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What If the Tea Party Were Black? →
stfuconservatives:
Imagine that even one-third of the anger and vitriol currently being hurled at President Obama, by folks who are almost exclusively white, were being aimed, instead, at a white president, by people of color… How many [whites] would be calling for further crackdowns on thuggish behavior, and investigations into the radical agendas of those same people of color?
…Protest is...
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“I have an alternate theory, that goes back to the “I want my country back”...”
– Amanda Marcotte
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Paul thugs ID'ed. Paul county coordinator Tim... →
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Holy crap. This wasn’t just a violent crazy person. This guy had an official role in the Rand Paul campaign.
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Watch
Josh Green flagged an incident that occurred outside of the Rand Paul-Jack Conway debate Monday night that’s already dominating the news in Kentucky and could easily make headlines nationally.
As the candidates arrived, a group of Paul supporters pulled a female MoveOn member to the ground and held her there as another Paul supporter stomped on the back of her head and neck.
According...
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Fool Me Twice? - NYTimes.com →
In 2004, America’s multinational corporations offered Congress a deal: They would repatriate hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign profits — to invest in new plants and create new jobs at home — in exchange for a break from the 35 percent corporate tax rate imposed on overseas profits when they are brought into the country.
A Republican-controlled Congress leapt at it, passing the Homeland...
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On how do you like them apples.
dearcoketalk:
Sam Harris; religion bad, we get it. And does he really say anything that B.F. Skinner hasn’t already?
You’re a psych major. We get it. Tell whatever professor that made this comparison for you that Harris isn’t a radical behaviorist, and where his argument has an twinge of determinism, it’s backed up with his own neuroimaging data.
Skinner was a genius, but ultimately a...
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“Why do Catholics have to prop up this concept of original sin? Because...”
– PZ Myers, Sunday Sacrilege: Cant can’t : Pharyngula
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“Let me get right wing punditry’s arguments straight here. It’s right and good...”
– Amanda Marcotte
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Mike Adams is a nasty piece of work : Pharyngula →
Mike Adams must really hate the “It gets better” campaign, which is trying to give gay kids some hope, rather than letting them die of despair. Being Mike Adams, though, the only way he can deal with it is by lying. So he writes an essay in which he describes eight heterosexual kids who were hounded into suicide by homosexuals, just for parities sake, I guess.
Only he didn’t....
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Blah.
I woke up this morning with a slight sore throat and now I feel like I have a cold coming on. Let’s hope it’s a false alarm, yes?
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RT journalist Natalya Arkhiptseva wasn’t thrilled... →
“Any one of us could have been that girl. Any one of us could have been Natalya Arkhiptseva.”
This is insane.
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“I give up. I fucking give up.
When I first started hearing right-wingers...”
– Gawker commenter on Christine O’Donnell not knowing, and then NOT BELIEVING that the first amendment contained the provision of separation of church and state during a debate with Chris Coons. Coons recited the text of the amendment “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of...
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“…because we are here only at the very beginning of time for the human race. ...”
– Richard P Feynman (via richardlc)
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“I dissent, therefore, from this legalization of racism. Racial discrimination in...”
– Justice Frank Murphy in his dissent of Korematsu v. United States, the Supreme Court decision that said it was constitutional for the government to send citizens of Japanese ancestry to internment camps during WWII.
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NeuroLogica Blog » The Burger “Experiments” →
To the surprise of some, the food does not rot away to nothing but instead shrivels a little and becomes hard and shiny, but does not get moldy or rotten. The implication is that there is something wrong and unnatural about food that doesn’t rot when left out.
Unfortunately this is what passes for “science” on the interwebs. But it does provide a teaching moment – with lessons about scientific...
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“I’m happy to watch Don be a slow burn tragic hero. On this show, he is the...”
– Amanda Marcotte (pandagon.net)
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“We are in the era of Republican Mean Girls, grown-up versions of those teenage...”
– Maureen Dowd (Playing All the Angles - NYTimes.com)
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NYC Fox station reports Jupiter and balloons as... →
Journalism and skepticism fail.
ssybylastrudd asked: excuseme, but your tumblr posts is posting directly on my sisters facebook account. could you remove the facebook thingy on your preferences please. thanks.
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hapaxlegomina asked: OMFG did I just get reblogged RIGHT AFTER Steve Novella? Wow.
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“We are going to work as hard for you as we possibly can. There’s no doubt about...”
– John Henry (via withasingleballoon)
I am so happy Hicks and Gillett are gone!!!
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“As you listened to President Obama on MTV yesterday about DADT, you...”
– David Mixner
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NeuroLogica Blog » You Got Drugs In My Weight Loss... →
This is a depressingly old scam – centuries old. Snake oil is marketed to the public with whatever image is considered fashionable at the time, although the “natural and wholesome” image is most common. In the 19th century there were many elixirs and tonics that claimed to be not only “natural”, but derived from either exotic tropical locations or the wisdom of native cultures.
But at the...
