February 2011
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WI Assembly GOP Passes Walker Budget In Surprise... →
Shame, indeed.
Feb 25th
Today is my first day at my new job!
I don’t have anything to say about it right now, really, but I thought I should document it :-)
Feb 23rd
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Oregon to Eliminate "Faith Healing" Defense
ignatius-m: helvetebrann: Oregon is getting ready to end legal protection to parents who abandon modern medicine in favor of faith healing when treating their children’s illness. House Bill 2721 would eliminate faith healing as a legal defense for parents who rely only on faith healing or other spiritual practices to heal sick children. The change in law can be understood as a direct...
Feb 22nd
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Teachers make too much money! →
world-shaker: Are you sick of high paid teachers? Teachers’ hefty salaries are driving up taxes, and they only work 9 or 10 months a year! It’s time we put things in perspective and pay them for what they do - baby sit! We can get that for less than minimum wage. That’s right. Let’s give them $3.00 an hour and only the hours they worked; not any of that silly planning time, or any time they...
Feb 21st
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Feb 19th
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Feb 19th
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Feb 19th
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Feminist hypersensitivity or masculine obtuseness?... →
PZ’s take on the stuff that went down at the recent American Athiests meeting. He’s awesome. If you want to keep the warm fuzzy feelings, don’t read the comments. There is so much stupid there—it’s depressing. Apparently some men think PZ’s advice to shut up and really listen to what women are saying for a change means be extra sexist and whine about women...
Feb 18th
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“If this bill passes into law, a wife beater whose wife is trying to abort for...”
– Amanda Marcotte, “South Dakota legislators move to legalize some terrorism and domestic violence” (via pandagon.net) This is scary.
Feb 16th
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Feb 16th
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WatchWatch
Lawrence O’Donnell’s take on Bill O’Reilly Do you ever get the feeling that Glenn Beck’s job is to be a smokescreen for Bill O’Reilly? Beck is busy saying so many utterly insane things that get him so much attention that it’s easy to miss O’Reilly’s lower voltage lies.
Feb 16th
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“With the passing of the Bush administration, and its frequent willingness to...”
– Removing the Roadblocks to Rehabilitation - NYTimes.com My sister sent me this great quote!
Feb 15th
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Kids See the Darndest Things | Skepticblog →
Cute story of a dad telling his 5-year-old the history surrounding UFOs :)
Feb 15th
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“We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone...”
– Dr. Seuss (via kari-shma)
Feb 15th
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Shawna Forde verdict: Guilty on all counts →
blackamazon: Yes!! So happy to hear this!
Feb 15th
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Feb 13th
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The Top Ten Daily Consequences of Having Evolved →
ignatius-m: incomprehensibleuniverse: From hiccups to wisdom teeth, the evolution of homo sapiens has left behind some glaring, yet innately human, imperfections By Rob Dunn Smithsonian.com, November 19, 2010 Natural selection acts by winnowing the individuals of each generation, sometimes clumsily, as old parts and genes are co-opted for new roles. As a result, all species inhabit bodies...
Feb 13th
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Feb 13th
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Damn it, Mubarak
wtf?
Feb 11th
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Exciting news!
After 19 months of searching, I will finally be starting a job that is exactly what I was looking for! I will be moving to Portland fairly quickly and I’m hoping that I can find an affordable place of my own. It will be the first time I won’t have a housemate. I’m so happy, you guys!!!!
Feb 10th
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Feb 7th
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“Well, Dr. Wakefield has been shown to have used absolutely fraudulent data. He...”
– Bill Gates in response to being asked about the controversy surrounding Andrew Wakefield (via Bill Gates steps in it in a good way, declares vaccine-autism link an “absolute lie” : Respectful Insolence)
Feb 6th
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Feb 4th
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“One thing that was alarmingly obvious when watching it is that almost all the...”
– PZ Myers, The Nature of Existence I love PZ. I’m not sure the Gnu Atheism Horsepersons would have even noticed this discrepancy. Maybe Sam. As much as I love Dawkins, Hitchens, and Dennett, I think even Hitchens would have missed this. Atheist activists need to be aware of misogyny, sexuality,...
Feb 3rd
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Feb 2nd
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Feb 2nd
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“When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding...”
– Sandi Toksvig (Sandi Toksvig is the one who pointed out to me that the Bayeaux Tapestry was made by women.  She is incredibly awesome.) (via ladiesmakingcomics, learninglog) Sandi Toksvig is one of my favourite guest panelists on Q.I. She absolutely is awesome. (I just watched the ‘History’...
Feb 1st
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