December 2009
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November 2009
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Email the president or call 202-456-1111 →
buchino:
This is the open letter to President Obama from Michael Moore regarding the potential increasing of troops in Afghanistan that everyone should read.
Here is a nice snippet from the letter I like:
With just one speech tomorrow night you will turn a multitude of young people who were the backbone of your campaign into disillusioned cynics. You will teach them what they’ve always heard...
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New Study Suggests Drug Ads Ineffective, But...
Researchers at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver looked at sales figures and prices for the blood thinner Plavix after direct-to-consumer advertising started in 2001. What they found was that the campaign was largely ineffective at increasing prescribing rates, but that the price of the drug shot up 12% almost immediately to cover the cost of the marketing campaign. (via The...
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Seven Answers to Climate Contrarian Nonsense
via Scientific American
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WatchVeggie Burrito Podcast - Sidewalk Killers
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Canada's Olympic Paranoia
Canadian border officials held Goodman in Vancouver for 90 minutes when she attempted to enter Vancouver to attend events launching her new book, Breaking the Sound Barrier. But the Canadian Border team didn’t care what she was there to do. They wanted to know what she was going to say. They demanded to see her notes. They searched her car and surreptitiously checked her laptop. They...
WatchVisualizing empires decline
“(One) simple thing about writing: it is like shooting a basketball. You’ve got...”
– Richard Hugo, from The Triggering Town (via steampoweredmedia)
“To live outside the law you must be honest.”
– Bob Dylan (via claytoncubitt)
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“In a properly functioning capitalist economy,... →
(via claytoncubitt)
listening to "Spank Rock - What It Look Like" →
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“As an Atheist, having a christian threaten me with hell is like having a hippy...”
– Josh Thomas in the final of Good News Week in Australia (via Reddit)
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“Canada needs to dismantle its public health-care system and allow private...”
– Sarah Palin (via Lee-Anne Goodman, The Canadian Press)
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“Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever...”
– Abraham Flexner, educator (1866-1959)
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If your front hug, you're going to hell.
“Christian youth groups finally have an alternative to normal, aka “front,” hugs. As we all know, face to face embraces run the horrific risk of a clothed crotch graze. The Christian Side-Hug (or the CSH, as the kids call it) rids us of sin, as the only below the belt contact will be some good old-fashioned hip on hip action.” - Dan Abramson (Via Huffington Post)
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“Evolution is almost universally accepted among those who understand it, almost...”
– Richard Dawkins
Splitting Time from Space—New Quantum Theory... →
nerdmonster:
If Hořava gravity is true, argues cosmologist Robert Brandenberger of McGill University in a paper published in the August Physical Review D, then the universe didn’t bang—it bounced. “A universe filled with matter will contract down to a small—but finite—size and then bounce out again, giving us the expanding cosmos we see today,” he says.
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WatchThe Road To Beauty
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