Featured
Government
Sugar Editorial Picks
YouTube Video of Fort Bragg Gets Results
We've been focused on the ills of YouTube lately, but here's one story where the website was used for good instead of evil. Army dad Edward Frawley paid a welcome home visit on his 22-year-old son — just returning from a tour of duty with the 82nd Airborne Division in the mountains of Afghanistan — and he was shocked to see the deplorable conditions of his son's barracks at Fort Bragg, NC.
In our high-tech age when we want to send a grievance we don't have to wait for a carrier pigeon — and Frawley didn't.
Should the Government Tell People to Lose Weight?
Big Mac attacks in Tokyo have caused expanding Japanese waistlines to spur the government into action. Statistics collected by Japan's government found on average, Japanese men are 10 percent heavier than they were only 10 years ago, and the women are catching up. The solution?
Other Search Results
Two Tales of "Good Enough For Government Work"
Well, the US government might be taking that old chestnut a tad too literally today. Check out these two blunders of bureaucratic proportions.
Over at the Department of Homeland Security, the top immigration enforcement official ordered the destruction of photographs of an office Halloween party.
East vs. West: Berlin Wall Divided Two Attitudes Toward Nudity
When the Berlin Wall fell 20 years ago last week, East and West Germany had to integrate two very different cultures. Freedom may have spread quickly through the East, but nudity — the East's favorite and perhaps only freedom — never caught on in the West.
Freikörperkultur (FKK), or liberal body culture, was really the only way to rebel in the East, where the most quotidian details of people's lives were observed by the Stasi, East Germany's secret police.
Private Security Contractors Gone Wild in Afghanistan
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton got a letter on Tuesday from Project on Government Oversight (POGO), and I’m sure she didn’t like what she saw. It was reported that private security contractors ArmorGroup North America guarding the US Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, have been behaving not like professionals responsible for keeping American government workers safe, but like crazed frat boys on a particularly debaucherous Spring break.
What have they been up to?
Speed Read! Family and Friends of Iran's Neda Speak Out
- Family and friends of Neda Agha Soltan, the young woman brutally killed in Iran while protesting, are speaking out about persecution suffered under the Iranian government and Neda's commitment to protesting. — Jezebel
- Hillary Clinton is in Afghanistan for President Hamid Karzai's Thursday inauguration.— New York Times
- Sports fans appreciate a win more if their team almost loses. — Lemondrop
- Australian authorities are investigating whether Scientology is guilty of imprisonment, forced abortion, physical violence, and blackmail.
Palin: AP Did "Opposition Research" on Going Rogue
Sarah Palin blasted the Associated Press yesterday for doing "opposition research," more commonly known as fact-checking, on her new book Going Rogue.
"Amazingly, but not surprisingly, the AP somehow nabbed a copy of the book before it was released," she said. "They're now erroneously reporting on the book's contents and are repeating many of the same things they spewed during the campaign and afterwards."
More Than 200 Million People Are Hungry in India
There's no sugar coating this: India has more people suffering from hunger than any other country in the world. More than 200 million don't get enough to eat, and according to the 2008 Global Hunger Index just released, not one of India's 17 states rank in the low- or moderate-hunger categories — and 12 states have rank "alarming." India is 66th out of 88 countries surveyed (a stat in itself that makes you think of those 22 other countries that are worse.)
Kids bear a lot of the brunt of the hunger crisis — numbers released two years ago showed that even then, more than half of the children in India were malnourished.
Front Page: Mormons Help Bring Gay Rights to Salt Lake City
- After the Mormon Church backed Salt Lake City ordinances that would bar housing and employment discrimination against gays, the laws passed unanimously last night. — AP
- The American Medical Association is urging the federal government to loosen the classification of marijuana so the drug can be used for clinical research. — LA Times
- Some victims said they still didn't feel closure after watching DC sniper John Allen Muhammad die last night of lethal injection.
Has Technology Ruined Romance For Us?
Conservative columnist David Brooks wrote an essay in the New York Times yesterday about how technology is ruining love and sex for the youngins.
Although Brooks reaches this conclusion based on the testimony of some horndogs who agreed to be "online sex diarists" for New York magazine (he admits it's a pretty unrepresentative demographic), Brooks nevertheless believes their stories tell us something fundamental about love in the age of technology: it's allowed people to treat potential sex partners (and it's significantly limited to this) as if they were products on eBay.
Once upon a time — in what we might think of as the "Happy Days era" — courtship was governed by a set of guardrails.
More on TresSugar
Fall Award Season
Top Brands
Miss Sixty
Jil Sander
Rag and Bone