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moominmuppetWASHINGTON — House Republicans on Tuesday soundly rejected a bill approved by the Senate that would have extended the payroll tax cut for most Americans beyond the end of the year and allowed millions of unemployed people to continue receiving jobless benefits.
But the Senate has left town for the year, and Democrats say they do not intend to call it back, putting continuation of the tax cut in jeopardy and leaving a shadow over many unemployed Americans as the holidays near. -- Yeah, merry christmas, motherfuckers.
This Xmas send a message to inmates that have been victims of sexual assault. -- FYI, prison rape jokes? Not a bit funnier than any other type. Don't make them in my presence.
Alternate Science Mnemonics (it's an XKCD comic, but also phenomenally useful if any of you, or kids you know, are needing some memorization help)
The Weirdest Thing About the North Korea Succession
Scores Dead In Syria; Thousands Of Women Protest In Egypt
Woody Guthrie's New Year's Resolutions 1942
Occupy Cleveland: Experienced Criminal Defense Atty. Volunteering Services
Broken Kingdom
Fifty years of “The Phantom Tollbooth.” -- Oh, wow. I didn't know Juster is a synesthete, nor did I realize that the marvelous "The Dot and the Line" was his work.
You Can’t Fire Cops for Supporting Drug Legalization
World's First Cell Race
Who Owns the Rights to Our Germs?
Steampunk Professor X Wheelchair
Decorate Your Tree With Lady Scientists
World's First Full-Time Gay Male Leader: Belgium's Elio Di Rupo
LIBRETTO: The Bacterial Opera
Real life dragon discovered (well, neat lizard, at least!)
Baby Skunks for Boston's Museum of Science!
What would non-carbon-based life really be like?
We can encrypt secret messages in opal
Sugru and Lego: turn anything into a mount for anything else
Tropical fish can adjust to warming oceans, which could bode well for the future
Mothers and babies can instantly synchronize their hearts just by smiling at each other
Melissa McCarthy Deserves Better
In 1963, science fiction writer Bruce McAllister was 16, taking high school English courses where he was told about a mysterious thing called "symbolism" in literature. Trying to get a grip on what his teacher was talking about, the enterprising McAllister wrote to 150 of the most famous writers of the day asking them about symbolism in their work. Surprisingly, nearly half of them answered, including Ayn Rand, Ralph Ellison, Isaac Asimov, John Updike, and Ray Bradbury.
Now McAllister has dug up their replies, scanned them, and put them online.
New clues about what caused the collapse of Mayan civilization
‘Inhuman Microphone’ App Circumvents Occupy Wall Street’s Megaphone Ban
The race is on to save the Ozark Hellbender, the world’s most awesomely-named animal
First Trailer for Joss Whedon’s The Cabin in The Woods
Atheist scientists often expose their children to religious views for "scientific reasons"
Alan Moore on Frank Miller's unhinged Occupy rant
Related: V for Vendetta’s Alan Moore, David Lloyd Join Occupy Comics
Outrage – Church tells HIV+ patients to stop taking meds, claiming they were ‘healed’
The secret to fighting Alzheimer’s Disease is…red food coloring?
Fresh radioactive runoff at Japan plant
Rainbow Fringe
Astoundingly Lifelike Horse Puppet
Warehouse 13’s Joanne Kelly: "I would love" to see H.G. Wells and Myka get together
NHS caesarean guidelines aim to push down demand for procedure
Guidance from Nice says while no woman should be refused a caesarean, proper information will drive surgery rate down
Poll taxes make amazing comeback
Michigan's Radical Assault on Public Education
Sarisarinama
This lovely Giant Pacific Octopus was just brought to the Smithsonian National Zoo after the previous octopus resident, Octavius, passed away.
Plasma Can Kill Off Viruses (the plasma lamp sort, not the blood sort)
Freedom Now Requires 72-Hour Notice And A Non-Refundable Deposit
In Soweto, they've found a new use for an old coal plant: public art, and bungee jumping.
On Netflix: Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Future of Gay Soccer Player's Career Uncertain
World's largest model railroad (vid)
The rubbish sperm of the naked mole rat
My experience with German Measles (Rubella, the R in the MMR vaccine)
HUD Addresses Concerns of Aging LGBT Community
Feds Investigating Alleged LGBT Abuse at Penn. Prison
Music for One Apartment and Six Drummers: “Playing” Your Abode
Reuters Best Photos Of 2011 (#31 is ridiculously adorable: Obama under a pile of kids)
Zoe d’Hauthuille Interview After Her Assault by SFPD 1 Dec 2011
African Sulcata Tortoise Hatchlings Pose For Family Portrait
The Chromatic Typewriter
Our cells lock up Shigella bacteria in cages to stop it from killing us
Moving to the city could split birds into separate species
Nature, as Created by an Artist in His Fish Tank
Older but cool Occupy news:
Occupy Our Homes: Minneapolis Occupiers Helping a Veteran
Democracy blinks in Michigan
Government Neglect of First Nation Welfare
Marketing by Masculinizing the Feminine
Conflating Fat with Unhealthy
Stretch Marks are Beautiful… Like Exotic Foreign Ladies?
The infantile style in American politics
A team of scientists at a California non-profit organization just announced a pilot study to determine if Ecstasy might help fight the effects of autism.
On “Camping” and the Framing of Occupy Movement Strategies
Gendering and Racializing Occupations
A new report that pulls together the body of evidence from evaluations of state programs that have expanded Medicaid eligibility for family planning finds that the benefits they provide are broad and far-reaching. According to "Medicaid Family Planning Expansions: Lessons Learned and Implications for the Future," by Adam Sonfield and Rachel Benson Gold of the Guttmacher Institute, these programs have proven both effective and cost-effective, while simultaneously pioneering innovations in outreach and enrollment that hold important lessons for the implementation of health care reform.
GL vs BT: Why We Aren't A Real LGBT Movement Yet
The Purity Myth
Thank You, Anarchists
One teacher's approach to preventing gender bullying in a classroom
Report: Plan B Unavailable a Third of the Time
Amazing Cloud Formation of the Day: These wave-like cloud formations, spotted in Birmingham, Alabama by Redditor alison_bee, were caused by a phenomenon called Kelvin-Helmholtz instability.
Could a planet have only one pole?
People who don't care—or don't need to care—what others think of them show how crucial reputation is to civilization. Understanding it could reduce crime, improve ethical behavior and rein in Wall Street excesses
Patry's How to Fix Copyright: deftly argued, incandescent book on the evidence-free state of copyright law
Fat black women feel too good about themselves
The “Promoting Obesity” Myth
The Diagnosis: Xeni Jardin on her breast cancer diagnosis
5 Ways to Help Boys and Girls Understand Sexism in Movies
Michelle Duggar: Her Choice to Share Her Baby's Photos Deserves Our Respect -- Yes.
Inmate on life support wouldn’t be the first to die on Arpaio’s watch
*Trigger warning for descriptions and images related to extreme prisoner abuse*
Home Depot tells anti-gay hate group AFA what they can do with their petition
Interfaith Clergy To Present 200,000 Signatures At Lowe’s Headquarters Today Demanding An Apology For Pulling Ads
Looking into the past for a deeper understanding of autism
Why the Russian revolution is being televised at last
Sharks shift shape of tail while swimming to go FASTER
Peeing Colors in Kiev
Svartifoss
Steve Pinker's hair and the muscles of worms
Kinsey And The 10 Percent Homosexuality Myth
A sledgehammery episode, as they do an IRA analogue, Crusher gets kidnapped, Wes gets antsy, Riker meets a beautiful woman and doesn't flirt with her, Worf gets shot, and Picard throws a mean right hook, as the TNG Rewatch takes "The High Ground."
Minnesota town raises funds to feed migrating swans
Some sobering stats on how feminism’s gains have only helped women with higher levels of education.
A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The true story of a nice Jewish boy who joins the Church of Scientology and leaves twelve years later to become the lovely lady she is today -- Can't wait to read this; Kate Bornstein is a favorite of mine.
No Forced Kisses for Your Kids: A Holiday Safety Tip for Families (on supporting children in establishing their own boundaries)
Mysterious "white web" found growing on nuclear waste
Eons ago, two single-celled organisms, a bacterium and an archaeon, combined to form the first complex cell. This symbiosis gave birth to all multi-cellular organisms, but new evidence suggests this wasn't about cooperation. That bacterium was actually a parasite.
Occupy Atlanta Saves Woman’s Home From Foreclosure
List of Active Occupy Encampments Across the Country – Now at 61
Freedom Riders return to Alabama
Why I’m Not Married
Marine Lance Cpl. Aaron Leeks Date to the Ball: Michelle Obama -- Totally adorable.
The "Random Tattoo"
Pro bono lawyers rescue scienceblogger from naturopath's SLAPP legal threats
Top Science Scandals of 2011
A list of this year’s most high-profile retractions and controversies in science
According to astronomers, "super Earths" should not exist
Geologists Find Source of Stonehenge’s Inner Stones
Viewers at the Sundance Film Festival will get a glimpse of Kenyon when Josh Radnor '96 debuts his movie Liberal Arts next month.
The University of Nebraska won't allow a student suffering from anxiety and depression to keep her therapy dog in student housing.
Why one shouldn't mix up Private Death etiquette and Public Death etiquette...
#OccupyDenver helps bring homelessness to the forefront
Freshwater habitat dwellers can be detected and quantified based on DNA obtained directly from small water samples
Dogs are necessary when man is sufficient -- I find the self-selection/niche environment theory to be by far the most persuasive, these days.
A Tale of Two Waffles
Mammography screening reduced risk for death from breast cancer by half
So You Want to Buy an Election?
More Evidence Found for Quantum Physics in Photosynthesis
Watching two Japanese swimming crabs have sex is insanely dramatic
Kim Jong-il is dead. Here’s his monster movie.
Weekend Links: Facebook Hobo Codes
Yet another awesome Octopus pic
NASA has discovered the tiniest, most pathetic black hole in the universe
Please, don’t drink this [critically endangered] frog smoothie for your erection problems
How SOPA Will Break DNS
CC-licensed, Dickens-based, Pastifarian Christmas Carol kids' special
A Hipster By Any Other Name
Feds Link Water Contamination to Fracking for the First Time
Occupy Boston Court Decision: Occupation is Not Speech
The Demise of the Komodo Kings
White Privilege: “Flesh-Colored”
New anthology of genderqueer stories includes a story called "Schrodinger’s Pussy." -- WANT!
The Reality of HIV Criminalization
Olivia Thirlby on Being Bisexual and Participating in the Self Evident Truths Project for Brooklyn Magazine
The Human Rights Campaign released its newly updated Corporate Equality Index today. Here's the complete list of companies that scored 100% for being LGBT-friendly.
But the Senate has left town for the year, and Democrats say they do not intend to call it back, putting continuation of the tax cut in jeopardy and leaving a shadow over many unemployed Americans as the holidays near. -- Yeah, merry christmas, motherfuckers.
This Xmas send a message to inmates that have been victims of sexual assault. -- FYI, prison rape jokes? Not a bit funnier than any other type. Don't make them in my presence.
Alternate Science Mnemonics (it's an XKCD comic, but also phenomenally useful if any of you, or kids you know, are needing some memorization help)
The Weirdest Thing About the North Korea Succession
Scores Dead In Syria; Thousands Of Women Protest In Egypt
Woody Guthrie's New Year's Resolutions 1942
Occupy Cleveland: Experienced Criminal Defense Atty. Volunteering Services
Broken Kingdom
Fifty years of “The Phantom Tollbooth.” -- Oh, wow. I didn't know Juster is a synesthete, nor did I realize that the marvelous "The Dot and the Line" was his work.
You Can’t Fire Cops for Supporting Drug Legalization
World's First Cell Race
Who Owns the Rights to Our Germs?
Steampunk Professor X Wheelchair
Decorate Your Tree With Lady Scientists
World's First Full-Time Gay Male Leader: Belgium's Elio Di Rupo
LIBRETTO: The Bacterial Opera
Real life dragon discovered (well, neat lizard, at least!)
Baby Skunks for Boston's Museum of Science!
What would non-carbon-based life really be like?
We can encrypt secret messages in opal
Sugru and Lego: turn anything into a mount for anything else
Tropical fish can adjust to warming oceans, which could bode well for the future
Mothers and babies can instantly synchronize their hearts just by smiling at each other
Melissa McCarthy Deserves Better
In 1963, science fiction writer Bruce McAllister was 16, taking high school English courses where he was told about a mysterious thing called "symbolism" in literature. Trying to get a grip on what his teacher was talking about, the enterprising McAllister wrote to 150 of the most famous writers of the day asking them about symbolism in their work. Surprisingly, nearly half of them answered, including Ayn Rand, Ralph Ellison, Isaac Asimov, John Updike, and Ray Bradbury.
Now McAllister has dug up their replies, scanned them, and put them online.
New clues about what caused the collapse of Mayan civilization
‘Inhuman Microphone’ App Circumvents Occupy Wall Street’s Megaphone Ban
The race is on to save the Ozark Hellbender, the world’s most awesomely-named animal
First Trailer for Joss Whedon’s The Cabin in The Woods
Atheist scientists often expose their children to religious views for "scientific reasons"
Alan Moore on Frank Miller's unhinged Occupy rant
Related: V for Vendetta’s Alan Moore, David Lloyd Join Occupy Comics
Outrage – Church tells HIV+ patients to stop taking meds, claiming they were ‘healed’
The secret to fighting Alzheimer’s Disease is…red food coloring?
Fresh radioactive runoff at Japan plant
Rainbow Fringe
Astoundingly Lifelike Horse Puppet
Warehouse 13’s Joanne Kelly: "I would love" to see H.G. Wells and Myka get together
NHS caesarean guidelines aim to push down demand for procedure
Guidance from Nice says while no woman should be refused a caesarean, proper information will drive surgery rate down
Poll taxes make amazing comeback
Michigan's Radical Assault on Public Education
Sarisarinama
This lovely Giant Pacific Octopus was just brought to the Smithsonian National Zoo after the previous octopus resident, Octavius, passed away.
Plasma Can Kill Off Viruses (the plasma lamp sort, not the blood sort)
Freedom Now Requires 72-Hour Notice And A Non-Refundable Deposit
In Soweto, they've found a new use for an old coal plant: public art, and bungee jumping.
On Netflix: Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Future of Gay Soccer Player's Career Uncertain
World's largest model railroad (vid)
The rubbish sperm of the naked mole rat
My experience with German Measles (Rubella, the R in the MMR vaccine)
HUD Addresses Concerns of Aging LGBT Community
Feds Investigating Alleged LGBT Abuse at Penn. Prison
Music for One Apartment and Six Drummers: “Playing” Your Abode
Reuters Best Photos Of 2011 (#31 is ridiculously adorable: Obama under a pile of kids)
Zoe d’Hauthuille Interview After Her Assault by SFPD 1 Dec 2011
African Sulcata Tortoise Hatchlings Pose For Family Portrait
The Chromatic Typewriter
Our cells lock up Shigella bacteria in cages to stop it from killing us
Moving to the city could split birds into separate species
Nature, as Created by an Artist in His Fish Tank
Older but cool Occupy news:
Occupy Our Homes: Minneapolis Occupiers Helping a Veteran
Democracy blinks in Michigan
Government Neglect of First Nation Welfare
Marketing by Masculinizing the Feminine
Conflating Fat with Unhealthy
Stretch Marks are Beautiful… Like Exotic Foreign Ladies?
The infantile style in American politics
A team of scientists at a California non-profit organization just announced a pilot study to determine if Ecstasy might help fight the effects of autism.
On “Camping” and the Framing of Occupy Movement Strategies
Gendering and Racializing Occupations
A new report that pulls together the body of evidence from evaluations of state programs that have expanded Medicaid eligibility for family planning finds that the benefits they provide are broad and far-reaching. According to "Medicaid Family Planning Expansions: Lessons Learned and Implications for the Future," by Adam Sonfield and Rachel Benson Gold of the Guttmacher Institute, these programs have proven both effective and cost-effective, while simultaneously pioneering innovations in outreach and enrollment that hold important lessons for the implementation of health care reform.
GL vs BT: Why We Aren't A Real LGBT Movement Yet
The Purity Myth
Thank You, Anarchists
One teacher's approach to preventing gender bullying in a classroom
Report: Plan B Unavailable a Third of the Time
Amazing Cloud Formation of the Day: These wave-like cloud formations, spotted in Birmingham, Alabama by Redditor alison_bee, were caused by a phenomenon called Kelvin-Helmholtz instability.
Could a planet have only one pole?
People who don't care—or don't need to care—what others think of them show how crucial reputation is to civilization. Understanding it could reduce crime, improve ethical behavior and rein in Wall Street excesses
Patry's How to Fix Copyright: deftly argued, incandescent book on the evidence-free state of copyright law
Fat black women feel too good about themselves
The “Promoting Obesity” Myth
The Diagnosis: Xeni Jardin on her breast cancer diagnosis
5 Ways to Help Boys and Girls Understand Sexism in Movies
Michelle Duggar: Her Choice to Share Her Baby's Photos Deserves Our Respect -- Yes.
Inmate on life support wouldn’t be the first to die on Arpaio’s watch
*Trigger warning for descriptions and images related to extreme prisoner abuse*
Home Depot tells anti-gay hate group AFA what they can do with their petition
Interfaith Clergy To Present 200,000 Signatures At Lowe’s Headquarters Today Demanding An Apology For Pulling Ads
Looking into the past for a deeper understanding of autism
Why the Russian revolution is being televised at last
Sharks shift shape of tail while swimming to go FASTER
Peeing Colors in Kiev
Svartifoss
Steve Pinker's hair and the muscles of worms
Kinsey And The 10 Percent Homosexuality Myth
A sledgehammery episode, as they do an IRA analogue, Crusher gets kidnapped, Wes gets antsy, Riker meets a beautiful woman and doesn't flirt with her, Worf gets shot, and Picard throws a mean right hook, as the TNG Rewatch takes "The High Ground."
Minnesota town raises funds to feed migrating swans
Some sobering stats on how feminism’s gains have only helped women with higher levels of education.
A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The true story of a nice Jewish boy who joins the Church of Scientology and leaves twelve years later to become the lovely lady she is today -- Can't wait to read this; Kate Bornstein is a favorite of mine.
No Forced Kisses for Your Kids: A Holiday Safety Tip for Families (on supporting children in establishing their own boundaries)
Mysterious "white web" found growing on nuclear waste
Eons ago, two single-celled organisms, a bacterium and an archaeon, combined to form the first complex cell. This symbiosis gave birth to all multi-cellular organisms, but new evidence suggests this wasn't about cooperation. That bacterium was actually a parasite.
Occupy Atlanta Saves Woman’s Home From Foreclosure
List of Active Occupy Encampments Across the Country – Now at 61
Freedom Riders return to Alabama
Why I’m Not Married
Marine Lance Cpl. Aaron Leeks Date to the Ball: Michelle Obama -- Totally adorable.
The "Random Tattoo"
Pro bono lawyers rescue scienceblogger from naturopath's SLAPP legal threats
Top Science Scandals of 2011
A list of this year’s most high-profile retractions and controversies in science
According to astronomers, "super Earths" should not exist
Geologists Find Source of Stonehenge’s Inner Stones
Viewers at the Sundance Film Festival will get a glimpse of Kenyon when Josh Radnor '96 debuts his movie Liberal Arts next month.
The University of Nebraska won't allow a student suffering from anxiety and depression to keep her therapy dog in student housing.
Why one shouldn't mix up Private Death etiquette and Public Death etiquette...
#OccupyDenver helps bring homelessness to the forefront
Freshwater habitat dwellers can be detected and quantified based on DNA obtained directly from small water samples
Dogs are necessary when man is sufficient -- I find the self-selection/niche environment theory to be by far the most persuasive, these days.
A Tale of Two Waffles
Mammography screening reduced risk for death from breast cancer by half
So You Want to Buy an Election?
More Evidence Found for Quantum Physics in Photosynthesis
Watching two Japanese swimming crabs have sex is insanely dramatic
Kim Jong-il is dead. Here’s his monster movie.
Weekend Links: Facebook Hobo Codes
Yet another awesome Octopus pic
NASA has discovered the tiniest, most pathetic black hole in the universe
Please, don’t drink this [critically endangered] frog smoothie for your erection problems
How SOPA Will Break DNS
CC-licensed, Dickens-based, Pastifarian Christmas Carol kids' special
A Hipster By Any Other Name
Feds Link Water Contamination to Fracking for the First Time
Occupy Boston Court Decision: Occupation is Not Speech
The Demise of the Komodo Kings
White Privilege: “Flesh-Colored”
New anthology of genderqueer stories includes a story called "Schrodinger’s Pussy." -- WANT!
The Reality of HIV Criminalization
Olivia Thirlby on Being Bisexual and Participating in the Self Evident Truths Project for Brooklyn Magazine
The Human Rights Campaign released its newly updated Corporate Equality Index today. Here's the complete list of companies that scored 100% for being LGBT-friendly.
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Date: 2011-12-21 04:46 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-12-21 11:27 am (UTC)The unemployment benefits should not be tied to that anchor.
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Date: 2011-12-24 02:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-24 01:01 pm (UTC)We need a 7% tax with no cap.