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moominmuppetOne of these things really is like the others... -- on halloween costumes and how to avoid looking like an asshole.
1/3 of herbal supplements tested flunk DNA tests, contain NONE of the herb listed on package
Voter guides are cheap and easy and they help win elections. The right-wing uses them better than we do. TheBallot.org project aims to play catch up.
Having food resiliency is as much about learning how to store and use food properly as it is about growing it. The key is learning interdependence not independence. -- We're definitely not doing as well about storing and using the products of our garden this year as we would've liked. Noting this for future reference for improvement.
Police locked down the Tucson congressional office of Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.) on Thursday afternoon after staffers received a package containing a “confirmed” toxic substance, a Grijalva spokesman said.
Maddow Exposes 10 Examples of GOP Race Baiting This Election
Hemp Is the Far Bigger Economic Issue Hiding Behind Legal Marijuana
Islamaphobia Rapidly Spreads Through Europe
The European extreme right is more turbocharged than ever, peddling Islamic hatred from France to Denmark, from Italy to Sweden.
New Feminist Coalition Slams Sexed-Up Images of Girls
Feminists launch a movement to push back at pole-dancing for preteens and hypersexed images of girls -- without being anti-sex.
WikiLeaks' Latest Document Dump Is Largest Intel Leak in US History -- Daniel Ellsberg: I've Waited 40 Years for This
US Considering Treaty on Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Dollar Stores Reap 'Super-Profits' By Exploiting Their Own Workers
Anti-Abortion Extremists Distribute “Wanted” Posters for Abortion Providers
Former Fox News Employee Sues for $5M, Alleging Workplace Racism
Dr. Joycelyn Elders: Marijuana, Masturbation and Medicine
Have We Really Solved the Mystery Behind the Shocking Die-off of Bees?
The New York Times essentially called it 'case closed' on Colony Collapse Disorder, but there is good reason to be wary about their reporting.
Catholics United Stands Up To Susan B. Anthony List, As Anti-Choice NRLC Defends Lies
Ginny Thomas reminds women we should be thanking Anita Hill
Univision Changes its Tune, Will Not Air GOP Ad Telling Latinos Not To Vote
PBS Just as Corporate, White, Male and Republican as Commercial TV
There’s not much public about public television these days.
Should Football Fans Feel Guilty for Enjoying Bone-Crunching Tackles?
Federal Workers Can Get Health Insurance for Pets But Not Same-Sex Partners (I suspect this is similar to our access to pet insurance here, my job doesn't pay anything into the insurance if I want it, but a deal is made available through our insurer, who already offers such policies)
"Kicked, Set on fire, Beaten to Death": Shocking Rise of Violence Against America's Homeless
2009 was the deadliest year for hate crimes committed against homeless people.
In 2008 Duke Aiona, GOP Candidate For HI Governor, Claimed Membership In Group That Burns Native Artifacts
US military accepting gay recruits
Wait, strike that: The struggle over the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT) continues today after a federal appeals court stayed the order ending enforcement of the policy by a California judge last week. Thus, DADT is back in effect just days after the Pentagon announced that it will accept openly gay recruits, reports the New York Times.
Is Atheism a Belief?
One of the most common accusations aimed at atheists is that atheism is an article of faith, a belief just like religion.
The Taming of the Dika: West Africa’s Most Eligible Wild Tree
In Praise of Copying, CC-licensed book from Harvard Uni Press
SPIDER surgical instrument looks like a proto-bush-robot
Secretary Hilary Rodham Clinton tells us that "it gets better"
Workin' on a tax farm
Bisexual ladies that dig men are not enemies of the queer state
Two Bullet Rounds Strike Pentagon Building
'I Love My Hair': A Father's Tribute To His Daughter
A MALAWIAN rights group has called on the country’s president Bingu wa Mutharika to order the release of 80 predominately elderly women from prison who have been jailed for up to six years for practising witchcraft.
Antigay Americans are losing the culture war, so they’re exporting hatred to Uganda, Zimbabwe, and Nigeria — where their fervor is so welcome it threatens to sweep the entire continent.
Italian authorities chopping down trees to prevent prostitution
Astronomers find weird, warm spot on an exoplanet
Yogurt bacteria covered in silver could prevent viral infections -- fascinating, although I worry it'll be incorrectly used to support sham colloidal silver remedies.
Links from Feministing
Beware Fake Health Insurance
Susan Koeppen: “Perfect Storm” for Such Scams Resulting in Alarming, Growing Trend
High School Cheerleader Kicked Off Squad for Refusal to Cheer for Her Rapist
How about some happy? Wild Tigers might have a future afterall
Gov't to Offer Settlement With Indian Farmers
Young Adults Are New Face of Homelessness
Lovely Monarch photo
A mystery solved: How genes are selectively silenced
Two Baby Two-toed Sloths
Disabled passengers should know their rights for flying
Antioch College names a president; will reopen in 2011
Monkeys to provide financial boost to Japan's first biodiesel train line
This is about feminist blogging. You will be bored.
Iran brokers behind-the-scenes deal for pro-Tehran government in Iraq
The Question of Whether Skeptics Should “Accommodate or Confront” Religion is a False Dichotomy
UGANDAN TABLOID OUTS 100 'TOP HOMOS', CALLS FOR THEIR HANGING
Mosque officials want to construct a new building on their site in Selden, but neighbors are putting up a fight. So does this have anything to do with the mosque controversy near Ground Zero?
XKCD on Pseudoscience and Economics
Health care premiums to rise, but 'Obamacare' is only one small reason
Republican Senate nominee Christine O'Donnell of Delaware on Tuesday questioned whether the U.S. Constitution calls for a separation of church and state, appearing to disagree or not know that the First Amendment bars the government from establishing religion.
UN to prevent the sun from being blotted out
In Sumo's Push for the Olympics, a Turn Away From Tradition
It Came from the Sun
The movie Strictly Ballroom has helped Australian scientists reveal how the brain processes colour.
There's lots of amusement in this Metaquotes post, but this particular comic made me giggle quite a bit; I use chopsticks for popcorn whenever possible for exactly the same reason.
Last week the FDA finally exerted its authority and stated that chelation--- in which heavy metals are removed from the body through powerful drugs--- is an untested treatment for autism.
Gene May Play Key Role in Depression
A new mosque under construction in Murfreesboro, Tennessee has faced arson, vandalism, protests, and a zoning regulatory attempt to end the project all together. The final push? Saying the mosque could not be built because Islam wasn't a religion.
Cholera Spreading in Haiti: Death Toll Mounts
Bad-ass woman of the week: Oksana Chusovitina
Rare Giant Jellyfish Caught On Tape For The First Time
Timeless: Warm Cats, Cold City
Fans of a high school football team in Eastlake, Ohio, have been caught on video taunting a rival team with an antigay chant, calling them “powder blue faggots.”
In Kansas, Climate Skeptics Embrace Cleaner Energy
Japan's Dancing Grannies Defy the Aging Routine
European Parliament backs extending maternity leave to paid 20 weeks, 2 weeks for fathers/partners
4 men are convicted in N.Y. synagogue-bombing plot
Stimulus, Earmark Critics Try Back Door For Funds
"This is from an English-language paper in the UAE, and I thought it was interesting to get another perspective on trends in American video games and representations of Muslims."
The usual assortment of Weird and Wonderful from ThrillingWonder
The Feministing Five: Rachel Maddow
China's One-Child Policy Forces Woman to Have Abortion at 8 Months
Early Voting Goes Dem and Armey Screams Fraud (VIDEO)
Rare Piglets Killed Because Of Quota
Immigration Laws in Arizona Leave Children Without Parents
Today's GLBT History Month Icon: First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt -- I've had an adoration for Eleanor Roosevelt since I was a very little child, largely spurred by my Grandmother's tales about her (Grandma grew up in DC, and met Eleanor twice as a small child).
Gallup Poll Worthless Says One Analyst
My Take on “Open Hearts, Open Minds” (a conference between pro-choice and anti-abortion people)
Earlier this week, Marisol Valles Garcia, a young mother and criminology student, was appointed the police chief of Praxedis G. Guerrero, one of Mexico's most dangerous municipalities in the border state of Chihuahua. She was the only person to accept this position in a city where many police officers have been kidnapped or even murdered, according to CNN.
Samantha Warrington, a postgraduate at the University of Sheffield's Biomedical Science department, won the close-up category in the Society of Biology´s photographic competition with this eye-catching image of a 20-hour-old embryo of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster.
Conservative columnist whines about “bullying” of homophobic Christians by gay activists -- Wow, that's just gross.
HUNTSVILLE, AL —A coalition of Baptist clergymen spoke out Monday against the Telia felina, a transgendered sea anemone they are decrying as "base and depraved." -- Don't worry, it's an Onion article. I normally skip linking to them, since they can cause confusion in amidst all the legitimately mind-boggling stuff I post, but in this case, I think it'll entertain my brother jajy1979.
An aboriginal village, including about ten longhouses and a number of other artifacts, has been found along Strasburg Creek in Kitchener.[ontario, canada]
Pumpkin Cat Toys for Point Defiance's Tiger Twins
Skepchick Quickies 10.22
Why Can’t Middle-Aged Women Have Long Hair? -- Unsurprisingly, I'm of the "fuck that noise" perspective on this one.
Finns Dump Evangelical Church Over Antigay Comments
1/3 of herbal supplements tested flunk DNA tests, contain NONE of the herb listed on package
Voter guides are cheap and easy and they help win elections. The right-wing uses them better than we do. TheBallot.org project aims to play catch up.
Having food resiliency is as much about learning how to store and use food properly as it is about growing it. The key is learning interdependence not independence. -- We're definitely not doing as well about storing and using the products of our garden this year as we would've liked. Noting this for future reference for improvement.
Police locked down the Tucson congressional office of Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.) on Thursday afternoon after staffers received a package containing a “confirmed” toxic substance, a Grijalva spokesman said.
Maddow Exposes 10 Examples of GOP Race Baiting This Election
Hemp Is the Far Bigger Economic Issue Hiding Behind Legal Marijuana
Islamaphobia Rapidly Spreads Through Europe
The European extreme right is more turbocharged than ever, peddling Islamic hatred from France to Denmark, from Italy to Sweden.
New Feminist Coalition Slams Sexed-Up Images of Girls
Feminists launch a movement to push back at pole-dancing for preteens and hypersexed images of girls -- without being anti-sex.
WikiLeaks' Latest Document Dump Is Largest Intel Leak in US History -- Daniel Ellsberg: I've Waited 40 Years for This
US Considering Treaty on Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Dollar Stores Reap 'Super-Profits' By Exploiting Their Own Workers
Anti-Abortion Extremists Distribute “Wanted” Posters for Abortion Providers
Former Fox News Employee Sues for $5M, Alleging Workplace Racism
Dr. Joycelyn Elders: Marijuana, Masturbation and Medicine
Have We Really Solved the Mystery Behind the Shocking Die-off of Bees?
The New York Times essentially called it 'case closed' on Colony Collapse Disorder, but there is good reason to be wary about their reporting.
Catholics United Stands Up To Susan B. Anthony List, As Anti-Choice NRLC Defends Lies
Ginny Thomas reminds women we should be thanking Anita Hill
Univision Changes its Tune, Will Not Air GOP Ad Telling Latinos Not To Vote
PBS Just as Corporate, White, Male and Republican as Commercial TV
There’s not much public about public television these days.
Should Football Fans Feel Guilty for Enjoying Bone-Crunching Tackles?
Federal Workers Can Get Health Insurance for Pets But Not Same-Sex Partners (I suspect this is similar to our access to pet insurance here, my job doesn't pay anything into the insurance if I want it, but a deal is made available through our insurer, who already offers such policies)
"Kicked, Set on fire, Beaten to Death": Shocking Rise of Violence Against America's Homeless
2009 was the deadliest year for hate crimes committed against homeless people.
In 2008 Duke Aiona, GOP Candidate For HI Governor, Claimed Membership In Group That Burns Native Artifacts
US military accepting gay recruits
Wait, strike that: The struggle over the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT) continues today after a federal appeals court stayed the order ending enforcement of the policy by a California judge last week. Thus, DADT is back in effect just days after the Pentagon announced that it will accept openly gay recruits, reports the New York Times.
Is Atheism a Belief?
One of the most common accusations aimed at atheists is that atheism is an article of faith, a belief just like religion.
The Taming of the Dika: West Africa’s Most Eligible Wild Tree
In Praise of Copying, CC-licensed book from Harvard Uni Press
SPIDER surgical instrument looks like a proto-bush-robot
Secretary Hilary Rodham Clinton tells us that "it gets better"
Workin' on a tax farm
Bisexual ladies that dig men are not enemies of the queer state
Two Bullet Rounds Strike Pentagon Building
'I Love My Hair': A Father's Tribute To His Daughter
A MALAWIAN rights group has called on the country’s president Bingu wa Mutharika to order the release of 80 predominately elderly women from prison who have been jailed for up to six years for practising witchcraft.
Antigay Americans are losing the culture war, so they’re exporting hatred to Uganda, Zimbabwe, and Nigeria — where their fervor is so welcome it threatens to sweep the entire continent.
Italian authorities chopping down trees to prevent prostitution
Astronomers find weird, warm spot on an exoplanet
Yogurt bacteria covered in silver could prevent viral infections -- fascinating, although I worry it'll be incorrectly used to support sham colloidal silver remedies.
Links from Feministing
Beware Fake Health Insurance
Susan Koeppen: “Perfect Storm” for Such Scams Resulting in Alarming, Growing Trend
High School Cheerleader Kicked Off Squad for Refusal to Cheer for Her Rapist
How about some happy? Wild Tigers might have a future afterall
Gov't to Offer Settlement With Indian Farmers
Young Adults Are New Face of Homelessness
Lovely Monarch photo
A mystery solved: How genes are selectively silenced
Two Baby Two-toed Sloths
Disabled passengers should know their rights for flying
Antioch College names a president; will reopen in 2011
Monkeys to provide financial boost to Japan's first biodiesel train line
This is about feminist blogging. You will be bored.
Iran brokers behind-the-scenes deal for pro-Tehran government in Iraq
The Question of Whether Skeptics Should “Accommodate or Confront” Religion is a False Dichotomy
UGANDAN TABLOID OUTS 100 'TOP HOMOS', CALLS FOR THEIR HANGING
Mosque officials want to construct a new building on their site in Selden, but neighbors are putting up a fight. So does this have anything to do with the mosque controversy near Ground Zero?
XKCD on Pseudoscience and Economics
Health care premiums to rise, but 'Obamacare' is only one small reason
Republican Senate nominee Christine O'Donnell of Delaware on Tuesday questioned whether the U.S. Constitution calls for a separation of church and state, appearing to disagree or not know that the First Amendment bars the government from establishing religion.
UN to prevent the sun from being blotted out
In Sumo's Push for the Olympics, a Turn Away From Tradition
It Came from the Sun
The movie Strictly Ballroom has helped Australian scientists reveal how the brain processes colour.
There's lots of amusement in this Metaquotes post, but this particular comic made me giggle quite a bit; I use chopsticks for popcorn whenever possible for exactly the same reason.
Last week the FDA finally exerted its authority and stated that chelation--- in which heavy metals are removed from the body through powerful drugs--- is an untested treatment for autism.
Gene May Play Key Role in Depression
A new mosque under construction in Murfreesboro, Tennessee has faced arson, vandalism, protests, and a zoning regulatory attempt to end the project all together. The final push? Saying the mosque could not be built because Islam wasn't a religion.
Cholera Spreading in Haiti: Death Toll Mounts
Bad-ass woman of the week: Oksana Chusovitina
Rare Giant Jellyfish Caught On Tape For The First Time
Timeless: Warm Cats, Cold City
Fans of a high school football team in Eastlake, Ohio, have been caught on video taunting a rival team with an antigay chant, calling them “powder blue faggots.”
In Kansas, Climate Skeptics Embrace Cleaner Energy
Japan's Dancing Grannies Defy the Aging Routine
European Parliament backs extending maternity leave to paid 20 weeks, 2 weeks for fathers/partners
4 men are convicted in N.Y. synagogue-bombing plot
Stimulus, Earmark Critics Try Back Door For Funds
"This is from an English-language paper in the UAE, and I thought it was interesting to get another perspective on trends in American video games and representations of Muslims."
The usual assortment of Weird and Wonderful from ThrillingWonder
The Feministing Five: Rachel Maddow
China's One-Child Policy Forces Woman to Have Abortion at 8 Months
Early Voting Goes Dem and Armey Screams Fraud (VIDEO)
Rare Piglets Killed Because Of Quota
Immigration Laws in Arizona Leave Children Without Parents
Today's GLBT History Month Icon: First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt -- I've had an adoration for Eleanor Roosevelt since I was a very little child, largely spurred by my Grandmother's tales about her (Grandma grew up in DC, and met Eleanor twice as a small child).
Gallup Poll Worthless Says One Analyst
My Take on “Open Hearts, Open Minds” (a conference between pro-choice and anti-abortion people)
Earlier this week, Marisol Valles Garcia, a young mother and criminology student, was appointed the police chief of Praxedis G. Guerrero, one of Mexico's most dangerous municipalities in the border state of Chihuahua. She was the only person to accept this position in a city where many police officers have been kidnapped or even murdered, according to CNN.
Samantha Warrington, a postgraduate at the University of Sheffield's Biomedical Science department, won the close-up category in the Society of Biology´s photographic competition with this eye-catching image of a 20-hour-old embryo of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster.
Conservative columnist whines about “bullying” of homophobic Christians by gay activists -- Wow, that's just gross.
HUNTSVILLE, AL —A coalition of Baptist clergymen spoke out Monday against the Telia felina, a transgendered sea anemone they are decrying as "base and depraved." -- Don't worry, it's an Onion article. I normally skip linking to them, since they can cause confusion in amidst all the legitimately mind-boggling stuff I post, but in this case, I think it'll entertain my brother jajy1979.
An aboriginal village, including about ten longhouses and a number of other artifacts, has been found along Strasburg Creek in Kitchener.[ontario, canada]
Pumpkin Cat Toys for Point Defiance's Tiger Twins
Skepchick Quickies 10.22
Why Can’t Middle-Aged Women Have Long Hair? -- Unsurprisingly, I'm of the "fuck that noise" perspective on this one.
Finns Dump Evangelical Church Over Antigay Comments
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Date: 2010-10-25 01:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-25 06:10 am (UTC)Drives my wife nuts that she's a "supporter" of the GLBT community just because she opted to enter into a monogamous relationship with me. Of course several of her complaints have been that they regularly ignore the "B", particularly those who aren't overtly so.
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Date: 2010-10-24 04:13 am (UTC)Once again idiot luddites are afraid of people actually trying to tinker with the planet in potentially useful ways *sigh*
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Date: 2010-10-24 08:29 am (UTC)The exemption of workers from overtime is part of the reason a lot of retail workers are screwed royally in terms of pay and compensation. While less "empathetic" it is also a problem for low and middle level white collar workers. The average accountant will spend 50 to 80 hours a week working, and is salaried. While the salary is far better than many fields, it is certainly not fair compensation for the work, just as it is by no means fair compensation for many of the retail "managers". It's an across the board problem for just about every industry, and if we ever want to get to the point of having reasonable "free time" again, i.e. not working ourselves to death, then we're going to have to lay down the law at some point and deny businesses (particularly corporations) the ability to drive down pay and up profits while exploiting the bottom rungs of their workers.
PBS/NPR/APT are all a wreck. Sadly I still prefer them to regular television. "Ask this old house" and "NOVA".
I can't even begin to tell you what I know is wrong with the tax industry, ranging from the private collection of taxes by corporations, to the selling to tax debt to collection agencies or investment banks. It's a disaster.
Ugh, more times where being an athlete = right to abuse others with little or no consequence.
*grumbles about people not getting a clue about how to analyze increases in costs and premiums* The healthcare is a short term increase, long term decrease, and the companies are using it as an excuse to maximize the rate increases to maximize profits for the short term before they have to change policy standards. Remember the point of a corp, which most are, is to make the largest profit possible.
There have been a lot of complaints about the methodology of "generic ballot" polling, and significant issues with misrepresentation because of voter refusal to participate (robo calls), voters being inaccessible (land line free households), and poorly worded polling. Gallup is not immune/exempt from these complaints. This results in some very odd polls, and a general shift in the poll of up to about 3% towards the democrats above what is actually being polled.
Wah Wah, my right to be a bigoted asshole is being infringed upon. It's not fair that I can't judge people, bully them, assault them, or otherwise deny them fair and free enjoyment of their lives and choices that are protected by the constitution and even are granted by my own faith as a part of free will. Wah Wah. Fucking assholes.
Why the hell did the Onion choose Huntsville and not some places along the coast? (I'd have picked Gainesville Florida personally.)
As to long hair, I prefer it on women of all ages. This whole you have to be X age to wear something drives me fucking insane. I hate the fashion industry and the media culture that sops it up without ever considering what it's attempting to feed the rest of us. Crap mostly.
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Date: 2010-10-25 01:02 am (UTC)I'm not sure on that one, but it's part of what caught my eye.