June 2009
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Chemicals linked to increasingly common...
The “We humans are different!” crowd needs to take a whiff of the smelling salts, and their latest opportunity comes courtesy of Nicholas Kristof in today’s New York Times:
In heavily polluted Lake Apopka, one of the largest lakes in Florida, male alligators developed stunted genitals. In the Potomac watershed near Washington, male smallmouth bass have rapidly transformed into...
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A tale of two protests...
Last week some people gathered outside my work building to voice their dissatisfaction with some of Mayor Bloomberg’s budget priorities. One of their gripes: Millions of dollars for a new scoreboard at Yankee Stadium, but zero for some select programs that assist the poor. That kind of thing.
They were raucous and loud. They chanted. They marched. They often blocked the sidewalk. Not a...
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“My god, can you imagine? That would just be the scariest, worst thing in the...”
– A fellow employee in reaction to the title of a Dalai Lama book: How to See Yourself As You Really Are.
Sadly, our culture burdens humanity with such delusions of grandeur that holding an accurate view of self would indeed be a terrifying prospect for many.
Far from nourishing us in any...
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“Hopefully, the next time the nation faces a grave national security crisis, we...”
– Dan Froomkin, in his final op-ed for the Washington Post, lamenting the catastrophic failure of mainstream media to investigate the lies, crimes, and incompetencies of the Bush Administration.
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Two Michael Jackson memories
My earliest musical memory is dancing to “Beat It” as a pre-schooler with my mother and brother; hair sprayed black, I trick-or-treated with one sparkly white glove that year. Then there was the first time I heard the word “penis” on television: Michael Jackson describing some embarrassing exam he had undergone in the wake of child molestation accusations.
The guy was...
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It's our birthday today.
And so begins my quarter-life crisis. It’s a good thing.
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An email from Iran
This email excerpt was posted on Nico Pitney’s excellent HuffPo live-blog of the election aftermath in Iran (originally posted by Steve Clemons):
By the way, two nights ago I went out to see a few things … as the general crowds spread into their homes militia style Mousavi supporters were out on the streets ‘Basiji hunting’.
Their resolve is no less than these thugs — they after hunting them...
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“It sounded like, from the former NSA analyst that we interviewed, that it was...”
– James Risen, co-author of a recent NYT story on NSA over-collection of domestic surveillance, speaking on MSNBC.
What’s really surprising is that anyone bought the Bush-era line about spying responsibly (when they finally had to admit they were doing it in the first place).
via Raw Story
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Watch“How dare he? When he has a bastard son and a slut for a wife.”
“Keep your children safe from David Letterman’s mouth! He will rape them with his mouth! He is a child abuser! He is a verbal pedophile! Wake up! Go home and take care of your kids. They could be next.”
Yeah, that about sums up the intellectual acuity of the Palin crazies, who fight for...
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Mayor Mike cancels summer
justinday:
Mayor Bloomberg announced today that summer in New York City would be cancelled due to budgetary constraints. “It simply costs too much to run all those air conditioners.”, Bloomberg said at a press conference given today. The city plans to set the dial to cool and rainy until winter, even going so far as to establish a deal to sell excess rainwater to the sun parched southwest.
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“At Union Square on Sunday most new and popular titles had long since been...”
– Ben Sisario in the NY Times, on yesterday’s closing of the Virgin Megastore.
Take that, Jonas Brothers.
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Glenn Beck's "Common Sense"
“Common sense” is an oxymoron, no?
And, now that Glenn Beck has appropriated it as the title/theme of his new book, “common sense” is pretty much becoming nonsense.
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Submit or die.
From the NY Times:
In recent months, Sumatran tigers, which face extinction, have killed illegal loggers pushing into the animals’ territory on the island of Sumatra and have been killed in turn by villagers.
You see, the tigers have a choice: die because they’ve run out of livable habitat, or die because they fight to keep their home. Humanity’s message to all creatures (using...
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WatchVia SuperVegan, the Pet Detective does it again. (Watch to the end!)
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“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.”
– Albert Einstein (via fuckmyfacefuckmyname)
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Peru's indigenous people are fighting back
Rainforests and their inhabitants have long been exploited to destruction by greedy states and corporations.
Maybe that’s why Alan García, Peru’s new president, never expected indigenous communities to be so organized against his plans to open up huge amounts of Peru’s rainforests to oil exploration, logging and mining operations, and industrial farming.
The protesters have...
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re: "April 15th"
Jakob Lodwick says:
Recall that, by your nature as a human being, you have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and no reason exists why these rights can be taken away from you. [original emphasis]
I imagine Mr. Lodwick intends this as a profound and rational offensive against the collection of taxes (hence the title, “April 15th”.) Not only does his sentiment...
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R.I.P. Luke Cole →
I didn’t know you, but I wish I had.
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NYS Senate flipped
WTF:
Republicans seized control of the New York State Senate on Monday, in a stunning and sudden reversal of fortunes for the Democratic Party, which controlled the chamber for barely five months.
A raucous leadership fight erupted on the floor of the Senate around 3 p.m., with two Democrats, Pedro Espada Jr. of the Bronx and Hiram Monserrate of Queens, joining the 30 Senate Republicans in a...
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This language thing is really hard sometimes
Via New York Times:
Senior Israeli officials expressed irritation on Wednesday that President Obama had declined to acknowledge what they called clear understandings with the Bush administration that allowed Israel to build West Bank settlement housing within certain guidelines while still publicly claiming to honor a settlement “freeze.”
Maybe that’s because Obama thinks of a...
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Do you feel SORRY?
Okay, John Tierney, now you’ve done it:
If you own a dog, especially a dog that has anointed your favorite rug, you know that an animal is capable of apologizing. He can whimper and slouch and tuck his tail and look positively mortified — “I don’t know what possessed me.” But is he really feeling sorry?
Could any animal feel true pangs of regret?
Predictably, the rest of the article is...
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Regarding George Tiller
George Tiller, a prominent doctor and abortion provider in Kansas, was shot and killed by an anti-abortion activist yesterday. By all sane accounts he was a wonderful man.
President Barack Obama’s reaction:
I am shocked and outraged by the murder of Dr. George Tiller as he attended church services this morning. However profound our differences as Americans over difficult issues such as...
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