Undernews: April 27, 2013

Black workers more likely to be in unions
Look who Congress forgot to exempt from sequester
Detroit police dumping the homeless
Study: Roundup linked to major health problems
80 million Americans didn't go to doctor last year because of cost
BP's cleanup chemical destroying marine life
Federal judge rules gay marriage ban unconstitutional
Boston bombers update: Friday
CISPA dead in Senate
Students boycott New York tests
Town sets path for better voting
Maryland's largest health insurer wants 25% price increase because of Obamacare

Former Romney intern arrested with binder full of women
Huffington Pos t A former Mitt Romney campaign intern is in hot water. The New York Daily News reports that 21-year-old Adam Savader was arrested in Great Neck, N.Y. on Tuesday by the FBI. He was charged with cyberstalking and blackmailing women online, according to authorit.. .. read more..

Maine politics update
Holly Seeliger, Portland M E - Since my election onto the Portland School Board in the fall, journalist Chris Busby of “The Bollard” and “The Bangor Daily News” has written several articles about me, and each time he has used the words “Stripping” and/or “Stripper”. I have found Chris Busby’s artic.. .. read more..

Poll: Nancy Pelosi least liked Hill leader
Politico - Americans dislike all four of the nation's top congressional leaders, according to a poll released Wednesday, with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi leading the way in unpopularity. Pelosi, the target of extensive GOP attack ads over the years, is viewed unfavorably by 48 percent .. .. read more..

Atlanta: From cheating on tests to embezzling from the arts
Atlanta Business Chronicle - Former Woodruff Arts Center Director of Facilities Ralph Clark pleaded guilty Tuesday to embezzling more than $1.1 million from the arts center. Clark, 42, of Ellenwood, Ga., faces up to 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000. Sentencing is scheduled for Aug. .. .. read more..

San Francisco probes report Nevada dumped psychiatric patients
Reuters - San Francisco 's city attorney said on Monday he has opened an investigation into recent newspaper reports that a Nevada mental hospital was illegally busing hundreds of newly discharged psychiatric patients to California and other states. In a le.. .. read more..

S.E.C. Is Asked to Make Companies Disclose Donations
NY Times - A loose coalition of Democratic elected officials, shareholder activists and pension funds has flooded the Securities and Exchange Commission with calls to require publicly traded corporations to disclose to shareholders all of their political donations, a move that cou.. .. read more..

9 Letters From Young J. D. Salinger Unearthed
NY Times - In addition to recommending his own stories, he suggests that Ms. Sheard read “The Great Gatsby” and “The Last Tycoon,” by F. Scott Fitzgerald. She replies that both Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway “annoy me in the same way one feels oneself tricked into feeling sympathy for enti.. .. read more..

Thoreau's contribution to climate change research
NY Times - For the past decade, Richard Primack, a professor of biology at Boston University, has collaborated with colleagues at Harvard to use the observations in Thoreau’s journals as the basis for groundbreaking studies in climate change. From 1852 to 1861, Thoreau recorded the exact blooming a.. .. read more..

Life in solitary confinement
William Black, Solitary Watch - On July 10, 2012, I finished my 25th consecutive year in solitary confinement, where at the time of this writing I remain. Though it is true that I’ve never died and so don’t know exactly what the experience would entail, for the life of me I cannot fathom how dying .. .. read more..

Recovered History: The man who survived both nuclear attacks on Japan
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America's copyright laws kills music
Terry Teachout, Wall Street Journal - In Europe, sound recordings enter the public domain 50 years after their initial release. Once that happens, anyone can reissue them, which makes it easy for Europeans to purchase classic records of the past. In America, by contrast, sound recordings are “prote.. .. read more…

Infrequently asked questions
Where did they find enough books for the Bush library?

Quotes
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has nothing to do - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pocket paradigm
What works so well in the manufacture of a Ford -- efficiency of scale and mass production -- fails to work in social policy because, unlike a Ford, humans think, cry, love, get distracted, criticize, worry or don't give a shit. Yet we keep acting as though such traits don't exist or don't matter. We have come to accept the notion that the enormous institutions of government, media, industry and academia are natural to the human condition and then wonder why they don't work better than they do. In fact, as ecological planner Ernest Callenbach pointed out, "we are medium-sized animals who naturally live in small groups -- perhaps 20 or so -- as opposed to bees or antelopes who live in very large groups. When managers or generals or architects force us into large groups, we speedily try to break them down into sub-units of comfortable size." - Sam Smith

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