By now you probably know that the 9th Circuit Court (one step below the US Supreme Court) ruled California's anti - gay marriage Proposition 8 unconstitutional. There's some good analysis and some links to commentary here.
Truth, lies, and Afghanistan.
Why Planned Parenthood isn't easy for the Right to destroy like ACORN was.
Related: Planned Parenthood saved me.
Presidential pardons heavily favor whites.
Michigan GOP Senate candidate's crazy racist website.
New candidate for dumbest Congressman.
When I came out...
Cognitive neuroscience!
Top 25 auto correct fails.
Who's looking at whom at the gym.
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Tuesday, February 07, 2012
Monday, February 06, 2012
Why books are better than Kindles
Because you never find random foreign money in used Kindle editions of The Canterbury Tales.
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Sunday, February 05, 2012
Good Reads/Random Cool Sites (2/5/2012)
US drone attacks target rescuers and mourners.
One town's war on gay teens.
Atheism in America: Godlessness is the last big taboo in the US, where non-believers face discrimination and isolation.
Native American 7th-grader suspended for speaking Menominee in front of teacher.
Komen's flailing continues.
The cost of football glory.
The world's heaviest insect is 3,500 times as massive as the world's smallest invertebrate.
And I just bought a house with a wood-burning fireplace, dang it.
Vermont inmates sneak a picture of a pig into official decals for state police cars.
Read the mouse-over text for the punchline.
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One town's war on gay teens.
Atheism in America: Godlessness is the last big taboo in the US, where non-believers face discrimination and isolation.
Native American 7th-grader suspended for speaking Menominee in front of teacher.
Komen's flailing continues.
The cost of football glory.
The world's heaviest insect is 3,500 times as massive as the world's smallest invertebrate.
And I just bought a house with a wood-burning fireplace, dang it.
Vermont inmates sneak a picture of a pig into official decals for state police cars.
Read the mouse-over text for the punchline.
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Thursday, February 02, 2012
Good Reads/Random Cool Sites (2/2/2012)
The Susan G. Komen Foundation for the Cure (the pink ribbon breast cancer foundation) has decided to put abortion politics ahead of women's health.
Damage control is underway, but it's pretty clear that the Komen Foundation has committed itself to being an anti-choice breast cancer foundation rather than a breast cancer foundation.
The Obama Administration brags about its assassination program while claiming in court cases that it's so secret it can't even confirm its existence.
Twenty-five percent of Romney's campaign money has come from 41 donors.
Tyler Clementi's suicide and Dharun Ravi's trial.
Scientists are drilling through two miles of Antarctic ice to reach one of the largest lakes in the world. (What could possibly go wrong?)
This is hilarious, but on the other hand, half the country is starving because of that fat fuck.
When is White History Month?
"[Defendant] also owed plaintiff ... a duty of care not to drink under age, or to fire bottle rockets out of his anus."
So it begins. The greatest battle of our time.
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Damage control is underway, but it's pretty clear that the Komen Foundation has committed itself to being an anti-choice breast cancer foundation rather than a breast cancer foundation.
The Obama Administration brags about its assassination program while claiming in court cases that it's so secret it can't even confirm its existence.
Twenty-five percent of Romney's campaign money has come from 41 donors.
Tyler Clementi's suicide and Dharun Ravi's trial.
Scientists are drilling through two miles of Antarctic ice to reach one of the largest lakes in the world. (What could possibly go wrong?)
This is hilarious, but on the other hand, half the country is starving because of that fat fuck.
When is White History Month?
"[Defendant] also owed plaintiff ... a duty of care not to drink under age, or to fire bottle rockets out of his anus."
So it begins. The greatest battle of our time.
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Shameless self-promotion (Vote for me!)
It's time for the Brodies again. The Brodies, if you don't know, are internet awards for the (mainly) ex/post/former/recovering/New Order/struggling/etc Mormon side of teh interwebs.
I'm nominated in four categories (look for 'kuri'):
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I'm nominated in four categories (look for 'kuri'):
- Funniest Humor Piece: Book of Mormon Zombies
- Most Insightful Discussion of Mormon Beliefs, Practices, and Culture: The Power of the penis
- Best Philosophical/Theological Discussion: Understanding Biblical parables
- Best Religion-and-Parenting Discussion: Discussing potato chips with your future son-in-law*
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Cool people with the same birthday as me
Today is my birthday.
Also born on January 31:
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Also born on January 31:
- Tokugawa Ieyasu, 1543, the first Tokugawa shogun
- Franz Schubert, 1797, Austrian composer
- Zane Grey, 1872, American writer
- Jackie Robinson, 1919, American baseball player
- Norman Mailer, 1923, American writer
- Philip Glass, 1937, American composer, Philip Glass, 1937, American composer
- Connie Booth, 1944, American writer/actor
- Nolan Ryan, 1947, American baseball player
- John Lydon ("Johnny Rotten"), 1956, English singer/legend
- Justin Timberlake, 1981
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Sunday, January 29, 2012
The mystery plant
This plant is growing in the backyard of my new house.
I don't know what it is. I don't think I've ever seen one before. It's deciduous and kind of viney, with all these puffy, cottony things on it.
If it was up to me, I'd probably call it a "sage vine," because when there's a light breeze, the white puffballs all bob up and down like a conclave of elderly bearded men nodding wisely.
Or maybe I'd call it a "Shih Tzu vine," because it kind of reminds me of those little dogs.
But those aren't it's real name. Anybody know what it is?
I really want to know.
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I don't know what it is. I don't think I've ever seen one before. It's deciduous and kind of viney, with all these puffy, cottony things on it.
If it was up to me, I'd probably call it a "sage vine," because when there's a light breeze, the white puffballs all bob up and down like a conclave of elderly bearded men nodding wisely.
Or maybe I'd call it a "Shih Tzu vine," because it kind of reminds me of those little dogs.
But those aren't it's real name. Anybody know what it is?
I really want to know.
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