Lily Salter's Blog, page 1083
June 13, 2015
The Bible’s racist monstrosities: How the “word of God” has been — and still is — used to oppress
Conservative Christians have always found something in the Bible to justify all kinds of hate and evil. A history
The insidious corporate ploy crippling American labor
A new study reveals the destructive impact of "just-in-time" scheduling for retail, restaurant and service workers
Bill Maher blasts McKinney pool party cop: This is the “high school loser” we need to weed out
Maher says these "types" want to re-litigate their sh*tty adolescences by being cops
We don’t have to be monsters: The new neuroscience of genocide and mass murder
The Holocaust and other genocides taught us ordinary people can enact horrors. Now we might understand the science
Bill Maher and Jeff Ross rip into Jerry Seinfeld’s anti-PC tirade: “If Jerry Seinfeld is too politically incorrect for you, maybe you should look in the mirror”
The two suggest PC culture has gone too far when liberals are offended by the least "edgy" comic in the game
Atmosphere: “This is the best job I’ve ever had”
Sean Daley on being a middle-aged rapper, tackling politics in his lyrics and surviving the game for 20 years
Plutocrats torched the economy: Our new Gilded Age & the hollowing out of America’s middle class
Tackling inequality isn't just a moral necessity -- it's an economic one, author-expert David Madland tells Salon
The perverse obsessions of right-wing patriarchal Christians
They're hardly unique to the Duggars. A fascination with procreation can be traced all the way back to the Iron Age
Trickle-down’s middle-class massacre: Failure of conservative economics should discredit these bankrupt ideas forever
Supply-side economics hollowed out the middle class. It's time to stop listening to the architects of inequality
June 10, 2015
Libertarianism is for white men: The ugly truth about the right’s favorite movement
Republicans' demographic challenges have been well documented. Libertarians' problems are even worse
