The Rich are Different from You and Me
If you’re wondering if you’re rich, let me help you figure it out: you’re not.
The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. Cliché, sure, but it’s also more true than at any time since the Gilded Age.
Is iPad Stress Driving Factory Workers to Suicide? – Apple – Gawker
In one month, four workers have attempted suicide at the Chinese factory Apple hires to make products like the iPad. Why? It’s a mystery, but it’s also easy to make some educated guesses about what’s got workers going nuts.
via Is iPad Stress Driving Factory Workers to Suicide? – Apple – Gawker.
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They do rounded corners.
Raw footage reveals O’Keefe lied about ACORN tapes
When conservative activists James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles released tapes last fall purporting to show ACORN employees advising them on how to set up a child prostitution ring, it resulted in widespread praise for their intrepid journalism and a Congressional defunding of the anti-poverty group. But it is now becoming clear to all but their most fervent supporters that the O’Keefe “expose” was deliberately misleading.
via Maddow: Raw footage reveals O’Keefe lied about ACORN tapes | Raw Story.
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