July 2010
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BP's Toxic Experiment
“Marine biologists started finding orange blobs under the translucent shells of crab larvae in May, and have continued to find them “in almost all” of the larvae they collect, all the way from Grand Isle, Louisiana, to Pensacola, Fla. — more than 300 miles of coastline — said Harriet Perry, a biologist with the University of Southern Mississippi’s Gulf Coast...
“MEN WANTED: FOR HAZARDOUS JOURNEY. SMALL WAGES, BITTER COLD, LONG MONTHS OF...”
– Advertisement placed in London newspapers for Shackleton’s trip to Antarctica, 1914 (via invisiblestories) (via ajourneyroundmyskull)
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I Deny God: #20 - Because Atheists aren't... →
Man Who Threatened “South Park” Arrested JULY 21—The Virginia man who this year threatened the creators of “South Park” over an episode featuring the Prophet Muhammad dressed in a bear suit, was arrested today on federal charges after speaking openly to the FBI about his connection to a terror…
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“I have heard such rumours of a Yeti, or Khull as it is known in Farsi, since my...”
– Tajikistan: In Search of the Yeti by Ben Judah
Bald-Faced Lie →
buchino:
Is the correct variation bold-face lie or bald-faced lie or something else?
Answer:
The correct term is bald-faced, and refers to a face without whiskers. Beards were common in the 18th and 19th centuries and were thought to mask facial expressions. Thus a bald-faced liar was a very good liar indeed, and was able to lie without the guilt showing on his face.
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The...
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Books I've Read This Year (Early 2010 Edition)
01. SuperSense - Bruce M. Hood 02. Stitches - David Small 03. You Can’t Win - Jack Black 04. Love Is a Four Letter Word by Michael Taeckens (Editor) 05. Venus Drive - Sam Lipsyte 06. Kluge - Gary Marcus 07. Silk Road to Ruin - Ted Rall 08. The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee - Sarah Silverman
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The Acquiescent Anarchist
steven.cloud: i’ve got some legal changes to do today, gregg. legal changes. i guess i’m going to listen to some hip-hop and get that shit done GreggWithTwoGs: look at the anarchist taking direction from the legal dept. steven.cloud: well, i really don’t care how they prefer the copy to appear in the footer nav GreggWithTwoGs: little by little GreggWithTwoGs: first they take the...
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Misinformed People Become MORE Certain When...
“But here’s where it goes off the tracks: when presented with evidence showing that the governor was wrong, people who believed her didn’t change their minds. In fact, they actually believed the falsehood more! Instead of changing their minds, they concocted theories that there was a government conspiracy to fool us, to cover up the true level of violence along the border. The...
#17 - POPE: Ordaining Women is just as bad as Pedo...
idenygod:
“One new element included lists the attempted ordination of women as a ‘grave crime’ subject to the same set of procedures and punishments meted out for sex abuse.” Read More
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ProPublica Photographer: I Was Followed by BP... →
marco:
To summarize:
A photographer took these photos of a BP oil refinery while standing on the grass median of a public road. (With very few exceptions, it’s perfectly legal to take pictures of anything visible from a public place, even if the subject is privately owned.)
BP’s security noticed, called the city police, and followed him by car to a gas station.
The police forcefully...
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Reason #11 - Religious Fundamentalists are...
idenygod:
Anxiety and uncertainty can cause us to become more idealistic and more radical in our religious beliefs, according to new findings by York University researchers, published in this month’s issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
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Harvard and the Unabomber: The Education of an...
“In Cambridge he (Ted Kaczynski) faced the typical Harvard pressures but, more importantly, was a subject of three years’ worth of what many will agree were wildly irresponsible psychological experiments led by maverick psychology pioneer Henry A. Murray.”
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Kobayashi ARRESTED: Joey Chestnut Wins Hot Dog...
Kobayashi mingled with the crowd watching the contest, standing inside a police-barricaded pen just under the stage. When the eating ended, he slipped up the stage stairs and was welcomed by host George Shea. Then, several security officers appeared and tried to usher him off. He grabbed a metal police barricade with both hands, holding on tightly as the officers pulled at him. Finally, they...
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June 2010
25 posts
“In most elevators, at least in any built or installed since the early nineties,...”
– Nick Paumgarten: Up and Then Down. (Told you so, everyone who has tried to convince me that our elevators’ door-close buttons did anything.) (via marco)
Regulators Failed to Address Risks in Oil Rig... →
buchino:
When all else failed, if the crew of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig lost control of a well, if a dreaded blowout came, the blind shear ram’s two tough blades were poised to slice through the drill pipe, seal the well and save the day. Everything else could go wrong, just so long as “the pinchers” went right. All it took was one mighty stroke.
On the night of April 20, minutes after an...
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Before the Plague
Zahra: I’m sure protein is a myth and no one really needs to get any in their diet
steven.cloud: people can live on all sorts of diets
Zahra: that could be a kids book Zahra: help kids not feel bad for living off cold cereal and refusing real food
steven.cloud: nah, kids need to grow up and realize the world doesn’t revolve around them
Zahra: see i thought that too Zahra: well...
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Is Using Dispersants on the BP Gulf Oil Spill...
However, those solvents-petroleum distillates-are also known animal carcinogens, according to toxicology data, and make up 10 to 30 percent of a given volume of COREXIT. And those same everyday products can be deadly to wildlife. “It’s the same products in Dawn dishwasher soap,” Mitchelmore notes, which is being used widely to clean up oiled birds and other animals. “I...
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“BP Gulf Disaster: official leak estimate revised upward to 35,000-60,000 barrels...”
– deepwaterhorizonresponse (Via Boing Boing)
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Watch
Jon Stewart Blasts Obama for War-Related Lies, Broken Promises
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The Spill, the Scandal and the President →
buchino:
Since 2007, according to analysis by the Center for Public Integrity, BP has received 760 citations for “egregious and willful” safety violations — those “committed with plain indifference to or intentional disregard for employee safety and health.” The rest of the oil industry combined has received a total of one.
Read more →
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Another Kind of War
From Stephanie McMillan:
“Under capitalism, competition causes the rate of profit to drop, and for goods to be overproduced. This is when the business cycle dips, and we experience recessions and depressions. To restore the rate of profit and force the cycle up again, capitalists have several methods including financial speculation and deliberate waste. Plus they must destroy capital,...
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