Mountain Sage

I found this article fascinating and the study equally so.  The areas that the study found to be effected by income inequality include:
The Evidence

Physical Health
Mental Health
Drug Abuse
Education
Imprisonment
Obesity
Social Mobility
Trust and Community Life
Violence
Teenage Births
Child Well-being

In 2005, the average CEO in the United States earned 262 times the pay of the average worker, the second-highest level of this [...]

By Skyagunsta
“Fear concentrates on what can go wrong,  it interferes with one’s confidence in being able to do what is right.”
Donald DeMarco
It is time to stop playing politics with our health and our health care. We are caught in a political chess game in which we are held out as mere pawns by our politicians.
Our [...]

Yes, I know not all cops are bad but we are having a lot of reports lately of cops who have ego problems and who are quite frankly worse than some of the people they arrest. The video below shows cops plotting to blame an accident on a civilian when in fact the cop [...]

The police officer who earlier today was put on administrative leave for referring to Professor Gates as a jungle monkey  is now claiming he is not a racist but is merely guilty of a poor choice of words.  After reading his email where he repeatedly referred to the Professor as a jungle monkey and once  [...]

After my last update with Firefox I encountered a problem that quite frankly I couldn’t figure out the cause.  Sometimes Firefox would open a new tab in a new window after I had clicked on the tab to either restore it or close it.  I went looking for the solution and what I found is [...]

There has been a considerable slowdown on the loading of the blog intermittently.  Part of the problem is GoDaddy servers have experienced a slowdown although they say that isn’t the case today (but was yesterday).
I have installed two plugins to try and speed the loading of the blog. One caches files so the database isn’t [...]

I’ve read the argument that until one is putting a roof over their own head they are still technically homeless and that this is just a stopgap measure.   There may be some truth to that but, I think it’s a great idea.  It gives families a chance to be families by helping a down [...]

As the health care reform debate rages on there is a question that no one is addressing.  If we don’t have a health care system that even the poor have access to who would we deem should be left to die?
Yes, a public option would be expensive but so is war and we don’t hesitate [...]

911 caller in Gates arrest never referred to ‘black suspects’
By Wayne Drash
(CNN) — The woman who made the 911 call that led to the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. never referred to black suspects when she called authorities for what she thought was a potential break-in.
Police in Cambridge, Massachusetts, released the 911 [...]

Top Bush administration officials in 2002 debated testing the Constitution by sending American troops into the suburbs of Buffalo to arrest a group of men suspected of plotting with Al Qaeda, according to former administration officials.