The Sky’s No Limit

March 4, 2010

If you do client work, you’ll love this site with quotes from real crazy clients. Example:
The phrase ‘the sky’s the limit’. It sounds a little limiting. How about ‘the sky’s no limit?’.
via Clients From Hell

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Alert: Font Nerds, Design Nerds, Science Nerds, Retro Nerds, ALL NERDS

March 4, 2010

Popular Science magazine just put 137 YEARS of archives online. Searchable. With period ads, design, fonts, etc. There goes your week. Get going at the PopSci Archives

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To Avoid Funding Gay Marrieds, DC Archdiocese Denies Benefits to All Spouses

March 3, 2010

From Washington City Paper blogs:
Once gays and lesbians are allowed to marry, the Archdiocese—which employs plenty of locals through Catholic Charities—will be required to provide health benefits to same-sex spouses, an act which it says would fly in the face of the Catholic church’s teachings on homosexuality. The solution? No spousal benefits for anybody.
via The Sexist

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Babies in Bars

March 2, 2010

CNN:
Should parents be allowed to bring their babies and children to bars? It is a question in Brooklyn, New York, that’s fired up online arguments, prompted unofficial protests and made outsiders giggle. And while the issue may not be exclusive to that area, it’s the stuff disputes are made of in what Sasha’s dad, Matt [...]

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To Court Blacks, Foes of Abortion Call it ‘Womb Lynching’

March 2, 2010

Hitting the Tuskegee nerve:
For years the largely white staff of Georgia Right to Life, the state’s largest anti-abortion group, tried to tackle the disproportionately high number of black women who undergo abortions. But, staff members said, they found it difficult to make inroads with black audiences. … [They] hired a black woman, Catherine Davis, to be [...]

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Nagging Headache

March 2, 2010

Ron: I’ve had a nagging headache all day.
Andy: Maybe it is because of all your nagging.
(pause)
Ron: It just got worse.

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Chilean Quake Likely Shifted Axis, Shortened Day

March 1, 2010

Freakish a scientist from NASA says:
The length of the day should have gotten shorter by 1.26 microseconds (millionths of a second). The axis about which the Earth’s mass is balanced should have moved by 2.7 milliarcseconds (about 8 centimeters or 3 inches).
Weirder:
Santa Maria Island off the coast near Concepcion, Chile’s second-largest city, may have been [...]

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Why Even Have Health Insurers?

March 1, 2010

From the LA Times:
[I]nsurers can’t profitably manage through periods of high unemployment. They can’t price policies in a way that keeps healthy young people in the same pool as older people, producing a mockery of the very point of indemnity insurance. Despite a decade of unobstructed consolidation, which was sold to regulators as a way [...]

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Lies and Truth

February 25, 2010

Blogger Joel Johnson excavates the lies that destroyed his family in a searing essay:
But Timmy’s death has made me realize I’ve kept one last lie inside, one that makes me culpable in all of Glen’s sins against others, his cruelties, his deceit, his sociopathic falsehoods that may very well end up in more pain, more [...]

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2012 Preview: Republicans v Secular America

February 23, 2010

Dan Kennedy previews the role of religion in the next presidential race:
If you’re part of secular America – that is, if you’re an atheist, an agnostic, a religious liberal or even a mainstream believer who thinks religion should be kept out of politics and vice-versa – then you should be very afraid of what the [...]

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Democrats and Villain Rotation

February 23, 2010

Glenn Greenwald breaks it down:
This is what the Democratic Party does; it’s who they are.  They’re willing to feign support for anything their voters want just as long as there’s no chance that they can pass it. They won control of Congress in the 2006 midterm elections by pretending they wanted to compel an end [...]

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Lingerie for Beginners

February 21, 2010

From MeFi:
Getting someone lingerie for their birthday is the equivalent of getting someone flour, eggs, and chocolate chips, and telling them to bake you cookies.
via Lingerie for Beginners | Ask MetaFilter.

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How the US Government Poisoned 10,000 During Prohibition

February 21, 2010

Hey man, remember when the US government killed over 10,00 people?
Frustrated that people continued to consume so much alcohol even after it was banned, federal officials had decided to try a different kind of enforcement. They ordered the poisoning of industrial alcohols manufactured in the United States, products regularly stolen by bootleggers and resold as [...]

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Family Guy Actress with Down Syndrome’s Sarah Palin Smackdown Too Hot for NYT

February 18, 2010

Sure the recent episode of Family Guy wasn’t all that funny. The character with Downs Syndrome said ’My mother is the former governor of Alaska.’ Sarah Palin of course went apeshit. Turns out the actress that voiced the character has Down Syndrome and had this to say:
I guess former Governor Palin does not have a sense [...]

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Networks Use the Word ‘Terrorism’ With Care

February 18, 2010

The new T-word:
There are “a couple of reasons to say that,” the NBC correspondent Pete Williams observed on MSNBC. “One is he’s an American citizen. But that doesn’t rule out an act of terrorism. Timothy McVeigh, of course, was an American citizen as well, and that was the biggest act of terrorism in the U.S. [...]

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Apartment Hunting Complete

February 14, 2010

Ron came in for the weekend. Well really just Saturday. The snowstorm that came across the coast on Friday screwed up a lot of plans. The seminar team at work was in Atlanta ending a 2-day seminar and the Atlanta airport shut down (this is after several attendees coming thru Dallas couldn’t make it) and [...]

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The Liberty Restaurant in Charlotte, North Carolina

February 14, 2010

We went to eat at The Liberty which one of my co-workers had recommended. Every restaurant here no matter how fancy is required to have a sports bar set up in their main bar. There’s just too much fandom for NASCAR and basketball to not have those amentities for the sports-going crowd. We sat at [...]

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Gay Dog Whistle

February 14, 2010

When we are out we try to see if we can sense homos among us. There were two tables near us composed of all men and they all seemed a bit too groomed to be straight. This was all confirmed when we heard the gay dog whistle: Madonna. ‘Frozen’ came on over the sound system [...]

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There is No Date Hoodie

February 12, 2010

Daisy brings down the hammer:
“The date hoodie” is a complete figment of your imagination in which you've decided guys like you for your personality and intellect. “The date hoodie” is something you made up to rationalize wearing your pajamas to an event where you’re supposed to at least pretend to care what the other person [...]

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Student Detained for Arabic Flash Cards

February 11, 2010

Safer and safer:
George, a physics major who’s studying Arabic, was pulled aside for secondary screening at the Philadelphia International Airport as he tried to go through security. When he emptied his pockets, the inspector saw his flash cards and he was arrested, handcuffed, locked in a cell for hours and aggressively questioned. Because of some [...]

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