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America's Outrage Over TSA Naked Body Scanners Was Right-Wing PR to Prevent Workers from Unionizing -- This whole article pisses me off, and totally misses the point time and time again. Commenters nail it, though.
Every Secret Ingredient from Iron Chef America -- For the housemates. We're big Iron Chef fans.
Tips for 'traveling while Muslim' is topic of special forum, and sign of the times
Queer Nation: Porn's Queer Mafia
Over 120 years after it was condemned as 'vulgar' and 'unclean', an uncensored version of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray is published by Harvard University Press
Thailand Lesbians Push Boundaries, Become Chic
A Book Store. That’s Right. Book, Singular.
plinko writes a letter to her university newspaper regarding the funding for the LGBT Resource Center being cut - Ha! Nicely done.
'The Kissing Case' And The Lives It Shattered
The monkey tail, a beard
The GOP budget proposal for 2012 moves the federal food stamp program to state control. That recklessly puts 44 million Americans and a disproportionate number of women at risk. It's wrong and costly to boot.
This is the last day, until they do it again, to have any donation made to RAINN matched. It's like doing double the good.
Deaths rise to 178 in South after storms sweep region Wednesday
Superman renounces U.S. citizenship in latest comic
Research breakthroughs may lead to colonoscopy alternative: NetWellness
Coping with scarlet fever and quarantine: Cleveland Remembers
Lara Logan Speaks Out
Eddies found to be deep, powerful modes of ocean transport
NASA to Launch Squids Into Space
"Look, guys. No matter what a girl does, no matter how she’s dressed, no matter how much she’s had to drink, it’s never, never, never, never, never okay to touch her without her consent. That doesn’t make you a man, it makes you a coward.”
Vice President Joe “the BAMF” Biden
The tangled NETs of the immune system
Women's horniness and the worm-in-mouth paradigm.
Multiple Sclerosis Patients Present High Rates of Celiac Disease
The Bathroom Predators Are Cis People
Dr Who: Christopher Eccleston won't return for 50th anniversary -- Too bad, but not really surprising.
Embolism Stalks Black Moms With Lethal Bias
Federal budget uproars spread into the states this week alongside the slew of actual tornadoes. Elizabeth Warren, champion of a consumer watchdog agency for Wall Street, and Sen. Bernie Sanders, took up stands on "The Daily Show."
A respected, mainstream theologian is seriously arguing that as long as God gives the thumbs-up, it's okay to kill pretty much anybody.
The Public Overwhelmingly Wants It: Why Is Taxing the Rich So Hard?
The 10 Worst States in Which to Lose Your Job
A new study from researchers at the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism shows that females remain less visible and less valued in top feature film.
The Nation's Worst "Pretend" Marijuana Law Would Defy Montana Voters
As a Holocaust Survivor, AIPAC Doesn't Speak for Me
The GOP's Shady Plan to Privatize Prisons
Heroine Who Kept Jared Loughner from Reloading Confronts NRA Leaders
How the Florida Tomato Industry Went from Being One of the Most Repressive Employers to the Most Progressive
Mind-Gut Connection: Why Intestinal Bacteria May Have Important Effects on Your Brain
Meet Bart Ehrman: A One-Man God Fraud Squad
A world-renowned Bible scholar says the Bible is full of fibs, forgeries and downright lies.
Should the FBI Redefine Rape?
Obama on Oprah Explains Thinking Behind Birth Certificate Release
Former Miss USA Alleges TSA Abuse
Scientists Discover Vast, Frozen CO2 Deposit on Mars
Lasers Could Replace Spark Plugs, Reducing Emissions and Improve Fuel Economy
Pediatricians Warn EPA is Not Protecting U.S. Kids from Thousands of Toxins
Armadillos Can Transfer Leprosy To Humans -- I knew they were one of the only other species that can carry it, but this is interesting.
Judge Walker's Same-Sex Relationship Should Invalidate Prop 8 Ruling Say Foes
Japan's First Openly Gay Candidate Wins in Tokyo Ward
A Case for Co-Op Brothels
Rachel Maddow Urges Gay People to Come Out
Ohio: Anti-Gay Arson Claims The Lives Of 7 Horses, 1 Foal -- I can't find the citation right now, because all my searches lead back to this case, but this happened to an abortion provider some years back, too. The idea of someone going after animals as a way to hurt someone hits really visceral buttons for me.
TN House Advances Bill to Void New Nashville LGBT Nondiscrimination Ordinance
First GOP Debate May Just Be Pawlenty Talking to Himself
Lady Gaga to Give $1 Million to LGBT Youth Support Groups
Getting Bigger All the Time: Why Humans Are Taller and Healthier Than Ever
It's Safer To Give Birth In Bosnia Than In California
Los Angeles Finally Clears Its Rape Kit Backlog
The Bible Is Against Net Neutrality -- *eyeroll*
White House to Hold Trans Issues Meeting
Birth Certificate Release Draws Powerful Response from Onion Editor Baratunde Thurston (VIDEO)
Shuttle Launch Postponed Due To Technical Issue
Bradley Manning No Longer Held in Solitary Confinement -- It's only a start, but I'm so happy to hear this!
Wolverines Spotted In Oregon And California!
ET's Phone to Home Has Been Disconnected
Ohio: Church Billboard: "Being Gay is a Gift from God"
Here's a new one coming from the infamous Coral Ridge Ministries featuring a couple of alleged ex-employees from Planned Parenthood who say the clinics routinely give out defective condoms and weak birth control pills to girls so they can meet their abortion quota and become millionaires. -- Oh, good fucking grief! Where does one even start with this crap?
Kansas Moves to Defund Planned Parenthood
Shocking: 916 State Anti-Abortion Measures Proposed in First Three Months of 2011 -- I really wish they'd stop prefacing these articles with "Shocking!" No, really not. Not if you've been paying the least bit of attention. Horrifying? Yes. Depressing? Shit yeah. Rage-inducing? Fuckin' A. Shocking? Not so much.
Mother of Child Pictured in Controversial Abortion Ad Sues
Oklahoma Republicans Try To Keep Planned Parenthood From Feeding Babies
More Women Are Using The "Morning-After" Pill -- Good news, although we still need better education campaigns about it. I'd also like to encourage those who can afford it to keep a pack on hand at home. It's a lot better to have it handy when you need it than to have to run to find it and afford it under time pressure.
Increasing Numbers of Women Face Jail Time for Wanting an Abortion
Charged For Crimes Against Fetus -- What About The Woman? -- There's an Ohio-specific case mentioned in this that I hadn't heard about.
When Abortion was Illegal (vid)
Can't use logic against belief
What’s Missing from the Abortion Debate?
Louisiana v. Roe
A Louisiana lawmaker introduces the country's most extreme anti-abortion measure.
Indiana Votes to Defund Planned Parenthood
Florida House Passes Six New Anti-Abortion Bills
Use of Prescriptions During Pregnancy Up 60% Since 1970s, Study Finds
House Republicans Overstepped Home Rule With D.C. Abortion Funding Ban, According to Opinion Piece
After School in Brooklyn, West African Girls Share Memories of a Painful Ritual
Roundup: Rwanda Aims to Vaccinate All Girls Against HPV
Film Review: Does "Let's Talk About Sex" Communicate the Right Messages to the Right Audiences?
Illinois Mayor Overturns City Council to Get Permit for Ultrasound Mobile Unit
For LGBT Health, What Happens in Wisconsin Shouldn't Stay in Wisconsin
MSM, STDs and HIV: What Are We Missing?
Roundup: State Legislatures Aim to Restrict Medical Abortion -- as I posted a few days ago, this has happened in Ohio, too. Prices are much higher, side-effects are higher (both because of legislated increase in dosage), allowed time frame is narrower.
What Does it Mean to Be "Pro-Choice?" -- Fabulous, and so spot-on.
Common Cause, Different Perspective: The Generational Divide of the Pro-Choice Movement
Unpacking a Bag Full of STI Stigma
Snails & Oysters: Dan Savage is Biphobic -- Not news, but a well-written encapsulation of the issues that many in the bi community have with Dan Savage.
6 Deleted Scenes That Prove the Book Isn't Always Better
The 6 Creepiest Things Hiding in Your DNA
6 Mental Illness Myths Hollywood Wants You to Believe
5 Reasons Humanity Is Terrible at Democracy
7 Hotly Debated Movie Questions That Totally Have Answers
LIVE POST: "NERD PROM" (a.k.a White House Correspondence Dinner), 2011. -- Holy crap, I really hope Caleb set this to record.
XKCD: Null Hypothesis
Shadows at the Lunar South Pole
The Cat's Eye Nebula from Hubble
The Dark Tower in Scorpius
The Antennae
Tycho's Supernova Remnant
Tiger Cubs open Their Eyes for the First Time
Nashville Zoo's Clouded Leopard Cubs at 1 Month
Baby Owls Grow Better in Groups
Little Aardvark Makes Big Debut at Busch Gardens
Microbes can survive 400,000 times Earth gravity
First Footage from Torchwood: Miracle Day!
Sad baby monsters
May Day, 1871: The Day “Science Fiction” Was Invented
By 2040, you can eat (and excrete) your diagnosis
How I accidentally conducted experiments on a human
How people are going to seal Chernobyl. Again.
Crabmonsters and Sentient Darkness: Ten Great Scifi Poems
Bootsy Collins tells us how to get a seat on the Mothership
Every Secret Ingredient from Iron Chef America -- For the housemates. We're big Iron Chef fans.
Tips for 'traveling while Muslim' is topic of special forum, and sign of the times
Queer Nation: Porn's Queer Mafia
Over 120 years after it was condemned as 'vulgar' and 'unclean', an uncensored version of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray is published by Harvard University Press
Thailand Lesbians Push Boundaries, Become Chic
A Book Store. That’s Right. Book, Singular.
plinko writes a letter to her university newspaper regarding the funding for the LGBT Resource Center being cut - Ha! Nicely done.
'The Kissing Case' And The Lives It Shattered
The monkey tail, a beard
The GOP budget proposal for 2012 moves the federal food stamp program to state control. That recklessly puts 44 million Americans and a disproportionate number of women at risk. It's wrong and costly to boot.
This is the last day, until they do it again, to have any donation made to RAINN matched. It's like doing double the good.
Deaths rise to 178 in South after storms sweep region Wednesday
Superman renounces U.S. citizenship in latest comic
Research breakthroughs may lead to colonoscopy alternative: NetWellness
Coping with scarlet fever and quarantine: Cleveland Remembers
Lara Logan Speaks Out
Eddies found to be deep, powerful modes of ocean transport
NASA to Launch Squids Into Space
"Look, guys. No matter what a girl does, no matter how she’s dressed, no matter how much she’s had to drink, it’s never, never, never, never, never okay to touch her without her consent. That doesn’t make you a man, it makes you a coward.”
Vice President Joe “the BAMF” Biden
The tangled NETs of the immune system
Women's horniness and the worm-in-mouth paradigm.
Multiple Sclerosis Patients Present High Rates of Celiac Disease
The Bathroom Predators Are Cis People
Dr Who: Christopher Eccleston won't return for 50th anniversary -- Too bad, but not really surprising.
Embolism Stalks Black Moms With Lethal Bias
Federal budget uproars spread into the states this week alongside the slew of actual tornadoes. Elizabeth Warren, champion of a consumer watchdog agency for Wall Street, and Sen. Bernie Sanders, took up stands on "The Daily Show."
A respected, mainstream theologian is seriously arguing that as long as God gives the thumbs-up, it's okay to kill pretty much anybody.
The Public Overwhelmingly Wants It: Why Is Taxing the Rich So Hard?
The 10 Worst States in Which to Lose Your Job
A new study from researchers at the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism shows that females remain less visible and less valued in top feature film.
The Nation's Worst "Pretend" Marijuana Law Would Defy Montana Voters
As a Holocaust Survivor, AIPAC Doesn't Speak for Me
The GOP's Shady Plan to Privatize Prisons
Heroine Who Kept Jared Loughner from Reloading Confronts NRA Leaders
How the Florida Tomato Industry Went from Being One of the Most Repressive Employers to the Most Progressive
Mind-Gut Connection: Why Intestinal Bacteria May Have Important Effects on Your Brain
Meet Bart Ehrman: A One-Man God Fraud Squad
A world-renowned Bible scholar says the Bible is full of fibs, forgeries and downright lies.
Should the FBI Redefine Rape?
Obama on Oprah Explains Thinking Behind Birth Certificate Release
Former Miss USA Alleges TSA Abuse
Scientists Discover Vast, Frozen CO2 Deposit on Mars
Lasers Could Replace Spark Plugs, Reducing Emissions and Improve Fuel Economy
Pediatricians Warn EPA is Not Protecting U.S. Kids from Thousands of Toxins
Armadillos Can Transfer Leprosy To Humans -- I knew they were one of the only other species that can carry it, but this is interesting.
Judge Walker's Same-Sex Relationship Should Invalidate Prop 8 Ruling Say Foes
Japan's First Openly Gay Candidate Wins in Tokyo Ward
A Case for Co-Op Brothels
Rachel Maddow Urges Gay People to Come Out
Ohio: Anti-Gay Arson Claims The Lives Of 7 Horses, 1 Foal -- I can't find the citation right now, because all my searches lead back to this case, but this happened to an abortion provider some years back, too. The idea of someone going after animals as a way to hurt someone hits really visceral buttons for me.
TN House Advances Bill to Void New Nashville LGBT Nondiscrimination Ordinance
First GOP Debate May Just Be Pawlenty Talking to Himself
Lady Gaga to Give $1 Million to LGBT Youth Support Groups
Getting Bigger All the Time: Why Humans Are Taller and Healthier Than Ever
It's Safer To Give Birth In Bosnia Than In California
Los Angeles Finally Clears Its Rape Kit Backlog
The Bible Is Against Net Neutrality -- *eyeroll*
White House to Hold Trans Issues Meeting
Birth Certificate Release Draws Powerful Response from Onion Editor Baratunde Thurston (VIDEO)
Shuttle Launch Postponed Due To Technical Issue
Bradley Manning No Longer Held in Solitary Confinement -- It's only a start, but I'm so happy to hear this!
Wolverines Spotted In Oregon And California!
ET's Phone to Home Has Been Disconnected
Ohio: Church Billboard: "Being Gay is a Gift from God"
Here's a new one coming from the infamous Coral Ridge Ministries featuring a couple of alleged ex-employees from Planned Parenthood who say the clinics routinely give out defective condoms and weak birth control pills to girls so they can meet their abortion quota and become millionaires. -- Oh, good fucking grief! Where does one even start with this crap?
Kansas Moves to Defund Planned Parenthood
Shocking: 916 State Anti-Abortion Measures Proposed in First Three Months of 2011 -- I really wish they'd stop prefacing these articles with "Shocking!" No, really not. Not if you've been paying the least bit of attention. Horrifying? Yes. Depressing? Shit yeah. Rage-inducing? Fuckin' A. Shocking? Not so much.
Mother of Child Pictured in Controversial Abortion Ad Sues
Oklahoma Republicans Try To Keep Planned Parenthood From Feeding Babies
More Women Are Using The "Morning-After" Pill -- Good news, although we still need better education campaigns about it. I'd also like to encourage those who can afford it to keep a pack on hand at home. It's a lot better to have it handy when you need it than to have to run to find it and afford it under time pressure.
Increasing Numbers of Women Face Jail Time for Wanting an Abortion
Charged For Crimes Against Fetus -- What About The Woman? -- There's an Ohio-specific case mentioned in this that I hadn't heard about.
When Abortion was Illegal (vid)
Can't use logic against belief
What’s Missing from the Abortion Debate?
Louisiana v. Roe
A Louisiana lawmaker introduces the country's most extreme anti-abortion measure.
Indiana Votes to Defund Planned Parenthood
Florida House Passes Six New Anti-Abortion Bills
Use of Prescriptions During Pregnancy Up 60% Since 1970s, Study Finds
House Republicans Overstepped Home Rule With D.C. Abortion Funding Ban, According to Opinion Piece
After School in Brooklyn, West African Girls Share Memories of a Painful Ritual
Roundup: Rwanda Aims to Vaccinate All Girls Against HPV
Film Review: Does "Let's Talk About Sex" Communicate the Right Messages to the Right Audiences?
Illinois Mayor Overturns City Council to Get Permit for Ultrasound Mobile Unit
For LGBT Health, What Happens in Wisconsin Shouldn't Stay in Wisconsin
MSM, STDs and HIV: What Are We Missing?
Roundup: State Legislatures Aim to Restrict Medical Abortion -- as I posted a few days ago, this has happened in Ohio, too. Prices are much higher, side-effects are higher (both because of legislated increase in dosage), allowed time frame is narrower.
What Does it Mean to Be "Pro-Choice?" -- Fabulous, and so spot-on.
Common Cause, Different Perspective: The Generational Divide of the Pro-Choice Movement
Unpacking a Bag Full of STI Stigma
Snails & Oysters: Dan Savage is Biphobic -- Not news, but a well-written encapsulation of the issues that many in the bi community have with Dan Savage.
6 Deleted Scenes That Prove the Book Isn't Always Better
The 6 Creepiest Things Hiding in Your DNA
6 Mental Illness Myths Hollywood Wants You to Believe
5 Reasons Humanity Is Terrible at Democracy
7 Hotly Debated Movie Questions That Totally Have Answers
LIVE POST: "NERD PROM" (a.k.a White House Correspondence Dinner), 2011. -- Holy crap, I really hope Caleb set this to record.
XKCD: Null Hypothesis
Shadows at the Lunar South Pole
The Cat's Eye Nebula from Hubble
The Dark Tower in Scorpius
The Antennae
Tycho's Supernova Remnant
Tiger Cubs open Their Eyes for the First Time
Nashville Zoo's Clouded Leopard Cubs at 1 Month
Baby Owls Grow Better in Groups
Little Aardvark Makes Big Debut at Busch Gardens
Microbes can survive 400,000 times Earth gravity
First Footage from Torchwood: Miracle Day!
Sad baby monsters
May Day, 1871: The Day “Science Fiction” Was Invented
By 2040, you can eat (and excrete) your diagnosis
How I accidentally conducted experiments on a human
How people are going to seal Chernobyl. Again.
Crabmonsters and Sentient Darkness: Ten Great Scifi Poems
Bootsy Collins tells us how to get a seat on the Mothership