January 2012
21 posts
HALP. We have to fix this.
Have you ever watched a news segment on a topic that is within your profession or expertise? Don’t they always get it wrong or skew things in a way that exposes the fact that the people reporting have no idea what they’re reporting on? Then you stop and think, “wait, if they get something I know about wrong, there must be an equal amount of wrongness on every other topic they...
Hungary’s Constitutional Revolution →
The new constitution also accepts conservative Christian social doctrine as state policy, in a country where only 21% of the population attends any religious services at all. The fetus is protected from the moment of conception. Marriage is only legal if between a man and a woman. The constitution “recognize(s) the role of Christianity in preserving nationhood” and holds that “the family and the...
“I looked at that, and I didn’t say that. If you look at it, what I started to...”
– Santorum: I Didn’t Say “Black People,” I Said “Blah People” | Clutch Magazine
(via robot-heart-politics)
Once you go blah, you never go back.
December 2011
17 posts
Nurse Reveals Top 5 Regrets of the Dying →
Fired RIM execs 'chewed through restraints' on... →
The pair seemed heavily intoxicated from the start of the flight, according to one passenger. They drank, passed out, and woke up to continue consuming alcohol and yelling at one another.
Campbell was described as a “rowdy and abusive” passenger who at one point warned that he would “off people when they left the plane,” according to the Crown prosecutor.
A flight...
November 2011
19 posts
“Neither piracy laws nor newfangled ideas offer creative types a reliable path to...”
– http://www.economist.com/node/21540234
