January 2012
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Corporations have more rights than you.
This is an actual letter written by my husband’s friend (they are both lawyers) to a client, explaining why he can’t do anything after his employer fired him for having to get surgery after a car accident.
“This is the grassroots effect of what we get for electing Republicans at all levels. The Republican Supreme Court ( I refer to them as the Supreme CRAP…Corporate...
SOPA lives—and MPAA calls protests an "abuse of... →
wilwheaton:
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has looked at tomorrow’s “Internet blackout” in opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)—and it sees only a “gimmick,” a “stunt,” “hyperbole,” “a dangerous and troubling development,” an “irresponsible response,” and an “abuse of power.”
“Wikipedia, reddit, and others are going dark to protest the legislation, while sites like...
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Kansas GOP House Speaker ‘Prays’ That Obama’s...
think-progress:
Kansas House Speaker Mike O’Neal (R) sent an email that referred to President Obama and the following Bible verse:
Let his days be few; and let another take his office
May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.
Read the whole debacle.
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There are no words....
Mohandas Gandhi: Dear Customer who stuck up for... →
sweetupndown:
you thought I didn’t really notice. But I did. I wanted to high-five you.
Yesterday I had a pair of brothers in my store. One was maybe between 15-17. He was a wrestler at the local high school. Kind of tall, stocky and handsome. He had a younger brother, who was maybe about…
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No longer the land of opportunity →
wilwheaton:
The best way to measure a nation’s merit-based status is to look at its intergenerational economic mobility: Do children move up and down the economic ladder based on their own abilities, or does their economic standing simply replicate their parents’? Sadly, as the American middle class has thinned out over recent decades, the idea of America as the land of opportunity has become a...
COMMIXTURE: Having a vagina is a complicated... →
commixture:
I was remembering when Rob was volunteering for the Obama campaign at the Democratic caucus back in ‘07. I was there helping. It was the big Hillary Clinton vs Barack Obama fight. Both candidates had video presentations that were shown. And Hillary Clinton’s was the most insulting thing I’d seen a…
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