Month: June 2014
Map Shows Progress on Marriage Equality
Marriage equality is now the law in the Pacific Coast states and Hawaii, the Northeast, New Mexico and four states in the Midwest.
To access an interactive version of this map on the Mother Jones website that provides status and updates on laws state-by-state, click here.
Drowned In Tea
So Eric Cantor has lost his GOP leadership hat,
And the party doesn’t know what to do about that.
A Republican giant,
Cantor remains defiant,
Though, we note, he was beaten by a Tea Party Brat.
Cantor Spent Almost as Much on Steak as Brat Did on Entire Campaign
$168,637
Amount Eric Cantor’s campaign spent at steakhouses compared with the $200,000 his challenger, David Brat, spent on his entire campaign, according to the New York Times.
It’s Amazon’s World and We Just Live in It
I wanted to buy a book a few months ago for a relative who was hospitalized in a city about 40 miles north and who wasn’t a TV watcher. I figured I’d stop off at the mall or a shopping center as I drove up and pick up some books and magazines.
Except there were no bookstores. While I had been floating along, ordering books from Amazon because they were cheap or putting them on my Amazon wish list and waiting for the prices to come down, book shops all around me were going out of business. Instead of finding some cool books and artsy, interesting magazines, I had to stop at a grocery store to buy a lame edition of O Magazine by Oprah. I believe it went unread.
Your reading choices will someday be either 50 Shades of Gray or The Hunger Games…or a copy of O Magazine
If you watch the Colbert Report, you know that the responsible thing to do right now is to boycott Amazon. The massive “Don’t Be Evil” online seller is engaged in a very evil battle with traditional publishers to control pricing and set off a dumbing down process that will likely promote self-publishing as an Amazon work-around.
