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In OtherWords: October 22, 2014
This week in OtherWords, Jill Richardson suggests that the amount of sugar Americans eat is way scarier than the slim chance they'll get Ebola while I ask whether Halloween chocolate is too cheap. Do you want to make sure you don’t miss the latest from OtherWords?...
Don’t Ask the Pentagon Where Its Money Goes
President Barack Obama proudly signed the law that repealed the Pentagon's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy, freeing lesbian, gay, and bisexual Americans (although not trans people) to openly serve in the military four years ago. But when it comes to budgeting, the...
Irked by Israel’s Foot-Dragging
In his recent meeting with President Barack Obama, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was "committed to the vision of peace for two states for two peoples." That sounds nice. But Netanyahu has done everything possible to demonstrate that he's not...
Sticking Texas-Sized Hurdles on the Path to Polls
Supporters of the right to vote just suffered a huge setback. On October 9, voter ID laws that could have disenfranchised nearly a million voters in Wisconsin and Texas were ruled unconstitutional. The timing of these rulings — one by a Supreme Court majority and the...
You Just Got ‘Richsplained’
Tiffany Beroid, a mother and Wal-Mart employee in Laurel, Maryland, was forced to drop out of college because of her employer's low wages and erratic scheduling practices. When she spoke out about the problems she faced, Wal-Mart fired her. Since then, Beroid has...
Wal-Mart Scrooges Us All
Gosh, time flies when it's pushed along by a jet stream of greed. It seems like only yesterday that Wal-Mart announced, with much self-congratulatory fanfare, that the super-rich retailing colossus wasn't a scrooge after all. Indeed, while the world's largest purveyor...
The Real Public Health Threat
As airlines, cruise ships, and hospitals cope with waves of Ebola jitters, I'm wondering whether the panic the deadly virus is inducing will distort Halloween traditions this year. No, I'm not talking about Ebola-related costumes. There are real precautions we must...
Paying for Cheap Chocolate
One Halloween, my husband persuaded our kids to give away most of the candy they'd just collected while trick-or-treating. They were preschoolers and the house we were renting then had previously drawn teens with haunted tours. We'd run out of candy when a stream of...
Down the Hole
Off to War We Go
Here we go again — into yet another war in a tumultuous swath of the world we still don't comprehend. For a preview of what we're stepping into in Iraq and Syria, let's remember Afghanistan. In the yesteryear of the Cheney-Bush regime, the promise was that our Afghan...
