Poll finds college students stressed, depressed by Nancy Benac and Trevor Tompson Got stress? Oh, yeah, college students say, what with roommates, GPAs, student loans and all the rest.But where's the line between feeling simply stressed and being truly depressed?Eighty-five percent of college students surveyed in an Associated Press-mtvU poll reported feeling stressed in their daily lives in recent months: Worries about grades, school work, money and relationships were the big culprits.
The March of Folly, Continued by Norman Solomon To understand what's up with President Obama as he escalates the war in Afghanistan, there may be no better place to look than a book published 25 years ago. "The March of Folly," by historian Barbara Tuchman, is a chilling assessment of how very smart people in power can do very stupid things -- how a war effort, ordered from on high, goes from tic to repetition compulsion to obsession -- and how we, with undue deference and lethal restraint, pay our respects to the dominant moral torpor to such an extent that mass slaughter becomes normalized in our names.
Forecasters predict 4 to 7 hurricanes this season by Trenton Daniel Top federal weather forecasters on Thursday announced that the tropics are likely to experience an active storm season -- one that could be almost as active as last year's.They predict the season will see nine to 14 named storms, with four to seven of them becoming full-fledged hurricanes. One to three of those will be major hurricanes, reaching Category 3, 4 and 5 designations.
Obama Mounts Defense of Detainee Plan by David Stout and Brian Knowlton WASHINGTON - President Obama on Thursday deliverered an impassioned defense of his administration's anti-terrorism policies, reiterating his determination to close the prison at the Guantánamo Bay naval base in Cuba in the face of growing Congressional pressure and warning that it was essential to stand by the country's basic principles.
Where’s the Goddamn Outrage! When it Comes to National Labor Law We Have a Corporate Crime Wave by Dave Lindorff A new study of 1004 union organizing drives conducted by the director of labor education research at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations has found that two-third of the companies involved were violating US labor law by holding one-on-one interrogations of workers, by threatening workers about their union support, by firing union organizers or using half a dozen other illegal tactics to defeat unionization campaigns.
The Meaning of Swine Flu, the Universe, and Everything by RJ Eskow Wait a second. First we couldn't get away from that swine flu story, although we were told that it had affected less than 100 people in Mexico and only a handful here in the US. It was getting round-the-clock high decibel coverage on all channels. Twitter, our new electronic central nervous system, was going ballistic. Andy Borowitz seemed to be on to something when he wrote, "CNN Warns Swine Flu Could Continue Through Sweeps."
World's Dumbest Talking Point on Gitmo Gets Traction by Cenk Uygur For weeks now, Republicans have been talking about how we can't bring Guantanamo detainees to the US as if we'd be bringing them in for a picnic. They have pretended that bringing them to the US is the same thing as releasing them out in the middle of Kansas or Oklahoma (or right by Ground Zero as the dumbass Peter King suggested). We've talked about this on our show from time to time to mock them mercilessly, but I didn't bother writing about it because who would be dumb enough to believe this inane talking point? Well, now we have our answer. Almost the entire Senate.
Bail Out Your Own Damn Self: Time for a Tax and Mortgage Strike by Ted Rall NEW YORK--The calamari salad was world-class. Still, my friend the CPA's face screwed up. "You know what still has me pissed off? The bailouts. All wasted on CEO bonuses. But nobody cares!"I told him I thought people cared, but they didn't know what they could do about it.
WHO hesitates over declaring flu pandemic by AFP New cases of the swine flu virus soared in Japan and Canada Thursday but the World Health Organisation held back from declaring a pandemic due to doubts fuelled by the mildness of symptoms.More than 11,000 cases and 85 deaths have been recorded since the outbreak of A(H1N1) influenza emerged in Mexico and the United States a month ago, and the world remains at flu alert level five, signalling an "imminent pandemic."
Olbermann to Limbaugh: ‘Eff you!’ by David Edwards and Muriel Kane MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann has been needling right-wing radio personality Rush Limbaugh for a long time, but on Wednesday he was able to pride himself for having finally gotten under Limbaugh’s skin.“This network’s coverage of him has not only gotten to him but gotten to him to a point perhaps never reached before by any other megalomaniac,” Olbermann said of Limbaugh. “Suddenly the impact of being accurately called out day after day, hour after hour as a faux populist, press release-regurgitating lackey of repressive and regressive political flunkies — that has hit bone.”
Hispanic leaders chafe at RNC chairman by John Byrne They’ve had it up to here.Republican National Committee Michael Steele, who’s often tangled with members of his own party, is now facing boos from yet another crowd. This time, it’s Hispanic GOP leaders, who are peeved that he hasn’t appointed any high-profile Hispanics to top positions.
Democrats block effort to probe Pelosi on torture briefings by Raw Story Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi on Thursday easily dodged a Republican push to launch a special investigation into her charges that the CIA misled her on the Bush administration’s torture program.The legislation, sponsored by Rep. Rob Bishop (R-UT), failed in the full House by a vote of 252-172, mostly on party lines. Republicans Ron Paul of Texas and Walter Jones of North Carolina voted with Democrats.
