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Month: December 2009

  • Advice for Bankrupt Empires

    From Metafilter commenter: Key to successful Imperialism: Dont blow all the money on a Death Star. via The American Empire Is Bankrupt

  • Pleistocene North America's Mass Extinction

    From Science Daily: During the late Pleistocene, 40,000 to 10,000 years ago, North America lost over 50 percent of its large mammal species. New findings … indicate that the extinction is best characterized as a sudden event that took place between 13.8 and 11.4 thousand years ago. …[F]indings support the idea that this mass extinction […]

  • Cardinal: Gays 'Will Never Go to Heaven'

    I wonder if this applies to hateful demagogues? Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan said that while the Church regarded homosexuality as an “insult to God”, this did not justify discrimination against gay and transsexual people. You’re just an abomination and an insult to God and damned from the start… but that doesn’t mean people should treat […]

  • Right-Wing Blogosphere Goes Nuts Over False Skyjacking Story

    AirTran has had to post a paragraph by paragraph rebuttal of this bullshit – thirteen oooh-scary don’t-look-like-us men get on a plane and a bigot can’t handle it: The third stewardess informed them that they were not to have electronic devices on at this time. To which one of the men said, “Shut up, infidel […]

  • Recession's Over! (Cartoon)

    AAEC – Political Cartoon by Matt Wuerker, Politico.com – 09/22/2009.

  • Social Programs Explained

    From Metafilter: Social programs are bribes that the rich hand to the poor to discourage them from killing them and taking their stuff. via To berate, belittle, and besmirch Ben Bernanke

  • Blogwild!: A Guide for Small Business Blogging — live with author Andy Wibbels

    Quick interview for @gaspedal's supergenius thing in 2 wks http://bit.ly/2AZD0W Blogwild!: A Guide for Small Business Blogging — live with author Andy Wibbels From GasPedal's Word of Mouth Marketing Blog: Three tips from author Andy Wibbels on how to start your small business blog in this live interview.

  • Worst Perversion of Law of Attraction

    She waited for God to provide – she didn’t leave the house, either. Dead-beat, monster-mother looked to the heavens: The money ran out first. Then the food. Over three months in 2006, as her five children grew more emaciated and listless by the day, Estelle Walker made no move to find a job, no effort […]

  • Portia De Rossi Schools Elisabeth Hasslebeck On Gay Marriage – Portia De Rossi – Jezebel

    Elegant and beautiful as always and she knows how to shut down a blonde. Portia De Rossi Schools Elisabeth Hasslebeck On Gay Marriage – Portia De Rossi – Jezebel Don't you love it when a dumb question is met with an elegant- eloquent answer? Elisabeth asked- of gay marriage:

  • Ontario SWAT Team Storms House for Lego Gun

    A neighbor sees a guy assembling a gun – not knowing it is made of Lego. “Guys, seriously? It’s Lego. It’s in a box—in pieces I might add—by my desk at the front.” Two SWAT members kept me firmly pressed against the wall, while the others went into the office in search of the so-called […]