Straight from the archives, the unvarnished truth about Marilyn Monroe’s famous (and controversial) press conference following the appearance of her nude photos in the first edition of Playboy. The saga began in 1949 after one of her first appearances on the screen—a walk-on role in the last feature film the Marx brothers made, Happy Talk. […]
“It is one of the consequences of aggression that it hardens the conscience as the only means of quieting it.” (James Fenimore Cooper, The Deerslayer) “My greatest fear is that we are all suffering from historical amnesia. [Because of] a system of power that is always deciding in the name of humanity who deserves to […]
Overheard at a 1953 press conference when it was revealed that an up-and-coming actress, who would go on to be one of Hollywood’s biggest stars, had posed nude at age 22: Press: “Why did you do it?” Actress: “I needed the money.” Press: “Is it true you had nothing on?” Actress: “No, I had […]
If you really want to know how bad it is — ~78% of households in America at one time or another during the past year were living paycheck to paycheck. ~62% of Americans have less than $1,000 in their savings accounts and 21% don’t even have a savings account. ~900,000 doctors in the U.S. and […]
(Update on U.S. Health Care: Getting Less for More follow link to read original report) In our last depressing foray into the alarming statistics that underpin the sorry state of health care in America, we discovered that America has the highest child and infant mortality rate of any high-income, industrialized country in the world, that […]
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“North Korea best not make any more threats to the U.S. They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen.” (President Trump, 8/8/2017) “I would get China to make that guy [Kim Jong Un] disappear in one form or another very quickly” (Candidate Trump, 2/20/16) “To be clear, the US […]
“In too many countries, people are deprived of their most basic needs and go to bed hungry every night because of corruption, while the powerful and corrupt enjoy lavish lifestyles with impunity.” – José Ugaz, Transparency International Corruption and inequality—two sides of the same coin. In the U.S. corruption is a force to be reckoned […]
It’s morning in America again and many of us take for granted that in a country purportedly governed by the rule of law, our civil liberties are constitutionally guaranteed and not up for grabs as they are in totalitarian countries. A dangerous and false assumption. Buried deep in U.S. legal history are two Supreme Court […]
“We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another, until we speak quietly so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.” That has President of the United States written all over it. Anyone else daring to utter those lines would at a minimum be branded un-American […]
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