This Week in OtherWords: April 2, 2014

This Week in OtherWords: April 2, 2014

This week in OtherWords, William A. Collins and I weigh in with some good news and bad news about the news business while Andrew Korfhage calls on Apple to do something about the cancerous chemicals poisoning the Chinese workers making iPhones and other gadgets....
Branding School Lunches as Obamafare

Branding School Lunches as Obamafare

Ah, progress. In the 2012 elections, Republicans cast themselves as budget-balancers by promising to whack welfare programs for the poor, snarling that such people are “takers” and “moochers.” Such vindictive sourness didn’t play too well...
Hobby Lobby, Quit Your Needling

Hobby Lobby, Quit Your Needling

Hobby Lobby’s position is really quite dubious: Using God to get into your uterus. It’s needling its way into women’s health. It’s crafting strategies religiously stealth. The company’s lawyers tell SCOTUS this amounts to abortion, And...
Boehner’s Joke’s on Us

Boehner’s Joke’s on Us

Said Boehner, “What the Hell is this, a joke?” Said Obama, “Oh no, not again with this bloke.” The ACA sign-up deadline’s extended To benefit millions as it was intended. The website snafu caused such delays, “We need the...
This Week in OtherWords: March 26, 2014

This Week in OtherWords: March 26, 2014

This week in OtherWords, Brett Fleishman writes about how Shell and ExxonMobil recently tossed some logs into the fossil-fuel divestment fire and Jill Richardson explains what’s wrong with time-saving coffee pods. Do you want to make sure you don’t miss the...