March 2010
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On Global Warming, Scientists and TV... →
Hmmm, I could go with the guy who has studied weather patterns all of his life, is highly educated in a peer-reviewed system and has dedicated his career to the pursuit and understanding of data OR I could go with the guy who looks kind of good in a suit and wears a toupee to look young on the TV…I gotta go with the TV guy. Sure, 5 years ago he was the entertainment director on a boat tour...
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Quotation Of The Day
“Somewhere underneath all of this there is a root story that has to do with celibacy. The celibate status of its priests is basically the Catholic church’s last market advantage in the Christian religion racket, but human beings are not designed to be celibate and so problems naturally arise among the population of priests forced to live that terrible lifestyle. Just as it refuses to...
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Insurers Might Delay Covering Pre-Existing... →
The Catholic church isn’t the only evil organization doing deplorable things this week…
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Commuting Makes People Miserable - Dan Savage →
It’s true and going from 4 blocks away from my employer to 25 minutes is hard to adjust to, but I suppose it could be worse.
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Health bill restores $250 million in... →
Is it me or do the last 3 paragraphs of this kind of negate the premise of this headline? Maybe that’s just wishful thinking on my part however.
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“As much as a large proportion of the population would like to think so, shorts...”
– - Heather Kenny
People obviously don’t hear this enough: your feet are fucking disgusting.
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SONG OF THE DAY
Sam Cooke
“Sugar...
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“…in the 1950s we let the salesman into the home. We started with the salesman in...”
– Russell Banks (reblogged from azspot)
While we go to our adult babysitter salesmen…
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WatchFILM OF THE DAY
Don’t Touch The Loot
1954
directed by Jacques Becker
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New Music Week
SONG OF THE DAY
Los Campesinos!
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Maple Syrup Is An Excellent Way To Enhance The... →
The counterpoint guy does raise a good caveat about the stickiness though.
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New Music Week
SONG OF THE DAY
Lightspeed...
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I don’t think a lot of my high school...
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Ezra Klein - Transparency and the health-care... →
I guess it helps if you actually read the fucker. But let’s get back to our uninformed opinions about this bill.
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So the NYT won't call torture torture, but they...
“Over most of that period, government policy and market forces have been moving in the same direction, both increasing inequality. The pretax incomes of the wealthy have soared since the late 1970s, while their tax rates have fallen more than rates for the middle class and poor.”
“The health reform bill will reverse that trend. By 2019, 95 percent of people are projected to...
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New Music Week
SONG OF THE DAY
Titus Andronicus...
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Quotation Of The Day
“When Rush Limbaugh said that he wanted President Obama to fail, he was intelligently explaining his own interests. What he omitted to say—but what is equally true—is that he also wants Republicans to fail. If Republicans succeed—if they govern successfully in office and negotiate attractive compromises out of office—Rush’s listeners get less angry. And if they are less angry, they...
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U.S. sends three Guantanamo detainees to Georgia -... →
Look for Georgia to be a radical Islamic enclave by the end of the month. Peaches will all be replaced by baklava and Al Qaida’s operation will move from Pakistan to Michael Stipe’s house.
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Ending the Internet’s Trench Warfare - NYTimes.com →
Anything that could possibly fuck over the internet provider companies is all right with me. Now if only we could figure out a way to include the insurance companies in the fuckery.
What the hell: how about Ticketmaster while we’re at it?
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“The child pornography law was about protecting children from pedophiles. While...”
– Amy Adler: Rethinking Sex Offender Laws for Youths Showing Off Online - NYTimes.com
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New Music Week
SONG OF THE DAY
Yeasayer
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INTERVIEW OF THE DAY
Bob Edwards Weekend
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