Archives: Basic Human Decency

The Thirty Years War: Beating Up on ‘Welfare Mothers’

Posted on May 8, 2012 by

As Lauren Tara Capra puts it, “Another panel, another group of rich guys talking about income inequality in America.” This is horrible (boldface mine): Ferguson was responding to comments made by Jeff Greene, the billionaire real estate investor and Democrat … Continue reading →

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The Movement Conservative Singularity Will Occur…

Posted on May 2, 2012 by

…when the last five movement conservatives in good standing simultaneously character assassinate each other. From the Washington Post (boldface mine): Richard Grenell, the openly gay spokesman recently hired to sharpen the foreign policy message of Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign, has … Continue reading →

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ALEC, Conservative Lobbyists, and the Death of Trayvor Martin

Posted on March 24, 2012 by

ALEC, a business-funded conservative lobbying group that is very active at the state level, has a long history of essentially writing legislation (and getting it passed) for conservative politicians, sometimes to such an extent said genius conservatives forget to remove … Continue reading →

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Elitist Republicans Are Now Attacking Lower Income Whites

Posted on March 20, 2012 by

When Charles Murray published his latest tract, Coming Apart, I wondered if conservatives would buy into it, since it attacks the values and ethics of ‘real Americans’: It’s odd: Murray’s famous book, The Bell Curve, argued–and Murray has continued to … Continue reading →

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The Working Uninsured: It Doesn’t Have to Be Like This

Posted on February 13, 2012 by

For those of you familiar with the science bloggysphere, you’re probably familiar with Kevin Zelnio’s work (I link to it frequently). Like roughly 50 million Americans, Zelnio holds down a full-time job, but can’t afford healthcare insurance, which meant that … Continue reading →

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Shame and the Tea Partier: He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother

Posted on February 13, 2012 by

I just finished reading James Gilligan’s Why Some Politicians Are More Dangerous Than Others. Gilligan describes the political effects of a shame-driven personality: There is a paradox at the heart of shame. Although we usually think of shame as an … Continue reading →

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What’s Wrong With a Welfare Nation?

Posted on January 31, 2012 by

At The Atlantic, a post by Alex Tabarrok, “The Innovation Nation vs. the Warfare-Welfare State“, has been making its way around the bloggysphere, in part due to the big shout out to science, as embodied by this figure: Tabarrok: We … Continue reading →

Posted in Basic Human Decency, Conservatives, Ethics, Funding, Healthcare, Public Health, Social Security | 2 Comments

“Now is the time to make an adequate income a reality… now is the time to make the real promises of democracy” Before OWS, There Was…

Posted on January 16, 2012 by

Image by Bettmann/CORBIS …the civil rights movement. And it was never solely about legal equality, but economic justice. Read to understand what I mean

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Precocious Progressive Bloggers and Economic Class

Posted on January 14, 2012 by

Admittedly, the full-throttled theocratic batshitloonitarianism on display during the Republican Krazy Klown Kar Circus presidential primary is quite a distraction, but one thing I’ve noticed, especially in the response last year to Occupy Wall Street, is that the precocious progressive … Continue reading →

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Meet the New Boss: The Sociopath As Banker

Posted on January 5, 2012 by

Brian Basham writes: In a paper recently published in the Journal of Business Ethics entitled “The Corporate Psychopaths: Theory of the Global Financial Crisis”, Clive R Boddy identifies these people as psychopaths. “They are,” he says, “simply the 1 per … Continue reading →

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