September 2011
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A Patriotic Whiz-Fest -- Best Selling Author... →
Columnist and best-selling author Carl Hiaasen offered to pay for drug testing for all 160 members of the Florida Legislature in what he called “a patriotic whiz-fest.” Several of the law’s supporters say they’re on board.
“There is a certain public interest in going after hypocrisy,” Hiaasen said Tuesday, two days after he made his proposal in a Miami Herald column.
“Folks that are applying...
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chesterjrtravis:
Bon Iver - Beth/Rest (solo...
bijan:
The National - Conversation 16
acoustic,...
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“I feel terrible for Rick (Santorum) — his name has been dragged through the mud....”
– STEPHEN COLBERT, on Rick Santorum’s Google problem, on The Colbert Report (via inothernews)
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“As I watch the Republican debates, I realize that we are on the brink of a crazy...”
– James Carville (via azspot)
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“So be Patriotic. Go out there and get rich. Get so obnoxiously rich that when...”
– Mark Cuban (via urban-fervor)
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“If you ask why I remain such a strong Obama supporter, it is because I see him...”
– Andrew Sullivan on Republicanism As Religion. He’ll be live-blogging the GOP debate tonight. (via cheatsheet)
“When you teach a man to hate and fear his brother, when you teach that he is a...”
– Robert F Kennedy (via zainyk)
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A Warm Place (At the Heart of it All):... →
bohemianarthouse:
Drug Testing the Poor: Bad Policy, Even Worse Law | TIME
Drug testing proponents like to argue that there are large numbers of drug users going on welfare to get money to support their habits. The claim feeds into long-standing stereotypes about the kind of people who…
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August 2011
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Think You're An Auditory Or Visual Learner?... →
world-shaker:
I’d say this is a pretty significant development:
An entire industry has sprouted based on learning styles. There are workshops for teachers, products targeted at different learning styles and some schools that even evaluate students based on this theory.
This prompted Doug Rohrer, a psychologist at the University of South Florida, to look more closely at the learning...
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“By one estimate, 65 percent of children entering grade school this year will end...”
– Duke University’s Cathy N. Davidson on how to transform our schools. (via theatlantic)
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“I don’t mean to criticize. Anyone. Actually. Except for MTV. You might have had...”
– Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon on MTV (via nedhepburn)
davidcho:
Michael Jackson feat. Jay-Z - ‘You...
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“The implications of Thomas’s leadership for the Court, and for the country, are...”
– The Thomases vs. Obama’s Health-Care Plan (via azspot)
Ziablog: Florida’s welfare drug testing costs more... →
ziatroyano:
A WFTV investigation found that out of the 40 recipients tested by Department of Central Florida’s (DCF) region, only two resulted in positive results. And one of those tests is being appealed.
Under the rules of the program, the state must reimburse recipients who receive negative…
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Letters To My Country: Pssst. Obamacare is... →
manicchill:
Recent data published by both the Standard & Poor’s Healthcare Economic Composite Index and the Congressional Budget Office reveal some unusually good news on the Medicare spending front.
The rapid growth in annual government spending on Medicare is slowing down - and is…
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Ryan Adams Confirms New Album - Clash Music →
travors:
Ryan Adams is set to release ‘Ashes & Fire’ on October 10th. Tracklisting:
Dirty Rain Ashes & Fire Come Home Rocks Do I Wait Chains Of Love Invisible Riverside Save Me Kindness Lucky Now I Love You But I Don’t Know What To Say
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“To paraphrase a favorite quote from Eleanor Roosevelt: If a woman wants to be in...”
– mnguyen: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on believing in your own potential
Be still my heart.
(via awomansplace)
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“On Tuesday Ryan Taylor, 30, a theater director in Washington, got the last...”
– Monica wrote an article for the front page of the Washington Post that literally just talks about the good stuff that happened to random people yesterday. (via washingtonpoststyle)
“I could end the deficit in 5 minutes,” he told Becky Quick. “You just pass a law...”
– Warren Buffett’s ingenious deficit idea- MSN Money (via brit)
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“Conservatives hate the ‘liberal’ media so much, they’re even willing to accept...”
– JON STEWART, reacting to Fox Business anchor Lou Dobbs claiming there’s “scientific proof that the mainstream liberal media is blatantly liberal in its bias,” on The Daily Show (via inothernews)
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“Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I’ve accomplished something,...”
– Nora Ephron (via atomos)
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“Under the law, we’re making it illegal to charge women more just because of...”
– Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on the HHS Dept mandate that birth control must be fully covered by health insurance as preventative care. Co-payments on the pill, as well as on other services like gestational diabetes testing, STI and HIV counseling, and domestic abuse screening, are to be done away...
July 2011
"Architecture may be my favorite thing about...
leftish:
~ Jon Stewart
Mine too!
The Liberal Life: Study: People Less Likely to Be... →
In an upcoming column in the magazine, Free Inquiry, science-watcher Tom Rees reports on research by University of British Columbia social psychologist Will Gervais. Gervais exhaustively measured “gut prejudice” against atheists. He found that most prejudice against atheists is rooted not in…
A Warm Place (At the Heart of it All): caraobrien:... →
caraobrien:
HIV Treatment In Africa Brings Near-Normal Lifespan
Last week two studies demonstrated that a daily antiviral pill protects sexually active men and women from getting infected. Now researchers are showing that the life expectancy of already-infected African patients…
Hopeful news!
Mother Jones: Eleven charts that explain... →
“‘Hey, if being a geek means you’re willing to take a 400-page book on vaccines...”
– Fantastic read about Bill Gates’ work curing and trying to eradicate disease across the world.
Microsoft’s Bill Gates: A rare and remarkable interview with the world’s second richest man | Mail Online
(via peroty)