U.S. Starved for Change | No Thanks to Thanksgiving | Online Sex Games Transforming Our Culture?

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While Some of Us Are Hoping for Change, Others Are Literally Starving for It By Chris Hedges, Truthdig The swelling numbers waiting outside homeless shelters and food pantries around the country have grown by at least 30 percent since the summer. Read more »   Worried Sick: How Vulnerable Are You Really to Heart Attacks, Strokes and Breast Cancer? By Maggie Mahar, Health Beat Americans are continually bombarded with messages that death and danger are just around the corner. Reality is usually much different. Read more »   No Thanks to Thanksgiving By Robert Jensen, AlterNet Instead, we should atone for the genocide that was incited -- and condoned -- by the very men we idolize as our 'heroic' founding fathers. Read more »   How Sarah Palin Created a Whole New Generation of Vegetarians By Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet Unlike Sarah Palin, most Americans don't want to see the transformations their turkey went through to get to their Thanksgiving dinner table. Read more »   America Out of Work By Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group Unemployment is soaring and it may be March before we feel the first dollar of an Obama recovery plan. Read more »   Virtual Sex: How Online Games Changed Our Culture By Damon Brown, Feral House Games like Second Life let you to live your fantasy as a pimp, prostitute or pirate, knight, dominatrix, or any other self-created design you see fit. Read more »   PEEK and Video: The hottest buzz and videos on the web     Reclaiming Thanksgiving By Nathan Havey, Meet the Bloggers Celebrating local, sustainable food this holiday. Read more »   Shock Jock Michael Savage's Big Gay Apocalypse By Eli, Firedoglake I have this theory that Michael Savage's primary purpose in life is to make Rush Limbaugh look tolerant and sane. Read more »   Obama Addresses Worries That There Isn't Enough 'Change' in His Cabinet Picks By Steve Benen, Washington Monthly "Understand where the vision for change comes from first and foremost: it comes from me." Read more »

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