470 mountains were destroyed to bring you this post

Pin this badge on your site.

Also, you might be interested in the relationship between poverty level and mine location.

What they said

Because I don't feel like doing my own thinking right now.

• Income inequality. Molly Ivors proposes a New Millenium kind of WPA.
• Universal health care. It'll kill our robust lead in medical innovation! No, it won't.
• Thanksgiving. I've always disliked the idea of giving thanks by killing an animal and eating it.

Stuff you might ought to know about.

Or not.

I've been running a bit of a spoon deficit lately, so I'm not up for actually writing [or even thinking] right now, but I thought I'd point out some items I found at the Public Citizen Consumer Law and Policy Blog. What they said.


Food

• Preventing Contamination Of Our Food Supply: Is FDA Up To The Task?

Privacy

• The Spy Act Protects Corporations, Not Consumers


• More Google Privacy Fears


• Uncle Sam: Dangerously Careless With Our SSNs

Corporations behaving badly and Lobbyists run amok

• Is There A Relationship Between Predatory Mortgage Lending And Political Contributions?

Skip the above if you like, but read the links in this post

• Poverty in Business Week