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Matt Yglesias is a piece of shit.
Well, actually, uh, Mobutu Sese Seko puts it better than I do:Matthew Yglesias-a Norelco marketing experiment to see if a hand-drawn Sharpie beard on a peeled potato could sell men's earrings-wrote a morally and intellectually odious article at his second job yesterday. His Slate column, "Different Places Have Different Safety Rules and That's OK ( Read more... ) -
Roe v. Wade at 40
A modest roundup.
Jill Filipovic:To anyone who has taken even a cursory look at reproductive rights activism, it's obvious that decreasing the abortion rate isn't nearly as much a concern for the pro-life movement as controlling women is. ... Despite knowing the key to a lower abortion rate, the so-called "pro-life" movement refuses to use it. ( Read more... ) -
If you're still blaming unions for the Hostess collapse,
you're either fucking stupid or you're a liar.
John Nichols lays out the facts. And Travis Waldron notes that Hostess asked a bankrupcy judge yesterday to approve a plan that would "pay $1.75 million in bonuses to 19 of its executives" - even as it demonized its unions as the cause of its destruction.
Michael Furtado in ThinkProgress comments: ( Read more... ) -
Their cities, counties, states, and country have failed them.
From a gallery of photos taken in Long Beach, New York, titled "My Street 18 Days After Hurricane Sandy":
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Republicans don't want anyone to vote except them
It's already been widely reported that a GOP county chair in Ohio said last week, re his party's plans to curtail voting in Cincinnati proper (as opposed to its Republican-leaning suburbs) after 5 p.m. and on weekends: "I guess I really actually feel we shouldn’t contort the voting process to accommodate the urban - read African-American - voter- ( Read more... ) -
"A wanker whipping up fear"
Back in 2010, Michael D. Higgins, now president of the Republic of Ireland, pwned the shit out of Michael Graham, a wingnut who infects the airwaves around Boston.
I agree with PZ Myers that a lot of those "salt-of-the-earth Americans" will "certainly will treat you with kindness and hospitality personally before going off to vote for torture, ( Read more... )
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