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America’s shrinking groceries

Posted by: ladyrayne on: July 1, 2008

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Are your groceries shrinking? According to this Time Magazine article, America’s Shrinking Groceries, they are. And I noticed it too. Certain items I buy come in smaller sizes now but the prices haven’t gone down. Classic example is Tropicana Orange Juice. I noticed the 96 ounce size has shrunk down to 89 ounces. The container [...]

Black women and R. Kelly

Posted by: ladyrayne on: July 1, 2008

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I read an interesting article in Newsweek recently, Sexism on Trial: Why did so many African-American women support R. Kelly?, about why so many (this is Alison Samuels’s words) black women supported that pedophile R. Kelly. As most folks know by now R. Kelly was found not guilty on 14 counts of child [...]