January 2011
35 posts
Watchitsfullofstars:
Onboard the Lunar Rover - 16 mm film sequence of driving the Lunar Rover.
Scientists identify how to spot a future criminal... →
What do we have here? The sound science of phrenology wearing a new set of cloths?
King Might Understand Today’s Wars →
Jeh C. Johnson, the Defense Department’s general counsel, posed that question at today’s Pentagon commemoration of King’s legacy. In the final year of his life, King became an outspoken opponent of the Vietnam War, Johnson told a packed auditorium. However, he added, today’s wars are not out of line with the iconic Nobel Peace Prize winner’s teachings. “I believe that if Dr. King were alive...
“Of course, there is nothing new about this kind of civil disobedience. It was...”
– Martin Luther King (via azspot)
Planned Parenthood files complaint against Nampa... →
Things like this make it to the paper from time to time, I’m sure a lot less than is actually happening.
Idaho Board of Pharmacy Executive Director Mark Johnston confirmed that the board received the complaint alleging that on Nov. 6 a Walgreens pharmacist refused to fill a prescription ordered by one of Planned Parenthood’s Boise-based nurse practitioners. The prescription was for a...
tpdsaa:
Submitted by twitter.com/benjohannemann
Things real people don’t say about advertising.
Obama Ignores Eisenhower at Country's, World's... →
Eisenhower warned in his farewell address in 1961 that the United States should not become a “garrison state,” but, nearly fifty years later, we have developed a garrison mentality with unprecedented military spending, continuous military deployments, exaggerated fears with regard to “Islamo-terrorism” (and, now, cyberwars) and exaggerated aspirations with regard to...
SwipeGood →
“SwipeGood rounds up all of your credit card purchases to the nearest dollar and allows you to donate the difference to the charity of your choice.”
10 Awesome Things MLK Said That You Won't Hear... →
vruz:
vruz: well, not adopting really, more like co-opting. taking the substance away and filling the void with meaningless platitudes about an ideal motherland that never existed (you gotta skip that little slavery bit), founding fathers who never were perfect nor all religious, and invariably praising all soliders and anything the military does at all times as war heros without limit, many of...
Sometimes the right people loose their jobs.
“If you want to feel a tad more intimidated, consider Lockheed Martin’s...”
– via Mother Jones
“I make the modest proposal that psychiatric care should be as easy to get as...”
– Andy Borowitz (via kateoplis)
Why Was Jared Loughner Allowed to Buy an Assault... →
Question: Why is there so little talk of terrorism?
Apparently when a mentally unstable white male is accused, terrorism is not the first thing that comes to mind.
When Clay Duke, a white male, threatened Florida school board members with a gun and shot at them before shooting himself, in December 2010, he was mentally imbalanced.
When Michael Enright, a white male, was arrested for slashing...
A US Congresswoman was shot by a lunatic and rather than following that tragedy with a sober conversation about gun rights and the availability of lethal weapons our increasingly irrelevant news organizations decided to launch into round-table speed-matches of “who’s uses more violent words” and “who are we going to blame.”
Watchfuckyeahohio:
OK, here’s the wrap up. The dude’s gonna have to cure cancer to get blogged about here again. I mean, we can’t have anyone with more posts than Guided by Voices.
thedailywhat:
Today In Ted Williams:
Williams made an appearance on last night’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (above).
Williams and his 90-year-old mother Julia (with whom he reunited yesterday) appeared together on...
“George Bush says he speaks to god every day, and christians love him for it. If...”
– Sam Harris (via fightthefaith)
vruz: everybody knows there’s certain appropriate ways to speak to non-existent deities.
(via vruz)
…and had he talked to a fabricated being other than The God - understood to be the Old Testament Christian god - he would never have been elected.
Goldman Facebook Pitch Or Nigerian Email Scam? :... →
life20:
Goldman Sachs recently emailed wealthy clients who might be interested in investing in Facebook. The WSJ’s Deal Journal got a peek at the email — and noticed a a striking resemblance to the language in a Nigerian email scam.
Goldman’s message begins:
When you have a chance I wanted to find a time to discuss a highly confidential and time sensitive investment opportunity in a ...
“He has written books, but most critics understand that is not his gift.” Haikuleaks
“A person dependent on somebody else for everything from potatoes to opinions may...”
– Wendell Berry (via azspot)