March 2012
“It was early spring, 1519. Hernán Cortés and his men had just arrived off the...”
– Sex At Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality Whoops.
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I hope Rick Santorum wins the Republican...
Because he’ll lose horribly in the general election.
I’m pretty sure I’m doing this wrong.
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Two notes on teaching an ExCo:
There are very few things more enjoyable than having a group of students you like and respect best your expectations of them.
One of my measures for a good class period is whether we have to kick the students out of the room after the class is supposed to have ended—especially if the class period in question was a two-hour-long discussion class.
Tonight was a good night.
February 2012
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zincfingers:
man i sure do fucking hate it when people act as if the central tenet of sex positivity is “all sex is inherently good and everyone should be enjoying it and having it all the time yaaaay” goddamn literalists it’s like when people interpret “pro-choice” or “every child a wanted child” as “yaaay, abortions for everyone!” sex positivity is a response to two intertwined aspects of...
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Blunt Amendment Debate Recalls Memories Of Walmart... →
Proponents of Sen. Roy Blunt’s (R-Mo.) amendment to the Senate transportation bill, which would override President Obama’s contraception coverage rule and allow any employer to refuse to cover any kind of health care service for religious or moral reasons, have framed the issue as one of religious freedom that is unrelated to women’s health.
But Senate Democrats have...
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Alaska Lawsuit Claims Obama Can't Be President Due... →
JoeMyGod posts the key lawsuit passage: “As stated above, for an Individual to be a candidate for the office of president of the United States, the candidate must meet the qualifications set forth in the United States Constitution and one of those qualifications is that the Candidate shall be a ‘natural born citizen’ of the United States. As Barack Hussein Obama II is of the ‘mulatto’ race, his...
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One Dad, Two Dads, Brown Dad, Blue Dads -... →
One Dad, Two Dads, Brown Dad, Blue Dads is a children’s book by Johnny Valentine and Melody Sarecky. It is designed for 4-8 year olds, and discusses all kinds of different dads, including having two dads. In the book a different colored dad, a traditional family, and a family with two dads’ children compare dads to find out in the end that they are not that different after all.
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grief-bacon:
so Homestuck became this really big thing among my friends while I was away in Jerusalem, and I never felt interested enough in it to see what all the fuss was about.
Then I got back and one day I was hanging out with them, and the conversation topic changed, and I genuinely worried for a split second that I was having a stroke or something because the conversation had turned into...
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“I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute...”
– “Separation of Church and State” : JFK, Speech, Greater Houston Ministerial Association
This is the speech by JFK that made Santorum want to throw up. I invite you to draw your own conclusions regarding what kind of America he believes in.
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Another House Lands on the Wicked Witch of DRM
thesimplebest:
Via Matt Gemmell, here’s one I missed: the hard-to-find iTunes DRM-removal software Requiem has added support for stripping the DRM from ebooks purchased from the iBooks store.
While Brahms, the developer behind Requiem, seems to have added iBooks-cracking support as early as the end of January, word is just now leaking out into the greater Apple community. This is probably...
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Nebraska Resurrects "Justifiable Homicide"... →
Nick Baumann and Daniel Schulman writing for Mother Jones:
Just when abortion rights supporters thought they had beaten a controversial bill they believe would legalize the killing of abortion providers, it has cropped up again—this time in a more expansive form that has drawn the concern of law enforcement officials.
Last week, South Dakota’s legislature shelved a bill, introduced...
“The heart of science is the solution of mysteries. The heart of faith is their...”
– Sometimes I say things I think are clever.
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“At around midnight on October 25, a guard at the Duluth Sector Direction Center...”
– Key Issues: Nuclear Weapons: Issues: Accidents: 20 Mishaps that Might Have Caused Nuclear War
“BEAR ALMOST STARTS WORLD WAR III” is the best headline I hope never to read.
Also: BEARS
A brief note on the internet:
I just responded to an author whose works I have read and enjoyed with an image of Nathan Fillion and Neil Patrick Harris acting in a Joss Whedon production with text that reads, “The hammer is my penis.”
Sometimes it’s hard to doubt that the end of the world is probably coming soon.
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“Newt Gingrich told CNN’s Shawna Shepherd he would not be going to Mass on...”
– Will they or won’t they wear ashes? – CNN Belief Blog
Ha ha ha. It’s funny because it’s misogynistic crap.
No, wait, it’s just misogynistic crap.
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So, this one time, I was pregnant. And then I...
volatileessence:
Of course, the story’s not that easy or that simple. And, quite possibly, by writing this I may push away people I’ve come to like and care about in this space.
But I’m tired of hiding this thing. Tired of pretending I’m ashamed of this, because I’m not.
I’m also tired of hearing people talk about issues surrounding women’s health who are only concerned with politics, not...
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£200,000 test-tube burger marks milestone in... →
Lurking in a petri dish in a laboratory in the Netherlands is an unlikely contender for the future of food. The yellow-pink sliver the size of a corn plaster is the state-of-the-art in lab-grown meat, and a milestone on the path to the world’s first burger made from stem cells.
Dr Mark Post, head of physiology at Maastricht University, plans to unveil a complete burger – produced at...
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Virginia to require "transvaginal ultrasounds" for... →
buttonsandbeaux:
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jwisser:
Daily Kos:
The Virginia House passed a bill 63-36 requiring that women who wish to have an abortion must submit to a “transvaginal ultrasound.”
The ultrasound legislation would constitute an unprecedented government mandate to insert vaginal ultrasonic probes into women as part of a state-ordered effort to dissuade them from...
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Some action steps regarding Virginia's anti-woman...
Tomorrow, I encourage you to call the offices of Governor Bob McDonnell and Senators Mark Warner and Jim Webb of Virginia. Their numbers are as follows:
Governor Bob McDonnell: (804) 786-2211
Senator Mark Warner: (202) 224-2023
Senator Jim Webb: (202) 224-4024
While none of those three men are personally responsible for the legislation currently before the Virginia assembly, they are...
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Virginia to require "transvaginal ultrasounds" for... →
Daily Kos:
The Virginia House passed a bill 63-36 requiring that women who wish to have an abortion must submit to a “transvaginal ultrasound.”
The ultrasound legislation would constitute an unprecedented government mandate to insert vaginal ultrasonic probes into women as part of a state-ordered effort to dissuade them from terminating pregnancies, legislative opponents...
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“Privilege, put as simply as possible, is the sum total of unearned resources,...”
– This is my working definition for privilege in the piece I’m writing on same. It doesn’t feel quite complete, and I’d appreciate thoughts and comments.
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Anglo-Scotland talks over Antarctica →
Ministers from both Scottish and UK Governments are locked in negotiations relating to who controls legal rights over Antarctica after it emerged that UK rights in the continent were devolved to Scotland by accident.
Salmond’s Government is pleased that the British Antarctic territorial rights are now under Scotland’s control after responsibility for the region was handed to...
