A study from the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research found that the longer we’re with our partners, the more we view our partners negatively.
“Everything you’ve been taught about love is sentimental hogwash, says psychotherapist Adam Phillips. Relationships can’t be worked on, women aren’t any more dependent than men — and there’s nothing wrong with infidelity.”
Categories: science · sex · society
Tagged: conflict, love, monogamy, relationships, science, study
- a father, mother, and their 19 year old son were shot to death in their beds
- their two daughters were injured. one daughter died in the hospital
- the surviving daughter,16, said “that she was in the house at the time of the raid, and that an Iraqi interpreter working for U.S. forces tried to stop the American soldiers from killing her parents.”
“Relatives mourn inside the house where the U.S. military killed an Iraqi couple and their teenage son in the village of Adwar, 15 kilometers (10 miles) south of Tikrit. Iraq, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2008, after American soldiers stormed their one-room house and opened fire. Couples two daughters were wounded , one of them died later on. (AP Photo/Hameed Rasheed)”
Categories: capitalism · power · race · war
Tagged: civilian deaths, elections, hillary clinton, iraq, john mccain, mitt romney, racism, voting, war
Naomi Klein wrote a great article about the relationships among the housing crisis, class consciousness, and of course capitalism:
Remember the “ownership society,” fixture of major George W. Bush addresses for the first four years of his presidency? “We’re creating…an ownership society in this country, where more Americans than ever will be able to open up their door where they live and say, welcome to my house, welcome to my piece of property,” Bush said in October 2004. Washington think-tanker Grover Norquist predicted that the ownership society would be Bush’s greatest legacy, remembered “long after people can no longer pronounce or spell Fallujah.” Yet in Bush’s final State of the Union address, the once-ubiquitous phrase was conspicuously absent. And little wonder: rather than its proud father, Bush has turned out to be the ownership society’s undertaker.
…The idea was simple: if working-class people owned a small piece of the market–a home mortgage, a stock portfolio, a private pension–they would cease to identify as workers and start to see themselves as owners, with the same interests as their bosses. That meant they could vote for politicians promising to improve stock performance rather than job conditions. Class consciousness would be a relic.
Categories: capitalism · labor · power · society
Tagged: class, economy, elections, housing market, naomi klein, ownership society, property
“But the nice thing about being the underdog is that we typically win,” said Mitt Romney after referring to himself as the underdog against McCain.
He apparently doesn’t understand the meaning of the word underdog, or does he really think that people should feel sympathy for the multi-millionaire businessman?
Categories: humor
Tagged: mitt romney, politics, underdog
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