by Elisabeth Parker | Jul 13, 2015 | News & Politics
If We Liberals Are So Danged Smart, Why Don’t We “Get” How Politics and Language Work? “Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” —...
by Elisabeth Parker | May 11, 2015 | News & Politics, Thoughts, User Experience
Think living in your office is hard to pull off? Try paying rent on an overpriced, crappy studio apartment in Los Angeles. Terry K. (not his real name) writes in Salon that he had moved to Los Angeles two years before and was working 60 hours a week at two...
by Elisabeth Parker | Apr 7, 2015 | News & Politics
How much should a stay-at-home mom get paid for all the work she does? Steve Nelms did some research and realized the shocking truth: He can’t afford his wife. In Nelms’ blog post “Fathers, you can’t afford a stay-at-home mom,” he breaks down all the various tasks...
by Elisabeth Parker | Apr 4, 2015 | News & Politics
Right-wingers keep going on and on about how much they love Jesus Christ. They see him as their “personal” Savior. But when you read the following 20 quotes from the New Testament, you’ll wonder what Bible they’re reading. Dictionary.Com defines the word “Christian”...
by Elisabeth Parker | Nov 22, 2014 | News & Politics
Welcome to the new class divide: good dental care, or the lack thereof. Any parent who has taken their son or daughter to their six-month checkup (while desperately praying their child won’t need braces or other expensive procedures) knows the bitter truth. Here...
by Elisabeth Parker | Nov 10, 2014 | News & Politics
What would you buy with $4 billion? USA Today reports this year’s election was on track to cost nearly $4 billion. That’s right. The corporate plutocrats, the NRA, and other special interests — plus those of us desperately pitching in small contributions to give our...
