There are 58 million Americans with physical and mental disabilities. If you have a disability in the U.S, you’re twice as likely to be poor as someone without a disability. You’re also far more likely to be unemployed. According to the Employment and Disability Institute at Cornell University, 28.4 percent of disabled adults worked in …
The Kel-Tec PF-9, 9mm pistol handgun used to kill the unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin in 2012 has apparently been sold for $250,000 (£172,000). It was put up for auction by George Zimmerman, who was charged and acquitted of second-degree murder and manslaughter. The killing was instrumental in launching the national Black Lives Matter social …
“What will be the good of the conquest of leisure and health, if no one remembers how to use them?” Bertrand Russell
A letter to a Washington Post agony aunt deplores the fact that the writer’s partner is obsessed with her cellphone and ignores him constantly while they are together, head down, searching the web, sending texts etc. All protests are ignored; the lady is hooked. If it were not the cellphone it might well be painkillers, …
Facebook workers routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers from the social network’s influential “trending” news section, according to a former journalist who worked on the project. This individual says that workers prevented stories about the right-wing Conservative Political Action Conference. Mitt Romney, Rand Paul, and other conservative topics from appearing in the …
