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This time his target is an acquaintance of mine: Tracie McMillan, author of the new book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/American-Way-Eating-Undercover-Applebees/dp/1439171955" target="_blank"><em>The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebees, Farm Fields, and the Dinner Table</em></a>.</p> + +<p>By Limbaughian standards, the anti-McMillan tirade was tepid and banal; he didn't use the word "slut" or demand sex tapes. Yet it drips with the woman-hating idiocy that has become central to the Limbaugh brand. From the the show's <a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/03/06/contrivances_of_the_left_s_attack_on_liberty_the_war_on_women_and_food_justice">transcript</a>, here's the money bit (the rest is running commentary on the recent <em>New York Times</em> review of MacMillan's book, in which a barely coherent Rush seems to be waxing paranoid about an impending government takeover of the food system):</p> +<blockquote> +<p>What is it with all of these young single white women, overeducated&mdash;doesn&rsquo;t mean intelligent. For example, Tracie McMillan, the author of this book, seems to be just out of college and already she has been showered with awards, including the 2006 James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism. Social justice journalism. This woman who wrote the book on food inequality, food justice, got an award for social justice journalism. She has a B.A. from New York University in political science. She's a political scientist. She's a journalist. She has received awards for social justice journalism, and she has a book out on food justice.</p> + +</blockquote> +</body></html> +<p style="font-size: 1.083em;"><a href="/tom-philpott/2012/03/rush-lashes-out-another-accomplished-young-woman"><strong><em>Continue Reading &raquo;</em></strong></a></p><div class="service-links"><span><a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Ftom-philpott%2F2012%2F03%2Frush-lashes-out-another-accomplished-young-woman&amp;title=Rush+Lashes+Out+at+Another+Accomplished+Young+Woman" title="Digg this post on digg.com" id="service-links-digg-1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/digg.png" alt="Digg" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span><span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Ftom-philpott%2F2012%2F03%2Frush-lashes-out-another-accomplished-young-woman&amp;t=Rush+Lashes+Out+at+Another+Accomplished+Young+Woman" title="Share on Facebook." id="service-links-facebook-1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/facebook.png" alt="Facebook" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span><span><a href="http://reddit.com/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Ftom-philpott%2F2012%2F03%2Frush-lashes-out-another-accomplished-young-woman&amp;title=Rush+Lashes+Out+at+Another+Accomplished+Young+Woman" title="Submit this post on reddit.com." id="service-links-reddit-1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/reddit.png" alt="Reddit" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span><span><a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Ftom-philpott%2F2012%2F03%2Frush-lashes-out-another-accomplished-young-woman&amp;title=Rush+Lashes+Out+at+Another+Accomplished+Young+Woman" title="Thumb this up at StumbleUpon" id="service-links-stumbleupon-1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/stumbleit.png" alt="StumbleUpon" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span></div> + + Tom Philpott + Food and Ag + Tue, 06 Mar 2012 23:17:53 +0000 + Tom Philpott + 166621 at http://motherjones.com + + + + The Roar of Japan's 9.0 Quake + http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2012/03/roar-japans-90-quake + <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> +<html><body> +<p>&nbsp;</p> + +<center><iframe width="600" height="400" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/8cOan4FMWxs?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></center> +<p>&nbsp;</p> +<p>This sound is terrifying even a year later. It's the voice of Japan's 9.0 temblor and its aftershocks. <a target="_blank" href="http://www.eas.gatech.edu/people/Zhigang_Peng">Zhigang Peng</a> at Georgia Tech&rsquo;s School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences converted the quake's seismic waves into sped-up audio files that we can hear.&nbsp;</p> + +<p>The clip above was&nbsp;taken near the coastline of Japan between the nuclear reactor at Fukushima Daiichi and Tokyo. The initial blast is the 9.0 mainshock. Following that you can hear aftershocks, popping sounds, as the earth's plates slip into new positions.&nbsp;</p> +<p>&nbsp;</p> +<center><iframe width="600" height="400" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/q1wg2IbA0oo?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></center> +<p>&nbsp;</p> + +<p>Here's&nbsp;Peng's recording of the 2011 Japanese earthquake taken from seismic measurements thousands of miles away in California. The quake created subtle movements deep in the San Andreas Fault known as distant triggering.</p> +<p>You can hear the initial noise, which sounds like thunder and corresponds with the Japanese mainshock. Afterwards a continuous high-pitch sound, like rain turning on and off, reflects continuing tremor activity at the fault, as heard from afar in California.</p> +</body></html> +<div class="service-links"><span><a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Fblue-marble%2F2012%2F03%2Froar-japans-90-quake&amp;title=The+Roar+of+Japan%27s+9.0+Quake" title="Digg this post on digg.com" id="service-links-digg-3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/digg.png" alt="Digg" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span><span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Fblue-marble%2F2012%2F03%2Froar-japans-90-quake&amp;t=The+Roar+of+Japan%27s+9.0+Quake" title="Share on Facebook." id="service-links-facebook-3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/facebook.png" alt="Facebook" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span><span><a href="http://reddit.com/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Fblue-marble%2F2012%2F03%2Froar-japans-90-quake&amp;title=The+Roar+of+Japan%27s+9.0+Quake" title="Submit this post on reddit.com." id="service-links-reddit-3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/reddit.png" alt="Reddit" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span><span><a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Fblue-marble%2F2012%2F03%2Froar-japans-90-quake&amp;title=The+Roar+of+Japan%27s+9.0+Quake" title="Thumb this up at StumbleUpon" id="service-links-stumbleupon-3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/stumbleit.png" alt="StumbleUpon" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span></div> + + Blue Marble + Science + Tue, 06 Mar 2012 22:29:02 +0000 + Julia Whitty + 166626 at http://motherjones.com + + + + Quote of the Day: War is Not a Game + http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/03/quote-day-war-not-game + <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> +<html><body> +<p><a target="_blank" href="http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/06/obama-challenges-republicans-on-iran/?hp">From Barack Obama,</a> on the casual bellicosity toward Iran that's overtaken the Republican Party:</p> + +<blockquote> +<p>This is not a game....If some of these folks think we should launch a war, let them say so, and explain to the American people.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>On a related note, <a target="_blank" href="http://prospect.org/article/when-do-reporters-start-calling-mitt-romney-liar">Paul Waldman has a question:</a> "When Do Reporters Start Calling Mitt Romney a Liar?" It's a poser, all right. Romney has repeatedly said that Obama doesn't support sanctions against Iran; that Obama refuses to leave military options open; and that Obama hasn't clearly said that it's unacceptable for Iran to have a nuclear weapon. This isn't a matter of exaggeration or interpretation. These are exactly the things Obama <em>has</em> done. Romney is just flat-out lying.</p> + +<p>On the other hand, Obama has also made it clear that he thinks war is a last resort, not a first. Romney could truthfully say that about him. But as Obama says, if that's his position, maybe he ought to step up to the plate and let everyone know.</p> +</body></html> +<div class="service-links"><span><a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Fkevin-drum%2F2012%2F03%2Fquote-day-war-not-game&amp;title=Quote+of+the+Day%3A+War+is+Not+a+Game" title="Digg this post on digg.com" id="service-links-digg-5" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/digg.png" alt="Digg" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span><span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Fkevin-drum%2F2012%2F03%2Fquote-day-war-not-game&amp;t=Quote+of+the+Day%3A+War+is+Not+a+Game" title="Share on Facebook." id="service-links-facebook-5" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/facebook.png" alt="Facebook" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span><span><a href="http://reddit.com/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Fkevin-drum%2F2012%2F03%2Fquote-day-war-not-game&amp;title=Quote+of+the+Day%3A+War+is+Not+a+Game" title="Submit this post on reddit.com." id="service-links-reddit-5" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/reddit.png" alt="Reddit" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span><span><a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Fkevin-drum%2F2012%2F03%2Fquote-day-war-not-game&amp;title=Quote+of+the+Day%3A+War+is+Not+a+Game" title="Thumb this up at StumbleUpon" id="service-links-stumbleupon-5" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/stumbleit.png" alt="StumbleUpon" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span></div> + + Kevin Drum + Tue, 06 Mar 2012 21:57:49 +0000 + Kevin Drum + 166616 at http://motherjones.com + + + Corporate Whistleblowers Get the Silent Treatment + + http://motherjones.com/politics/2012/03/corporate-whistleblowers-get-silent-treatment + <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> +<html><body> +<p><em>This <a target="_blank" href="http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175512/tomgram%3A_eyal_press%2C_chilling_dissent_on_wall_street/">story</a> first appeared on the </em><a target="_blank" href="http://www.tomdispatch.com/">TomDispatch</a><em> website.</em></p> + +<p>What's worse: to be persecuted and indicted for trying to expose an act of wrongdoing&mdash;or to be ignored for doing so?</p> +<p>Whistleblowers have been under intense scrutiny in Washington lately, at least when it comes to the national security state. In recent years, the Obama administration has <a target="_blank" href="http://www.tomdispatch.com/archive/175500/peter_van_buren_silent_state">set a record</a> by accusing no fewer than six government employees, who allegedly leaked classified information to reporters, of violating the Espionage Act, a draconian law dating back to 1917. Yet when it comes to workers who have risked their careers to expose misconduct in the corporate and financial arena, a different pattern has long prevailed. Here, the problem hasn't been an excess of attention from government officials eager to chill dissent, but a dearth of attention that has often left whistleblowers feeling no less isolated and discouraged.</p> +<p><a href="http://www.tomdispatch.com" target="_blank"><span class="inline inline-left"><img width="100" height="33" class="image image-preview" title="" alt="" src="http://motherjones.com/files/images/tdispatch-notch.jpg"></span></a>Consider the case of Leyla Wydler, a broker who, back in 2003, sent a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) about her former employer, the Stanford Financial Group. A year earlier, it had fired her for refusing to sell certificates of deposit that she rightly suspected were being misleadingly advertised to investors. The company, Wydler warned in her letter, "is the subject of a lingering corporate fraud scandal perpetrated as a 'massive Ponzi scheme' that will destroy the life savings of many, damage the reputation of all associated parties, ridicule securities and banking authorities, and shame the United States of America."</p> + +<p>It was a letter that should have woken the dead and, as it happened, couldn't have been more on target. Wydler didn't stop with the SEC either. She also sent copies to the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), the trade group responsible for enforcing regulations throughout the industry, as well as various newspapers, including the<em> Wall Street Journal </em>and the<em> Washington Post</em>. No one responded. 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We'll be posting </em><a target="_blank" href="http://motherjones.com/category/secondary-tags/iran-war-watch"><em>the latest news on</em></a><em> Iran-war fever&mdash;the intel, the media frenzy, the rhetoric.</em></p> + +<p>The following will sound a lot like a scene from <a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqhnIZ2kd54"><em>Kung Fu Panda</em></a>. It happened during the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/05/us-usa-israel-obama-idUSTRE8230EM20120305">high-profile meeting</a> between President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Monday.</p> +<p>Bloomberg's <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/#!/jferziger">Jonathan Ferziger</a> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-05/netanyahu-gives-obama-purim-scroll-on-ancient-persian-plot-during-meeting.html">has the story</a>:</p> + +<blockquote> +<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave President Barack Obama a Purim Megillah scroll, which tells the story of how Jews prevailed over a plot to kill them in ancient Persia, which is present-day Iran.</p> +<p>Netanyahu gave Obama the gift...during a White House meeting, two days before the Jewish holiday of Purim begins.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>In case you're not familiar with the details of said Hebrew scroll: The Megillah, commonly known as the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.beingjewish.com/yomtov/purim/esther_intro.html">Book of Esther</a>, is the part of the Hebrew Bible that tells the story of how a hard-partying Persian king was convinced by an evil adviser that it'd be fun to decimate the Jewish minority population in his dominion. He declares a government holiday in the month of Adar during which his subjects are given carte blanche to murder Jews and steal their property. Long-story-short, the Jews do a fantastic job of defending themselves against the state-sponsored onslaught, and then proceed to commit a <a target="_blank" href="http://jreuter.hubpages.com/hub/The-Book-of-Esther-Its-Canonization-Historicity-and-Relevance">hugely successful counter-slaughter</a>&nbsp;of the Persians. (This bit of Biblical spin has long since found a home in the annals of <a target="_blank" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2010/dec/27/iranian-antisemitism-graves-jewish-saints">fascist and far-right propaganda</a>.)</p> + +<p>Flash forward a couple dozen centuries, and the Jews now have something of a home-plate advantage over Persian foes: They are the regional superpower. They have <a target="_blank" href="http://motherjones.com/mojo/2012/03/iran-war-watch-obama-aipac-speech-reactions">backing</a> of the only global superpower. The track record of the Israeli <a target="_blank" href="http://www.cnas.org/blogs/abumuqawama/2010/06/two-thoughts-israel.html">military</a>&mdash;and <a target="_blank" href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-07-04-palestinian-pressure_x.htm">special ops</a> forces&mdash;has achieved a <a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doX2E1vNtY8">Hollywood</a>-<a target="_blank" href="http://www.cracked.com/article_19178_9-absurd-movie-premises-that-actually-happened.html">level</a> of renown. Oh, and one other thing: <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_and_Israel#Stockpile">They have nuclear bombs</a>.<strong><br></strong></p> + +</body></html> +<div class="service-links"><span><a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Fmojo%2F2012%2F03%2Firan-war-watch-netanyahu-gives-obama-biblical-badass-scroll&amp;title=Iran+War+Watch%3A+Netanyahu+Gives+Obama+a+Badass+Biblical+Scroll" title="Digg this post on digg.com" id="service-links-digg-9" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/digg.png" alt="Digg" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span><span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Fmojo%2F2012%2F03%2Firan-war-watch-netanyahu-gives-obama-biblical-badass-scroll&amp;t=Iran+War+Watch%3A+Netanyahu+Gives+Obama+a+Badass+Biblical+Scroll" title="Share on Facebook." id="service-links-facebook-9" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/facebook.png" alt="Facebook" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span><span><a href="http://reddit.com/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Fmojo%2F2012%2F03%2Firan-war-watch-netanyahu-gives-obama-biblical-badass-scroll&amp;title=Iran+War+Watch%3A+Netanyahu+Gives+Obama+a+Badass+Biblical+Scroll" title="Submit this post on reddit.com." id="service-links-reddit-9" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/reddit.png" alt="Reddit" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span><span><a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Fmojo%2F2012%2F03%2Firan-war-watch-netanyahu-gives-obama-biblical-badass-scroll&amp;title=Iran+War+Watch%3A+Netanyahu+Gives+Obama+a+Badass+Biblical+Scroll" title="Thumb this up at StumbleUpon" id="service-links-stumbleupon-9" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/stumbleit.png" alt="StumbleUpon" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span></div> + + MoJo + Foreign Policy + International + Obama + Politics + Religion + + iran war watch + Tue, 06 Mar 2012 19:35:02 +0000 + Asawin Suebsaeng + 166366 at http://motherjones.com + + + Oft-Cited Study Linking Mental Health Problems to Abortion Debunked + + http://motherjones.com/mojo/2012/03/oft-cited-study-linking-mental-health-problems-abortion-debunked + <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> +<html><body> +<p>The latest issue of the <em>Journal of Psychiatric Research</em> includes a scathing critique of a 2009 study it published linking abortion to a variety of mental health problems. Via the <em>New York Times</em> blog <a href="http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/05/study-linking-abortion-and-mental-health-problems-is-called-false/"><em>Motherlode</em></a>, the article states that the data the authors of the study relied on doesn't actually support their "assertions that abortions led to psychopathology."</p> + +<p>That <a target="_blank" href="https://motherjones.com/files/coleman_et_al._jpr.pdf">2009 study</a> linked conditions like panic disorder, panic attacks, PTSD, agoraphobia, bipolar disorder, mania, major depression, and alcohol and drug abuse to women who have had abortions. The paper, from lead author Priscilla Coleman of Bowling Green State University, has been <a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2008/11/28/nat-4617/">touted by anti-abortion groups</a> and deployed to support <a href="http://www.guttmacher.org/statecenter/spibs/spib_OAL.pdf">state laws</a> requiring doctors to warn women of potential health problems before they can have an abortion in places like <a href="http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/02/south-dakota-abortion-crisis-pregnancy-center-bill">South Dakota</a>.</p> + +<p>But the results just don't hold up, <a href="https://motherjones.com/files/j.jpsychires.2012.01.019.pdf" target="_blank">according to a critique</a> from Julia Steinberg, an assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of California-San Francisco, and Lawrence Finer, the director of domestic research with the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive rights group. For one thing, they report, the paper failed to factor in whether the women included in the study had exhibited those mental health problems <em>before</em> having an abortion. Steinberg and Finer reevaluated the data Coleman and her colleagues relied on and found that the conclusions in the paper were not supported by the data. "These deficiencies are fundamental analytical errors that were incorrectly presented in the original paper," they write, "&hellip; not a scholarly difference of opinion."</p> +</body></html> + +<div class="service-links"><span><a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Fmojo%2F2012%2F03%2Foft-cited-study-linking-mental-health-problems-abortion-debunked&amp;title=Oft-Cited+Study+Linking+Mental+Health+Problems+to+Abortion+Debunked" title="Digg this post on digg.com" id="service-links-digg-11" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/digg.png" alt="Digg" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span><span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Fmojo%2F2012%2F03%2Foft-cited-study-linking-mental-health-problems-abortion-debunked&amp;t=Oft-Cited+Study+Linking+Mental+Health+Problems+to+Abortion+Debunked" title="Share on Facebook." id="service-links-facebook-11" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/facebook.png" alt="Facebook" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span><span><a href="http://reddit.com/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Fmojo%2F2012%2F03%2Foft-cited-study-linking-mental-health-problems-abortion-debunked&amp;title=Oft-Cited+Study+Linking+Mental+Health+Problems+to+Abortion+Debunked" title="Submit this post on reddit.com." id="service-links-reddit-11" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/reddit.png" alt="Reddit" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span><span><a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Fmojo%2F2012%2F03%2Foft-cited-study-linking-mental-health-problems-abortion-debunked&amp;title=Oft-Cited+Study+Linking+Mental+Health+Problems+to+Abortion+Debunked" title="Thumb this up at StumbleUpon" id="service-links-stumbleupon-11" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/stumbleit.png" alt="StumbleUpon" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span></div> + + MoJo + Health + Reproductive Rights + Science + Sex and Gender + Tue, 06 Mar 2012 19:33:00 +0000 + + Kate Sheppard + 166556 at http://motherjones.com + + + Mitt Romney Hates Mandates, But He Loves Mandates + http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/03/mitt-romney-hates-mandates-he-loves-mandates + <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> + +<html><body> +<p>This is <a target="_blank" href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/mitt-romneys-advice-for-obamacare-look-at-romney">yesterday's news,</a> but I just now got around to reading Mitt Romney's <em>USA&nbsp;Today</em> op-ed from 2009 in which he criticized the way healthcare reform was being designed and recommended that Obama look instead to <a target="_blank" href="http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20090730/column30_st.art.htm">Romney's healthcare reform in Massachusetts:</a></p> + +<blockquote> +<p>With more than 1,300 health insurance companies, a federal government insurance company isn&rsquo;t necessary. It would inevitably lead to massive taxpayer subsidies, to lobbyist-inspired coverage mandates [etc.]....Our experience also demonstrates that getting every citizen insured doesn&rsquo;t have to break the bank. First, we established incentives for those who were uninsured to buy insurance. Using tax penalties, as we did, or tax credits, as others have proposed, encourages &ldquo;free riders&rdquo; to take responsibility for themselves rather than pass their medical costs on to others.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>So Romney's advice is to (a) avoid mandates and instead (b) use tax penalties to encourage the uninsured to buy insurance. And he's specifically recommending this as a model for national legislation.</p> +<p>But this is, of course, exactly what PPACA does. If you don't have insurance, you have to pay a tax penalty. That's how the mandate is enforced. And it's what Romney recommended Obama do.</p> + +<p>At this point I guess it doesn't matter. Everyone knows perfectly well that Romney shepherded through a healthcare reform bill in Massachusetts that included a mandate, and everyone knows that he used to point to it as a model for the whole country. And either you care about this, or else you've already decided to shrug your shoulders and just accept Romney's obfuscations on the subject. Still, it's pretty remarkable that he's getting away with it. As recently as two years ago, he thought that a mandate enforced by a tax penalty was aces. Today he thinks it's the gravest threat to the country since Pearl Harbor. Go figure.</p> +</body></html> +<div class="service-links"><span><a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Fkevin-drum%2F2012%2F03%2Fmitt-romney-hates-mandates-he-loves-mandates&amp;title=Mitt+Romney+Hates+Mandates%2C+But+He+Loves+Mandates" title="Digg this post on digg.com" id="service-links-digg-13" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/digg.png" alt="Digg" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span><span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Fkevin-drum%2F2012%2F03%2Fmitt-romney-hates-mandates-he-loves-mandates&amp;t=Mitt+Romney+Hates+Mandates%2C+But+He+Loves+Mandates" title="Share on Facebook." id="service-links-facebook-13" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/facebook.png" alt="Facebook" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span><span><a href="http://reddit.com/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Fkevin-drum%2F2012%2F03%2Fmitt-romney-hates-mandates-he-loves-mandates&amp;title=Mitt+Romney+Hates+Mandates%2C+But+He+Loves+Mandates" title="Submit this post on reddit.com." id="service-links-reddit-13" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/reddit.png" alt="Reddit" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span><span><a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Fkevin-drum%2F2012%2F03%2Fmitt-romney-hates-mandates-he-loves-mandates&amp;title=Mitt+Romney+Hates+Mandates%2C+But+He+Loves+Mandates" title="Thumb this up at StumbleUpon" id="service-links-stumbleupon-13" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/stumbleit.png" alt="StumbleUpon" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span></div> + + Kevin Drum + Tue, 06 Mar 2012 18:16:17 +0000 + Kevin Drum + 166551 at http://motherjones.com + + + Iranian Sanctions Look Like They're Biting Hard + + http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/03/iranian-sanctions-look-theyre-biting-hard + <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> +<html><body> +<p>So how are those Iranian oil sanctions going? Stuart Staniford took a crack at figuring it out yesterday, but luckily for me I got busy with other stuff and didn't link to his post. "Luckily" because he's now spent several hours obsessing even more over Iranian production data and has what he thinks is a more reliable look at how much oil Iran is producing. The chart is below. <a target="_blank" href="http://earlywarn.blogspot.com/2012/03/better-iranian-oil-production-chart.html">Stuart's conclusion:</a></p> +<blockquote> + +<p>My interpretation of the [data] is that Iran used to be able to produce about 4mbd of oil. They voluntarily reduced production following the 2001 recession (in line with the behavior of other OPEC nations at the time). However, while the reduction at the end of 2008 may also have been voluntary, the fact that they've made no increase in production in 2011 &mdash; the opposite in fact &mdash; suggests they've lost the capacity to produce (or at least export) that much oil. I assume this is due to western sanctions.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>Whether the sanctions are "working" depends on whether you think we ought to be pressuring Iran over its nuclear program. But that's certainly what the Obama administration wants to do, and judged on their own terms it looks like the sanctions are working. If Iran really has been forced to reduce production by 400,000 bbd, that comes to about $40 million per day, or $14 billion per year. Depending on how you count, that amounts to about 2-3% of GDP.</p> +<p><strong>UPDATE:</strong> But even if oil production is down, isn't that more than made up for by higher prices caused by the sanctions in the first place? Maybe. It depends on how much oil Iran sells on the spot market and how much is tied up in long-term contracts. I don't if anyone really knows that, and I don't know what the terms of Iran's long-term contracts are anyway. So this is, admittedly, a bit of a crapshoot. Either way, though, Iran certainly seems to be selling less than they could if the sanctions didn't exist.</p> + +<p><img align="center" style="margin: 10px 0px 5px 60px;" class="image image-_original" alt="" src="http://www.motherjones.com/files/images/blog_iranian_oil_production.jpg"></p> +</body></html> +<div class="service-links"><span><a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Fkevin-drum%2F2012%2F03%2Firanian-sanctions-look-theyre-biting-hard&amp;title=Iranian+Sanctions+Look+Like+They%27re+Biting+Hard" title="Digg this post on digg.com" id="service-links-digg-15" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/digg.png" alt="Digg" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span><span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Fkevin-drum%2F2012%2F03%2Firanian-sanctions-look-theyre-biting-hard&amp;t=Iranian+Sanctions+Look+Like+They%27re+Biting+Hard" title="Share on Facebook." id="service-links-facebook-15" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/facebook.png" alt="Facebook" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span><span><a href="http://reddit.com/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Fkevin-drum%2F2012%2F03%2Firanian-sanctions-look-theyre-biting-hard&amp;title=Iranian+Sanctions+Look+Like+They%27re+Biting+Hard" title="Submit this post on reddit.com." id="service-links-reddit-15" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/reddit.png" alt="Reddit" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span><span><a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Fkevin-drum%2F2012%2F03%2Firanian-sanctions-look-theyre-biting-hard&amp;title=Iranian+Sanctions+Look+Like+They%27re+Biting+Hard" title="Thumb this up at StumbleUpon" id="service-links-stumbleupon-15" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/stumbleit.png" alt="StumbleUpon" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span></div> + + Kevin Drum + Tue, 06 Mar 2012 17:29:05 +0000 + Kevin Drum + 166546 at http://motherjones.com + + + Flowchart: Are You a Slut? + + http://motherjones.com/mojo/2012/03/flow-chart-are-you-slut + <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> +<html><body> +<p>Are you a slut? It's a question that, to be perfectly honest, we would have felt more than a little uncomfortable asking as recently as a few weeks ago.&nbsp;For one, there's the word itself&mdash;as misogynistic an insult as you could conjure. And there wasn't much of a peg, what with the rest of the world focused on more pressing issues, like Israel's threats of conflict with Iran, and jokes about Mitt Romney's dog (<a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/03/05/147982460/new-yorker-cover-puts-new-twist-on-old-romney-shaggy-dog-story" target="_blank">this</a> is a particularly good one).</p> + +<p>But then conservative icon Rush Limbaugh&mdash;<a href="http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/rush-limbaughs-dominican-stag-party" target="_blank">who was once caught trying to bring 29 100 mg Viagra pills with him to the Dominican Republic</a>&mdash;spent three days ripping into Georgetown&nbsp;law student Sandra Fluke (rhymes with "look"), calling her a "slut" and a "prostitute" for testifying before Congress about birth control, and suggesting that he'd like her to send him a sex tape. The #iamnotaslut Twitter campaign went viral; Limbaugh began losing sponsors (20, at last count). And now we can't seem to talk about anything else <em>but</em> "sluts." Seriously, just <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeedpolitics/chart-the-great-slut-spike-of-2012" target="_blank">take a look at this chart</a> from&nbsp;BuzzFeed.</p> + +<div class="sidebar-small-right"><em><strong>Does Limbaugh think <a href="http://motherjones.com/mojo/2012/03/rush-limbaugh-does-not-understand-how-birth-control-works" target="_blank">birth control pills work like Viagra?</a>&nbsp;Plus: <a href="http://motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/calculator-birth-control-expensive-really-cost" target="_blank">our handy calculator</a> shows how much you'll spend on birth control over a lifetime.</strong></em></div> + +<p>The national conversation about sluts of 2012 hasn't really given us much clarity&mdash;but it has given a variety of commentators a platform from which to disseminate their definition of "slut." Which, it turns out, is really, <em>really</em> broad. Fluke&mdash;who noted in her testimony about contraception access that she has a friend who uses the pill out of medical necessity&mdash;has been maligned for oversharing about her sex life, which she didn't even discuss on the Hill. One Georgetown law school classmate of Fluke's <a href="http://motherjones.com/mojo/2012/03/limbaugh-not-only-conservative-who-fails-understand-how-birth-control-works" target="_self">quoted in the <em>National&nbsp;Review</em></a> put it worst: "When did Georgetown Law start admitting Kardashians?"</p> + +<p>So back to that question:&nbsp;Are you a slut? It's a head-scratcher, so we've put together this handy flowchart to help you out:</p> +<p> +<link href="http://assets.motherjones.com/embeds/cyoa1.css" rel="stylesheet"><script src="http://assets.motherjones.com/embeds/cyoa2.js"></script><script type="text/javascript"> + jQuery(document).ready(function() { + var cyoa = Cyoa({ + start : { // default start page, if you want to call it something different, you have to set it in the options +html: '<p class="flow-question">Do you ever have sex, for like, non-procreative reasons?</script></p> + +<img src="http://assets.motherjones.com/politics/2012/03/slut_flowchart_assets/TiltedHeadKitty.jpg">', + connects: { + 'quit_telling' : 'No', + 'viagra' : 'Yes' + } + }, + quit_telling : { +html: '<p class="flow-question">Whoa. Quit telling everyone about your sex life! Are you a dude?</p> +<img src="http://assets.motherjones.com/politics/2012/03/slut_flowchart_assets/BucketKitty.jpg">', + connects: { + 'rock_on' : 'Yes', + 'medical' : 'No' + } + }, + viagra : { +html: '<p class="flow-question">Do you take Viagra?</p> +<img src="http://assets.motherjones.com/politics/2012/03/slut_flowchart_assets/BobDoleDog.jpg">', + connects: { + 'earlier' : 'No', + 'flying_high' : 'Yes' + } + }, + earlier : { +html: '<p class="flow-question">Um. Maybe we should have asked earlier: Are you a female?</p> + +<img src="http://assets.motherjones.com/politics/2012/03/slut_flowchart_assets/SlippingKitty.jpg">', + connects: { + 'rock_on' : 'No', + 'slut' : 'Yes' + } + }, + rock_on : { +html: '<p class="flow-question">Of course you\'re not a slut; you\'re a dude! Rock on, bro!</p> +<img src="http://assets.motherjones.com/politics/2012/03/slut_flowchart_assets/HighFive.jpg">' + }, + rock_on1 : { +html: '<p class="flow-question">Of course you\'re not a slut; you\'re a dude! Rock on, bro!</p> +<img src="http://assets.motherjones.com/politics/2012/03/slut_flowchart_assets/HighFive.jpg">' + }, + slut : { +html: '<p class="flow-question">You\'re a slut. Sorry, we don\'t make the rules. The plaque is in the mail.</p> + +<img src="http://assets.motherjones.com/politics/2012/03/slut_flowchart_assets/champagne-short.png">' + }, + flying_high : { +html: '<p class="flow-question">Have you ever tried bringing 29 100-mg Viagra pills with you to the Dominican Republican?</p> +<img src="http://assets.motherjones.com/politics/2012/03/slut_flowchart_assets/rush-short.png">', + connects: { + 'really' : 'Yes', + 'rock_on' : 'No' + } + }, + really : { +html: '<p class="flow-question">Wait, really?</p> +<img src="http://assets.motherjones.com/politics/2012/03/slut_flowchart_assets/kitty-short.png">', + connects: { + 'rock_on1' : 'Yes', + 'rock_on' : 'No' + } + }, + medical : { +html: '<p class="flow-question">:( You might still be a slut. Do you use birth control for other medical reasons?</p> + +<img src="http://assets.motherjones.com/politics/2012/03/slut_flowchart_assets/SadKitty.jpg">', + connects: { + 'slut' : 'Yes', + 'kids_only' : 'No' + } + }, + kids_only : { +html: '<p class="flow-question">Wait, so, sex only for the sake of having kids. No birth control. Nothing. <em>Really?</em></p> +<img src="http://assets.motherjones.com/politics/2012/03/slut_flowchart_assets/KidsHappy.jpg">', + connects: { + 'slut' : 'No', + 'do_you_think' : 'Yes' + } + }, + do_you_think : { + html: '<p>Do you think women who use birth control are sluts?</p> +<img src="http://assets.motherjones.com/politics/2012/03/slut_flowchart_assets/UpsideDownKitty.jpg">', + connects: { + 'not_slut' : 'Yes', + 'slut' : 'No' + } + }, + not_slut : { +html: '<p class="flow-question">Congrats! You\'re totally not a slut.<img src="http://assets.motherjones.com/politics/2012/03/slut_flowchart_assets/GroupCelebration.jpg">' + } + }, + {}); + }); + </p> + +<div style="clear:both" id="cyoa_container">&nbsp;</div> +<p>Here it is in chart form, for the clicking-impaired:</p> +<p><span class="inline inline-center"><span class="inline inline-center"><a href="/image/are-you-slut-flowchart"><img width="630" height="520" src="https://motherjones.com/files/images/are-you-a-slut-flowchart.png" class="image image-preview " title="" alt=""></a></span></span></p> + +</body></html> +<p style="font-size: 1.083em;"><a href="/mojo/2012/03/flow-chart-are-you-slut"><strong><em>Continue Reading &raquo;</em></strong></a></p><div class="service-links"><span><a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Fmojo%2F2012%2F03%2Fflow-chart-are-you-slut&amp;title=Flowchart%3A+Are+You+a+Slut%3F" title="Digg this post on digg.com" id="service-links-digg-17" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/digg.png" alt="Digg" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span><span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Fmojo%2F2012%2F03%2Fflow-chart-are-you-slut&amp;t=Flowchart%3A+Are+You+a+Slut%3F" title="Share on Facebook." id="service-links-facebook-17" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/facebook.png" alt="Facebook" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span><span><a href="http://reddit.com/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Fmojo%2F2012%2F03%2Fflow-chart-are-you-slut&amp;title=Flowchart%3A+Are+You+a+Slut%3F" title="Submit this post on reddit.com." id="service-links-reddit-17" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/reddit.png" alt="Reddit" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span><span><a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Fmojo%2F2012%2F03%2Fflow-chart-are-you-slut&amp;title=Flowchart%3A+Are+You+a+Slut%3F" title="Thumb this up at StumbleUpon" id="service-links-stumbleupon-17" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/stumbleit.png" alt="StumbleUpon" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span></div> + + MoJo + Offbeat + Politics + Reproductive Rights + Sex and Gender + Top Stories + + Tue, 06 Mar 2012 17:20:06 +0000 + Tim Murphy and Ben Breedlove + 166371 at http://motherjones.com + + + New Frontiers in Nasty Book Reviews + http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/03/new-frontiers-nasty-book-reviews + + <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> +<html><body> +<p><img align="right" style="margin: 8px 30px 15px 40px;" class="image image-_original" alt="" src="http://www.motherjones.com/files/images/blog_rent_too_damn_high.jpg">I see that the hounds have been let loose on Amazon today. Matt Yglesias has a new eBook out, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Rent-Too-Damn-High-ebook/dp/B0078XGJXO/ref=cm_cr_pr_pb_i"><em>The Rent is Too Damn High</em>,</a> and according to the chart accompanying the Amazon page it's already garnered 24 one-star reviews. Not bad! This reviewer explains what's up:</p> + +<blockquote> +<p>If you purchase this book, you'll be putting money in the pocked of a ghoul who revels in the deaths of people he disagrees with politically. Of course, if this is your intention, you're no better than he.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>A few days ago Matt tweeted something nasty about Andrew Breitbart after his death, so now Breitbart's fans &mdash; who obviously haven't read the book and don't care about it &mdash; are surging into Amazon to take their revenge. Isn't the internet wonderful?</p> +<p>I haven't read the book myself because I'm swamped with other stuff, so I can't say anything in particular about it. However, I'm familiar with Matt's general argument that the high price of city living is an obvious sign that there's high demand for housing in cities, which means that we ought to loosen up zoning and construction regulations and allow more housing to be built. Since cities are engines of economic growth, and bigger cities are even bigger engines, this would be good for everyone. If you want to read his full argument, which I imagine is pretty cogent, it will only set you back $3.99 thanks to the marvel of the Kindle eBook publishing model.</p> + +<p>But none of this matters at Amazon itself. Their review section is merely a place to piss on your political enemies. I suppose that's nothing new, but this is certainly a starker example than usual. 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This time his target is an acquaintance of mine: Tracie McMillan, author of the new book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/American-Way-Eating-Undercover-Applebees/dp/1439171955" target="_blank"><em>The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebees, Farm Fields, and the Dinner Table</em></a>.</p> + +<p>By Limbaughian standards, the anti-McMillan tirade was tepid and banal; he didn't use the word "slut" or demand sex tapes. Yet it drips with the woman-hating idiocy that has become central to the Limbaugh brand. From the the show's <a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/03/06/contrivances_of_the_left_s_attack_on_liberty_the_war_on_women_and_food_justice">transcript</a>, here's the money bit (the rest is running commentary on the recent <em>New York Times</em> review of MacMillan's book, in which a barely coherent Rush seems to be waxing paranoid about an impending government takeover of the food system):</p> +<blockquote> +<p>What is it with all of these young single white women, overeducated&mdash;doesn&rsquo;t mean intelligent. For example, Tracie McMillan, the author of this book, seems to be just out of college and already she has been showered with awards, including the 2006 James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism. Social justice journalism. This woman who wrote the book on food inequality, food justice, got an award for social justice journalism. She has a B.A. from New York University in political science. She's a political scientist. She's a journalist. She has received awards for social justice journalism, and she has a book out on food justice.</p> + +</blockquote> +</body></html> +<p style="font-size: 1.083em;"><a href="/tom-philpott/2012/03/rush-lashes-out-another-accomplished-young-woman"><strong><em>Continue Reading &raquo;</em></strong></a></p><div class="service-links"><span><a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Ftom-philpott%2F2012%2F03%2Frush-lashes-out-another-accomplished-young-woman&amp;title=Rush+Lashes+Out+at+Another+Accomplished+Young+Woman" title="Digg this post on digg.com" id="service-links-digg-1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/digg.png" alt="Digg" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span><span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Ftom-philpott%2F2012%2F03%2Frush-lashes-out-another-accomplished-young-woman&amp;t=Rush+Lashes+Out+at+Another+Accomplished+Young+Woman" title="Share on Facebook." id="service-links-facebook-1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/facebook.png" alt="Facebook" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span><span><a href="http://reddit.com/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Ftom-philpott%2F2012%2F03%2Frush-lashes-out-another-accomplished-young-woman&amp;title=Rush+Lashes+Out+at+Another+Accomplished+Young+Woman" title="Submit this post on reddit.com." id="service-links-reddit-1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/reddit.png" alt="Reddit" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span><span><a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Ftom-philpott%2F2012%2F03%2Frush-lashes-out-another-accomplished-young-woman&amp;title=Rush+Lashes+Out+at+Another+Accomplished+Young+Woman" title="Thumb this up at StumbleUpon" id="service-links-stumbleupon-1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/stumbleit.png" alt="StumbleUpon" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span></div> + + Tom Philpott + Food and Ag + Tue, 06 Mar 2012 23:17:53 +0000 + Tom Philpott + 166621 at http://motherjones.com + + + + The Roar of Japan's 9.0 Quake + http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2012/03/roar-japans-90-quake + <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> +<html><body> +<p>&nbsp;</p> + +<center><iframe width="600" height="400" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/8cOan4FMWxs?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></center> +<p>&nbsp;</p> +<p>This sound is terrifying even a year later. It's the voice of Japan's 9.0 temblor and its aftershocks. <a target="_blank" href="http://www.eas.gatech.edu/people/Zhigang_Peng">Zhigang Peng</a> at Georgia Tech&rsquo;s School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences converted the quake's seismic waves into sped-up audio files that we can hear.&nbsp;</p> + +<p>The clip above was&nbsp;taken near the coastline of Japan between the nuclear reactor at Fukushima Daiichi and Tokyo. The initial blast is the 9.0 mainshock. Following that you can hear aftershocks, popping sounds, as the earth's plates slip into new positions.&nbsp;</p> +<p>&nbsp;</p> +<center><iframe width="600" height="400" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/q1wg2IbA0oo?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></center> +<p>&nbsp;</p> + +<p>Here's&nbsp;Peng's recording of the 2011 Japanese earthquake taken from seismic measurements thousands of miles away in California. The quake created subtle movements deep in the San Andreas Fault known as distant triggering.</p> +<p>You can hear the initial noise, which sounds like thunder and corresponds with the Japanese mainshock. Afterwards a continuous high-pitch sound, like rain turning on and off, reflects continuing tremor activity at the fault, as heard from afar in California.</p> +</body></html> +<div class="service-links"><span><a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Fblue-marble%2F2012%2F03%2Froar-japans-90-quake&amp;title=The+Roar+of+Japan%27s+9.0+Quake" title="Digg this post on digg.com" id="service-links-digg-3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/digg.png" alt="Digg" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span><span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Fblue-marble%2F2012%2F03%2Froar-japans-90-quake&amp;t=The+Roar+of+Japan%27s+9.0+Quake" title="Share on Facebook." id="service-links-facebook-3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/facebook.png" alt="Facebook" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span><span><a href="http://reddit.com/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Fblue-marble%2F2012%2F03%2Froar-japans-90-quake&amp;title=The+Roar+of+Japan%27s+9.0+Quake" title="Submit this post on reddit.com." id="service-links-reddit-3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/reddit.png" alt="Reddit" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span><span><a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Fblue-marble%2F2012%2F03%2Froar-japans-90-quake&amp;title=The+Roar+of+Japan%27s+9.0+Quake" title="Thumb this up at StumbleUpon" id="service-links-stumbleupon-3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/stumbleit.png" alt="StumbleUpon" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span></div> + + Blue Marble + Science + Tue, 06 Mar 2012 22:29:02 +0000 + Julia Whitty + 166626 at http://motherjones.com + + + + Quote of the Day: War is Not a Game + http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/03/quote-day-war-not-game + <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> +<html><body> +<p><a target="_blank" href="http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/06/obama-challenges-republicans-on-iran/?hp">From Barack Obama,</a> on the casual bellicosity toward Iran that's overtaken the Republican Party:</p> + +<blockquote> +<p>This is not a game....If some of these folks think we should launch a war, let them say so, and explain to the American people.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>On a related note, <a target="_blank" href="http://prospect.org/article/when-do-reporters-start-calling-mitt-romney-liar">Paul Waldman has a question:</a> "When Do Reporters Start Calling Mitt Romney a Liar?" It's a poser, all right. Romney has repeatedly said that Obama doesn't support sanctions against Iran; that Obama refuses to leave military options open; and that Obama hasn't clearly said that it's unacceptable for Iran to have a nuclear weapon. This isn't a matter of exaggeration or interpretation. These are exactly the things Obama <em>has</em> done. Romney is just flat-out lying.</p> + +<p>On the other hand, Obama has also made it clear that he thinks war is a last resort, not a first. Romney could truthfully say that about him. But as Obama says, if that's his position, maybe he ought to step up to the plate and let everyone know.</p> +</body></html> +<div class="service-links"><span><a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Fkevin-drum%2F2012%2F03%2Fquote-day-war-not-game&amp;title=Quote+of+the+Day%3A+War+is+Not+a+Game" title="Digg this post on digg.com" id="service-links-digg-5" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/digg.png" alt="Digg" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span><span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Fkevin-drum%2F2012%2F03%2Fquote-day-war-not-game&amp;t=Quote+of+the+Day%3A+War+is+Not+a+Game" title="Share on Facebook." id="service-links-facebook-5" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/facebook.png" alt="Facebook" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span><span><a href="http://reddit.com/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Fkevin-drum%2F2012%2F03%2Fquote-day-war-not-game&amp;title=Quote+of+the+Day%3A+War+is+Not+a+Game" title="Submit this post on reddit.com." id="service-links-reddit-5" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/reddit.png" alt="Reddit" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span><span><a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Fkevin-drum%2F2012%2F03%2Fquote-day-war-not-game&amp;title=Quote+of+the+Day%3A+War+is+Not+a+Game" title="Thumb this up at StumbleUpon" id="service-links-stumbleupon-5" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/stumbleit.png" alt="StumbleUpon" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span></div> + + Kevin Drum + Tue, 06 Mar 2012 21:57:49 +0000 + Kevin Drum + 166616 at http://motherjones.com + + + Corporate Whistleblowers Get the Silent Treatment + + http://motherjones.com/politics/2012/03/corporate-whistleblowers-get-silent-treatment + <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> +<html><body> +<p><em>This <a target="_blank" href="http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175512/tomgram%3A_eyal_press%2C_chilling_dissent_on_wall_street/">story</a> first appeared on the </em><a target="_blank" href="http://www.tomdispatch.com/">TomDispatch</a><em> website.</em></p> + +<p>What's worse: to be persecuted and indicted for trying to expose an act of wrongdoing&mdash;or to be ignored for doing so?</p> +<p>Whistleblowers have been under intense scrutiny in Washington lately, at least when it comes to the national security state. In recent years, the Obama administration has <a target="_blank" href="http://www.tomdispatch.com/archive/175500/peter_van_buren_silent_state">set a record</a> by accusing no fewer than six government employees, who allegedly leaked classified information to reporters, of violating the Espionage Act, a draconian law dating back to 1917. Yet when it comes to workers who have risked their careers to expose misconduct in the corporate and financial arena, a different pattern has long prevailed. Here, the problem hasn't been an excess of attention from government officials eager to chill dissent, but a dearth of attention that has often left whistleblowers feeling no less isolated and discouraged.</p> +<p><a href="http://www.tomdispatch.com" target="_blank"><span class="inline inline-left"><img width="100" height="33" class="image image-preview" title="" alt="" src="http://motherjones.com/files/images/tdispatch-notch.jpg"></span></a>Consider the case of Leyla Wydler, a broker who, back in 2003, sent a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) about her former employer, the Stanford Financial Group. A year earlier, it had fired her for refusing to sell certificates of deposit that she rightly suspected were being misleadingly advertised to investors. The company, Wydler warned in her letter, "is the subject of a lingering corporate fraud scandal perpetrated as a 'massive Ponzi scheme' that will destroy the life savings of many, damage the reputation of all associated parties, ridicule securities and banking authorities, and shame the United States of America."</p> + +<p>It was a letter that should have woken the dead and, as it happened, couldn't have been more on target. Wydler didn't stop with the SEC either. She also sent copies to the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), the trade group responsible for enforcing regulations throughout the industry, as well as various newspapers, including the<em> Wall Street Journal </em>and the<em> Washington Post</em>. No one responded. No one at all.</p> +</body></html> + +<p style="font-size: 1.083em;"><a href="/politics/2012/03/corporate-whistleblowers-get-silent-treatment"><strong><em>Continue Reading &raquo;</em></strong></a></p><div class="service-links"><span><a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Fpolitics%2F2012%2F03%2Fcorporate-whistleblowers-get-silent-treatment&amp;title=Corporate+Whistleblowers+Get+the+Silent+Treatment" title="Digg this post on digg.com" id="service-links-digg-7" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/digg.png" alt="Digg" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span><span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Fpolitics%2F2012%2F03%2Fcorporate-whistleblowers-get-silent-treatment&amp;t=Corporate+Whistleblowers+Get+the+Silent+Treatment" title="Share on Facebook." id="service-links-facebook-7" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/facebook.png" alt="Facebook" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span><span><a href="http://reddit.com/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Fpolitics%2F2012%2F03%2Fcorporate-whistleblowers-get-silent-treatment&amp;title=Corporate+Whistleblowers+Get+the+Silent+Treatment" title="Submit this post on reddit.com." id="service-links-reddit-7" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/reddit.png" alt="Reddit" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span><span><a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Fpolitics%2F2012%2F03%2Fcorporate-whistleblowers-get-silent-treatment&amp;title=Corporate+Whistleblowers+Get+the+Silent+Treatment" title="Thumb this up at StumbleUpon" id="service-links-stumbleupon-7" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/stumbleit.png" alt="StumbleUpon" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span></div> + + Politics + Corporations + Crime and Justice + Economy + Regulatory Affairs + Tom Dispatch + + Tue, 06 Mar 2012 20:24:53 +0000 + Eyal Press + 166596 at http://motherjones.com + + + Iran War Watch: Netanyahu Gives Obama a Badass Biblical Scroll + http://motherjones.com/mojo/2012/03/iran-war-watch-netanyahu-gives-obama-biblical-badass-scroll + + <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> +<html><body> +<p><em>Are the United States and Iran on a collision course over the Middle Eastern country's controversial nuclear program? We'll be posting </em><a target="_blank" href="http://motherjones.com/category/secondary-tags/iran-war-watch"><em>the latest news on</em></a><em> Iran-war fever&mdash;the intel, the media frenzy, the rhetoric.</em></p> + +<p>The following will sound a lot like a scene from <a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqhnIZ2kd54"><em>Kung Fu Panda</em></a>. It happened during the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/05/us-usa-israel-obama-idUSTRE8230EM20120305">high-profile meeting</a> between President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Monday.</p> +<p>Bloomberg's <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/#!/jferziger">Jonathan Ferziger</a> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-05/netanyahu-gives-obama-purim-scroll-on-ancient-persian-plot-during-meeting.html">has the story</a>:</p> + +<blockquote> +<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave President Barack Obama a Purim Megillah scroll, which tells the story of how Jews prevailed over a plot to kill them in ancient Persia, which is present-day Iran.</p> +<p>Netanyahu gave Obama the gift...during a White House meeting, two days before the Jewish holiday of Purim begins.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>In case you're not familiar with the details of said Hebrew scroll: The Megillah, commonly known as the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.beingjewish.com/yomtov/purim/esther_intro.html">Book of Esther</a>, is the part of the Hebrew Bible that tells the story of how a hard-partying Persian king was convinced by an evil adviser that it'd be fun to decimate the Jewish minority population in his dominion. He declares a government holiday in the month of Adar during which his subjects are given carte blanche to murder Jews and steal their property. Long-story-short, the Jews do a fantastic job of defending themselves against the state-sponsored onslaught, and then proceed to commit a <a target="_blank" href="http://jreuter.hubpages.com/hub/The-Book-of-Esther-Its-Canonization-Historicity-and-Relevance">hugely successful counter-slaughter</a>&nbsp;of the Persians. (This bit of Biblical spin has long since found a home in the annals of <a target="_blank" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2010/dec/27/iranian-antisemitism-graves-jewish-saints">fascist and far-right propaganda</a>.)</p> + +<p>Flash forward a couple dozen centuries, and the Jews now have something of a home-plate advantage over Persian foes: They are the regional superpower. They have <a target="_blank" href="http://motherjones.com/mojo/2012/03/iran-war-watch-obama-aipac-speech-reactions">backing</a> of the only global superpower. The track record of the Israeli <a target="_blank" href="http://www.cnas.org/blogs/abumuqawama/2010/06/two-thoughts-israel.html">military</a>&mdash;and <a target="_blank" href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-07-04-palestinian-pressure_x.htm">special ops</a> forces&mdash;has achieved a <a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doX2E1vNtY8">Hollywood</a>-<a target="_blank" href="http://www.cracked.com/article_19178_9-absurd-movie-premises-that-actually-happened.html">level</a> of renown. Oh, and one other thing: <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_and_Israel#Stockpile">They have nuclear bombs</a>.<strong><br></strong></p> + +</body></html> +<div class="service-links"><span><a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Fmojo%2F2012%2F03%2Firan-war-watch-netanyahu-gives-obama-biblical-badass-scroll&amp;title=Iran+War+Watch%3A+Netanyahu+Gives+Obama+a+Badass+Biblical+Scroll" title="Digg this post on digg.com" id="service-links-digg-9" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/digg.png" alt="Digg" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span><span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Fmojo%2F2012%2F03%2Firan-war-watch-netanyahu-gives-obama-biblical-badass-scroll&amp;t=Iran+War+Watch%3A+Netanyahu+Gives+Obama+a+Badass+Biblical+Scroll" title="Share on Facebook." id="service-links-facebook-9" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/facebook.png" alt="Facebook" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span><span><a href="http://reddit.com/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Fmojo%2F2012%2F03%2Firan-war-watch-netanyahu-gives-obama-biblical-badass-scroll&amp;title=Iran+War+Watch%3A+Netanyahu+Gives+Obama+a+Badass+Biblical+Scroll" title="Submit this post on reddit.com." id="service-links-reddit-9" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/reddit.png" alt="Reddit" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span><span><a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Fmojo%2F2012%2F03%2Firan-war-watch-netanyahu-gives-obama-biblical-badass-scroll&amp;title=Iran+War+Watch%3A+Netanyahu+Gives+Obama+a+Badass+Biblical+Scroll" title="Thumb this up at StumbleUpon" id="service-links-stumbleupon-9" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/stumbleit.png" alt="StumbleUpon" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span></div> + + MoJo + Foreign Policy + International + Obama + Politics + Religion + + iran war watch + Tue, 06 Mar 2012 19:35:02 +0000 + Asawin Suebsaeng + 166366 at http://motherjones.com + + + Oft-Cited Study Linking Mental Health Problems to Abortion Debunked + + http://motherjones.com/mojo/2012/03/oft-cited-study-linking-mental-health-problems-abortion-debunked + <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> +<html><body> +<p>The latest issue of the <em>Journal of Psychiatric Research</em> includes a scathing critique of a 2009 study it published linking abortion to a variety of mental health problems. Via the <em>New York Times</em> blog <a href="http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/05/study-linking-abortion-and-mental-health-problems-is-called-false/"><em>Motherlode</em></a>, the article states that the data the authors of the study relied on doesn't actually support their "assertions that abortions led to psychopathology."</p> + +<p>That <a target="_blank" href="https://motherjones.com/files/coleman_et_al._jpr.pdf">2009 study</a> linked conditions like panic disorder, panic attacks, PTSD, agoraphobia, bipolar disorder, mania, major depression, and alcohol and drug abuse to women who have had abortions. The paper, from lead author Priscilla Coleman of Bowling Green State University, has been <a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2008/11/28/nat-4617/">touted by anti-abortion groups</a> and deployed to support <a href="http://www.guttmacher.org/statecenter/spibs/spib_OAL.pdf">state laws</a> requiring doctors to warn women of potential health problems before they can have an abortion in places like <a href="http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/02/south-dakota-abortion-crisis-pregnancy-center-bill">South Dakota</a>.</p> + +<p>But the results just don't hold up, <a href="https://motherjones.com/files/j.jpsychires.2012.01.019.pdf" target="_blank">according to a critique</a> from Julia Steinberg, an assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of California-San Francisco, and Lawrence Finer, the director of domestic research with the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive rights group. For one thing, they report, the paper failed to factor in whether the women included in the study had exhibited those mental health problems <em>before</em> having an abortion. Steinberg and Finer reevaluated the data Coleman and her colleagues relied on and found that the conclusions in the paper were not supported by the data. "These deficiencies are fundamental analytical errors that were incorrectly presented in the original paper," they write, "&hellip; not a scholarly difference of opinion."</p> +</body></html> + +<div class="service-links"><span><a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Fmojo%2F2012%2F03%2Foft-cited-study-linking-mental-health-problems-abortion-debunked&amp;title=Oft-Cited+Study+Linking+Mental+Health+Problems+to+Abortion+Debunked" title="Digg this post on digg.com" id="service-links-digg-11" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/digg.png" alt="Digg" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span><span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Fmojo%2F2012%2F03%2Foft-cited-study-linking-mental-health-problems-abortion-debunked&amp;t=Oft-Cited+Study+Linking+Mental+Health+Problems+to+Abortion+Debunked" title="Share on Facebook." id="service-links-facebook-11" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/facebook.png" alt="Facebook" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span><span><a href="http://reddit.com/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Fmojo%2F2012%2F03%2Foft-cited-study-linking-mental-health-problems-abortion-debunked&amp;title=Oft-Cited+Study+Linking+Mental+Health+Problems+to+Abortion+Debunked" title="Submit this post on reddit.com." id="service-links-reddit-11" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/reddit.png" alt="Reddit" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span><span><a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Fmojo%2F2012%2F03%2Foft-cited-study-linking-mental-health-problems-abortion-debunked&amp;title=Oft-Cited+Study+Linking+Mental+Health+Problems+to+Abortion+Debunked" title="Thumb this up at StumbleUpon" id="service-links-stumbleupon-11" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/stumbleit.png" alt="StumbleUpon" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span></div> + + MoJo + Health + Reproductive Rights + Science + Sex and Gender + Tue, 06 Mar 2012 19:33:00 +0000 + + Kate Sheppard + 166556 at http://motherjones.com + + + Mitt Romney Hates Mandates, But He Loves Mandates + http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/03/mitt-romney-hates-mandates-he-loves-mandates + <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> + +<html><body> +<p>This is <a target="_blank" href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/mitt-romneys-advice-for-obamacare-look-at-romney">yesterday's news,</a> but I just now got around to reading Mitt Romney's <em>USA&nbsp;Today</em> op-ed from 2009 in which he criticized the way healthcare reform was being designed and recommended that Obama look instead to <a target="_blank" href="http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20090730/column30_st.art.htm">Romney's healthcare reform in Massachusetts:</a></p> + +<blockquote> +<p>With more than 1,300 health insurance companies, a federal government insurance company isn&rsquo;t necessary. It would inevitably lead to massive taxpayer subsidies, to lobbyist-inspired coverage mandates [etc.]....Our experience also demonstrates that getting every citizen insured doesn&rsquo;t have to break the bank. First, we established incentives for those who were uninsured to buy insurance. Using tax penalties, as we did, or tax credits, as others have proposed, encourages &ldquo;free riders&rdquo; to take responsibility for themselves rather than pass their medical costs on to others.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>So Romney's advice is to (a) avoid mandates and instead (b) use tax penalties to encourage the uninsured to buy insurance. And he's specifically recommending this as a model for national legislation.</p> +<p>But this is, of course, exactly what PPACA does. If you don't have insurance, you have to pay a tax penalty. That's how the mandate is enforced. And it's what Romney recommended Obama do.</p> + +<p>At this point I guess it doesn't matter. Everyone knows perfectly well that Romney shepherded through a healthcare reform bill in Massachusetts that included a mandate, and everyone knows that he used to point to it as a model for the whole country. And either you care about this, or else you've already decided to shrug your shoulders and just accept Romney's obfuscations on the subject. Still, it's pretty remarkable that he's getting away with it. As recently as two years ago, he thought that a mandate enforced by a tax penalty was aces. Today he thinks it's the gravest threat to the country since Pearl Harbor. Go figure.</p> +</body></html> +<div class="service-links"><span><a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Fkevin-drum%2F2012%2F03%2Fmitt-romney-hates-mandates-he-loves-mandates&amp;title=Mitt+Romney+Hates+Mandates%2C+But+He+Loves+Mandates" title="Digg this post on digg.com" id="service-links-digg-13" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/digg.png" alt="Digg" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span><span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Fkevin-drum%2F2012%2F03%2Fmitt-romney-hates-mandates-he-loves-mandates&amp;t=Mitt+Romney+Hates+Mandates%2C+But+He+Loves+Mandates" title="Share on Facebook." id="service-links-facebook-13" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/facebook.png" alt="Facebook" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span><span><a href="http://reddit.com/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Fkevin-drum%2F2012%2F03%2Fmitt-romney-hates-mandates-he-loves-mandates&amp;title=Mitt+Romney+Hates+Mandates%2C+But+He+Loves+Mandates" title="Submit this post on reddit.com." id="service-links-reddit-13" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/reddit.png" alt="Reddit" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span><span><a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Fkevin-drum%2F2012%2F03%2Fmitt-romney-hates-mandates-he-loves-mandates&amp;title=Mitt+Romney+Hates+Mandates%2C+But+He+Loves+Mandates" title="Thumb this up at StumbleUpon" id="service-links-stumbleupon-13" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/stumbleit.png" alt="StumbleUpon" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span></div> + + Kevin Drum + Tue, 06 Mar 2012 18:16:17 +0000 + Kevin Drum + 166551 at http://motherjones.com + + + Iranian Sanctions Look Like They're Biting Hard + + http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/03/iranian-sanctions-look-theyre-biting-hard + <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> +<html><body> +<p>So how are those Iranian oil sanctions going? Stuart Staniford took a crack at figuring it out yesterday, but luckily for me I got busy with other stuff and didn't link to his post. "Luckily" because he's now spent several hours obsessing even more over Iranian production data and has what he thinks is a more reliable look at how much oil Iran is producing. The chart is below. <a target="_blank" href="http://earlywarn.blogspot.com/2012/03/better-iranian-oil-production-chart.html">Stuart's conclusion:</a></p> +<blockquote> + +<p>My interpretation of the [data] is that Iran used to be able to produce about 4mbd of oil. They voluntarily reduced production following the 2001 recession (in line with the behavior of other OPEC nations at the time). However, while the reduction at the end of 2008 may also have been voluntary, the fact that they've made no increase in production in 2011 &mdash; the opposite in fact &mdash; suggests they've lost the capacity to produce (or at least export) that much oil. I assume this is due to western sanctions.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>Whether the sanctions are "working" depends on whether you think we ought to be pressuring Iran over its nuclear program. But that's certainly what the Obama administration wants to do, and judged on their own terms it looks like the sanctions are working. If Iran really has been forced to reduce production by 400,000 bbd, that comes to about $40 million per day, or $14 billion per year. Depending on how you count, that amounts to about 2-3% of GDP.</p> +<p><strong>UPDATE:</strong> But even if oil production is down, isn't that more than made up for by higher prices caused by the sanctions in the first place? Maybe. It depends on how much oil Iran sells on the spot market and how much is tied up in long-term contracts. I don't if anyone really knows that, and I don't know what the terms of Iran's long-term contracts are anyway. So this is, admittedly, a bit of a crapshoot. Either way, though, Iran certainly seems to be selling less than they could if the sanctions didn't exist.</p> + +<p><img align="center" style="margin: 10px 0px 5px 60px;" class="image image-_original" alt="" src="http://www.motherjones.com/files/images/blog_iranian_oil_production.jpg"></p> +</body></html> +<div class="service-links"><span><a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Fkevin-drum%2F2012%2F03%2Firanian-sanctions-look-theyre-biting-hard&amp;title=Iranian+Sanctions+Look+Like+They%27re+Biting+Hard" title="Digg this post on digg.com" id="service-links-digg-15" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/digg.png" alt="Digg" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span><span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Fkevin-drum%2F2012%2F03%2Firanian-sanctions-look-theyre-biting-hard&amp;t=Iranian+Sanctions+Look+Like+They%27re+Biting+Hard" title="Share on Facebook." id="service-links-facebook-15" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/facebook.png" alt="Facebook" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span><span><a href="http://reddit.com/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Fkevin-drum%2F2012%2F03%2Firanian-sanctions-look-theyre-biting-hard&amp;title=Iranian+Sanctions+Look+Like+They%27re+Biting+Hard" title="Submit this post on reddit.com." id="service-links-reddit-15" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/reddit.png" alt="Reddit" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span><span><a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Fkevin-drum%2F2012%2F03%2Firanian-sanctions-look-theyre-biting-hard&amp;title=Iranian+Sanctions+Look+Like+They%27re+Biting+Hard" title="Thumb this up at StumbleUpon" id="service-links-stumbleupon-15" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/stumbleit.png" alt="StumbleUpon" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span></div> + + Kevin Drum + Tue, 06 Mar 2012 17:29:05 +0000 + Kevin Drum + 166546 at http://motherjones.com + + + Flowchart: Are You a Slut? + + http://motherjones.com/mojo/2012/03/flow-chart-are-you-slut + <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> +<html><body> +<p>Are you a slut? It's a question that, to be perfectly honest, we would have felt more than a little uncomfortable asking as recently as a few weeks ago.&nbsp;For one, there's the word itself&mdash;as misogynistic an insult as you could conjure. And there wasn't much of a peg, what with the rest of the world focused on more pressing issues, like Israel's threats of conflict with Iran, and jokes about Mitt Romney's dog (<a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/03/05/147982460/new-yorker-cover-puts-new-twist-on-old-romney-shaggy-dog-story" target="_blank">this</a> is a particularly good one).</p> + +<p>But then conservative icon Rush Limbaugh&mdash;<a href="http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/rush-limbaughs-dominican-stag-party" target="_blank">who was once caught trying to bring 29 100 mg Viagra pills with him to the Dominican Republic</a>&mdash;spent three days ripping into Georgetown&nbsp;law student Sandra Fluke (rhymes with "look"), calling her a "slut" and a "prostitute" for testifying before Congress about birth control, and suggesting that he'd like her to send him a sex tape. The #iamnotaslut Twitter campaign went viral; Limbaugh began losing sponsors (20, at last count). And now we can't seem to talk about anything else <em>but</em> "sluts." Seriously, just <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeedpolitics/chart-the-great-slut-spike-of-2012" target="_blank">take a look at this chart</a> from&nbsp;BuzzFeed.</p> + +<div class="sidebar-small-right"><em><strong>Does Limbaugh think <a href="http://motherjones.com/mojo/2012/03/rush-limbaugh-does-not-understand-how-birth-control-works" target="_blank">birth control pills work like Viagra?</a>&nbsp;Plus: <a href="http://motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/calculator-birth-control-expensive-really-cost" target="_blank">our handy calculator</a> shows how much you'll spend on birth control over a lifetime.</strong></em></div> + +<p>The national conversation about sluts of 2012 hasn't really given us much clarity&mdash;but it has given a variety of commentators a platform from which to disseminate their definition of "slut." Which, it turns out, is really, <em>really</em> broad. Fluke&mdash;who noted in her testimony about contraception access that she has a friend who uses the pill out of medical necessity&mdash;has been maligned for oversharing about her sex life, which she didn't even discuss on the Hill. One Georgetown law school classmate of Fluke's <a href="http://motherjones.com/mojo/2012/03/limbaugh-not-only-conservative-who-fails-understand-how-birth-control-works" target="_self">quoted in the <em>National&nbsp;Review</em></a> put it worst: "When did Georgetown Law start admitting Kardashians?"</p> + +<p>So back to that question:&nbsp;Are you a slut? It's a head-scratcher, so we've put together this handy flowchart to help you out:</p> +<p> +<link href="http://assets.motherjones.com/embeds/cyoa1.css" rel="stylesheet"><script src="http://assets.motherjones.com/embeds/cyoa2.js"></script><script type="text/javascript"> + jQuery(document).ready(function() { + var cyoa = Cyoa({ + start : { // default start page, if you want to call it something different, you have to set it in the options +html: '<p class="flow-question">Do you ever have sex, for like, non-procreative reasons?</script></p> + +<img src="http://assets.motherjones.com/politics/2012/03/slut_flowchart_assets/TiltedHeadKitty.jpg">', + connects: { + 'quit_telling' : 'No', + 'viagra' : 'Yes' + } + }, + quit_telling : { +html: '<p class="flow-question">Whoa. Quit telling everyone about your sex life! Are you a dude?</p> +<img src="http://assets.motherjones.com/politics/2012/03/slut_flowchart_assets/BucketKitty.jpg">', + connects: { + 'rock_on' : 'Yes', + 'medical' : 'No' + } + }, + viagra : { +html: '<p class="flow-question">Do you take Viagra?</p> +<img src="http://assets.motherjones.com/politics/2012/03/slut_flowchart_assets/BobDoleDog.jpg">', + connects: { + 'earlier' : 'No', + 'flying_high' : 'Yes' + } + }, + earlier : { +html: '<p class="flow-question">Um. Maybe we should have asked earlier: Are you a female?</p> + +<img src="http://assets.motherjones.com/politics/2012/03/slut_flowchart_assets/SlippingKitty.jpg">', + connects: { + 'rock_on' : 'No', + 'slut' : 'Yes' + } + }, + rock_on : { +html: '<p class="flow-question">Of course you\'re not a slut; you\'re a dude! Rock on, bro!</p> +<img src="http://assets.motherjones.com/politics/2012/03/slut_flowchart_assets/HighFive.jpg">' + }, + rock_on1 : { +html: '<p class="flow-question">Of course you\'re not a slut; you\'re a dude! Rock on, bro!</p> +<img src="http://assets.motherjones.com/politics/2012/03/slut_flowchart_assets/HighFive.jpg">' + }, + slut : { +html: '<p class="flow-question">You\'re a slut. Sorry, we don\'t make the rules. The plaque is in the mail.</p> + +<img src="http://assets.motherjones.com/politics/2012/03/slut_flowchart_assets/champagne-short.png">' + }, + flying_high : { +html: '<p class="flow-question">Have you ever tried bringing 29 100-mg Viagra pills with you to the Dominican Republican?</p> +<img src="http://assets.motherjones.com/politics/2012/03/slut_flowchart_assets/rush-short.png">', + connects: { + 'really' : 'Yes', + 'rock_on' : 'No' + } + }, + really : { +html: '<p class="flow-question">Wait, really?</p> +<img src="http://assets.motherjones.com/politics/2012/03/slut_flowchart_assets/kitty-short.png">', + connects: { + 'rock_on1' : 'Yes', + 'rock_on' : 'No' + } + }, + medical : { +html: '<p class="flow-question">:( You might still be a slut. Do you use birth control for other medical reasons?</p> + +<img src="http://assets.motherjones.com/politics/2012/03/slut_flowchart_assets/SadKitty.jpg">', + connects: { + 'slut' : 'Yes', + 'kids_only' : 'No' + } + }, + kids_only : { +html: '<p class="flow-question">Wait, so, sex only for the sake of having kids. No birth control. Nothing. <em>Really?</em></p> +<img src="http://assets.motherjones.com/politics/2012/03/slut_flowchart_assets/KidsHappy.jpg">', + connects: { + 'slut' : 'No', + 'do_you_think' : 'Yes' + } + }, + do_you_think : { + html: '<p>Do you think women who use birth control are sluts?</p> +<img src="http://assets.motherjones.com/politics/2012/03/slut_flowchart_assets/UpsideDownKitty.jpg">', + connects: { + 'not_slut' : 'Yes', + 'slut' : 'No' + } + }, + not_slut : { +html: '<p class="flow-question">Congrats! You\'re totally not a slut.<img src="http://assets.motherjones.com/politics/2012/03/slut_flowchart_assets/GroupCelebration.jpg">' + } + }, + {}); + }); + </p> + +<div style="clear:both" id="cyoa_container">&nbsp;</div> +<p>Here it is in chart form, for the clicking-impaired:</p> +<p><span class="inline inline-center"><span class="inline inline-center"><a href="/image/are-you-slut-flowchart"><img width="630" height="520" src="https://motherjones.com/files/images/are-you-a-slut-flowchart.png" class="image image-preview " title="" alt=""></a></span></span></p> + +</body></html> +<p style="font-size: 1.083em;"><a href="/mojo/2012/03/flow-chart-are-you-slut"><strong><em>Continue Reading &raquo;</em></strong></a></p><div class="service-links"><span><a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Fmojo%2F2012%2F03%2Fflow-chart-are-you-slut&amp;title=Flowchart%3A+Are+You+a+Slut%3F" title="Digg this post on digg.com" id="service-links-digg-17" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/digg.png" alt="Digg" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span><span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Fmojo%2F2012%2F03%2Fflow-chart-are-you-slut&amp;t=Flowchart%3A+Are+You+a+Slut%3F" title="Share on Facebook." id="service-links-facebook-17" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/facebook.png" alt="Facebook" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span><span><a href="http://reddit.com/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Fmojo%2F2012%2F03%2Fflow-chart-are-you-slut&amp;title=Flowchart%3A+Are+You+a+Slut%3F" title="Submit this post on reddit.com." id="service-links-reddit-17" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/reddit.png" alt="Reddit" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span><span><a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Fmojo%2F2012%2F03%2Fflow-chart-are-you-slut&amp;title=Flowchart%3A+Are+You+a+Slut%3F" title="Thumb this up at StumbleUpon" id="service-links-stumbleupon-17" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/stumbleit.png" alt="StumbleUpon" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span></div> + + MoJo + Offbeat + Politics + Reproductive Rights + Sex and Gender + Top Stories + + Tue, 06 Mar 2012 17:20:06 +0000 + Tim Murphy and Ben Breedlove + 166371 at http://motherjones.com + + + New Frontiers in Nasty Book Reviews + http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/03/new-frontiers-nasty-book-reviews + + <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> +<html><body> +<p><img align="right" style="margin: 8px 30px 15px 40px;" class="image image-_original" alt="" src="http://www.motherjones.com/files/images/blog_rent_too_damn_high.jpg">I see that the hounds have been let loose on Amazon today. Matt Yglesias has a new eBook out, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Rent-Too-Damn-High-ebook/dp/B0078XGJXO/ref=cm_cr_pr_pb_i"><em>The Rent is Too Damn High</em>,</a> and according to the chart accompanying the Amazon page it's already garnered 24 one-star reviews. Not bad! This reviewer explains what's up:</p> + +<blockquote> +<p>If you purchase this book, you'll be putting money in the pocked of a ghoul who revels in the deaths of people he disagrees with politically. Of course, if this is your intention, you're no better than he.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>A few days ago Matt tweeted something nasty about Andrew Breitbart after his death, so now Breitbart's fans &mdash; who obviously haven't read the book and don't care about it &mdash; are surging into Amazon to take their revenge. Isn't the internet wonderful?</p> +<p>I haven't read the book myself because I'm swamped with other stuff, so I can't say anything in particular about it. However, I'm familiar with Matt's general argument that the high price of city living is an obvious sign that there's high demand for housing in cities, which means that we ought to loosen up zoning and construction regulations and allow more housing to be built. Since cities are engines of economic growth, and bigger cities are even bigger engines, this would be good for everyone. If you want to read his full argument, which I imagine is pretty cogent, it will only set you back $3.99 thanks to the marvel of the Kindle eBook publishing model.</p> + +<p>But none of this matters at Amazon itself. Their review section is merely a place to piss on your political enemies. I suppose that's nothing new, but this is certainly a starker example than usual. 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