December 2011
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September 2011
2 posts
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Someone is going to get cancer because of Michelle...
stfuconservatives:
I’m not saying that in some overtly mean way as if she were a cause of cancer. I mean that someone is going to listen to her lies about vaccines and they, or their children, will get cancer. It’s going to happen.
-Joe
Are You a Literature Abuser? →
audaciaray:
- I have read fiction when I was depressed, or to cheer myself up. - I have gone on reading binges of an entire book or more in a day. - I read rapidly, often ‘gulping’ chapters. - I have sometimes read early in the morning or before work. - I have hidden books in different places to sneak a chapter without being seen. - Sometimes I avoid friends or family obligations in order to...
August 2011
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“Heisenberg and Schrodinger were in a car speeding down the highway when a cop...”
– via mikerickson:
Gravity. It’s the law.: Heisenberg and Schrodinger were in a car speeding down the highway when a cop pulls them over
(via wildcat2030)
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May 2011
2 posts
House of Leaves Timeline →
fuckyeahhouseofleaves:
For anyone who was looking for a comprehensive chronological time line of house of leaves.
August 2010
2 posts
stfuconservatives:
the-abcs-of-life:
lipstick-feminists:
kypri:
genderqueer:
“Although born identical twins with matching DNA, Tom and Ryan were two immensely different children. As toddlers, Tom entertained himself with toy trucks while Ryan fawned over his girl cousin’s Barbies and Little Mermaid dolls. Photo after photo of them at that age show Ryan with a t-shirt wrapped around his...
July 2010
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It happens.
Finally caved and joined Twitter. Follow me there if you’re so inclined.
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Nerd Soap Opera
I am a bit agog and more than a little riveted by the kerfluffle happening over at ScienceBlogs over the past 24 hours. I didn’t check in during the 36 hours that PepsiGate lasted not so long ago, as new motherhood takes up the vast majority of my time and blogreading is not always so easily accomplished while nursing/comforting/cajoling. But I read a bit in the immediate aftermath and...
June 2010
4 posts
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Friday weird science: FINALLY a clitoris study! ... →
Ultrasonographic imaging of the clitoris and discussion of vaginal sensitivity due to proximity of the clitoral root.
I know I’ve been AWOL lately—I had a baby! Will start tumbling again more regularly at some point.
May 2010
3 posts
“I want to be in a world where everyone who wants a child can have one, and no...”
– The Longer I’m a Mom, the More I Am Pro-Choice | RHRealityCheck.org (via greaterthanlapsed) (via stfuconservatives)
Click the link. Read the whole thing. I feel every word of this.
Bored? Dissatisfied? Maybe It's Time To Start A... →
“The perfect wife wakes in the middle of the night to toss the covers back onto her husband because she wants him to stay warm. She doesn’t sit up and wonder why she had to marry someone that thrashes about and snores so loudly. The perfect wife cherishes the quiet moments when she can watch her husband sleeping peacefully. Deep down she knows that one day her bed will be empty because...
April 2010
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Will the Republicans Suddenly Discover Statistical... →
Follow the link for commentary on historical Republican opposition to statistical sampling techniques in the U.S. census, contemporary Republican opposition to holding a census at all, and possible repercussions of underrepresentation of right-leaning areas.
I was a little surprised when I first heard about Michele Bachmann et al.’s census snitfit, not that it doesn’t fit in with the...
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American Anthropological Association dissolves,... →
anthropophagous:
James Curry, the newly-past President of the now defunct AAA, stated the organization had no choice. “Look, it’s all been done. All of it. We have talked to every god forsaken group on the planet, and there is nothing left to study.” “Frankly there is not even a job market out there for students.” Increasingly graduate students of these former anthropology programs have found...
On Justice And Scott Roeder's Trial →
stfuconservatives:
rabbleprochoice:
I learned about Dr. Tiller’s murder via twitter. I remember exactly where I was on May 31, 2009 — sitting on my couch, casually browsing the new internet phenomenon, not yet convinced that it was a worthwhile pursuit for me. I saw a friend’s tweet, “wtf Dr Tiller dead?!?” and at first it didn’t register. I looked around. Outside, the wind was blowing...
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“Not to be nitpicky, but a woman doesn’t “have to take maternity leave,” either....”
– Comment on Fired Wall Street VP Says She Was Placed on “Mommy Track”
I facepalmed a little.
(via robot-heart-politics)
Yeah, she can come right back to work and just tether her bosoms to a pump all day while the baby sleeps in a box under her desk. Those things just sleep and nap all the time...
March 2010
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Is Jesus Making You Overeat? (Commentary on... →
I read Brian Wansink’s Mindless Eating when it first came out and really appreciated the approach—kind of Freakonomics meets food with inventive experimentation. I came across this commentary on a new paper today by Wansink & Wansink on food size changes in Last Supper art over the past 1,000 years.
As Obesity Panacea points out, the methodology is delightfully quirky:...
"Shut Up or I Will Kill You" (by Greg Laden) →
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Over the next few months, as we approach the election season, this violence is likely to continue and to increase in frequency. Eventually someone sympathetic: a child, a cute person, a mother of four, whatever, is going to get killed by a teabagger. That death will be added to the security guard gunned down last year and those who died in the air plane attack on the IRS offices just a...
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"Baby Killer": Or, How the Abortion Health Care... →
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Less shy is NOW, coming at the issue from the other side. President Terry O’Neill saidin a statement that the group was “incensed” by the abortion deal, and that it was “designed to appease a handful of anti-choice Democrats who have held up health care reform in an effort to restrict women’s access to abortion.” Well, yeah. The statement...
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James Randi comes out at 81. →
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A week or so ago, I wiki-ed “great white hope” to learn the origin of the phrase. I had always thought it was akin to the idea of Broadway as the “great white way”—kind of an illuminated beacon sort of thing.
Wow, that’s offensive.
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February 2010
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The Missionary Impulse →
“Kidnapping for Jesus” is what many, including outraged Idahoans, have called it in reader response to newspaper stories about the missionaries. Silsby says it’s all a misunderstanding, and her intentions were good.
At the least, the curious case of Laura Silsby raises questions about cultural imperialism: what makes a scofflaw from nearly all-white Idaho with no experience in adoption or rescue...
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My sense of humor is so dorky.
I asked my students tonight if they had a favorite entomologist. No one did. I told them not to worry; they still have time.
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Luis Rivera Dies; Built Stuffed Animal Scenes on... →
luthiermark:
NOOOOOOoooooooooo!!! :-(
This guy was an institution around here. I couldn’t help but smile anytime I walked past his lot and saw what he had arranged that day.
This makes me sad.
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