The Truth About Muslim Women In The Media
Posted on August 19, 2013 in Images
The Sexiest Founding Fathers
Posted on August 19, 2013 in Images
The Founding Fathers are to Ron Paul what One Direction is to a gaggle of 12 year old girls: timeless, endlessly quotable and endowed with some great hair. As visionary as they were virile, we have always admired their texts, but why not their pecs? Thanks to the Internet nerds, though, we don’t have to wait any longer. (Yes, we know that Bill Clinton isn’t a founding father, but those shorts are the stuff of legend.)
A Fast Food Worker Reveals What Low Wage Life Is Really Like
Posted on August 19, 2013 in Articles
The Article: I Work for Burger King at $7.40 an Hour — Here’s What It’s Like and Why Fast Food Workers Are on Strike by Claudette Wilson in Alternet.
The Text: Claudette Wilson is 20 and works two jobs in the fast food industry, one at Burger King and one at a pizza place. She is on her feet, sometimes for 12 hours a day, and makes $7.40 an hour. She agreed to share her experience for the Guardian’s A Day’s Work series because she wants people to understand why fast food workers have been striking for better wages.
Wilson participated in a protest in Detroit, Michigan last week.
1. What is your typical day like?
Everyday for me is different. I can tell you how a typical Saturday is like: first I wake up around 8am to go to work at Burger King from 10am to 6pm. After I get off of work from Burger King, I go to my second job at Jet’s Pizza from 6pm to midnight. After I get done with working, sometimes I hang with friends, sometimes I just go to sleep.
2. There’s been a lot of talk lately about people wanting work/life balance. Does your job provide that?
Carl Sagan Destroying A Creationist
Posted on August 18, 2013 in Videos
Of course Sagan slices and dices the short-sighted caller’s questions in a characteristically good-mannered fashion, but man, I love a good Saganfreude.
How To Fund Social Security
Posted on August 18, 2013 in Images and Political Cartoons
Want to make sure that your older relatives can age with dignity? Or that, say, you won’t have to work until you die out of fear for your own economic livelihood? Then don’t let DC invest in destruction; implore them to invest in us.
