January 2011
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Asian American lawmakers demand Limbaugh apology →
Like most clueless, right-wing pundits, he doesn’t know how he’s being racist, but instead deflects and says he was doing his listenership a favor:
“He was speaking and they weren’t translating,” Limbaugh said. “They normally translate every couple of words. Hu Jintao was just going ching chong, ching chong cha.”
He then launched into a...
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Woman Accused Of Threatening Cop With Dildo →
I can’t…but I must. In Gurnee, Illinois no less. Glad she has a sex toy at least!
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Families reject former UK PM Blair's apology over... →
Some bereaved relatives heckled the former prime minister as he expressed his remorse.
Members of the audience shouted: “Too late, too late,” while two women turned their backs on Blair, and then walked out. An official brought tissues into the hearing for another woman who burst into tears.
“Your lies killed my son, I hope you can live with yourself,” Rose Gentle,...
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'September Elegies' by Randall Mann →
Please watch this Poem Flow called “September Elegies” by the poet Randall Man, who memorializes Seth Walsh, Justin Aaberg, Billy Lucas and Tyler Clementi.
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Rush Limbaugh Mocks Hu Jintao, Chinese Language... →
This man can’t help himself.
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The Real Economic Lesson China Could Teach Us →
Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich contrasts what is lacking in the US and what China is doing:
Here’s the real story. China has a national economic strategy designed to make it, and its people, the economic powerhouse of the future. They’re intent on learning as much as they can from us and then going beyond us (as they already are in solar and electric-battery technologies)....
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Photographers Mis Nakano and Christine Pan were searching for an answer on how to break down social stereotypes of the queer Asian American community. And when they couldn’t find answers they were satisfied with, they created the Visibility Project, a portraiture series devoted to showcasing a vast array of queer API folks. The photos are simple studio portraits set up to make each participant...
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The drinking gene controls who you pick as friends →
Once again, science has spent time and money on interesting yet inconsequential study:
The first gene that shows a correlation is DRD2, which also influences drinking behavior. Now, there are obviously some non-biological explanations for why that relationship might exist. After all, people who possess the gene are more likely to be social drinkers, which in turn means they’re more...
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The drinking gene controls who you pick as friends →
Once again, science has spent time and money on interesting yet inconsequential study:
The first gene that shows a correlation is DRD2, which also influences drinking behavior. Now, there are obviously some non-biological explanations for why that relationship might exist. After all, people who possess the gene are more likely to be social drinkers, which in turn means they’re more...
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“You know, people try to make it about black and white. He talked about equality...”
– Former NBA star Charles Barkley, commenting before the Celtics-Magic game on Martin Luther King Jr. Day
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“You know, people try to make it about black and white. He talked about equality...”
– Former NBA star Charles Barkley, commenting before the Celtics-Magic game on Martin Luther King Jr. Day
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“I’m nothing if not falsely humble.”
– Jane Lynch, accepting her Golden Globe.
She’s naturally hilarious.
(via popculturebrain)
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Phallus worship in Bhutan? →
“…Western tourists — as liberal and open-minded as they believe they are — tend to be stunned by all the penis images in this conservative society where people seldom show affection in public. According to Ura, that’s because Westerners are accustomed to nudity and sexuality on the female form – flaunting nudes, torsos and breasts – whereas the Bhutanese traditionally shy away...
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Phallus worship in Bhutan? →
“…Western tourists — as liberal and open-minded as they believe they are — tend to be stunned by all the penis images in this conservative society where people seldom show affection in public. According to Ura, that’s because Westerners are accustomed to nudity and sexuality on the female form – flaunting nudes, torsos and breasts – whereas the Bhutanese traditionally shy away...
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Five myths about why the South seceded →
1. The South seceded over states’ rights. Confederate states did claim the right to secede, but no state claimed to be seceding for that right. In fact, Confederates opposed states’ rights — that is, the right of Northern states not to support slavery.
On Dec. 24, 1860, delegates at South Carolina’s secession convention adopted a “Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the...
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Edwin Lee, San Francisco's First Asian-American... →
SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco welcomed its first Asian-American leader Tuesday, as City Administrator Edwin Lee was sworn in as interim mayor before a crowd of hundreds.
The Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to appoint Lee to fill the remainder of Mayor Gavin Newsom’s term. Newsom was sworn in Monday as California’s lieutenant governor.
Immediately following the vote, Lee...
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Verizon iPhone Release Date Gets OFFICIAL: iPhone... →
Hooray! Just when I’m due for an upgrade too!
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“Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true...”
– Gandhi (via pfunder)
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Egypt's Muslims attend Coptic Christmas mass,... →
Egypt’s majority Muslim population stuck to its word Thursday night. What had been a promise of solidarity to the weary Coptic community, was honoured, when thousands of Muslims showed up at Coptic Christmas eve mass services in churches around the country and at candle light vigils held outside. From the well-known to the unknown, Muslims had offered their bodies as “human shields” for last...