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It’s a Tragedy We’re Not Spending More on Infrastructure
In light of Friday’s shockingly awful jobs report, it should be more apparent than ever just how absolutely, positively psychotic it is that the United States is not spending more money on infrastructure right now.
Public construction spending, including state, federal and local projects, has been on a staggered decline since early 2009.* Yep, even with stimulus funding. In the meantime, the country has more than a million unemployed construction workers sitting around, and their industry just shed 28,000 jobs in May, at least on a seasonally adjusted basis.
The cruel irony of this situation? There’s never been a better time for us to build.
Read more. [Image: FRED]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m541gcsP1B1qcokc4o1_500.png)
Hey, Let's Not Get Carried Away: Anti-Depressants Really Do Help People -
Bashing mental health drugs has become a popular trend of late. But just because some people are taking SSRIs that don’t need them doesn’t mean the drugs don’t work. via the atlantic
Yes yes YES. Overprescribing happens, yes. Abuse happens, yes. But writing off all psychiatric medications because of that abuse is not only rude, arrogant, and cavalier — it hurts those of us who generally have experienced profound mental health improvements from the use of such drugs.
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It’s a Tragedy We’re Not Spending More on Infrastructure
In light of Friday’s shockingly awful jobs report, it should be more apparent than ever just how absolutely, positively psychotic it is that the United States is not spending more money on infrastructure right now.
Public construction spending, including state, federal and local projects, has been on a staggered decline since early 2009.* Yep, even with stimulus funding. In the meantime, the country has more than a million unemployed construction workers sitting around, and their industry just shed 28,000 jobs in May, at least on a seasonally adjusted basis.
The cruel irony of this situation? There’s never been a better time for us to build.
Read more. [Image: FRED]
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n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.
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Welcome to America, Please Be On Time: What Guide Books Tell Foreign Visitors to the U.S.
The United States is the second greatest tourist draw in the world, with 60-million-plus visitors in 2010 alone (France, number one, attracted almost 80 million). Flipping through a few of the many English-language tourist guides provides a fascinating, if non-scientific and narrow, window into how people from the outside world perceive America, Americans, and the surprises and pitfalls of spending time here.
Of the many pieces of advice proffered, four of the most common are: eat with your fingers (sometimes), arrive on time (always), don’t drink and drive (they take it seriously here!), and be careful about talking politics (unless you’ve got some time to spare). But they say more than that.
Read more. [Image: Flickr/xJason.Rogersx]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m53u45VmFO1qcokc4o1_500.jpg)
Welcome to America, Please Be On Time: What Guide Books Tell Foreign Visitors to the U.S.
The United States is the second greatest tourist draw in the world, with 60-million-plus visitors in 2010 alone (France, number one, attracted almost 80 million). Flipping through a few of the many English-language tourist guides provides a fascinating, if non-scientific and narrow, window into how people from the outside world perceive America, Americans, and the surprises and pitfalls of spending time here.
Of the many pieces of advice proffered, four of the most common are: eat with your fingers (sometimes), arrive on time (always), don’t drink and drive (they take it seriously here!), and be careful about talking politics (unless you’ve got some time to spare). But they say more than that.
Read more. [Image: Flickr/xJason.Rogersx]
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Kristen Stewart and Jodie Foster at the MTV Movie Awards, June 3rd
“Children don’t read ‘genres’; they read stories. Below a certain age, they don’t distinguish between ‘true’ and ‘not true,’ because they see no reason that a white rabbit shouldn’t possess a pocket watch, that whales shouldn’t talk, or that sentient beings shouldn’t live on other planets and travel in spaceships. Science-fiction tropes aren’t read as ‘science fiction’; they’re read as fiction. And fiction is read as reality. And sometimes reality lives under the bed and has very large teeth, and it’s no use pretending otherwise.” —
Margaret Atwood, The New Yorker, June 4 & 11, 2012 (via 24hourcharleston)
I recommend everyone read this entire piece, if they can! It’s wonderful.
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