Financial literacy workshop series helps college students master saving and control spending. Published in Wire Tap Magazine. (This story originally appeared on Black College Wire ) When he was 18, John Hope Bryant spent six months homeless. He lived in his car until he could find another place to l...

10 rounds with a heavy bell! 5/5 kettlebell snatches 5/5 kettlebell push presses  5/5 one arm racked kettlebell front squats or split squats  10 pull ups or 5/5 one arm rows  10 knees to chest  We will be taking our kettlebell freak show to  North Jersey! Go here to get...

  Art Is - The smoosh of a rubber stamp on crisp paper; The whirr of the sewing machine piecing a block;  The clatter of beads being threaded on a needle;The snip of a wire cutter attaching a clasp to a bracelet;  The tap of the painter's brush mixing the perfect sunset red; Th...

I want to go to the Knitting Weekend RIGHT NOW! I mean, I am really looking forward to it. I neeeeeeeed it. I am going to hang out and knit with some fabulous people at the end of the month, and it is gonna be fun fun fun :) I am looking forward to laughing and sharing and eating and knitting and sp...

This is part of a series I started in March 2008 - you may want to go back and look at older parts if you're new to this series. If you've been following the commits to the Github repository, you've already seen this go in... Specifically, this was the state as at the end of this...

Cross-posted from Double Consciousness. [Hat tip: xMabaitx and SF Chronicle]...

5 rounds of this! 30 seconds work/15 seconds rest Kettlebell swings Swimmers or Slam Ball  Jumping Jacks, in and outs or Jump rope  Prowler or Shuttle run  Kettlebell high pulls  D-ball thrusters  We'll need about 1:30 rest between each round. We'll have to play...

These sublimely clueless musings from Lisa Schiffern at the Corner illustrate the strange belief system of the GOP's true ideological base, which is made up mostly of the American version of what Orwell called "the lower upper class." Axioms which are key to that system include: (1) The hardest-work...

"Work? Work is my mother working 16 hours a day in a sweatshop, and my father working in a restaurant all day every day," he said. What I have to do - going to campaign events, meeting people and shaking hands, talking issues with journalists, this is fun. — John Liu upon being told by Errol L...

And Digby, too. And this is pretty damned interesting, too. Josh Marshall: It turns out that one of the features of the 2005 Bankruptcy bill was to put derivative counter parties [like CDS holders] at the front of the line ahead of other creditors in bankruptcy proceedings. Actually, from what I can...