Tag Archives: Society

Take Your Eyes Off The Prize

You are an easily dis­trac­ted bunch I know, but peo­ple, please, take your eyes off the prize.
Eighty per­cent of my feed rea­der, and that doesn’t inc­lude my home­pa­ges on Goo­gle, con­tain posts about the Nobel Prize. I don’t think I’ve seen much else, so overwhel­med has my rea­der been by all this foo­lish Nobel

Domestic Violence Awareness Month

As Octo­ber takes her first breaths, I dis­miss the steady source of cor­po­rate income, the pink rib­bon. In it’s place, another rib­bon, this one pur­ple, and not a rib­bon that Estee Lau­der would be inte­res­ted obtai­ning legal coun­sel over. The pur­ple rib­bon stands for domes­tic vio­lence awa­re­ness, and Octo­ber is Domes­tic Vio­lence Awa­re­ness Month.

Domes­tic Vio­lence

Yanking My Chain This Week

Not even a public option here, des­pite from 2000 to 2007, pro­fits at the 10 lar­gest publicly-traded health insu­rance com­pa­nies went up 428 per­cent. CEOs at these com­pa­nies made an ave­rage of $11.9 million in 2007. In the past nine years, health insu­rance pre­miums have more than dou­bled  —  a rate three times fas­ter than wage

Google Women, Strangely Irritating

I was orga­ni­zing my Goo­gle home pages. I have many cate­go­ri­zed pages, from science and inter­na­tio­nal deve­lop­ment, to blogs and anth­ro­po­logy. I deci­ded to add another “tab”, as they call it, for women’s issues”.
I star­ted the tab, and labe­led it women. I inad­ver­tently left their “I feel lucky” box chec­ked. The six sites which