February 2012
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Selective Religion →
Republicans have been accusing Obama of waging war on the Catholic Church, if not on religion in general, because he won’t let the church have its way on issues like birth control.
However, the same politicians who are attacking Obama have voted against the Catholic Church in a number of other (even bigger) policy issues. Are they waging a war on the Catholic Church, or are they just being...
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Added Arizona Hypocrisy →
Arizona Sheriff Paul Babeu is a rising star in the Republican party, largely because of his strong stance against illegal immigrants. His first moment of fame was in 2010 when he appeared in a television ad with John McCain calling for the US government to “complete the danged fence” along the southern border. He’s also been a frequent guest on Fox News talking about...
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Jeff Diehl made a great video of a his drive across the barren landscape of Mongolia, condensed to four minutes. It’s a time-lapse with occasional real-time breaks and his comments. This is a nice way to present a travel video.
Experience the roadlessness, the bandits, the breakdowns, the yaks, and the camels, without ever having to figure out how to steer and shift a right-driving...
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The History of Carpooling, from Jitneys to... →
Ridesharing began shortly after the introduction of the Model-T, America’s first automobile priced with for the middle-class. By the end of 1914, the US had fallen into a recession at the same time it was seeing a flood of cheap new automobiles on city streets. In San Francisco, enterprising car owners began offering seats in their cars for the same price as a street car fair, known as a jitney....
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NYT publishes "infringement is theft" column and... →
The Boston Phoenix’s Cindy Carioli points out that on the same weekend that the New York Times carried a column from Bill Keller decrying piracy as a war on creative people, the Times’s op-ed page pirated an article to which the Phoenix holds the copyright. And of course, the Times is the same corporation that claimed that aggregating its RSS-feed headlines in a mobile app was piracy,...
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WatchGreat interview of former Justice John Paul Stevens by Stephen Colbert.
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“The cowardice comes from not wanting to disturb the sacred status of American...”
– Take a hit of Andrew Sullivan on Washington, weed, and hypocrisy. (via cheatsheet)
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Dangers of Fracking →
Really clever use of CSS and HTML5 technology in this web site that reveals more information about hydraulic fracturing as you scroll further down the page.
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Legislators Totally Cool With Required Drug... →
One way to get a politician to withdraw a bill requiring drug-testing for welfare applicants? Just tell him lawmakers also have to get tested, and see how fast he boomerangs. Rep. Jud McMillin, a Republican member of the Indiana General Assembly, took back his drug-testing bill after one of his helpful Democratic colleagues amended it ever so slightly.
The Huffington Post says Rep. McMillin,...