Politics | Trump and Clinton

Donald Trump just made an extremely important promise. It’s one of his worst yet.

Trump would cancel the global climate accord. That should worry you -- a lot.

How does he keep coming up with even more stupid things to say every week?

Advice & Self-Help | Relationships

Who Can Really Make Us Happy?

One partner's satisfaction in a relationship makes all the difference.

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Advice & Self-Help | Philosophy

Five Things We Tend to Regret — And Why We Shouldn’t Regret Them

Get over regret before it gets the best of you

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Advice & Self-Help | Relationships

Why You Shouldn’t Overthink Your Relationship

Research shows how we go wrong when we try to figure out our feelings.

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Advice & Self-Help | Relationships

Why You Shouldn’t Overthink Your Relationship

Research shows how we go wrong when we try to figure out our feelings.

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Advice & Self-Help | Philosophy

Avoid Procrastination: Funky Tip Makes You Start 4 Times Sooner - PsyBlog

This trick makes you feel closer to your future self so that you start four times sooner.

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Health & Fitness | Health

What Alzheimer's Patients Feel After Their Memories Have Vanished - PsyBlog

Is the emotional life of Alzheimer's patients alive and well?

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Business & Finance | Jobs

New York City Limits the Use of Credit Checks in Hiring - Talk Poverty

In a rare moment of good news, New York City has decided to remove one of these barriers by limiting the use of credit checks for employment screening. Last month, the City Council voted overwhelmingly to pass the strongest measure in the country on this

This is so unfair and discriminatory to most job seekers, many of whom have been unemployed or lost their house due to the great recession by greedy financial instituations. People shouldn't be punished, especially when they are trying to be hired based on their skills and experience for most jobs that credit scores have nothing to do with their job description. This makes me angry and frustrated at the injustice of this invasion of privacy. Good for NY and I wish that other states will make this practice illegal as asking your age, if you are married or pregnant, etc.

News | News

Why Some Men Pretend to Work 80-Hour Weeks

One study found that “passing” was the only way to get ahead.

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News | News

How economic inequality harms societies

We feel instinctively that societies with huge income gaps are somehow going wrong. Richard Wilkinson charts the hard data on economic inequality, and shows what gets worse when rich and poor are too far apart: real effects on health, lifespan, even such

I think this would be common sense given the history of various societies and cultures since the cave men. All that glitters isn't gold. Where are the Jefferson's, Ghandi's, Roosevelt's, Twain's, Lincoln's, Sinclair's, Budha's, Jesus', Anthony's and Stanton's of the World?

Politics | Politics & Opinion

Liberals against Religious Liberty in Indiana, by The Editors, National Review

Liberals against Religious Liberty in Indiana -

Key passage: RFRA enjoyed wide bipartisan support until the Hobby Lobby case reminded Democrats that they care a great deal more about Obamacare and contraceptive subsidies than they do about the religious liberties of people who hold views that inconvenience the Democrats’ political platform.

It's always ALL about the agenda.

Gaming | Gaming, Geeking, Etc

New Rat Queens Artist Stjepan Šejić Explains The Science Of Female Fantasy Armor

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Gaming | Gaming, Geeking, Etc

27 Signs You're A Browncoat

You're a big damn hero. For those who have a romantic relationship with Joss Whedon's short-lived space Western series.

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History | History

"God's Garden"
The Grossmont Art Colony

by Kathleen Crawford San Diego History Center 1985 Institute of History Images from this article

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Music | Music

The Right Way To Complain About The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame

There are plenty of things about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's induction process that are worthy of complaint, but the most common gripe isn't one of them.

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Travel | Travel

14 Places You'd Never Believe Were In Scotland

Snow-capped mountains, palm trees, turquoise seas... Scotland really does have it all. If it wasn't for the midges, it would be pretty much perfect.

I need to make this my next trip!

Advice & Self-Help | Relationships

Oh, Fine, You're Right. I'm Passive-Aggressive. - New York Times

While

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Advice & Self-Help | Relationships

How to Spot and Deal With Passive-Aggressive People

8 keys to surviving passive-aggressives at home and at work.

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Food & Drink | Food

Tequila 101: Blanco, Añejo, and Everything You Need to Know

You’ve come a long way, tequila. No longer strictly the rallying cry of college kids demanding shots, the by-product of the agave plant is—just like bourbon—a sipping spirit as much as it is a late-night standby.  Here's everything you need t

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Humor | Humor

15 Signs Your Love Of Target Is Spiraling Out Of Control

Just stopping in to quickly grab a million things.

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History | History

What It’s Like to Spend 20 Years Listening to Psychopaths for Science | Science | WIRED

Kent Kiehl has been interviewing psychopaths for more than 20 years. More recently he's acquired a mobile MRI scanner and permission to scan the brains of New Mexico state prison inmates. He talked with WIRED about what's different in the brains

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History | History

How did my fellow Irish-Americans get so disgusting?

Stupid tattoos and New Age music on one hand, snarling TV right-wingers on the other. It didn't have to be this way

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Miscellaneous | Misc

Mathematics may be able to tell you if your relationship will last

There's a new formula to help you find true love. But is it accurate? VIDEO

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History | History

The Origins and Meanings of Ashkenazic Last Names - Jewish Currents

by Bennett Muraskin Ashkenazic Jews were among the last Europeans to take family names. Some German-speaking Jews took last names as early as the 17th century, but the overwhelming majority of Jews lived in Eastern Europe and did not take…

Fascinating article tracing Eastern European Jewish family names. No wonder I have had trouble working on my family ancestry tree and tracing family back farther than 4 or 5 generations. It's cool to know how some of my family names were created like Rosenbaum and Kaufman.

Sports | Sports

After a week of speculation, Texas coach Mack Brown resigns

After a week of back and forth, Texas coach Mack Brown has officially decided to resign. According to Orangebloods.com, Brown, 62, informed his team Saturday afternoon. He will coach the Alamo Bowl against Oregon on Dec. 30.

I wonder if he would have made a good coach at USC?

Miscellaneous | Facebook

Facebook Stands Up For Humiliated Grocery Worker With Asperger's

Chris Tuttle, a grocery store worker with Asperger's syndrome, was reportedly yelled at by a customer for ringing up her purchases too slowly Saturday night. But supporters of Tuttle got in the last word -- and then some.

Anyone who has a family member who has an Autism Spectrum disorder knows the challenges that those family members face navigating the world. Having my own brother with Aspergers, this brought tears to my eyes and I am thankful that the manager didn't fire Chris Tuttle.

Miscellaneous | Helping the helpers

Moptwo - CindyGrant

Social Media for people who want to organize and share information in a comprehensive and lasting way. Moptwo: publish your world.

Small Changes Can Create Better Relationships

Men and women in law enforcement spend much of their careers making quick, clear, decisive and sometimes intuitive decisions. These decisions often involve life and death situations. Interestingly, sometimes these very same people find that in their own personal lives, they lack the same clarity and intuition to make sense of their relationships and move forward with the same conviction and passion.

The very strategies that can save police officer's lives when they are on the job, can be the very same things that cost them their relationships. That is, police officers often adapt a psychological stance of being "emotionally disconnected" as an important coping strategy to deal with the work they do. However, it can become difficult to switch gears, and be emotionally connected and vulnerable in an intimate relationship. There are very few jobs that require this kind of "emotional armor". So what might take years to develop in terms of a protective armor is not so easily removed just by walking into one's living room at the end of the workday.

Police officers are action oriented problem solvers. In relationships, communication is often more about listening and being heard, then doing something. In other words, this is a very passive activity; as opposed to the usual action oriented perspective the police officer takes.

In addition, a police officer's role at work is to protect, and enforce the law; essentially to take control of situations and to differentiate between right and wrong. Unfortunately, in personal relationships and feelings, there is usually a gray zone rather then a black and white, right or wrong answer. Again, this requires a very difficult "switching of gears" from the work environment to the personal realm. In our relationships with other people there is always an element that we cannot control; the other person. This can prove to be a challenge for the police officer who is trained to be the one who is in control. In personal relationships intimacy is created when one trusts enough to give up control. Here, too, the cynicism, which may develop from being on the job, may carry over into one's personal life interfering with the development of trust.

As complicated as interpersonal relationships are, sometimes just understanding the most basic elements of what we do and how we communicate can be enough to empower us to make great changes.
For example:
*If you are wearing your armor; leave it at the door.
*If you think you have to find a solution to every problem a loved one tells you; sit back and just listen.
*If you feel that you have to control everyone and everything; try to allow someone else to rise to the occasion and be as competent as you.
Sometimes the most important things to protect are the relationships that sustain us.

Cindy Grant, LCSW, Psychoanalyst

Politics | Abortion

Most Europeans — and Americans — agree with Texas’ abortion law

There aren't many positions on abortion where most Americans have some common ground. But opposition to late-term abortion is one of them. Every modern poll on the issue shows the same thing: Large

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Politics | Energy & Environment

Guess what happened when two states tried to stop the EPA’s greenhouse gas rules

A federal court has thrown out a challenge against the Environmental Protection Agency’s rules regarding greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. The suit was brought by Texas and Wyoming.

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Politics | Health Care

IRS employees union: Please don’t make us enroll in Obamacare

The union that represents IRS employees is urging its members to write to their congressmen to help get the union out of Obamacare.

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Politics | Media Bias

Washington Post Abortion Poll Asks Most Misleading Question In History

The Washington Post polled on a number of abortion questions and released the results Friday. The most interesting takeaway is that by an almost 30 point margin (56%-27%), people favor a ban on abortion after 20 weeks. One question the Post asked, though,

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Politics | Media Bias

Poll: Media Out of Touch On Abortion; 56% Support 20-Week Ban

What we had here was yet another case of the media fabricating a reality that doesn't exist; one where Wendy Davis (TX-D) represents mainstream thinking, and most especially, the position of everyday American women. Except she doesn't.

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Politics | Media Bias

ABC News Must Release Full, Unedited Interview with Zimmerman Juror

When it comes to the sins committed by the mainstream media in their 18-month crusade to accomplish a media-lynching of George Zimmerman, we have seen countless new lows in an ocean of new lows (including ABC News -- more on that below). Thanks to our own

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Politics | Gun Rights

Chicago Hosts Emergency Dem Gun Control Summit

Democrat Reps who are also members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) gathered in Chicago on July 26 to discuss

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Politics | Hollywood

Conservative Filmmakers Vow to Work Around Hollywood System

First-time filmmaker Steve Laffey knew he was in trouble when his film Fixing America got beat out for a festival slot by a documentary chronicling the sex change surgery of Cher's child, Chaz Bono. Laffey shared his frustrations and triumphs Friday a

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Politics | Hollywood

Jane Fonda Dons Hanoi Jane Shirt to Promote Her Turn as Nancy Reagan

Jane Fonda cut a promotional video for her new project, in which she portrays Jane Fonda, wearing a shirt with a picture of her from her Hanoi Jane days during the '60s.

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Politics | Race

Harry Belafonte Tells Breitbart News Tea Party Is to Blame for Racial Division

Entertainer and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte blamed the Tea Party for increasing

Yes, the people saying absolutely NOTHING about race are the ones dividing the country. It has nothing to do with our first openly racist Black-Panther-in-chief or his race-baiting media acolytes.

Politics | Illegal Immigration

Illegal Immigrants Attend Paul Ryan's Immigration Town Hall

Illegal immigrants attended the town hall event in Racine, WI, where House Budget Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) openly discussed the strategy by which he and House GOP leadership plan to pass an immigration reform package.

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Politics | Leftist RINOs

EXCLUSIVE--GOP Voters: Oust Congress Members Who Vote to Fund ObamaCare

Polling data obtained exclusively by Breitbart News shows that self-identified conservative and GOP likely voters want their representatives in Congress replaced if they vote in favor of funding Obamacare, even if they had voted against the law in the pas

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Politics | Education

North Carolina Ends Tenure, Pay Increases For Higher Degrees

North Carolina took the first step to change their education system and make it better for the children. Governor Pat McCrory (R) signed a bill that eliminates teacher tenure and eliminates automatic pay increases for any teacher who earns a master’s de

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Politics | Media Bias

Palin: 'Lapdog' Media Helping Obama 'Run Out the Clock' on Scandals

On Friday, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin blasted the mainstream media for helping the Obama administration distract Americans and orchestrate chaos in order to

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Politics | States Rights

Proposed new state in northern Colorado gains traction

A proposal to form a new state in northern Colorado is getting public support.

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Politics | Media Bias

Are media buying into ‘phony scandal’ claim?

Conservative leaders allege the media are trying to ignore the once high-profile scandals overshadowing the Obama administration, as President Obama and his aides aggressively push the claim that these controversies are phony. 

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Politics | Media Bias

NBC to air miniseries about Hillary Clinton, timed ahead of 2016 presidential elections

A miniseries about Hillary Clinton, timed to precede the 2016 presidential election, is part of NBC's effort to create event programming that will draw viewers to the shrinking world of broadcast network TV, the network's programming chief said Saturday.

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