February 2012
5 posts
“Proposition 8 serves no purpose, and has no effect, other than to lessen the...”
– an excerpt from today’s ruling of a three-judge panel in San Francisco overturning California’s ban on same-sex marriages. (via washingtonpoststyle)
That’s what’s up.
(via leilacohanmiccio)
January 2012
29 posts
Citizens Inundated: Democracy Under Threat →
It wasn’t meant to be this way. Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and George Washington understood that one of government’s primary roles is to ensure that all people have access to news and information. And this duty didn’t begin and end with their ratification of the First Amendment. The founding fathers used other strategies — including subsidizing postal rates for printed...
NPR- Why New Photo ID Laws Mean Some Won't Vote →
…”People are caught in a catch-22: You need a birth certificate to get this ID, but to get a birth certificate you have to have an ID.”…
“When Benjamin Franklin left Independence Hall just after the second drafting, he...”
– Fair Game
Andrew Sullivan: How Obama's Long Game Will... →
A president in the last year of his first term will always get attacked mercilessly by his partisan opponents, and also, often, by the feistier members of his base. And when unemployment is at remarkably high levels, and with the national debt setting records, the criticism will—and should be—even fiercer. But this time, with this president, something different has happened. It’s not that I don’t...
Julian Assange: The Rolling Stone Interview →
“You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is not ignorant, rule over you.” “It is absurd to suggest that simply because a police officer may have the obligation to keep secret certain information relating to an investigation, that the entire world also must be subject to a coercive force.”
“The Supreme Court’s ruling, holding that prisoners at Guantanamo who were not...”
– Dahlia Lithwick
Why Placebos Work Wonders →
December 2011
13 posts
VIDEO: Christmas-Themed 'Senior Citizen Flash... →
#occupywallstreet: kelsium: SOPA Emergency IP list... →
kelsium:
SOPA Emergency IP list
anglophonic:
Here’s how to access your favorite sites in the event of a DNS takedown
tumblr.com 174.121.194.34 wikipedia.org 208.80.152.201 # News bbc.co.uk 212.58.241.131 aljazeera.com 198.78.201.252 # Social media reddit.com 72.247.244.88 …
Watchjakefogelnest:
Tonight’s Xmas Treat…
“Because that’s the thing about Scooby-Doo: The bad guys in every episode aren’t...”
– Scooby-Doo and Secular Humanism (via partyprofessor)
“You have to question a cinematic culture which preaches artistic expression, and...”
– Ryan Gosling, actor and feminist, in a letter protesting the NC-17 rating of Blue Valentine. The rating was based on one consensual sex scene, in which he goes down on Michelle Williams. (via ladiebear)
I get why he’s all over my dash now.
(via jonathan-cunningham)
oops i’m in love with you now
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November 2011
26 posts
Slate.com- Pizza Is Not a Vegetable But neither is... →
Vegetables don’t exist. Great. If I ever have kids, I’ll have raised them, intentionally or not, to be snarky enough to use this against me at the dinner table.
