The former workers of the family-owned firm based in Lynchburg, Va., said the problems were obvious and long-running. “It was pretty filthy around there,” said Jones, 50, who said he worked in the sanitation department for eight months before being laid off. Recalling rainwater leaking into the plant, he said, “It was coming in through [...]

In an effort to prove that the American Dream isn’t dead just yet, Adam sets off with $25 in his pocket and the clothes on his back. His goal: an apartment, a car, and $2500 in the bank one year from the day he sets out. I am going to start – almost literally from [...]

… what sticks with you is the evil glee. That physical sensation keeps you pestering your naughty muse for more, no matter how many countries, careers and kaffeeklatsches you get kicked out of. I call it evil glee, others call it the writerly vocation. – The Evil Glee: An Interview With Tom Bradleyat 3:AM Magazine [...]

Do you ever find yourself stalked by the absence of meaning? Do the days blear together in one familiar circumstance after another, stacking seconds and minutes and hours and years, always with the threat of toppling and always with the sensation you feel as your hand or foot slips on the rung of some slippery [...]

“There’s a sucker born every minute.” – David Hannum The esteemed widow of former Emperor of Malawi did not just send you a “friend” request, nor is she bearing a unique and prosperous offer straight out of Nigeria just for you. – 25 random things about Facebookby Helen A.S. Popkin at MSNBC.com I received my [...]

Women who give birth to six, seven or eight babies are often showered with dazzling gifts from big corporations, local businesses and strangers. But that is not happening with the Southern California mother who delivered octuplets last week. The news that she is a single mother with six other children — and that all 14 [...]

“Chances are, you wouldn’t even notice it was there,” said Howard Melamed, an executive with CellAntenna Corp., a small Coral Springs, Fla., company that produces jamming equipment. If someone in the crowd was on a call, they might have confused the jamming with a dropped signal. “Your phone may go off network,” he said. In [...]

Is it finally safe to say that one mustn’t be a “conspiracy theorist” to suggest that there has, in fact, been a conspiracy to subvert The Constitution? … or will it ever be safe? “But you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must [...]

Not exactly a news flash, but it is always interesting to hear of the exploits of petty bureaucrats – especially when they happen to run the CIA. Jones presents a withering portrait of the CIA as suffering from a timid, self-serving bureaucracy that has stifled initiative and failed to recruit meaningful spies. The CIA has [...]

When US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) scientist Renee Dufault found measurable amounts of the toxic heavy metal, mercury, in nine of 20 samples of high fructose corn syrup, she reported it to her supervisors. Her supervisors weren’t interested but Dr. David Wallinga was. Wallinga, food safety activist and researcher for the Institute for Agriculture [...]