February 2012
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WatchBill Maher is only good at one thing - being really condescending. Luckily there’s one subject that deserves every bit of his condescension, and he really gives it the beans here. I admit I hadn’t known that Mitt Romney had his outspoken-atheist father-in-law posthumously baptized, but it certainly doesn’t shock me. Good on Maher for setting things right.
December 2011
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November 2011
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Priorities - The Cops Don't Have Them →
Thanks to drug war incentives, both statistics and anecdotes show US police agencies spend most of their time going after (harmless) drug users and ignore violent crime. Only massive law enforcement reform will fix this clusterfuck.
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Fun fact: Permitting vice lowers the harm it... →
The Dutch have legal drugs, legal prostitution, and a very permissive view on teen sex. Yet their rates of drug abuse, STDs and teen pregnancy are many times lower than in the US. Bad laws and religious hangups cause more problems than they solve. A new book called “Not Under My Roof” explains how and why this is true.
October 2011
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Panic of the Plutocrats →
I know I haven’t been posting much lately, and what I do post is overwhelmingly political. It’s just that there is some seriously important political stuff going on right now. Chances are that anybody reading this is already well aware of the Occupy Wall Street movement, and realizes that the crooked righties who denounce it are doing so because they don’t want to give up their...
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Hipster Regan: Wanted to close millionaire tax... →
September 2011
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Founder of TSA says TSA is an ineffective... →
I think Toot sums up my reaction to this shocking revelation.
August 2011
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Finnish Schools Actually Work →
Everybody agrees that US public schools are completely fucked, but nobody seems to know what to do about it. Here’s an idea - copy everything about Finland’s system. Their kids rank miles above ours in every metric, and they spend less money per student to accomplish it.
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Six Reasons The Guy Fixing Your Computer Hates You →
As the guy who always has to fix your computer, I can attest that every single word of this is true.
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Scientists Create Assholes →
Jersey shore to sue for patent infringement.
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WatchDylan Ratigan is mad as hell, and he’s not going to take it any more. In a Network-style on-air tirade, the MSNBC commentator let fly with the honest truth about why our political system is so thoroughly fucked. He is furious - and rightfully so - that both congress and the president refuse to make necessary and meaningful changes to the tax and regulatory systems that have allowed banks...
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WatchIf Game of Thrones was a 16-bit RPG. Dead-on-balls accurate (it’s a technical term).
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Bullshit anti-privacy bill that would track your... →
ISPs would be crippled by the requirement to store every click you make for up to 18 months. Your activities can be examined by any branch of government for any reason - no warrant required. The claimed intent is to stop child pornography, which it won’t. Spying on 700 million Americans to ineffectively combat a couple hundred pervs is a disgusting abuse of power and horrendous waste of...
July 2011
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26 Percent Of Americans Don’t Know U.S. Declared... →
Yeah, that sounds about right.
June 2011
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Georgia Kicks Out Illegal-Immigrant Workers,... →
One of the primary rallying cries of the anti-immigration movement is “Them illeegalz is takin’ our jobs!”. Of course the rational (and accurate) response to this is the fact that most illegal immigrants do work that legals don’t want to do, for wages that US citizens wouldn’t accept. Throwing logic to the wind, Georgia recently passed House Bill 87, which made it...
Man robs bank for $1 so he could get free prison... →
Honestly, I can’t fault his logic. The government refuses to make meaningful and sane health care reforms, but seems to have bottomless pockets for prisons. I expect to see more of this sort of thing before we finally have a sustainable, socialized health care system like the rest of the developed world.
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Happy Birthday, War On Drugs! →
Forty fabulous years of wasting billions of dollars, filling the jails with non-violent non-criminals, and getting innocent people killed. Of all our pointless and expensive wars, you’re the most pointless. Congratulations, War on Drugs!
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May 2011
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April 2011
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AT-AT for America: The Dream: An AT-AT for America →
atatforamerica:
NERDS OF AMERICA:
We were once a country that made things: giantmetal cars, Hoover Dams, non-AutoTuned popular music.
But now we are stuck in an economy in limbo, surrounded by our Internets, our hipsters and our arguing politicians.
Nerds, I have a great idea to make America great…
I don’t see how this could possibly fail.
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March 2011
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Happy 'A' Week. →
Armchair activism? Yes, but my chair is too damn comfy to get out of, so it’s this or nothing.
February 2011
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January 2011
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White People Rapping Poorly →
There’s probably a word in German for something that is perfectly described by its title and requires no further explanation. Whatever that word is, it would be accurately applied to White People Rapping Poorly.
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December 2010
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November 2010
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