March 2011
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ABC's Crass viewers with No Long Term Memory →
This just riles the cinema snob in me. As if it would have Citizen Kane or Metropolis, let alone Casablanca, either of the first two Godfathers or Taxi Driver. You’ll see George Lucas terrible writing being honored, though.
pish
posh
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Anti-Labor Ballot Measure to Begin Gathering... →
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Wisconsin: From Outrage to Action - Contact Your... →
Mad About Wisconsin? Tell Your State Lawmakers: Not in My State!
Mad that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s rubber-stamp Republican senators rammed through a bill in the dead of night that strips workers of their collective bargaining rights?
Tell your state lawmakers that attacking workers’ collective bargaining rights is political suicide: it will not be tolerated.
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Let's all Have Some Intellectual Honesty about... →
Like I said here, the people of Libya who are dying have lost loved ones deserve it.
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“So let’s review: No clear national or even humanitarian interest for...”
– Downsides of going in to Libya: Just a Bad, Bad Idea | Talking Points Memo
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A Thumbs Down on Pandora
I like Pandora. I have a channel on Pandora named for the BeeGee’s song Nights On Broadway (give me your e-mail and I’ll share it with you). I was in the shower when Electric Light Orchestra started playing in the stream. Other than using the same 20 step note scale, both songs were written in the English language and approximate time of release, Sweet Talking Woman has nothing in...
Live from Quantico: Protest for Bradley Manning →
At 2pm EDT we’ll begin broadcasting live from Quantico Marine Base in Virginia, where a protest for accused WikiLeaks whistleblower Bradley Manning will take place with veterans and supporters,…
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Back to Econ 2: This is Oligopoly in the Cell...
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BREAKING NEWS — BNO News: AT&T To Acquire T-Mobile USA for $39 billion This is surprising because there was recent speculation that Sprint and T-Mobile would merge. (via soupsoup, with link from NYT)
Think that the Dept. of Justice will initiate an anti-trust action against any of this?
Quantico Marine Base Issues “Threat Advisory” for... →
The director of operations at Quantico Marine Base issued a “threat advisory” last weekend in advance of tomorrow’s rally in support of accused Wikileaks whistleblower Bradley Manning.
Hundreds of…
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WatchEveryone loves train wrecks, I just would have liked to have seen all six minutes of this catastrophe.
Wouldn’t you, too?
(via The Situation | Comedy Central Insider | Funny, TV and Comedy Blog)
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One Year Later, Health Care Reform Actually... →
Despite predictions by some prominent Democrats that the popularity of health care reform would soar after passage, one year after it was signed by President Obama, support for the law has actually dropped slightly. According to the latest Kaiser Family Foundation poll, 42 percent of Americans hold a favorable view of the law while 46 percent view it unfavorably. This is a slightly drop from April...
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To Stop Abortions, No Freedom Too Great to... →
For the Republican Party, there seems to be no limit to the amount of beloved personal freedoms they are willing to shred to simply make abortions more inconvenient. The latest example is the GOP’s push to actually increase the power and scope of the IRS.
What we have and haven’t learned from... →
key phrases in the definition of right wing dumbth: agnotology, closed epistemic loop, shibboleth
http://goo.gl/gk2L7
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“John Joe Thomas, 28, of Sunshine Road in Upper Darby, spent almost every day...”
– Man Stoned to Death for Homosexuality: Cops NBC Philadelphia
What I would want to know is this:
Had Thomas been regularly attending church or participating in any religious program before the alleged murder?
If so, which congregation was it and who was the pastor?
What sort of instruction was... 