"Hello to all of you who are on my list of contacts of Facebook. I would like to ask a favor of you…. You may not know that Facebook has changed its privacy configuration once again. Thanks to the new “Graphic app”, any person in Facebook anywhere in the world can see our photos, our “likes” and our “comments”. During the next two weeks, I am going ( Read more... )

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Roger Ebert dies at 70 after battle with cancer
BY NEIL STEINBERG nsteinberg@suntimes.com April 4, 2013 2:32PM

The Chicago Sun Times - where Ebert was a contributor for 46 years - has a good obituary detailing his myriad accomplishments (he was the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize!), but scores of people who aren't mega movie buffs also ( Read more... )

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A Critical Analysis From the Perspective of Psychological Science

1. Eli J. Finkel1,
2. Paul W. Eastwick2,
3. Benjamin R. Karney3,
4. Harry T. Reis4 and
5. Susan Sprecher5

I’m a Canadian.

We’re a quiet bunch; prone to enjoying hockey, drinking stronger beer than our friends south of the border, and lovers of fries smothered in cheese curds and gravy.

We also, apparently, have an inferiority complex when it comes to being evil dirt bags, because we’ve decided to pass our very own version of SOPA up here.

Only better*
Meet ( Read more... )

If there are just two things you take away from this story, they should be:

1. Anti-atheist bigotry and discrimination, of a completely overt, very ugly kind, is real.  
2. Atheists are no longer putting up with it. If you fuck with them, they will fuck with you right back. And they know how to do it.

Two recent events in the news illustrate this bigotry ( Read more... )

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