Pages of Interest

The Gay Debate: The Bible and Homosexuality




Matthew makes a lot of good points in this video. It's pretty awesome and well worth watching.

Stop calling it a sex scandal

Stop calling it a sex scandal: "Dear media: Learn the difference between abuse and sex -- otherwise, you're sensationalizing violence and rape.

Let me fix this for you, headline writers. When you’re dealing with a story that involves rape or harassment or abuse or molestation or child porn or anything that falls under the rubric of criminal behavior, you should call those things rape and harassment and abuse and molestation and child pornography. You know what you shouldn’t call them? Sexy sexy sex scandals, that’s what...."

Corporate Profits at All-Time High; Wages at All-Time Low: Can We Call it Class War Yet?

Corporate Profits at All-Time High; Wages at All-Time Low: Can We Call it Class War Yet?: "The middle class is being hollowed out; increasingly, there are the super-super-rich, and there are the rest of us.

This week, David Segal at the New York Times broke the news to America that not only was Apple -- the computer and gadget manufacturer formerly seen as a symbol of good old American ingenuity -- making its profits on the backs of abused factory workers in China, but also on poorly paid store employees here in the US.

Apple store workers, he wrote, make up a large majority of Apple's US workforce—30,000 out of 43,000 employees in this country—and they make about $25,000 a year, or about $12 an hour..."