March 2012
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“…what passes for public debate is still, on closer examination, mainly repition...”
– Carl Sagan, The Common Enemy, (1988)
Oh my god I need to read this
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Filled with yes. →
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There Are Now More Americans In Jail Than There... →
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There are now more Americans in jail — 6 million — than there were in Stalin’s Gulag, reports Fareed Zakaria, in a column called “Incarceration Nation.”
And it’s not just a relative population thing.
The U.S. has 760 prisoners per 100,000 citizens.
How does that compare to other countries?
It’s 7X-10X as high:
Japan has 63 per 100,000,
Germany has 90 per 100,000
France...
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White Supremacist running for Sheriff of Idaho... →
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“The white power activist is running as a Republican in the May 15 Bonner County primary to become the top law enforcement officer. Winkler said despite the white supremacist beliefs he holds as a KKK imperial wizard, his brand of justice would be color blind.
“In the event I was elected sheriff, I would not act on racial profiling,” Winkler said. “Being in the white power...
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ihopericksantorum:
“We know the candidate Barack Obama what he was like, the anti-war goverment nigg—the uh—…” Wow.
Can’t wait to see the shitstorm tomorrow morning.
You guys are blowing this way out of proportion. It’s obvious he was trying to say “Government Ninja.”
Okay, I recognize that this could...
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Let's Keep Science In Our Schools
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Watchihopericksantorum:
Two men interrupted a Rick Santorum event in Illinois with a same-sex kiss, and were promptly ejected by security when the crowd turned on them. The duo would would not reveal whether they were gay to reporter Savannah Ziegelbauer, emphasizing Santorum’s oft-divisive gay-rights policy, not their sexuality, as the important issue. ““I don’t think the message should be about...
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"Waking Up" (Open Source Film Project) →
This is a short film made to demonstrate the open source movie ‘Waking Up’. It is about Ben, who froze himself down in 2012, in the hope that humanity once might be able to thaw him up and cure his disease. And this is exactly what happens. In the year 2112, the world has gone through massive changes towards the positive. Both technology and human values has developed into a whole new world,...
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: Woman Dies After Being Dragged From Hospital →
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BTW THE ENTIRE INCIDENT IS ON VIDEO!
Anna Brown, 29, died on the floor of a jail cell within an hour of being dragged from St. Mary’s Hospital. As blood clots spread from her legs to her lungs the hospital staff was busy…
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White Man Kills a Black Couple because they asked... →
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HAS EVERYONE SEEN THIS?
This happened recently. The story goes that this father was playing outside with his kids and went to go talk to this guy (the white man), because he was shooting his guns in the area where they were playing. The white man came over and shot him in the headFOR NO REASON. Did the same thing to the...
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“I actually used to share that view. But I absolutely think it’s the epitome of...”
– Rocky Anderson (via humanformat)
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(UK) Squatting in residential properties to be... →
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tahlalaliaaa:
I can’t even deal with how angry this makes me. The government has basically just criminalised belonging to one of the most vulnerable groups in society - during a fucking housing crisis. Private property above human rights - as always. I can’t even begin to imagine what effect this will have on the poor and homeless in the UK.
Seriously, fuck.
Dafuq, gov’t?!!
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“If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely”
– Brave New World (via stephanyaimee)
“What we’re missing now, on another level, is not just biology, but cosmology....”
– A Universe Of Self-replicating Code | Conversation | Edge (via wildcat2030)
nonplussedbyreligion: Secularists You Should Know:... →
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On this date in 1944, Ishmael Jaffree was born. Jaffree brought and won the U.S. Supreme Court decision, Wallace v. Jaffree, 472 U.S. 38, 72 (1985). Calling him “an authentic American hero,” the Freedom From Religion Foundation inaugurated the “Freethinker of the Year” award at its 1985…