142 posts tagged “society”
Nearly two-thirds of Americans (65%) think the country will be better off four years from now, a significantly higher percentage (46%) than said the same when President George W. Bush was about to take office in January 2001.
Using just the authority of his lab coat and actors paid to scream, Yale psychology researcher Stanley Milgram turned dozens of ordinary people into torturers and murderers. Or at least, that's what his research subjects believed...
Milgram wanted to find out how easy it would be for a regular person to torture somebody else if ordered to do it by an authority figure. What he discovered horrified him — and his unwitting test subjects. Nearly every single person who came into Milgram's lab was willing to torture or kill a person when ordered to do it by Milgram. Only a very few people refused. Many of them protested, but did it when Milgram insisted he was a doctor and knew what he was doing.
Kids in this suburban Detroit neighborhood cried foul after a McCain supporter refused to give them candy because they were the children of Obama supporters. Whatever your politics, I think we can all agree it's beyond the pale to deny children candy on Halloween. [WATCH]
The universe is trying to kill us. Start worrying in a few million years about a cosmic dust collision, when the sun hits the closest spiral arm of our galaxy. Take your chances with an exploding star. Or manage to escape these threats, and you just get an extra 1035 years before all matter decays anyway.
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Whoa! The most disturbing part of that was the police officer’s comment, “I can do whatever I want” in response to the reporter, Christine Sloan, saying, “You can’t arrest him.”After arresting the photographer, Jim Quodomine, the officer even threatened Sloan, saying, “[This is] none of your business. Stay away or you’ll be sitting in...
I've been watching the news for the last few days (or maybe the last week) and frankly the fact that any intelligent idea actually gets out and discussed in the national media seems far-fetched and impossible. According to right wing talkers/news outlets, Obama is a socialist and that's bad. Unfortunately, the real socialists are the Republicans.
Kenneth Rowles is facing felony assault charges after firing his rifle several times at two teenagers. The teens admit that they had defaced the McCain yard sign several times.
Garages and yards of Manteca, Calif., offer a crash course in kitchen-table economics each weekend.... As the classified ads put it, everything must go. Socks. Christmas ornaments. Microwave ovens. Three-year-old Marita Duarte’s tricycle, sold by her mother, Beatriz, to a stranger for $3 even as her daughter was riding it...
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