December 2011
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Yo.....signing the NDAA on New Years Eve, Obama?
missgingerlee:
I see what you did there, & I don’t like it. I mean really.
(If I suddenly disappear as of midnight we can probably guess I’ve been detained for saying NDAA is very ‘1984’-ish.)
His signing statement includes this gem:
Moreover, I want to clarify that my Administration will not authorize the indefinite military detention without trial of American citizens. Indeed, I...
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Pro tip:
If I argue with you or challenge something you say, it is at least 90% likely that I am doing so because I think you are an interesting and intelligent human being who holds views that are different from the ones I hold, and I want to know why! I am inviting you to change my mind, a privilege I extend only to intelligent people who I know to have considered a question or problem at least as...
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“Carfagna entered politics in 2004, and became responsible for the women’s...”
– Mara Carfagna - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I’ve come to intensely dislike Silvio Berlusconi.
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Related:
How would one go about proving that there is a God?
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Dogmatic thinking
Whether religious, political, philosophical, or personal, the refusal to question one’s beliefs is what’s wrong with the human race. It’s why I love the scientific method, which not only encourages but requires that those who would claim to know something about the universe question that knowledge, try to disprove it, and generally poke it with sticks.
To truly know something,...
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Conclusion
inmont4uk:
ilovecharts:
Yesterday we posted a chart to which some people took offense. One person took the time to write us directly with her anger about the chart. I took exception to her tone and disagreed with her assertions and regrettably fell into one of the more simple traps of poor communication, writing a response mostly aimed at the form of the message and not the substance. I cooled...
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Licensing Parents →
clapifyoulikeme:
This is why people think libertarians are craaaaazy.
(No, it doesn’t seem to be satire. And the comments certainly aren’t.)
Via Lawyers, Guns and Money.
You just cherry-picked a suggestion noted by its author for being controversial to other libertarians to represent why you think libertarians as a group are crazy. That’s a sweeping generalisation about a group noted...
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clapifyoulikeme:
jwisser:
clapifyoulikeme replied to your post: ronbailey replied to your photo: Matt Bors If this…
Well, I’m hardly vetting him. I would look further than Wikipedia for that. I suppose we have different requirements. And, again, there’s the practicality issue, which you’re sidestepping.
I’m not, though. It will only become practical to elect a third party candidate if we...
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“Formerly vaguely liberal-moderate, more recently moderate-to-neoconservative...”
– The Jargon File » A Portrait of J. Random Hacker: Politics
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clapifyoulikeme replied to your post: ronbailey replied to your photo: Matt Bors If this… Well, I’m hardly vetting him. I would look further than Wikipedia for that. I suppose we have different requirements. And, again, there’s the practicality issue, which you’re sidestepping.
I’m not, though. It will only become practical to elect a third party candidate if we start voting for...
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clapifyoulikeme:
jwisser:
ronbailey replied to your photo: Matt Bors If this does in fact bother you,…
When the libertarians start promising to protect women, children, and minorities against tyranny of the majority, AND start working to dismantle huge corporations that put profits ahead of people, I might quit laughing at them. Till then, no dice.
I suspect you didn’t take the time to look...
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‘Holy’ Sex Toys? - The Daily Beast →
Yaakov, a 25-year-old ultra-Orthodox Jewish salesman from New Jersey who preferred not to use his last name, views the site as a godsend. Shortly into his marriage, he discovered that he suffered from premature ejaculation, and his therapist, who works with many Orthodox couples, prescribed him “marital aids,” and directed him to Kosher Sex Toys. Without getting into detail, Yaakov told The...
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ronbailey replied to your photo: Matt Bors If this does in fact bother you,… When the libertarians start promising to protect women, children, and minorities against tyranny of the majority, AND start working to dismantle huge corporations that put profits ahead of people, I might quit laughing at them. Till then, no dice.
I suspect you didn’t take the time to look up Gary...
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Keywords
The gang of pirate taxi drivers waiting at the bottom of the escalator to accost weary travelers with cries of “Taxi!” and “Car service!” reminds me of nothing so much as the top five results for a poorly-considered Google search.
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Karen Mangiacotti: The Penis Mom →
When I was little I wanted to be a lot of things: Johnny Carson’s replacement; A Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader so good I was the only one on the team; an artist with my own wing at the Boston Museum of Fine Art — you know, normal stuff. I wanted to be a lot of things, but I never — I PROMISE you — ever wanted to grow up to be someone known as “The Penis Mom”.
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Mother Jones » The New Dealers →
Family, kids, minivan—and drug dealing. How the recession has driven average Americans into the game.
You should read this. And then you should debate with me about whether legalising marijuana would actually negatively impact one of the few flourishing facets of our national economy.
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Bachmann loses Iowa campaign chairman to Paul →
Michele Bachmann’s struggling presidential campaign saw her Iowa chairman defect Wednesday to rival Ron Paul’s side, an embarrassing blow that came as some called for her to leave the race to free up her supporters for other candidates.
Hours after appearing with Bachmann at an event, state Sen. Kent Sorenson gave his endorsement to the Texas congressman at a Des Moines rally....
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Palin fans urge Iowa to go 'rogue' →
Fans of conservative darling Sarah Palin urged Iowa voters on Wednesday to go “rogue” in caucuses next week by voting for the former Alaska governor even though she has ruled out a 2012 White House bid.
The radio ad comes as the Republican field remains unsettled six days before the party’s first nominating event on Tuesday to pick a candidate to challenge President...
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BBC - Archive - The Genesis of Doctor Who -... →
Explore the origins of a TV legend with this collection of documents and images. It’s now the number one family favourite, but ‘Doctor Who’ had a difficult birth, emerging from the imagination of some of BBC Drama’s top minds.
Here, we tell the story of the creation of ‘Doctor Who’ from the very beginning, starting with a report on the possibility of...
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“Do what I do: hold tight and pretend it’s a plan.”
– The Doctor, effectively summing himself up in The Doctor, the Widow, and the Wardrobe
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Enter the Dragon | mur.mu.rs →
When I was in elementary school, we were taught that there were no other “solar systems,” no other planets like Earth, that we were alone in the universe. It seems like yesterday the Drake Equation described impossible odds. Then we got better at looking at the sky and suddenly the heavens lit up. It seems pretty obvious now that we’re not alone.
Quite the opposite. With what we now know...
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“Women’s sports are all against the laws of nature.”
– Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympics, in 1912 (as quoted in Sexing the Body by Anne Fausto-Sterling).
This seems somewhat relevant to the research I was doing earlier about the dearth of women in modern professional baseball.
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Toni Stone →
She was signed by Syd Pollack, owner of the Indianapolis Clowns, in 1953 to play second base, the position Hank Aaron played for the team two years earlier. She did this as part of a publicity stunt. The Clowns were compared to the Harlem Globetrotters of the basketball world, so having a woman on the team attracted more fans. During the fifty games that Stone played for the Clowns, she...
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Mamie Johnson →
Mamie “Peanut” Johnson (born September 27, 1935) was one of three women, and the first female pitcher, to play in the Negro Leagues. She was born in Ridgeway, South Carolina in 1935. She was signed by the Indianapolis Clowns in 1953, played with the team from 1953 to 1955, had a 33-8 won-loss record and a batting average of .273.
Worth noting: Hank Aaron also played for the Indianapolis...
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Jackie Mitchell →
Seventeen-year-old Jackie Mitchell, brought in to pitch in the first inning after the starting pitcher had given up a double and a single, faced Babe Ruth. After taking a ball, Ruth swung and missed at the next two pitches. Mitchell’s fourth pitch to Ruth was a called third strike. The crowd roared for her. Babe Ruth was quoted in a Chattanooga newspaper as having said:
I...
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For Christmas, Your Government Will Explain Why...
delgrosso:
Lowering the Bar summarizes: The government dropped a bomb on a U.S. citizen,
who, though a total dick and probably a criminal, may have been engaged only in propaganda,
which, though despicable, is generally protected by the First Amendment;
it did so without a trial or even an indictment (that we know of),
based at least in part on evidence it says it has but won’t show...
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clapifyoulikeme replied to your photo: horrorwine: O hai @jwisser. What up. Nice… Is Firefox a sonic screwdriver? Because the sonic screwdriver doesn’t do wood.
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
(Until tomorrow, when I may try to figure out what the heck is going on.)
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