People are dieing younger in many of our nation’s worst off counties, a new study has found. The study authors conclude, “[T]he 1980s and 1990s marked an era of increased inequalities in mortality in the United States.”
“[These inequalities are] particularly troubling,” the researchers explain, “because an oft-stated aim of the U.S. health system is the improvement of the health of all people, and especially those at greater risk of health disparities.”
Despite its stated goals, our health system is leaving many people without the care they need to live. The insurance driven healthcare is not covering everyone. It is inadequate and the price is deadly.
We need universal, single payer healthcare to remove these unjust inequalities, so no one’s life is needlessly cut short.
Two researchers from the University of Cambridge studied the testosterone and cortisol levels of 17 men trading on the London stock exchange. The findings? High levels of testosterone are associated with risky decisions and higher earnings. Cortisol with stress, caution and loss.
Of course, all traders are men. And of course, that means they’re controlled by testosterone. And thus, the market is controlled by testosterone.
The researchers found that the economy’s “bubbles and crashes are coming from these steroids.”
So it was testosterone that led many of these men to a house-load of money from the housing market crash that cost many people their homes.
The researchers suppose, “If more women and older men were trading, the markets would be more stable.”
Gee thanks. I love it when science uses a social characteristic to understand a biological concept that then is used to explain that very social characteristic.
Men are aggressive and testosterone is the “male” hormone, so testosterone causes aggression. If testosterone causes aggression, men are aggressive because of testosterone.
It’s circular, just like balls, that’s where testosterone comes from, so these men scientists use circular reasoning because they’re dicks!
The Huffington Post has received an advanced copy of Cliff Schecter’s biography of John McCain - The Real McCain.
Schecter’s research reveals that McCain got into a physical brawl with his fellow Arizona congressman Rick Renzi (R). I think it has something to do with gender roles.
In 2006, the Arizona Republican congressional delegation had a strategy meeting. McCain repeatedly addressed two new members, congressmen Trent Franks and Rick Renzi, as ‘boy.’ Finally, Renzi, a former college linebacker, rose from his chair and said to McCain, “You call me that one more time and I’ll kick your old ass.” McCain lunged at Renzi, punches were thrown, and the two had to be physically separated. After they went to their separate offices, McCain called Renzi and demanded an apology. Renzi refused. Apparently this posture made McCain admire him, as they became fast friends.
Oh, what good friends he keeps: On February 22, 2008 Rick Renzi was indicted on 35 criminal counts, including conspiracy, wire fraud, money laundering and official extortion stemming from land deals in his state.
McCain also called his wife a “cunt.” The vagina as an insult. What a misogynist.
And to mitigate this damage, they must to explain why they were upset. But it doesn’t bode well for men to explain why they were angered.
I wonder if the study from a former Hillary Clinton Congressional Fellow (Uhlmann) considered race and other social factors in their analysis.
Of course, white men are rational and everyone else should be presumed emotionally liable until proven otherwise. And yet, when a man explains himself, his peers lose a little of their credence in his reasoning ability. Perhaps, his actions are a little less justifiable - he is used to getting his way without needing to explain himself.
A recent study from the University of Wisconsin hoped to answer this timely question as Clinton campaigns for the presidency, “Are women voters more likely to vote for female candidates?”
Answer: Not just because they’re women. Obviously.
Women generally voted based on information about the candidates and their positions on important issues: “Evidence suggests women voters are often more likely to support women candidates than are men but that this support is not automatic and is often based on additional considerations beyond candidate sex.”
The relationship was significant but was mediated by many other factors. And in fact, women were no more influenced by sex identity than men were. [and what about people who would not fit into those categories?] (more…)
This is obviously satire, but I want to point out that their estimate of the Iraq death toll is low. While there are around 90,000 documented deaths, the deaths of many people go unrecorded. A January 2008 study in the New England Journal of Medicine estimated that 151,000 Iraqis died violent deaths because of the Iraq war through June 2006.
First Clinton’s campaign fundraiser Geraldine Ferraro says Obama is “lucky” to be Black and the accuses his campaign of “racism:” “I really think they’re attacking me because I’m white.” Reverse racism cannot exist. Racism is about oppression; it is a power relationship.
Now Obama is condemning the comments made by his former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, about white privilege. Saying they are “inflammatory and appalling.”
Wright told his congregation the reason why “so many folks are hating on Barack Obama” is because he doesn’t “fit the model: He ain’t white, he ain’t rich and he ain’t privileged.”
“Hillary [Clinton] fits the mold,” Wright said, delivering a fiery tirade on how “Hillary never had a cab whiz past her and not pick her up because her skin was the wrong color,” and how “Hillary never had to worry about being pulled over as a black man driving” and how “Hillary was not a black boy raised in a single parent home.”
Yeah, all of that is true. Clinton does have white skin privilege. You can’t deny that.
Voguing came from NYC queer culture, specifically among the Black gay and transgendered community. Folks would hold Balls, which were parties that had style and performance contests. The contests would have many different categories, which people would dress up and perform.
Contestants would be judged based on the “realness” of their performance, that is the ability for them to pass on the streets without other people questioning or doubting their authenticity. The winner would receive a trophy.
For example, a category could be corporate executive or fashion model, and the winner would be the person who best resembled and acted like an executive or model. (more…)
The only way Hillary Clinton could get ahead in politics was to join the boys’ club, or the boys’ club isn’t really a club for just boys.
Clinton earned this rap during one of her many congressional trips with McCain. While the two were on a trip to Estonia in August 2004, Clinton proposed an after dinner drinking game. McCain, the delegation leader, readily agreed according to NYT.
During their 2005 trip to Iraq, they both said the other would be a good president. “Meet the Press” asked if McCain thought Clinton would make a good president, and Mccain responded, “I happen to be a Republican and would support, obviously, a Republican nominee, but I have no doubt that Senator Clinton would make a good president.” When asked the same question about McCain, Clinton immediately responded, “Absolutely.”
Are you comfortable with that mutual support?
And is Clinton’s tolerance of alcohol what makes her one of the guys? Or her tolerance of sexism? (more…)
Hillary Clinton launched an all out negative ad in Wisconsin against Obama–a declaration of war to take back the lead (she only plays nice when she’s winning):
Obama responded, “I understand Senator Clinton periodically [pauses] when she is feeling down [pauses] launches attacks as a way of trying to boost her appeal. But I think this kind of gamesmanship is not what the American people are looking for.”
Did Obama really just go there? Is Obama claiming that Clinton is PMSing? Oh no, he didn’t. Strategic word play, and Obama is an amazing orator. I have no doubt that it is intentional.
Jane Fonda’s use of the word cunt on NBC’s “Today Show” prompted an immediate apology by the network. And now it’s getting lots of attention in the news–the most viewed article on Reuters.
But what’s so news worthy about it? Nothing. Nothing at all.
Fonda was talking about the vagina monologues:
I was asked to do a monologue called ‘Cunt,’ and I said, ‘I don’t think so. I’ve got enough problems.’ Then I came to New York to see Eve and it changed my life.
She just let it slip and now kids everywhere (on the eastern coast where it aired live) are damaged for life, irreparably. Oh the pain, that is cunt.
I really hate how media paint women as frigid and assume men are libidinous. An article on CNN Health (currently, the most viewed on CNN) notes that 40 million people in the US have a sexless marriage, meaning they have sex fewer than 10 times a year. And yep, it’s women’s faults. Women feel so entitled to work that they think they no longer need to sexually please their husbands for some measure of financial stability.
Gad dawn second wave feminism
The article takes its cue from Anita H. Clayton, M.D., who must really hate herself (though not as much as Coulter), and her article “Satisfaction: Women, Sex, and the Quest for Intimacy.”She assumes that women are the ones who don’t want to have sex and that they are the ones that need to change. This is misogynist bullshit.
According to Louanne Cole Weston, M.D. of WebMD, “When people wrote in about the discrepancy of frequency and desire, about 40 percent of the time it was men wanting less.”
This is what her article says causes sexless marriages: (more…)
Obama is “protective imitation” of Clinton’s “corporate democrat”
He did used to be for a single payer, universal health care plan, but he has since back away to a more conservative (in the international sense of the word) health care plan in response to health industry lobbyists.
Mike: “Nader looks like that character on sesame street who lives in the trashcan.” oscar:
Question: Which issue is most important to you? (n=991 from 4th-5th February, 2008)
Issues (in order of responses, most to least): the economy, the war in iraq, immigration, health care, terrorism, social security, the environment and global warming, education, and gay rights.
There were some interesting age differences in the importance of issues.
Four most important issues to voters by age group.
Do not vote for Clinton if you care about women’s rights. She doesn’t give a fuck if Arab women die.
Do you remember when gravel called Clinton out on Iran?
Clinton responded like an arrogant jerk. She was the only democratic candidate to vote for the Sept. 2007 bill, which designated the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, part of Iran’s army, as a terrorist organization.
i saw people on the metro today carrying pro-choice signs–why? It is the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the January 22, 1973 supreme court decision giving women the right to choose.
there were also bus-loads of anti-choice evangelicals with “their obese kids” dumping onto the mall this morning. speaking via remote from the white house, bush addressed the tens of thousands of anti-choicers before they marched the streets.
it just makes me think: damn those bushes for nominating such young fucking people to the supreme court–Roberts is only 52 and Thomas is just 59!
Bush is trying to sneak a bill through congress that would pardon himself for war crimes committed against detainees (torture and treatment). Such crimes are possibly punishable by death.
Mike wonders if we should support Hillary Clinton because she is the only candidate who would execute Bush–in order to prove her masculinity as President.
The new anti-choice movement attempts to revive an earlier time when men made all the decisions for women:
“As a sidewalk counselor, I wait outside abortion clinics until the men come out to use their cellphones. I tell them I’m not there to judge them. I’m there to help,” said Valentine, 20, one of about 800 participants in the District yesterday for the annual conference of Students for Life of America. “Sometimes they break down and cry and go back and bring out their girlfriends to reconsider.”
“Bisexuality in women appears to be a distinctive sexual orientation and not an experimental or transitional stage that some women adopt ‘on their way’ to lesbianism, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association.” Science Daily
WTF, people thought bisexuality in women was a transitional stage? I’ve never heard that one before. This study, of a largely white middle class population (per the authors), did not support that.
The results show a complex picture; and do not show bisexuality as a transitional stage between the sexuality duality (homosexuality-heterosexuality).
Clinton looks for votes, gets marriage proposal, CNN.
After discussing her economic plan today in LA, some guy in the crowd yelled, “Hillary, marry me, baby.”
[The appropriate expression]
On Monday at a pre-primary New Hampshire speech, two guy screamed from the audience, “Iron my shirt”
“Nick Gemelli, who is 21, and born at least a decade after ‘iron my shirts’ was an anti-women’s rights slogan, didn’t have much of a rationale. ‘I just don’t think a woman should be President,’ he said.”
I don’t like Clinton’s agenda, but damn, I sympathize.
but is obama better than clinton? if at all, only slightly. well, he is on palestine but just because he hasn’t been around long enough, so he hasn’t risen above ambiguous.
After trying hard to court Israel, Obama only received a response that was hesitant and cautious: “He is an unknown,” said Diane Dubey, a member of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the Pro-Israel Lobby.
then is it about sex-identity? perhaps, or it may just be that very ambiguity that makes obama attractive to many people–so young and fresh and curious. he’ll talk to anyone (that’s good!). (more…)
In her NYT’s article “TV’s Perfect Girl Is Pregnant; Real Families Talk” Sara Rimer interviews families and high school students about the pregnancy of Jamie Lynn Spears. Families seemed concerned about supposed impressionability of their children. A S. Carolinian father said, “She was supposed to be one of the good, clean actresses for girls to follow after. I think it just sends an awful message for the young girls [my emphasis].” Sex is so dirty.
Overall, I’m impressed with the perspicaciousness of the high schoolers, who generally just questioned why she didn’t know about contraceptives. As one astute 16-year said, “There is no excuse for not using contraception.”
This is hilarious–published in volume The Social Cognitive Neuroscience of Corporate Thinking from the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.
Design: Researchers asked couple dozen college students (for research credit) to pretend that they owned a small business and were interviewing potential employees. The participants were 19 ovulating women with an average age of 19years and 15 men with a mean age of 22years; all of the participants were heterosexual and righthanded. (more…)
Voguing came from NYC queer culture, specifically among the Black gay and transgendered community. Folks would hold Balls, which were parties that had style and performance contests. The contests would have many different categories, which people would dress up and perform.
I really hate how media paint women as frigid and assume men are libidinous. An article on 
