Around the time of the shooting, other neighborhood watch members trashed Zimmerman for his actions on that fateful night. “In no program that I have ever heard of does someone patrol with a gun in their pocket,” the Executive Director of Citizens’ Crime Watch of Miami-Dade told the Grio. A neighborhood watchman added in a Wall Street Journal editorial, “George Zimmerman gives neighborhood watch volunteers a bad name.” Even one of Zimmerman’s fellow neighborhood watchmen said that Zimmerman shouldn’t have had a gun.
Legalizing marijuana would more than double the potential market for the drug, according to a new HuffPost/YouGov poll. Results show that 26 percent of Americans say they would buy marijuana at least on rare occasions if it was legal in their state, compared to 9 percent who said they buy it at least on rare occasions now. The percentage who said they would buy marijuana often, jumped from 1 percent who do so now to 4 percent who would buy if it was legal.
Results show that 26 percent of Americans say they would buy marijuana at least on rare occasions if it was legal in their state, compared to 9 percent who said they buy it at least on rare occasions now. The percentage who said they would buy marijuana often, jumped from 1 percent who do so now to 4 percent who would buy if it was legal.
Why do poor people make stupid, illogical decisions to buy status symbols? For the same reason all but only the most wealthy buy status symbols, I suppose. We want to belong. And, not just for the psychic rewards, but belonging to one group at the right time can mean the difference between unemployment and employment, a good job as opposed to a bad job, housing or a shelter, and so on. Someone mentioned on twitter that poor people can be presentable with affordable options from Kmart. But the issue is not about being presentable. Presentable is the bare minimum of social civility. It means being clean, not smelling, wearing shirts and shoes for service and the like. Presentable as a sufficient condition for gainful, dignified work or successful social interactions is a privilege
One of Hallmark's ornaments for the holiday season is snowballing into some controversy following the replacement of the word "gay" while quoting "Deck the Halls." The red "Holiday Sweater" ornament is decorated with the lyric, "Don we now our fun apparel." [...] "When the lyrics to 'Deck the Halls' were translated from Gaelic and published in English back in the 1800's, the word 'gay' meant festive or merry," according to a [Hallmark] statement released Wednesday. "Today it has multiple meanings, which we thought could leave our intent open to misinterpretation."
The red "Holiday Sweater" ornament is decorated with the lyric, "Don we now our fun apparel." [...]
"When the lyrics to 'Deck the Halls' were translated from Gaelic and published in English back in the 1800's, the word 'gay' meant festive or merry," according to a [Hallmark] statement released Wednesday. "Today it has multiple meanings, which we thought could leave our intent open to misinterpretation."
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A public relations spat has emerged between the Department of Energy and the American Petroleum Institute after the government agency released some energy conservation-themed pumpkin stencils in celebration of National Energy Action Month. The print-outs included things like a wind turbine, a solar panel and a clever CFL lightbulb. Seems like a nice, innocuous PR move right? Well not to the API, the trade group that represents U.S. oil and gas companies.