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Month: January 2010

  • Obama Imprisons 50 Indefinitely

    Best Nobel Peace Prize Ever: The Obama administration has decided to continue to imprison without trials nearly 50 detainees at the Guantánamo Bay military prison in Cuba because a high-level task force has concluded that they are too difficult to prosecute but too dangerous to release, an administration official said on Thursday. via Glenn Greenwald […]

  • UFC Fighter Mac Danzig's Vegan Diet

    UFC Fighter Mac Danzig's Vegan Diet By Mac Danzig Although there are other people at the controls- manning and updating my websites- I do read all of the mail- and the questions I get asked

  • Mind Your Own Business

    Starting to love Alan Grayson more and more: HR 4431: Business Should Mind Its Own Business Act (Introduced in House). To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose a 500 percent excise tax on corporate contributions to political committees and on corporate expenditures on political advocacy campaigns. via Search Results – THOMAS (Library […]

  • Unemployed Guy on Obama and 2012

    I don’t entirely agree with this. From Metafilter: I’ve been unemployed for eight months now. I don’t talk about it a lot because I don’t feel like playing the wah-wah poor-me card. I understand there are a LOT of people out there worse off than me, both in this country and afar. But it fucking […]

  • Warren Buffett Has the Right Idea

    I concur: Still, Mr. Buffett did offer one tough general opinion: make sure the bosses of failing banks — and their spouses — pay very, very dearly. “If I was running things, if a bank had to go to the government for help, the C.E.O. and his wife would forfeit all their net worth,” he […]

  • Mom Forces Son to Kill Hamster with Hammer for Bad Grades

    Mom of the year: As punishment for bad grades, a Georgia mother forced her 12-year-old son to kill his pet hamster with a hammer, police said.Lynn Geter, 38, is accused of forcing her 12-year-old son to kill his pet hamster for earning a bad grade, according to Steve Whitlock, Meriwether County sheriff. The day after […]

  • Turkey's (First?) Gay Honor Killing

    The father is now on trial: Ahmet Yildiz, the gay Turkish physics student, was gunned down outside his apartment in Istanbul in whats believed to be the countrys first honor killing. The suspect? His own father, who prosecutors allege traveled over 500 miles to hunt him down. “The young physics student, Ahmet Yildiz, was one […]

  • Let's figure out a way for Wall Street to text their record-breaking bonuses to Haiti | Free Somewha

    Best idea I've heard all day (via Sam Vance) Let's figure out a way for Wall Street to text their record-breaking bonuses to Haiti | Free Somewha Send free Somewhat Topical ecards and Somewhat Topical cards with a personalized Somewhat Topical message from someecards ecard site. Our Somewhat Topical greeting cards are designed for every […]

  • Guantánamo's Desalinization Plant Could Bring Water to Haiti

    Juan Gonzales of Democracy Now: [T]he closest land mass to Haiti other than the Dominican Republic, with which it shares an island, is Cuba, and in fact the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base is very close to Haiti. There are 9,000 US Marines there. They have their own desalinization plant, because they had conflicts with Cuba […]

  • Excellent Analysis of Avatar

    More from Mefi and the criticism of it related to Dances with Wolves and Pocahontas, etc: All of these other films, like Pocahontas, DWW, or even the Iraq War, are clouded by their historical context. We are the product of the trouncing of the natives. …  So the natives had to be civilized and brought […]