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The Rise of Male Caregiving

March 3, 2013 By Leann Reynolds 4 Comments

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Formally or informally, more and more men are taking care of those who need to be taken care of.

Filed Under: Health, Psych, & Addiction Tagged With: aging, caregiver, family, gender stereotypes, health, Health Care, nurse, nurses, nurturing

Parables of Reproductive Justice: An Interview with Rev. Matthew Westfox

February 26, 2013 By Justin Cascio 3 Comments

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What do the Bible and Jesus Christ have to say about a woman’s right to choose?

Filed Under: Abortion, Ethics & Values, Featured Content, The Good Life Tagged With: abortion, access to health care, bible, Christian values, christianity, Compassion, contraception, economic justice, epistemology, Faith, Health Care, how to support someone having an abortion, justice, male privilege, medical ethics, Mercy, Parenthood, privilege, pro-choice, pro-life, proof texting, Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, reproductive choice, reproductive decision making, reproductive education, reproductive justice, reproductive rights, Rev Matthew Westfox, scientific method, Scriptural support for reproductive choice, sex education, social justice, theology, United Church of Christ, whether to father, White Privilege, woman's choice, women's rights

Unmarried and Unequal

December 17, 2012 By Cindy Butler 2 Comments

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Why The Alternatives to Marriage Project fights for unmarried equality.

Filed Under: Alternatives to Marriage, Featured Content, The Good Life Tagged With: adoption, Affordable Healthcare Act, alternatives to marriage, Alternatives to Marriage Project, Bella DePaulo, benefits of marriage, birth certificates, child custody, children, civil unions, cohabitation, commitment, common law marriage, custody, discrimination, Divorce, Domestic partnership, employment benefits, Families, federal tax, Health Care, health insurance, hospital visitation, housing discrimination, inheritance, legal rights of unmarried people, marriage, medical directives, Obamacare, polyamory, power of attorney, property, protected class, relationships, same sex marriage, single parents, Singled Out, Social Security, stigma, survivors benefits, unmarried rights, wills

The Dying Game

November 21, 2012 By Carl Pettit 8 Comments

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Can a merciless marketplace be entrusted with caring for people?

Filed Under: Ethics & Values, Featured Content, Root Down, The Good Life Tagged With: ACA, bankruptcy, business ethics, business practices, Community, crisis, debt, Doctors, economics, emergency, emergency response workers, emergency rooms, emergency services, F.A. Hayek, firefighters, firemen, free marketplace, Health Care, health care industry, health insurance, Healthcare, healthcare debate, hospital bills, hospitals, insurance premiums, medical bills, medical care, medicine, offshoring, open market, Outsourcing, physicians, police officers, preventative medicine, private hospitals, private insurance, privileges, rescue workers, responsibilities, rights, single-payer healthcare, socialized medicine, state healthcare, universal healthcare

Consider the Radical Center Before Voting

November 4, 2012 By Tom Matlack 12 Comments

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We should all be Americans before Democrats or Republicans.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Good Is Good Tagged With: Bin Ladin, david brooks, Democrats, Global Warming, Health Care, immigration, Iraq war, New York Times Magazine, Obama, Presidential Election, Republicans, Romney

Why I Purchased My First Hand Gun

September 21, 2012 By Anonymous 8 Comments

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One man from an anti-gun culture comes to embrace firearms and the responsibility and freedom they embody.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Guns, The Good Life Tagged With: aging, American Revolution, arguments for gun ownership, autonomy, children and guns, concealed weapon, conservative, crime, education, Families, Fenway Park, firearms, florida, Freedom, George Zimmerman, government, Gun Culture, gun etiquette, gun ownership, gun ownership advocacy, guns, Health Care, Hobbies, home invasion, liberty, manhood, masculinity, Massachusetts, mortality, natural disasters, personal safety, politics, power, rights of the individual, second amendment, self defense, state law, suburbs, target practice, Trayvon Martin, values

Black Men Who Have Sex With Men At Disproportionate HIV Risk

September 13, 2012 By ozyfrantz 3 Comments

(This article has been ripped off from sourced from this report.) By the time a black gay man is 25, he has a one in four chance of having HIV. By the time he’s forty, he has a 60% chance of being infected with HIV. Black men who have sex with men are the only population [...]

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Beats the Alternative

September 4, 2012 By Carl Pettit 2 Comments

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What makes it so hard to be old?

Filed Under: Men Over 50, Politics, Root Down, The Good Life Tagged With: aging, elderly, fiction, health, Health Care, income, isolation, lifestyle, loneliness, male loneliness, Medicare, money, new york city, old men, regret, senior citizens, U.S. presidential election, voting

What Is Sustainability?

July 30, 2012 By Justin Cascio 4 Comments

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Like art, sustainability resists definition and commodification.

Filed Under: Ethics & Values, Green Politics, The Good Life Tagged With: animal abuse, animal cruelty, apples, commodities, coverage, doing business, ethics, farmer's markets, farming, Food, food allergens, food deserts, Frederick Kaufman, Freedom, GMO, Greed, greenwashing, Happy Meals, Health Care, health news, Hunger, Investment, justice, lobbying, long-term, marketing, McDonald's, mens news, nutrition facts, osha, pesticides, politics, poverty, security, short-term, solutions, starving children, supermarkets, sustainability, The Good Life, trading, transparency, USDA, values, Walgreens, Walmart, Whole Foods, worker abuse, world hunger

Ten Reasons I am Still Proud to be Canadian – Happy Canada Day!

July 1, 2012 By Josh Bowman 4 Comments

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Josh Bowman celebrates Canada Day with some reasons to be proud of this wacky country.

Filed Under: Good Feed Blog, Ten Things I've Learned Tagged With: Canada, Canada Day, happy canada day, Health Care, Luka Rocco Magnotta, magnotta, Obamacare, pride 2012, proud canadian, tenthingsilove

Am I Still Safe?

May 12, 2012 By Robert Levithan 26 Comments

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I never thought I’d say this, in what I used to believe was the greatest country in the world, but I don’t feel safe in America. Will I continue to be stripped of my rights? When will it end? Should I get out now?

Filed Under: Ethics & Values Tagged With: America, civil rights, ethics, gay, gay marriage, gay rights, Health Care, HIV, Jewish, LGBT, politics, President Obama, republican, values

Poll: Should The Supreme Court Uphold Obamacare?

March 28, 2012 By Nicole Johnson 26 Comments

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“Ultimately, the Supreme Court will decide; however, I’m more intrigued by the Court of Public Opinion.”

Filed Under: Good Feed Blog, Polls Tagged With: Health Care, Health Care Law, Health Care Reform, Obamacare, Political News, poll, Supreme Court

Condolences: Author LA Banks Passed Away [@LA_BANKS]

August 2, 2011 By Hannibal Tabu Leave a Comment

A trailblazer for Black women in genre fiction has left the mortal coil.

Filed Under: Escapism, komplicated Tagged With: anedge hirak, author, cancer, crimson moon, died, Health Care, horror, LA banks, paranormal, vampire huntress

Help! My Neighbor Is My Wife’s Ob/Gyn

May 19, 2011 By John Simpson, GoLocalProv.com 8 Comments

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Should you admit to a disastrous affair to save a dear friend from the same Lothario? And does a hatred of Girl Scout cookies make you a grouch? John has your answers.

Filed Under: Advice & Confessions Tagged With: cheating, dear john, Girl Scouts, Health Care, infidelityc, marriage, Neighbors, ob/gyn

How to Work From Home

April 19, 2011 By Morra Aarons-Mele, AlterNet 8 Comments

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When you’ve forgone the traditional nine-to-five, how do you create a semblance of a workday?

Filed Under: Families, Featured Content Tagged With: childcare, family, Health Care, home, home office

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Father and Son Reunited After Oklahoma Tornado (Video)

With at least 51 people dead from the giant tornado that ripped through Oklahoma, the Wheeler family was relieved to know that their son was alive.

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Death Toll in Oklahoma Tornado Reaches 51, Expected to Rise

The tornado was at least a half-mile wide and had winds up to 200 mph.

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Entire Oklahoma Town Flattened by Tornado

After the giant tornado ripped through Moore, Oklahoma, Melissa Newton and city manager Steven Eddy talk about being in the middle of the destruction.

Church of Scotland May Begin Allowing Openly Gay Clergy

The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland has taken the first step toward allowing the ordination of openly gay men and women.

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Cleveland Officers Recount Finding Missing Women (Video)

Amanda Berry, a woman missing for 10 years, and two other women were rescued on May 6 by Cleveland officers; watch their emotional recounting of the rescue.

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What Real Men Talk About

Justin Cascio talks to T Cooper, author of Real Man Adventures, about writing, crying, and being a real man.

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100 Words on Love: I. Love.

Malbec. Robert Mitchum. Blueberries. My wife’s laugh. Phoebe Cates. Diet Ginger Ale. My Bloody Valentine. Madrid. Diane Arbus. Mean Streets. Anne Sexton. The Replacements. Cezanne. Tossing around a football in bare feet … Sean Beaudoin has one hundred words on love.

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How I Quit Chasing the American Dream

D. T. Brown didn’t quit owning things. He quit materialism.

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How to Quit a Bad Habit

Five ways to change your life for good.

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