Sweetest marriage proposal I’ve seen in a long time!
Refusing to hand Obama a success, Wyoming leaders refused to extend unemployment benefits, run our own health exchange, or expand help for sick, poor people.Kerry Drake’s brilliant column in WyoFile. Drake is also the editor of The Casper Citizen, a non-profit, community newspaper.
Hint: It costs Wyoming a hell of a lot.
Nationwide over 50% of physicians and over 80% of hospitals have adopted electronic healthcare records which will REDUCE medical costs by eliminating duplicate procedures and maybe some unnecessary ones. THANK you government stimulus!
In almost every state, coaches are the highest paid public employees… More details at DeadSpin.
No, it’s not all coming from public funds, but it shows where our priorities are.
The Nu Project’s Nude Photos Tell The Truth About Women’s Bodies
The Nu Project is a no-glamor honest look at beauty and image in our world.
Female nudity isn’t hard to come by in the media, but the bodies we see usually represent a fairly limited scope of sizes and shapes. The Nu Project, a collection of nude photographs shot by Minneapolis photographer Matt Blum, seeks to add some variety to the mix. Blum started The Nu Project in 2005 but said it really took off when his wife, Katy Kessler, became the project’s editor. Blum sees the photos as filling a void. “When I started shooting nudes there was no project like it,” he told The Huffington Post in an email. The things that I had seen either used models with typical model bodies or average people who were made to look extremely unimpressive. I figured there was a way to treat women (of any size/shape) like models and photograph them beautifully, respectfully without a lot of sexual under or overtones. The women photographed are all volunteers, and most of the pictures are taken in the subjects’ homes — where they feel most comfortable. The Nu Project’s website showcases six galleries of nudes, three shot in North America, three in South America. Although Blum told HuffPost that he feels that they have a “good variety of people involved,” he and Kessler acknowledge on The Nu Project website that they’d love for the subjects to be more diverse. “The hardest part for us is that the project is 100 percent volunteer, so I do not see the women until I show up at their door,” Blum writes on the website. “We’re doing our best to encourage all types of women, but we need volunteers of all backgrounds and walks of life to make the project more complete.” Blum said he ultimately hopes that these images inspire the women who see them to feel better about their own bodies. “It’s been really exciting to hear people react to the images,” he told HuffPost. “We get a lot of feedback from women (especially) who have struggled to see themselves as beautiful, and this project has helped them on that path.”
1. Carbon pollution reaches historic highs, threatening human existence
2. The devastating impact of sequestration on kids, cancer patients and first responders
3. Massive cuts to food stamps for the most vulnerable Americans
4. 1100 workers die in garment factory collapse in Bangladesh and most American retailers plan business as usual
5. 4,000 gun deaths due to gun violence since Newtown
“It’s not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It’s our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless.”
—L.R. Knost
#FitchtheHomeless
Abercrombie and Fitch Get a Brand Readjustment.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/fashion/man-mission-clothe-homeless-abercrombie-article-1.1344587#ixzz2TO
A monitor in Hawaii registered 400 parts per million of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere, higher than ever and well above the “safe” 350 ppm level.
FLORIDA HOUSE MEMBERS VOTE TO KEEP THEIR HEALTH COSTS LOW. The Tampa Bay (FL) Times (5/14, Mitchell) reports that following the rejection of “billions of dollars in federal money that would have provided health insurance to 1 million poor Floridians,” the FL state House “quietly…kept their own health insurance premiums staggeringly low.” According to the article, members of the lower chamber “will pay just $8.34 a month for state-subsidized health care next year, or $30 a month to cover their entire family,” figures that work out to be “one-sixth of what state senators and most state employees will pay, and one-tenth of the cost to the average private-sector worker, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.”
Chart of the day. Full data here.
We live in a culture where people are more offended by “swear” words and middle fingers than they are by famine, warfare, and the destruction of our environment.
Don’t confuse my desire for a clean house as a desire to clean up after you.
“Nothing seems to crush the masculine petals more than a bit of feminist rain - a few drops are perceived as a downpour.”
—Susan Faludi
“I want every little girl who’s told she’s bossy, to be told instead she has leadership skills.”
-Sheryl Sandberg
