Not My Mother’s Blog

…with me. Will Straw wrote yesterday at Americanprogress.org that the things that will most stimulate the economy are measures that are aimed at those most in need among us. He specifically cites increasing money available for unemployment benefits and food stamps as examples, both examples that I’ve used repeatedly for effective ways to keep the [...]

There are some things I hear repeated day after day that just drive me nuts. These little nuggets of “everybody knows it’s true” misinformation form the building blocks of really really huge lies that are getting sold to us as THE TRUTH. They get repeated so often that people simply accept them as fact and [...]