June 2010
May 2010
Racking up student loan debt →
alcaniglia:
The NY Times looks at the astounding amounts of debt that students have taken on. It is a very paternalistic article wondering why no one helped the student save themselves from these loans. It goes so far as to say, “So why didn’t N.Y.U. tell Ms. Munna that she simply did not belong there once she’d passed, say, $60,000 in total debt?”
I would be really pissed if I work my ass...
NTKG, Reporting: I don't support gay/lesbian... →
iwasjustsayin:
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I agree. I can understand them, but I just can’t accept relationships like those. Love is love, yes. But it needs to be pure. It needs to be God-like. That’s it for me.
I can also agree that both of you are ignorant to the fact that you quoted the old testament. If you’re…
“Our Constitution states that among our “natural” rights, endowed by our Creator,...”
– OrthoCuban (via azspot)
except it is the Declaration of Independence that contains the line “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of...
“My problem with many of my fellow evangelicals is that they don’t seem to fully...”
– Humility and Humanity (via azspot)
“Picture yourself eating nine Rice Krispies marshmallow bars in a row. Does your...”
– America, You’ve Got a Drinking Problem (via apsies)
House Votes to Permit Repeal of Ban on Gays in... →
soupsoup:
The House voted to let the Defense Department repeal the ban on gay and bisexual people from serving openly in the military, a major step toward dismantling the 1993 law widely known as “don’t ask, don’t tell.”
“President Obama ordered a halt Thursday to drilling operations at all 33...”
– Obama orders halt to deep-water drilling in the gulf
One of my facebook friends was shitting her pants over people who have lost their jobs because Obama shut down the rigs. Here’s a thought: BP should take all the people who are going to have nothing else to do for the next six months and pay them...
“President Barack Obama refuted allegations of impropriety surrounding reports...”
– CNN Political Ticker
This one is worth watching. Despite the sound and fury from the far right, the Obama administration has run a pretty clean ship so far. If there turns out to be something behind this story, it could be the first Obama scandal I would consider legitimate.
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What U.S. History Would Look Like If It Were... →
robot-heart-politics:
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The sad thing is, there is a lot of people who would read this and see nothing wrong with it. *sigh*
I got to “God” in the line about the Constitution and stopped reading
Differences
apsies: librarianpirate: tennroof:
I keep seeing this bored talk that nothing will ever change, one party’s just like the other, and voting doesn’t matter, cause they’re all the same.
But there is a very simple but very real and important difference between this administration and the last one. A sample-
Remember Michael “Heckuva Job” Brown, head of FEMA during Katrina? The sum total of his...
The (Only) Ten Basic News Stories →
azspot:
1. Shock and Horror. As they say in the news biz, “If it bleeds, it leads.” Murders, especially multiples, acts of unusual violence, brutality, or sadism, shark attacks, and the carnage left by explosions are sure fire grabbers for the attention of a nation of gawkers. 2. Tragedy. Preferably enhanced by the horror factor, as in a suicide bombing, the Tragedy category includes natural...
Animating a Blockbuster: How Pixar Built Toy Story... →
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Watch
I wanted to make sure that everyone got a chance to see Rachel Maddow’s segmentlast night on how much oil spill response mechanisms have (not!) changed over the last 40 years. She digs up archive NBC coverage of the 1979 Ixtoc I oil spill in which a blow out preventer failed and oil gushed into the Gulf of Mexico for 9 months. The Ixtoc I response featured failed top hats, top kills, chemical...
“The U.S. Coast Guard was the first responder. The Coast Guard’s priority always...”
– Take punitive action against BP now - CNN.com (via mikehudack) (via abcsoupdot) (via robot-heart-politics)
IMPORTANT: I watch the friendly game between Team...
potterspoet:
fatmanatee:
This is the scene that was obviously developed more for dramatics, but I couldn’t help but try to piece together a lineup card for The Team That Was Not Named. And as I focused in, I realized that the editor kinda blew it here. I think their highlight reel was just that, a highlight reel. I refuse to believe that Squints was hitting cleanup, even though he was...
Squashed: Obama's Katrina →
Aside from a hurricane, what was Katrina? The people insisting that the BP Spill is “Obama’s Katrina” may, in a self-fulfilling way, be on to something. The fallout from Katrina—fair or not—was the end of Bush’s credibility for a lot of people. Regardless of what Bush had actually done, he was…
“BP wants Twitter to shut down a fake BP account that is mocking the oil company....”
– JIMMY FALLON, Late Night (via the New York Times) (via inothernews) (via schmolitics) (via apsies)
“This wrinkle in the political space-time continuum was supposed to have been...”
– 2010’s Debates Still Trapped in the 1960s - NYTimes.com (via spintree) (via robot-heart-politics) (via adeandabet)
Due to the sheer number of Boomers we will continue to relive Boomer politics until the Boomers are out of the political class, media, and boardrooms.
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“This wrinkle in the political space-time continuum was supposed to have been...”
– 2010’s Debates Still Trapped in the 1960s - NYTimes.com (via spintree) (via robot-heart-politics) (via adeandabet)
Due to the sheer number of Boomers we will continue to relive Boomer politics until the Boomers are out of the political class, media, and boardrooms.
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BBC News - First human 'infected with computer... →
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“The perfect wife knows how to provide the harmonic balance within the family...”
– The Perfect Wife is by far the worst blog on the entire Internet. The woman is not even married, yet she has the audacity to tell other women what they should do in order to be the “perfect” wife. She even has a list of ridiculous rules for women to follow. Her entire website literally makes me... 