February 2012
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The ‘biblical view’ that’s younger than the Happy... →
In 1979, McDonald’s introduced the Happy Meal.
Sometime after that, it was decided that the Bible teaches that human life begins at conception.
Ask any American evangelical, today, what the Bible says about abortion and they will insist that this is what it says. (Many don’t actually believe this, but they know it is the only answer that won’t get them in trouble.) They’ll be a little fuzzy on...
MAN I USED TO THINK I WAS CRAZY BUT REALLY THE...
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Obama's War on School Vouchers - WSJ.com →
Obama’s brought too much government into our private lives! He spends too much tax payer money! Except for this! He needs to spend more money on school vouchers, so that public money can go to private institutions! But I hated the bailout, that was terrible!
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'Losing' the world: American decline in... →
Long but interesting read from Noam Chomsky.
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Caller to Dom Giordano proving that millionaires...
Dom: Sir, are you a millionaire?
Caller: Yes.
Dom: What do you do?
Caller: I rent construction equipment.
Dom: And how long have you been doing that?
Caller: Since I was 14.
Dom: Wow, 14! How'd you get started, how'd you start your business renting construction equipment?
Caller: I inherited the business from my father.
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HAN NEVER SHOT FIRST?! DID THIS GUY EVEN WATCH THE...
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Starfish have eight eyes; one at the end of each...
Spent the evening
starting to try to figure out what I want to do with my life. Got an LSAT test prep book and a six pack of Yuengling. I’m halfway through the six pack. Can’t say the same for the test prep book.
January 2012
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WatchReally digging this album. Haven’t played it myself yet, but you can grab Dustforce on Steam.
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“Hi. I’m a Pennsylvania republican. I am starting to take personal offense...”
– My (slightly, but not really) sarcastic interpretation of your average SE PA republican
North Korea makes using a cellphone a war crime... →
Dear Leader may have blessed his subjects with the gift of 3G in 2008, but in his death he is taking it back… at least temporarily. As part of the country’s 100 days of mourning, cellphones have been banned within its borders. If you’re caught pulling out a portable to make a call, send a text or get directions to the nearest statue of the departed dictator you’ll be...
December 2011
4 posts
“Our culture is marketing, this is what we do, and what is marketing? Trying to...”
– Charlie Kaufman, BAFTA Screenwriters Lecture (via sunshinemakesmehigh)
Among The Madmen, Santorum Is The Maddest →
ericmortensen:
In his Senate office, on a shelf next to an autographed baseball, Sen. Rick Santorum keeps a framed photo of his son Gabriel Michael, the fourth of his seven children. Named for two archangels, Gabriel Michael was born prematurely, at 20 weeks, on Oct. 11, 1996, and lived two hours outside the womb.
Upon their son’s death, Rick and Karen Santorum opted not to bring his body to a...
November 2011
5 posts
Breaking News: 18 year old makes his own decisions →
Yes, this is an actual AP story.
“Ninety seconds. That’s how much of the first hour of tonight’s GOP debate was...”
– Ron Paul’s 2012 presidential campaign newsletter.
My recommendation: Ron Paul’s campaign should sponsor its own series of debates! Isn’t that the solution that best makes use of the free market? If there’s a whole bunch of competition and very little regulation, wouldn’t we get the best product?
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Video of pot bust spotlights lapses by police →
The video taken from nearby surveillance cameras contradicted key facts in [Office Steven] Lupo’s report and sworn testimony. Most crucially, Lupo and an unidentified supervisor are seen rummaging through the trunk hours before a warrant was issued. On the witness stand just moments before the video was played, Lupo emphatically denied that had occurred.
After Lupo’s testimony was...
October 2011
5 posts
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little rant on voting
(Side note: this was originally intended to be a response to a comment elsewhere on the internet. I ended up just posting it here because after typing it I realized I’m not in the mood for an internet fight at 11 am on a Saturday morning.)
First, two things: power resides with the rich because the people make it that way, and the youth of the United States always seem to get the short end of...
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Forget Wall Street: Occupy The Voting Booth -... →
And please, stop comparing #OWS to the Arab Spring. The protestors in Tunisia literally would have died, and are dying, to have what we have—a democracy. The next general election is November 8th. No one should have the right to protest that didn’t exercise his or her right to vote.
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Wall Street protests: This is what ineffective... →
Which is not to say that it is working perfectly. There is no doubt that some of what we are hearing out of the Wall Street encampment is correct, and there have been good suggestions as to how to translate these sentiments into action. But perhaps the biggest reason young people feel so alienated by their government is because they have removed themselves from the process of choosing it. ...
September 2011
4 posts
The state of public education in the US
pol102:
Via: OnlineEducation.net
August 2011
6 posts
You know what? Maybe these GOPers do have a point....
The people who are truly wicked in America today are not those who use religion as a tool to further their own ideological and monetary agendas, while crying that they are under constant persecution for their beliefs. No, the wicked are the gays, who want to marry, the sick, who want to live out a healthy life without spending the rest of it in debt, women, who want to have control over their own...
“[There is] no reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying loaded...”
– Ronald Reagan as Governor of California, 1967, supporting gun control legislation aimed largely at preventing the Black Panthers from carrying loaded weapons in public, as California law allowed. (via politicalprof)
HOLY SHIT GUYS →
Damn, too late.
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RE: H.R. 1981
Here’s an email I sent to my rep about H.R. 1981, Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act of 2011. Here’s an article about it on CNET.
If this makes you mad enough to write your own rep, but you find yourself suffering from writer’s block, feel free to steal bits of my own.
I am writing to you to express my concern over H.R. 1981, the Protecting Children From...
July 2011
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June 2011
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May 2011
3 posts
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Congrats to FCC Commissioner Meredith Attwell...
I’m sure it has nothing to do with her being one of the four approving votes on the Comcast/NBC merger four months ago.
FUCK AYN RAND →
fyeahpoliscipanda:
I used to think Ayn Rand was the bomb but I outgrew it. You know, when I turned 12.
We all know that liberalism is for the (naive, inexperienced, foolish) young while conservatism is a natural byproduct of aging, maturing, and gaining experience with the world, right? Conventional wisdom gets it wrong yet again. The surge in popularity of objectivism and libertarianism on...
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April 2011
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NASA's wondrous views of Earth →
Via cnet:
To celebration [sic] Earth Day, NASA released some of its most beautiful and surprising images of our planet.
Watch
Jon Kyl Tweets Not Intended to Be Factual Statements Stephen celebrates Jon Kyl’s groundbreaking excuse-planation by tweeting round-the-clock non-facts about him. (03:43)