February 2012
“Anti-liberal propaganda has been ramping up for years. Former Fox News host...”
– Online ‘Hit List’ Targets Liberals (via ryking)
“I hate my son’s homework. I hate the shallow worksheets and the confusing...”
– Abolishing Homework: Practical Thoughts
(via anticapitalist)
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Predicting Presidential Performance →
Mitt Romney: Evidence That, If Elected, He Would Be A Classic Active/Negative President, Much Like George W. Bush
My knowledge of Governor Romney is based on news accounts and two recent biographies: The Real Romney by Michael Kranish and Scott Helman, who are both Boston Globe reporters, and Mitt Romney: An Inside Look at the Man and His Politics by R.B. Scott, once a Utah-based journalist,...
“So we have become a society in which less-educated men have great difficulty...”
– Paul Krugman (via azspot
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“Until the good bishops of the Catholic church can figure out how to keep their...”
– Kris Broughton (via azspot)
BAM.
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Burn
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egouroboros asked: What makes our political system...
politicalprof:
Gosh: what isn’t?
Three Constitutionally co-equal branches of government with no one branch in final control.
An elaborate set of checks and balances intended to make action difficult.
A divided legislature with no formal mechanism for coordinating the two halves if there is division between them, or between one or both branches and the President.
No formal role for political...
You Want a Physicist to Speak at Your Funeral
sweetupndown:
thereisafish:
You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe, and none is destroyed. You want your...
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“How do you like your party now, Ronnie? A Mormon everyone hates, a...”
– Dear Ronald Reagan: Thanks for Wrecking America (via azspot)
“But neither Jesus nor His earliest followers ever taught that fruitfulness...”
– Rachel Held Evans (via azspot)
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"What Conservatives say they want is “Small...
leftish:
What they are working on this year is Government that prohibits you from using contraception, that forcibly collects your urine, hair and blood, and that puts you in prison or deports you if it does not like the speeches you attend. This stuff is happening all over, all the time now. This is what Conservative Government is like this year. It sort of seems to me that this ought to be a...
Things That Powerful, Wealthy, Intelligent...
politicalprof:
The name of the Gulf of Mexico
Freedom Fries
Freedom Toast
The sexual orientation, gender, race, ethnicity or creed of people who want to serve the nation
Iran closing the Strait of Hormuz for 10 or 15 minutes, which is about as long as they can do it
I’m sure there’s a lot more. But you get my point.
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Education Gap Grows Between Rich and Poor, Studies... →
Now, in analyses of long-term data published in recent months, researchers are finding that while the achievement gap between white and black students has narrowed significantly over the past few decades, the gap between rich and poor students has grown substantially during the same period.
“We have moved from a society in the 1950s and 1960s, in which race was more consequential than...
It's time for a unified ebook format and the end... →
Imagine buying a car that locks you into one brand of fuel. A new BMW, for example, that only runs on BMW gas. There are plenty of BMW gas stations around, even a few in your neighborhood, so convenience isn’t an issue. But if one of those other gas stations offers a discount, a membership program, or some other attractive marketing campaign, you can’t participate. You’re locked in with the BMW...
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“The Obama administration, seeking to rein in a runaway political furor over...”
– Obama Plans Shift in Birth Control Fight, Aides Say (via kileyrae)
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Republicans against the Violence Against Women Act
politicalprof:
So the Violence Against Women Act is up for renewal this year, and surprise of all surprises … not a single Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to reauthorize the act. Not a single one.
Why? Well, the editorial in the New York Times puts it this way:
The main sticking points seemed to be language in the bill to ensure that victims are not denied services because...
“The creation of greater inequality, the shredding of the social safety net, and...”
– Family Values? Conservative Economics Have Shredded Marriage Rates (via azspot)
Mississippi lawmaker: 'Gulf of America' bill was a... →
truth-has-a-liberal-bias:
All the people outraged about the Mississippi bill to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America” have missed its satirical intent, the sponsor said Thursday. State Rep. Steve Holland, a populist Democrat known for over-the-top gestures, said he was tickled that his provocation had rocketed across the Internet. Holland says the measure is meant to mock other...
School District Holds Movie Day, Only Lets The... →
seriouslyamerica:
stfuconservatives:
The Dallas school district decided to take all fifth graders to see the movie Red Tails. The fifth graders are learning about WWII and Black History Month, so lesson plans were tailored around that subject matter.
Except they didn’t take any of the female students to see the movie.
Their excuse is that the movie theater wasn’t big enough for all the fifth...
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pretty much always.
Why Don’t We Pay People Enough? 8 Facts About... →
Seven. What is a living wage in the US?
Dr. Amy Glasmeier of Penn State University has created a Living Wage Calculator that estimates the hourly wage needed to pay the cost of living for low wage families in the US. It breaks down the cost of living by state and locality across the nation. In New Orleans, a mom with one child needs to earn $17.52 to make ends meet. In New York, the mom...