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Chilling with Human Rights Abusers? Bad move, McCain.

John Sidney McCain III. You’d think that this candidate, of all people, would not want to hang out with a dictator heading a notoriously murderous and oppressive regime. But no. The Huffington Post reports that McCain hung out with Augusto Pinochet, whose reign was marked by the assasination without trial of over 3,000 civilians and [...]

Speaking Truth To Power: The Canary In the Coalmine (Literally)

Fight the Culture of Hate! Vincent Navarro, formerly Jesse Jackson’s senior health advisor in the ’84 and ’88 Primaries, tells it like it is over at Counterpunch: HillaryCare Failed. That’s right, folks, the experienced cynical candidate might not have an advantage over the young, hopeful candidate. The experienced candidate might have been involved in a [...]

Hospitality: Coffee, Tea, or Me?

Flying makes a lot of people nervous. One of the strategies that airlines employ to help people relax is to objectify women all around them. This is still practiced at Hooters Air. According to Wikipedia, “In the 1960s and 1970s, many airlines began advertising the attractiveness and friendliness of their stewardesses. “National Airlines began a [...]