November 2009
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We'll be in the studio this week recording our...
As a result, HERE.am content may be a little thin for the next several days. Apologies in advance. :-)
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WatchPETA’s Thanksgiving ad, submitted to air during the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade, was rejected by NBC.
OMG, was NBC’s whole “Green Week” thing just a temporary marketing tactic, rather than a genuine commitment to the health of our planet?
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“If I can’t convince a guy standing in a downpour that it’s raining, seems to me...”
– Dave Roberts, in Grist, lamenting the corporate media’s tendency to frame everything — even paramount issues like climate change — as political horse races between two co-equal opponents, facts and consequences be damned.
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Mindless. Honorless. →
Hundreds of thousands of Hindus gathered at a temple in southern Nepal on Tuesday for a ceremony involving the slaughter of more than 200,000 animals, a festival that has drawn the ire of animal-welfare protesters. Hindu organizers refused to halt the slaughter, saying it was a centuries-old tradition. …
The Gadhimai festival is celebrated every five years. Participants believe sacrificing...
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Paula Deen ate ham today
Do I like that an old lady got hit in the face with something heavy? No.
But is it some tiny measure of justice that a celebrity chef who makes a considerable living off the suffering of pigs and other animals was posthumously slapped in the face by one while playing games with its tortured-for-life carcass?
Barely.
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“The standard diet of a meat-eater is blood, flesh, veins, muscles, tendons, cow...”
– Robert Cheeke (via deadtimes)
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Stephen Colbert: I think the Right may be shocked to learn she once made an organic quince tart with a lactose-free cremon glaze for a vegan banquet.
Jon Stewart: Why would that upset the Right?
Stephen Colbert: It’s gay food, Jon! About as gay as it gets. Might as well just stick it up your butt.
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“It is a subject which makes me sick with horror, so I will not say another word...”
– Charles Darwin, on vivisection. (via joshuajudd)
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WatchAl Gore on Saturday Night Live: “We need to stop factory farming.”
(video via inothernews)
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“Newton may have been an ass, but the theory of gravity still works.”
– NASA climate scientist Gavin A. Schmidt, on why hacked climatologists’ emails criticizing prominent climate skeptics as “idiots” don’t actually indict climate science itself, as much as the skeptics would like to believe it. It’s just too perfect that climate skeptics...
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I'm listening to...
Sunn O)))
That’s their name. All of it. Their genre is drone doom.
You know you want to check that shit out.
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Joe Lieberman = Severus Snape?
The Wall Street Journal reported this tidbit from Sarah Palin’s new book:
Prior to a key debate in which the prep advice was becoming overwhelming, [Senator Joe] Lieberman urged her to “Be yourself,” she writes. Sen. Lieberman then added: “Don’t let these people try to change you. Don’t let them tell you what to say and how to think.”
You must be thinking that only an idiotic glad-hander...
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Karl Rove's Homosexual Dad Pioneered Genital...
Not. Kidding.
Yes, the man who used wedge politics against LGBTs to win elections for anti-LGBT bigoted politicians had an openly gay adoptive father who pioneered penis piercing. And Karl loved his dad. Apparently, hypocrisy as loud as his father’s ball weights couldn’t stop Rove from taking advantage of just about everybody.
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On the whole Stupak, Abortion, Healthcare thing...
mikesova:
If Health care reform/public option happens, I’m cool with not having abortions be publicly subsidized. If that’s all we have to give up, no problem here. I’m not talking making a judgment of legality on abortion, just who pays for it. Although, I do agree with John Stewart’s “zoo analogy”, if people can get all the major things that go along with health care, to not subsidize...
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Evil →
A macho man, flanked by giggling friends with twisted visions of youtube stardom, throws a dog off a bridge. Upon landing, the dog begins to cry and seems unable to move.
This is very difficult to watch. You may get very angry. I do not discourage that.
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“…imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, ‘This is an...”
– Puddle Thinking, a satirical analogy coined by Douglas Adams to illustrate the folly of an egocentric view of science and nature. As quoted in Richard Dawkins’ eulogy for Douglas Adams. First seen in Wikipedia. —Daniel Glass
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“The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may...”
– Albert Camus (via adamquinn). Any moral debate must begin with an ontological one. That is why I hated Political Science. That is why I loved Philosophy.
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“One of the most substantive policy books I’ve read.”
– Rush Limbaugh on Sarah Palin’s forthcoming memoir, via MediaMatters.
Rush, I have no doubt that you’re telling the truth about the books you’ve read.
If anyone is interested in reading a more substantive account of the book’s contents, see the New York Times book review,...
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On Corporate Sustainability →
Interview with Ray C. Anderson, of Interface Inc. (via scfoj)
Anderson: At Interface, the business case for sustainability has manifested itself in four key ways:
Costs are down, not up, dispelling the myth that sustainability is expensive. Our first initiative, a zero-tolerance waste initiative, has netted us over $400 million in saved or avoided costs, more than paying for any capital...
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Twit of the Day -- 11/15/09
fanofhockey: UN used ‘climate change’ hoax to get more power over nations. Obama uses healthcare ‘crisis’ to grab more power over us. #tcot #tlot #ocra
(Strictly speaking, this was tweeted 5 days ago. Oh well.)
Dear fanofhockey,
Climate change? Not a hoax — no air quotes necessary when you speak about it. That’s the beauty of peer-reviewed empirical inquiry...
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Sarah Palin's book goes rogue on the facts →
The AP fact-checked Palin’s new book and found a whole buncha misleadin’ and outright lyin’!
Late update: Naturally, the AP sucks at fact-checking. These “fact checks” are not always exactly that, but odds are quite good that even the passable ones caught by the AP represent just the tip of the iceberg.
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WatchI give you Carrie Prejean, child who storms off the set of apparently flamingly liberal talk show Larry King Live. Does that mean her sex tape is child pornography?
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Do not hire
Condoleezza Rice and Stephen Hadley have started a consulting firm “focused on helping U.S. companies doing business abroad — especially in key emerging markets.” (source: TPM)
I wonder: Would their demonstrated incompetence help or hurt as they attempt to help corporations exploit these emerging markets other countries? Perhaps destabilization is the name of the game....
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NY TIMES: Studies show pigs are smarter than... →
inothernews:
In the current issue of Animal Behaviour, researchers present evidence that domestic pigs can quickly learn how mirrors work and will use their understanding of reflected images to scope out their surroundings and find their food. The researchers cannot yet say whether the animals realize that the eyes in the mirror are their own, or whether pigs might rank with apes, dolphins and...
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Marty Moss-Coane, host of Radio Times on WHYY...
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“Washing one’s hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means...”
– Paulo Freire (via ohfortheloveofdog) (via abbyjean) (via bradicalmang)
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“Michelle Obama is going on Sesame Street this week to celebrate the 40th...”
– Conan O’Brien (via passthemike) (via taisheart)
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Burden of Proof
According to UK outfit The First Post, recent scientific data demonstrates that certain religiously prescribed methods of slaughter cause pain for the slaughtered animals. I know what you’re thinking: who would believe otherwise? Well, for one example, there are the religious folks who believe that these rituals physically and morally minimize, or even neutralize, what they’ve done. Meanwhile, the...
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TPM captures the crazy
TPM posted a bunch of photos (here and here) from last Thursday’s Tea Party protest in Washington, D.C. Judging from the signs, these people continue to be super ignorant and very paranoid.
Who else could be so blissfully unaware as to call Nancy Pelosi un-American and accuse her of behaving like Joseph McCarthy — i.e., one who baselessly labels people un-American for political gain...
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WatchMassive Attack — ”United Snakes” Directed by the UnitedVisualArtists collective.
(via kryz)
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Sat 11/7 @ The Yolk (tmrw)
theyolk:
Hi folks, a show just materialized at The Yolk for tomorrow night. I know you’re thinking this is ridiculously short notice, to which I respond by quoting Russian President Karpov from vastly underrated international crime thriller The Saint: “I proudly admit it!” I really am proud — it’s an awesome lineup that runs the gamut from math jazz to soothing folk: Redwing Blackbird...
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WatchJon Stewart does a spot-on impression of Glenn Beck for 8+ glorious minutes. My respect for Stewart as an actor just went up by a factor of ten. Brilliant.
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20% of the effort, in twice the time, to produce a...
Months after negotiations began, and clocking in at about 20% the depth of the House Democrats’ proposal, the Republican healthcare bill proposal was leaked. One wonders how long they would have continued to wait, given their extreme lack of timeliness already.
But here’s the best part: The CBO (Congressional Budget Office), Congress’ independent auditing group, projects that...
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