There's a lot of "let them eat cake" attitude in these comments. Healthy food is out of reach for many families who are poor and living in a food desert. If you tax cheap food, it's not like they magically have the buying power to afford more healthy choices, you're just punishing them. It costs money and time they…
hedgehog
hedgehog
I have so many issues with the way this is reported.
They absolutely should not. But taxing the food does nothing to correct that fact or the problems that led to the current state of nutrition in this world.
"These people can't get to grocery stores that have extensive healthy offerings, and can't afford to buy the ones that are there, and are therefore getting sick! What's our solution, boys?"
It doesn't actually address it though, it just makes it more expensive. And lines the coffers of the govt which will put a couple cents of that dollar towards its stated goal...
I think it says some pretty deplorable things about our society that rather than searching for ways to help people with mental illnesses, we wait until they hurt someone, and then either send them to prison or sterilize them so that we can ignore the issue. I mean, God forbid we work towards ensuring people get…
If you read the story, she and the baby were sleeping in the same bed and it died. If this were a wealthy, white Park Slope yuppie mother "Co-Sleeping", there wouldn't be charges because it would be a "tragic accident" or "SIDS".
ok so everything you wrote is wrong, in the very basic, grammatical sense, but you don't seem to be aware that a kitchenette is not a girly kitchen, or a kitchen for bitchez, but a small kitchen.
I feel like the people criticizing Chris Pine fall into two separate groups:
I've never taken french, so please forgive me if I am far off base, but wouldn't Target pronounced the french-ish way be Tar-zhey, not Tar-gay? ʒ sounds super french to me, and a hard g...doesn't especially...
Great menses euphemisms. I'm going to start calling it "calendar time."
The little girl in Adventures in Babysitting did.
PATRIARCHY, WE WOULD HAVE WORDS WITH THEE!
Last night my husband and I were arguing about an article, and he smiles and says, "Well, I know from long experience I should listen to you, because you always end up being right." I just about cried. It was the nicest thing anyone's ever said to me.
For the record, though - even if she had burned a Quran, it still wouldn't have justified her beating, burning and murder.
I had accidentally lost a friend's favorite book and was too embarrassed to tell him so I told my boyfriend to keep it to himself as I stalled, hoping I would either find it or be able to replace it before he asked me to return it. Our (mutual) friend admitted that my boyfriend had spilled the beans a long time ago.…