Headline of the day

Right here:

It's the Wealth Gap, Stupid

Here's just one paragraph:

"What's the primary cause of our current and growing wealth gap? Home values, the largest item on most families' balance sheet, remain depressed, while stock prices, the largest item on the balance sheet for those at the top, have rebounded. In short, Wall Street has recovered, Main Street has not. Consequently, in the last three years, the concentration of wealth has occurred at the expense of those in the middle. Economist Sylvia Allegretto estimates that the top 1 percent of households by wealth had net worth 225 times greater than the median household in 2009. This is the highest ratio of wealth inequality on record and an increase of 24 percent since 2007. Without drastic changes in the market or in policy, the divergence between housing values and securities prices will be the main driver of wealth inequality for the foreseeable future."

I strongly recommend that you click through and read this one. It's an eye-opener, that's for sure.
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Yikes!

Quote of the week :-)

Yes, indeed.

"Now that we all agree contraception is a bad idea, let's take a harder look at electricity and soap."

-- Andy Borowitz
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Hmmmmm.......

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Something profoundly moving

And please notice that she's a Republican.
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Oh, m' goodness....

A question worth considering

Headline of the day

Check this one out:

Most of Obama's "Controversial" Birth Control Rule Was Law During Bush Years

Here's an excerpt:

"In December 2000, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ruled that companies that provided prescription drugs to their employees but didn't provide birth control were in violation of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which prevents discrimination on the basis of sex. That opinion, which the George W. Bush administration did nothing to alter or withdraw when it took office the next month, is still in effect today—and because it relies on Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, it applies to all employers with 15 or more employees. Employers that don't offer prescription coverage or don't offer insurance at all are exempt, because they treat men and women equally—but under the EEOC's interpretation of the law, you can't offer other preventative care coverage without offering birth control coverage, too."

And here's where I say: Good grief!!
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Good grief - really:

You know, there's something called proportionality....

Exactly

So very true:

Ordinary fairness

My dear friend, Prior Aelred, offered this on Facebook today:
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“Our nation, so richly endowed with natural resources and with a capable and industrious population, should be able to devise ways and means of insuring to all our able-bodied men and women, a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work.”

-- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1937

I've long wondered how anyone could possibly dispute this, actually.
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Oh, my! Isn't this tragically the truth?

Sanctity and all that

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Something to think about

My friend, Charlotte, just sent me a bunch of bumper sticker images. This one is my favorite, really:

Stuff probably worth knowing...

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Abso-freakin'-lutely:

Take a look:

"Politics have no place in health care. We should be helping women access that care, not placing barriers in their way."

-- MICHAEL BLOOMBERG, Mayor of New York, after the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation pulled grants supporting breast cancer screenings from Planned Parenthood; Bloomberg offered to match new contributions to Planned Parenthood up to $250,000
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Dear Susan G. Komen,