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So the Ohio Senate passed the anti-union bill. Like with Wisconsin having the less-reported-on aspect of being able to fire-sale state assets, this bill has a little-known part: denying same sex couple equal rights.
I'm entirely in agreement with Yendi's take on the Supreme Court case regarding Westboro -- Although I think the case itself is worth noting, you'll find I don't often mention WBC's shenanigans these days. I'm trying to avoid giving them (or Palin, or a few others I find to be a waste of cytoplasm) any additional attention. I'm personally a big fan of the pledge-a-picketer kinds of reactions to their actions, though. It allows their freedom of expression while making it blatantly obvious that they're doing good for exactly the groups they most hate. Also, mockery. Mock away. These are largely the same ways I feel about dealing with clinic protesters. Ignore them, mock them, never ever martyr them (and I mean that both literally and figuratively; it's part of why I'm against the dealth penalty for clinic terrorists specifically at least as much as I object to it in general principle).
But let me draw your attention to this: If you thought Wikileaks was important wait untill the Egyptians start uploading what they found tonight.
That’s right. Upload all those files found - including on U.S.’s rendition program - and let the world see them. No wonder Gates is en route to Egypt - did you spot that tidbit? - to try and do some damage control. My hat is off to the Egyptians. They have stopped the program of rendition and torture in their country when the U.S. government would not, and the U.S. people did not. And I am utterly unsurprised that the plan is to upload the infomation from the files into Egypt’s own Leaks program.
How Obama's Decision to Stop Defending DOMA Fits Into His Complicated Stance on LGBT Rights
20 lies from Scott Walker
Fox News Reporter Appears to Have Lied About Being 'Punched' by Protester
More than a dozen Dems have called on Republicans to investigate the Chambers' proposed $12 million smear, forgery, fraud, and disinformation campaign.
Cooling Neutron Star
Stronger than steel, novel metals are moldable as plastic
Elephant orchestra brings attention to plight of Thailand's elephants
In New Food Culture, a Young Generation of Farmers Emerges
On-Demand Escalators Can Cut Energy Use By Up To 52% (Video)
O'Reilly Misleads With Footage of Violent 'Wisconsin' Protesters--With Palm Trees in Background
The three strands of the radical right - the hatemongers, the nativists and the antigovernment zealots - grew by 22% last year and 40% the year before.
How Unions Helped Bring Economic Justice to Black Workers
DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE? -- My Dad sent this to me; it's a meditation from a pastor he follows.
As part of a push to help its schoolgirls, India's Bihar state gives a bicycle to every one with good attendance who reaches eighth grade. Officials say this and other efforts have helped lower girls' drop-out numbers by 1.5 million in five years.
Michael Moore Joins Wisconsin Pro-Union Protesters
Anonymous plans defense for Bradley Manning
IWW General Strike posters to print and forward
Picture post from Wisconsin
In Montana, an Economic Boon Faces Repeal Effort
With his electrician’s tool belt and company logo cap, Rick Schmidt looks every bit the small-business owner he in fact is. That he often reeks of marijuana these days ... well, it is just part of the job, he said.
The young have claws on the thumb and first finger of each wing. They eat leaves and internally ferment them (like a cow), hence their common name of Stinkbird.
Oh, and after centuries of controversy about how they relate to other birds, DNA analysis makes things worse.
Related: Clubs, spurs, spikes and claws on the hands of birds (part I)
Has life been found in a meteorite?
More: Did scientists discover bacteria in meteorites?
The Spirit of Wisconsin
NGC 6914 Nebulae
Links and commentary from Browneyedgirl65
End the Modern University?
Exquisite Images: Wellcome Image Awards
Alabama bill to ban Sharia law was cribbed from Wikipedia
University to investigate live sex demonstration -- Oh, good fucking grief, it's Bailey again. I have no problem with the concept, as long as everyone knew ahead of time what was going to be happening, and it was entirely optional. That was not apparently how this went down. As a result, it's ended up being every bit as inappropriate and skeevy as the rest of his career. I strongly recommend reading the comments for context on this, and for links to other articles with more detail. And Bailey? Just go the fuck away and stop making reputable sex researchers look bad.
"Relaxation Brownies" may not be what you think they are.
Kyoto Prefecture to become the first to ban child pornography
CREW Uncovers Scott Walker’s Illegal Use of Wisconsin Troopers
Libya: Oil Industry Group Opposes Obama's Sanctions
NGC 1499: The California Nebula
Wil Wheaton: and now, a word from my mother about celiac disease
Meet Roxannne! Amani the Aardvark's Kid Sister
Black holes: a model for superconductors?
Interesting Study of Religious Demographics (PDF)
Nifty street art
A lot of people accuse feminists of thinking that all men are rapists. That's not true. But do you know who think all men are rapists?
Rapists do.
They really do. In psychological study, the profiling, the studies, it comes out again and again.
Virtually all rapists genuinely believe that all men rape, and other men just keep it hushed up better. And more, these people who really are rapists are constantly reaffirmed in their belief about the rest of mankind being rapists like them by things like rape jokes, that dismiss and normalize the idea of rape.
"On my account, as long as there is a lot of rape and not a lot of remedy, as long as there is slut-shaming and double-standards, as long as the denial of the technologies women [who have sex with men] need to mitigate the risks of unintended pregnancy and disease, then they're going to look askance at [men who have sex with women], and they're going to act like they have more risk and less to gain from sex with us, because in fact they do."-Thomas Macaulay Millar, in a must-read post about a new study which has found that het/bi women's infamous aversion to the Clark-Hatfield Sexual Proposal ("a broad-daylight, out-of-nowhere proposition for casual sex") is not, in fact, down to some gender essentialist, pop evo-psych, innately female antipathy toward casual sex, but is attributable to "women's perception that their risks are higher, and their likely enjoyment is lower from the proposer," which is a pretty reasonable risk/benefit analysis.
Frankfurt, Germany (CNN) -- The man who shot and killed two American troops in Germany Wednesday was a recently radicalized Muslim whose aim was to kill American troops, a German official said Thursday.
Young Adults, Sexuality And Religion
So the Ohio Senate passed the anti-union bill. Like with Wisconsin having the less-reported-on aspect of being able to fire-sale state assets, this bill has a little-known part: denying same sex couple equal rights.
I'm entirely in agreement with Yendi's take on the Supreme Court case regarding Westboro -- Although I think the case itself is worth noting, you'll find I don't often mention WBC's shenanigans these days. I'm trying to avoid giving them (or Palin, or a few others I find to be a waste of cytoplasm) any additional attention. I'm personally a big fan of the pledge-a-picketer kinds of reactions to their actions, though. It allows their freedom of expression while making it blatantly obvious that they're doing good for exactly the groups they most hate. Also, mockery. Mock away. These are largely the same ways I feel about dealing with clinic protesters. Ignore them, mock them, never ever martyr them (and I mean that both literally and figuratively; it's part of why I'm against the dealth penalty for clinic terrorists specifically at least as much as I object to it in general principle).
But let me draw your attention to this: If you thought Wikileaks was important wait untill the Egyptians start uploading what they found tonight.
That’s right. Upload all those files found - including on U.S.’s rendition program - and let the world see them. No wonder Gates is en route to Egypt - did you spot that tidbit? - to try and do some damage control. My hat is off to the Egyptians. They have stopped the program of rendition and torture in their country when the U.S. government would not, and the U.S. people did not. And I am utterly unsurprised that the plan is to upload the infomation from the files into Egypt’s own Leaks program.
How Obama's Decision to Stop Defending DOMA Fits Into His Complicated Stance on LGBT Rights
20 lies from Scott Walker
Fox News Reporter Appears to Have Lied About Being 'Punched' by Protester
More than a dozen Dems have called on Republicans to investigate the Chambers' proposed $12 million smear, forgery, fraud, and disinformation campaign.
Cooling Neutron Star
Stronger than steel, novel metals are moldable as plastic
Elephant orchestra brings attention to plight of Thailand's elephants
In New Food Culture, a Young Generation of Farmers Emerges
On-Demand Escalators Can Cut Energy Use By Up To 52% (Video)
O'Reilly Misleads With Footage of Violent 'Wisconsin' Protesters--With Palm Trees in Background
The three strands of the radical right - the hatemongers, the nativists and the antigovernment zealots - grew by 22% last year and 40% the year before.
How Unions Helped Bring Economic Justice to Black Workers
DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE? -- My Dad sent this to me; it's a meditation from a pastor he follows.
As part of a push to help its schoolgirls, India's Bihar state gives a bicycle to every one with good attendance who reaches eighth grade. Officials say this and other efforts have helped lower girls' drop-out numbers by 1.5 million in five years.
Michael Moore Joins Wisconsin Pro-Union Protesters
Anonymous plans defense for Bradley Manning
IWW General Strike posters to print and forward
Picture post from Wisconsin
In Montana, an Economic Boon Faces Repeal Effort
With his electrician’s tool belt and company logo cap, Rick Schmidt looks every bit the small-business owner he in fact is. That he often reeks of marijuana these days ... well, it is just part of the job, he said.
The young have claws on the thumb and first finger of each wing. They eat leaves and internally ferment them (like a cow), hence their common name of Stinkbird.
Oh, and after centuries of controversy about how they relate to other birds, DNA analysis makes things worse.
Related: Clubs, spurs, spikes and claws on the hands of birds (part I)
Has life been found in a meteorite?
More: Did scientists discover bacteria in meteorites?
The Spirit of Wisconsin
NGC 6914 Nebulae
Links and commentary from Browneyedgirl65
End the Modern University?
Exquisite Images: Wellcome Image Awards
Alabama bill to ban Sharia law was cribbed from Wikipedia
University to investigate live sex demonstration -- Oh, good fucking grief, it's Bailey again. I have no problem with the concept, as long as everyone knew ahead of time what was going to be happening, and it was entirely optional. That was not apparently how this went down. As a result, it's ended up being every bit as inappropriate and skeevy as the rest of his career. I strongly recommend reading the comments for context on this, and for links to other articles with more detail. And Bailey? Just go the fuck away and stop making reputable sex researchers look bad.
"Relaxation Brownies" may not be what you think they are.
Kyoto Prefecture to become the first to ban child pornography
CREW Uncovers Scott Walker’s Illegal Use of Wisconsin Troopers
Libya: Oil Industry Group Opposes Obama's Sanctions
NGC 1499: The California Nebula
Wil Wheaton: and now, a word from my mother about celiac disease
Meet Roxannne! Amani the Aardvark's Kid Sister
Black holes: a model for superconductors?
Interesting Study of Religious Demographics (PDF)
Nifty street art
A lot of people accuse feminists of thinking that all men are rapists. That's not true. But do you know who think all men are rapists?
Rapists do.
They really do. In psychological study, the profiling, the studies, it comes out again and again.
Virtually all rapists genuinely believe that all men rape, and other men just keep it hushed up better. And more, these people who really are rapists are constantly reaffirmed in their belief about the rest of mankind being rapists like them by things like rape jokes, that dismiss and normalize the idea of rape.
"On my account, as long as there is a lot of rape and not a lot of remedy, as long as there is slut-shaming and double-standards, as long as the denial of the technologies women [who have sex with men] need to mitigate the risks of unintended pregnancy and disease, then they're going to look askance at [men who have sex with women], and they're going to act like they have more risk and less to gain from sex with us, because in fact they do."-Thomas Macaulay Millar, in a must-read post about a new study which has found that het/bi women's infamous aversion to the Clark-Hatfield Sexual Proposal ("a broad-daylight, out-of-nowhere proposition for casual sex") is not, in fact, down to some gender essentialist, pop evo-psych, innately female antipathy toward casual sex, but is attributable to "women's perception that their risks are higher, and their likely enjoyment is lower from the proposer," which is a pretty reasonable risk/benefit analysis.
Frankfurt, Germany (CNN) -- The man who shot and killed two American troops in Germany Wednesday was a recently radicalized Muslim whose aim was to kill American troops, a German official said Thursday.
Young Adults, Sexuality And Religion