January 2011
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“What we want is transparent government, not transparent people.”
– And Julian Assange destroys Steve Kroft again and again. I’d love to see the whole unedited interview.
“An interview with Evva Pryror, a social worker and consultant to Miss Rand’s law...”
– Ayn Rand was also a kleptoparasite, sneakily gobbling up taxpayer funds under an assumed name to pay for her medical treatments after she got lung cancer. - Boing Boing (via brooklynmutt)
firelily: Ahhh how the mighty have fallen. Who’s the moocher now, Ayn?
Robot Heart: Sex, Religion, and Politics: Biden:... →
newsflick:
Vice President Biden, issuing the Obama administration’s most definitive statement to date on the turmoil in Egypt, said President Hosni Mubarak should not step down and downplayed the protests spreading across the Mideast as generally unconnected.
He described the unrest as an expression of “middle-class folks” looking for “a little more access and a little more opportunity.”
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Scans show difference in transgender brains →
A team of scientists has discovered differences in the brains of transgender people.
The researchers, at the National University of Distance Education in Madrid, Spain, believe their technique could help doctors identify transgender people at an early age, giving them more options for treatment, such as delaying the onset of puberty.
According to New Scientist, the study looked at the white...
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WatchREM - Pop Song ‘89
Hello, my friend are you visible today? You know I never knew it could be so strange.
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“She dwelleth in the Ground—
Where Daffodils—abide—
Her Maker—Her Metropolis—...”
– Emily Dickinson -671
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“Politics and religion are obsolete; the time has come for science and...”
– Arthur C. Clarke - The Fountains of Paradise (1979)
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Lost BLUE VELVET footage found. →
:-O YES!!!!
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“The call of the Eagle Owl is a deep resonant “uh-hu” with emphasis on the first...”
– Who knew there was boyspeak and girlspeak in the animal world too. Makes total sense from a mating point of view but still interesting.
-via
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“Just as blue is delicate and mysterious, yellow clear and unsubtle, and red...”
– David Lindsay, A Voyage to Arcturus (1920)
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“Don’t fear god,
Don’t worry about death;
What is good is easy to...”
– Epicurus - The Tetrapharmakos
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“North Carolina’s freshman Congresswoman Renee Ellmers, last featured in RWW’s...”
– Ellmers: Taxpayer-Funded Health Care OK for Me Because My Congressional Salary Isn’t Enough to Live in DC (via ryking)
Oh, so if our cost of living is expensive, we can all get the Congressional health plan to cover us? Awesome!
What a hypocrite. Are there ANY Republican leaders who have...
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For some reason the queue doesn’t work for me, whatever I put in there never publishes itself.
Any ideas?
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