February 2012
A Strange Form of Social Collapse - NYTimes.com →
Reading Charles Murray and all the commentary about the sources of moral collapse among working-class whites, I’ve had a nagging question: is it really all that bad?
I mean, yes, marriage rates are way down, and labor force participation is down among prime-age men (although not as much as some of the rhetoric might imply), But it’s generally left as an implication that these trends must be...
Watchjeffmiller:
Cops beating a man who is in diabetic shock. More here.
Somehow, we’ve bought into a principle that, in situations like this, the safety of the officer is the most important thing. That’s pretty much the exact opposite of what you want in your officers. Their job is to protect the public first, not themselves. That’s what makes it a hard job. That’s also what makes it a job....
“One Planned Parenthood clinic does more in a day to prevent abortions than the...”
– Helen Philpot (via feminishblog)
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How to install the Java plugin in Ubuntu for... →
Useful tip…
The Callus: My favorite Flash story →
jasencomstock:
moorewr:
thecallus:
I was interviewing for an awesome role at a major mortgage spot a few months ago.
Won’t say which. They needed to fix their shit in a big way, and I wound up walking from an offer because of the disorganized mess they obviously were. But the worst part was the interview.
I thunked my iPad 2 down…
Flash sucks, but so do iPads.
I love it when people...
The Callus: My favorite Flash story →
thecallus:
I was interviewing for an awesome role at a major mortgage spot a few months ago.
Won’t say which. They needed to fix their shit in a big way, and I wound up walking from an offer because of the disorganized mess they obviously were. But the worst part was the interview.
I thunked my iPad 2 down…
Flash sucks, but so do iPads.
I love it when people come to meetings and pull...
Adobe confirms: no Flash for Chrome on Android →
thecallus:
Remember when Flash was the reason to buy some piece of Android trash?
As for the outcome for users, this is objectively good. I live by one guiding tech principle: death to shit.
Well, to review: the Android in my pocket has a Google webkit browser already, and that webkit browser already has Adobe Flash in it. So.. other than change being the only constant, not sure what this...
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jasencomstock:
muppetpants replied to your post: Bradley Manning, Nobel nominee? whaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Can’t be dumber than Obama declaring war on the entire world when accepting his award.
basically
“The British network Sky News reported that Sherry Adhami, spokeswoman for the UK...”
– Born Free (M.I.A. song) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yeah, that’s what it’ll do.
(PS: did the Superbowl halftime committee watch this before they selected M.I.A? LOL either way)
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Fox News Ignoring Positive Jobs Report →
stfuconservatives:
“Good for America, bad for the Fox News dialog. Let’s just pretend it didn’t happen and keep our disproportionately trusting audience ignorant and angry.”
-Joe
lol
I guess T-shirts weren't keeping tumblr in the...
I am considering spending a dollar
..to highlight how silly charging a dollar to bump up a tumblr post is…
Statement by Cecile Richards, Planned Parenthood... →
“The outpouring of support for women in need of lifesaving breast cancer screening this week has been astonishing and is a testament to our nation’s compassion and sincerity.
“During the last week, millions spontaneously joined a national conversation about lifesaving breast cancer prevention care and reinforced shared values about access to health care for all. This compassionate outcry in...
Think Progress: BREAKING: Komen backs down,... →
jasencomstock:
think-progress:
Komen for the Cure’s statement. HT Dallas News
We want to apologize to the American public for recent decisions that cast doubt upon our commitment to our mission of saving women’s lives.
The events of this week have been deeply unsettling for our supporters, partners and friends and all of us…
This is called putting the shit back in the horse.
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Susan G. Komen Foundation Also Stops Funding... →
In addition to pulling funds from Planned Parenthood for The Susan G. Komen Foundation also decided to stop funding embryonic stem cell research centers making it fully transparent the organization has evolved from non-political non-profit to a partisan advocacy organization.
That means the loss of $3.75 million to the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, $4.5 million to the University...
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“Republicans have created this completely fictional President: his name is Barack...”
– BILL MAHER, Real Time (via inothernews)
Last Night's GOP Turnout In Florida Down From 2008... →
Fascinating - this certainly lines up with the state of open mutiny against the national party all my local GOP friends are in..
(h/t Gilmoure, by way of g+)
The Ten Most Quintessentially French Cars -... →
The Ten Most Quintessentially French Cars
Charles de Gaulle said, “France cannot be France without greatness.” France also cannot be France without a selection of the most delightfully weird cars ever made. Here are Jalopnik readers’ choices for the most quintessentially French cars.
“It’s been a strange three years under the Obama administration. First the GOP...”
– Tiny Dupuy (via azspot)
Liberals Are Cool: The Country Is Turning More... →
“First, that although the Christian right is now in decline, it remains powerful, making up roughly 35 to 40 percent of the Republican primary electorate. But its preoccupations are less and less those of Americans taken as a whole. The Christian right might become increasingly marginalized and…
Graphic images flood out of Syria. Why no world... →
jasencomstock:
csmonitor:
Grainy videos depict the violence that has killed at least 6,000 Syrians, but the prospects for international intervention appear dim. Is the world inured to the ubiquitous images?
I know I’m totally inured to images of violence. Maybe Israel can invade and liberate the fuck out of Syria? Having spent most of my adulthood with American troops in Iraq, I think my...
“As a humanist, I am distressed by the corruption of the idea of atheism. Genuine...”
– How atheism became a religion in all but name | Frank Furedi | spiked (via wooliebear)
Here’s my take-away from this silly bit of linkage…
Random concern troll: “Dude, let’s take a real-but-unrelated problem and blame atheism for it.”
Frank Furedi: “Sounds like...
JasenComstock: Komen cuts grants for Planned... →
jessicavalenti:
I’m sure that most folks know by now that Susan G. Komen for the Cure, a breast cancer charity and advocacy organization, announced that they were cutting funding to Planned Parenthood for cancer screenings. In the last five years, the money from Komen allowed PP to…