April 2011
Watchzhanra:
In last night’s show, Jon Stewart ripped GE for paying no federal taxes in 2010 on its $14 billion profit, while canning American employees and hiring overseas; and Obama for punishing the company by…naming GE CEO Jeffery Immelt to chair his Council on Jobs and Competitiveness! (Announcing Immelt’s new side gig, Obama exulted that “GE has something to teach American businesses.”) This is...
Me: Can I use the bathroom? Teacher: I don't know,...
anhiie:
TEACHER:
OTHER STUDENTS IN THE CLASS:
AND I’M JUST LIKE :
March 2011
“(Reuters) - Some day soon, when pro-democracy campaigners have their cellphones...”
– Scythed sent me this, in response to my post about protesters’ phone security techniques - as the editorial below goes on to say, this isn’t by any means a foolproof system. Also, it *would* be a fun enterprise using tools developed in the West to further democratic progress in the Mid-East in...
Tardis
rachaelgray:
I am sitting in my favourite coffee shop with my new computer tablet, sketching ideas on how to make a Tardis bag with an expandable interior (because it’s bigger on the inside, yadda yadda).
I am a genuine nerd.
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Back Up Your Birth Control →
main site for the Back Up Your Birth Control campaign.
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Why The Fuck Should I Use Emergency Contraception? →
Followed and linked. Get a few fucking reasons.
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“Categorically stating that any choice which is palatable to the patriarchy is a...”
– Reply turned post; RadFems suck at patriarchy-smashing « Hikes in Skirts
Hey! Rae! Yeah, those issues about “Isn’t feminism about letting women choose” I had a while back? This states the point well.
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“Having lived on both sides of the fence, I can no longer buy the idea that...”
– My husband is a housewife. | The Fat Nutritionist
Ahem. To Michelle and her husband…
YOU ARE FUCKING AWESOME! Keep doing what works for you.
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PRO-CHOICE OKLAHOMA: A very personal story: Why... →
Someone who’s gone through it with his wife explains the hard choice of aborting two very wanted children.
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“But so here is why I am writing this letter to you, Good Morning America: WHAT...”
– An Open Letter To Good Morning America Concerning The Chris Brown Situation | Videogum
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Respectful Insolence - Animal rights terrorists... →
Listen to these animal rights people. Listen to what they say about their fellow man. Me, I don’t trust them with anyone’s rights.
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TERRIBLEMINDS: Chuck Wendig, Freelance Penmonkey -... →
So good, I had to make a tag for him.
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Feministe - There are no words, really. →
Chally’s right. That Hudson’s Bay would have such things happen in one of their subsidiaries… well, as sad as how CTV handled the headlines on it.
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James Randi Educational Foundation - Churn The... →
How journalists contribute to our fails at understanding how our world works.
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Atheist Ethicist - Newt Gingrich on Atheists in... →
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Paul Tevis - The Universe is Sending Me a Message →
Apply butt to chair.
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“Wow. The GOP prescription for higher employment is actually quite spectacular —...”
– Worse Is Better - NYTimes.com
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“Early last year, after six hard months soldiering in Afghanistan, a group of...”
– The Kill Team | Rolling Stone Politics
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“The problem with memory: It changes based on new information. And the problem...”
– The danger of appealing stories: anecdata, expectations, and skepticism « Culturing Science – biology as relevant to us earthly beings
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TERRIBLEMINDS: Chuck Wendig, Freelance Penmonkey -... →
Yes. More Chuck.
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Friendly Atheist - Ask Richard: Mother Lets Son... →
Teach your children well… and they’ll be able to disagree with you. And, hopefully, others.
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Feministe - The New Old Boys Club →
Same as the old one?
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Skepchick - Ask Surly Amy: Atheism, Death and God... →
Amy notes there’s a time to hold our peace on the godless and proud vibe. Like when someone’s dying.
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James Randi Educational Foundation -... →
The Amazing Randi himself on attempts to sully science education with woo.
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Some Space to Think - Choice, Cities and Dragon... →
Rob Donoghue looks under Dragon Age II’s hood before his second playthrough, and notices something about the nature of his choices.
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Science-Based Medicine - The Image of... →
Chiropractic’s bad image is earned by the eagerness of its practitioners to claim benefits without proof.
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TERRIBLEMINDS: Chuck Wendig, Freelance Penmonkey -... →
FEED! FEED OUR ADDICTION!
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Common Sense Atheism - Wrong About Our Own Desires →
It’s complex, figuring out what you like.
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Friendly Atheist - Putting a Stop to a Public... →
One of my high school math teachers, Christian as they come, spent a good deal of time there trying to get the vice principal to stop reading The Lord’s Prayer every morning. Same principle— you believe, fine. But you can’t take advantage of a captive audience like that and claim you’re being ethical.
“It’s a soulless lack of self-reproach that makes the predominant Perez...”
– How to tweet bile without alienating people. Or making 13-year-old girls cry (via solipsism)
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““A riot,” said Martin Luther King Jr, “is the language of the unheard.” There...”
– New Statesman - What really happened in Trafalgar Square (via m1k3y)
