News of Note
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A Neutral Guide to Net Neutrality
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6 min read
“Freedom of communication with any application to any party is the fundamental social basis of the Internet, and now is the basis of the society we’ve built on the Internet.” — Tim Berners-Lee Thanks to Stephanie Crets and the folks at singlehop.com, we are happy to add the following material to our conversation about the…
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List of Organizations Working on Income Inequality
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5 min read
Inequality-Related Organizations and Institutions We’ve spent the last few days tweeting and writing on this website to draw more people’s attention to the scourge of income inequality. There’s really no time to spare. Rectifying income inequality is the one and only solution to rescuing our failing economy, but it is also a matter of life and death.…
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Obama Speaks Up for Net Neutrality
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2 min read
Obama Contradicts FCC Chief on Fast Lanes, Net Neutrality Backers Say Net neutrality is the idea that the Internet should be an open platform, and broadband companies shouldn’t be able to interfere with your right to access content and services on line. — Sam Gustin for motherboard.vice.com President Obama made a strong and clear declaration supporting net…
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Real Democracy Demands Economic Democracy
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2 min read
“Only 1 out of 8 American households is able to have the American Dream.” – Richard D. Wolff, author of Democracy At Work: A Cure for Capitalism, and leader of the Democracy At Work movement, appearing on Bill Maher’s HBO show, Real Time We were told as children that capitalism was good because it supported…
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Adam Lambert’s Post-Gay World
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4 min read
Adam Lambert Is a ‘Killer’ Queen by Daniel Reynolds for The Advocate Dan Massey and I had a somewhat secret passion for Adam Lambert ever since he sang Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen for his audition on American Idol in 2009. (Can you even remember who came in first to his second place finish?) We once spent…
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Park your formulaic sex at the door
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4 min read
Like a lot of people, I took note a couple of weeks ago when Cosmo, Cosmopolitan Magazine, the fun girl’s bible, ran a story with pictures laying out 28 Mind-blowing Lesbian Sex Positions. The modern Cosmo was the brainchild of its brilliant editor and author Helen Gurly Brown in 1965, who started dialogs on topics unheard…
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McDonald’s Corporation on the hook
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3 min read
McDonald’s NLRB joint employer ruling Yesterday’s ruling gives litigants and activists alike a bigger target, and a big boost for fast-food workers’ rights everywhere. We like to catalog progress when we see it. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) finally came to its senses by ruling that McDonald’s Corporation could no longer avoid complaints from…
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New Anti-HIV Condom Available
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2 min read
Starpharma: VivaGel® Condom Receives TGA Device Certification – Launch Preparations to Follow Don’t Get Too Excited About The ‘HIV-Killing’ Condom Yet An Australian company, Starpharma, has just received its government’s approval to produce and sell a promising new condom incorporating VivaGel®, a lubricant purported to block viral infections, including HIV, HPV, and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), up…