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The big day is right around the corner! By this time next week, groundhogs (and other weather-predicting rodents, mammals, or otherwise) all over North America will emerge from their dens and tell the rest of us how much more of this winter we have to endure. Aside from dusting off your copy of the Bill…
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From the Selvedge Yard, a collection of Hunter S. Thomson related photos: “IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME” | GONZO — HUNTER S. THOMPSON | The Selvedge Yard.
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Buzzfeed’s 50 Best Animal Photos of 2012
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Everything that’s wrong with Hollywood: With that in mind, let’s look ahead to what’s on the menu for this year: four adaptations of comic books. One prequel to an adaptation of a comic book. One sequel to a sequel to a movie based on a toy. One sequel to a sequel to a sequel to…
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This week’s awarding of the Nobel Prize in medicine to Robert Edwards for his role in developing in vitro fertilization has thrown a spotlight on the religious right’s deeply offensive stance on this amazing advance in medical science. Since it was developed, in vitro fertilization has been responsible for the births of over 4 million…
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Mike Jones, the male escort that outed Ted Haggard, on why so many priests hire male escorts: During the 1990s, when I worked as an escort in Denver, Colorado, I estimate at least 15 percent of my clientele were clergy or connected with the church in some way. There were one-timers and there were guys…
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PZ Myers has a suggestion for the Pope in regards to his “outrage” over the Belgian raids of Catholic church offices: He’s doing everything all wrong. Here’s what he should be doing: he should be calling the actions of priestly sex abusers deplorable and wrong, and insisting that the church will do everything in its…
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…or Why I NEVER Buy Reduced Fat Sour Cream! From the always great Fooducate Blog: Regular’s Ingredients [3 of them]: Cultured pasteurized grade A cream and milk, enzymes. … Fat Free’s Ingredients [12]: Cultured Lowfat Milk, Modified Corn Starch,Whey Protein Concentrate, Propylene Glycol Monoester, Artificial Color, Gelatin, Sodium Phosphate, Agar Gum, Xanthan Gum, Sodium Citrate,…
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Jason Kottke on Steve Jobs’ Thoughts on Flash: Jobs sort of circles around the main issue which is, from my own perspective as heavy web user and web developer: though Flash may have been necessary in the past to provide functionality in the browser that wasn’t possible using JS, HTML, and CSS, that is no…