May 2012
10 posts
Girl Scouts →
The girls and women of the Girl Scouts are a tough bunch, I’m sure they will have no trouble defending themselves against a small, cranky pack of elderly pedophiles.
“The answer is to reform capitalism. The world’s productivity revolution is...”
– (via Robert Reich)
This. Yes.
Robert Reich: The Stall Has Arrived →
robertreich:
The economy has stalled.
Friday’s jobs report for April was even more disappointing than March. Employers added only 115,000 new jobs, down from March’s number (the Bureau of Labor Statistics revised the March number upward to 154,000, but that’s still abysmal relative to what’s needed). We…
This needs talked about now. A lot. It’s bad, but doesn’t need to remain that...
“The situation of Instagram is that of an isolated island economy, separate from...”
– (via Interconnected)
Descriptive camera →
“And hey, why don’t we get real about this? Most rich folks paying 28 percent...”
– Stephen King (via The Daily Beast)
“In the last few years it’s become apparent the music business, which was once...”
– David Lowery - Meet The New Boss, Worse Than The Old Boss? -Full Post | The Trichordist (via manage)
April 2012
6 posts
“What we’ve seen over the last 30 years is a war on the human imagination. That’s...”
– David Graeber (via azspot)
“About 65 million years ago, the Earth was struck by an asteroid some 10 km...”
– (via Technology Review)
“Capitalism did not arise by a set of natural laws which stem from human nature:...”
– Anti-capitalism 101 (via azspot)
“Organized gambling is a scam. And it particularly preys upon people with lower...”
– (via Rober Reich )
March 2012
14 posts
“Republicans have morality upside down. Santorum, Gingrich, and even Romney are...”
– Robert Reich (via azspot)
“Take Francis Collins, for example, one of America’s most well-known scientists...”
– (via Religion Dispatches That’s right. Millions.
“After 10 years of custody battles, court-ordered counseling and imminent...”
– Southern Poverty Law Center Men’s rights groups eh?
“Would I support one candidate against another? Yes, for two minutes — the amount...”
– Howard Zinn (via azspot)
Alex Pappademas writes about Radiohead's Jonny... →
rawkblog:
Essential.
Dear haters, I am openly questioning your patriotism. I think you hate gays, Obama, black people, poor people, all of us, women, atheists and agnostics, Latinos, Muslims, Liberals, all of us, I think you hate every one who isn’t exactly like you, and I think you hate us more than you love your country. I think you hate gay soldiers more than you want America to win its wars.
(via...
RHPolitics: Top 10 Immigration Myths and Facts →
welcomingrhodeisland:
MYTH - Immigrants don’t pay taxes All immigrants pay taxes, whether income, property, sales, or other. As far as income tax payments go, sources vary in their accounts, but a range of studies find that immigrants pay between $90 and $140 billion a year in federal,…
February 2012
13 posts
“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking...”
– ~ Martin Luther King Jr.
“Trubridge passes 100 feet, 150 feet, 200 feet. Almost two minutes into the dive,...”
– (via Outside Online - Open Your Mouth and You’re Dead)
““About a year after Pole created his pregnancy-prediction model, a man...”
– (via NY Times
“Now you’ve got theme park rides as the source material of movies. The only...”
– (Alan Moore via Co.Create)
“I think it’s often been portrayed as artists versus pirates. That isn’t accurate...”
– Aaron Swartz (via azspot)
Fuck this jowly, pompous dirt-bag.
Path assumes it can take what it wants from you. They feel free to steal your private information, lie to you about it then throw artificial barriers in your way to prevent you from deleting your account. Path doesn’t have respect for it’s customers.
“Governments that issue their own money don’t have to pay off their debts. They...”
– The Meme that Refuses to Die: Government Debt Must Be Paid Back (via azspot)
“As I looked backward and forward in time, however, I had to face this awkward...”
– David Frum (via azspot)
January 2012
34 posts
“Here’s the idea. Set up a trust for the movie industry. A bank account...”
– (via Scripting News - Dave Winer)
“Can one really claim they earned it the old-fashioned way when their father was...”
– (via Ethics Daily - Debunking the Bootstrap Myth)
“Maybe nobody will care about printed books 50 years from now, but I do. When I...”
– Jonathan Franzen (via azspot)
Jonathan Franzen explaining why he’s slowly going to replace his print collection with novels chiselled into stone tablets.
To protest a bill that would require women to undergo an ultrasound before having an abortion, Virginia State Sen. Janet Howell (D-Fairfax) on Monday attached an amendment that would require men to have a rectal exam and a cardiac stress test before obtaining a prescription for erectile dysfunction medication.
(via Huffington Post)
And that my friends is how the game is played. My hat’s...
“The normalization of prison rape—like eighteenth-century japery about watching...”
– (via The New Yorker)
Tennessee is trying to pass a bill that makes it... →
So this post makes it sound like you should support this. I’ll assume they didn’t intend that, a passionate mistype. It you do support it, you should be fucked in the eye socket by hyenas forever. Fight for equal rights. Always.