January 2012
“Even at age twelve I could tell that Jimmy Carter was an honest man trying to...”
– Cartoonist Tim Kreider on former U.S. President Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911-2004)
Abortion Is Less Risky than Childbirth →
The myth is that abortion is risky, but compared to childbirth, it’s not.
10 Facts about the Current State of the Union →
1. Since the last SOTU, the economy has created 1.9 million private sector jobs. [Source] 2. The top 1 percent take home 24 percent of the nation’s income, up from about 9 percent in 1976. [Source] 3. 50 percent of U.S. workers make less than $26,364 per year. [Source]
4. Private sector job creation under Obama in 2011 was larger than seven out of the eight years Bush was president. [Source] 5....
“Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going too fast —...”
– — Eddie Cantor
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U.S. President John Tyler's Grandsons Are Still... →
Born in 1790, John Tyler was the 10th President of the U.S. He took office in 1841 after William Henry Harrison died. And he has two living grandchildren!
Not great-great-great-grandchildren, but grandchildren! Their dad was Tyler’s son.
How is this possible? The Tyler men have a habit of having kids very late in life. Lyon Gardiner Tyler, one President Tyler’s 15 kids, was born in 1853....
“Some conservative evangelicals… have moved on from supposing that it is...”
– — Andrew Brown, Guardian
Olivia Newton-John Fully, Publicly Supports... →
Marriage Equality in Washington Has the Votes to... →
Washington State’s marriage-equality legislation received a big boost Monday when state Sen. Mary Margaret Haugen (D-Camano Island) became the 25th senator to announce her support. State Sen. Haugen’s decision secures passage in the Senate, while the state House already has enough lawmakers signed on to approve it. And Washington Governor Christine Gregoire has already declared her...
Theocrat Rick Santorum On Gay Marriage: I ‘Would... →
Why do people keep re-electing him?
Gays ‘Make God Want to Vomit’ Says Santorum’s New... →
I wonder how he knows that God vomits?
Rick Santorum: Rape Victims Must ‘Make The Best... →
Rick Santorum is against contraception and against all abortion rights, even if a woman is raped!
Rand Paul Lies about Being Detained By TSA →
He blamed an overly intrusive government for being flagged by the TSA, and he was on his way to a rally in support of an overly intrusive government taking away reproductive rights for women! Hypocrite and liar. Disappointing.
“The scientists analyzed billions of words from Twitter, a half-century of music...”
– Scientists find English is an overwhelmingly positive language.
Further reading: Steven Pinker’s The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature.
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“We’re living in unequal societies, but what makes the inequality noxious, and...”
– — Will Hutton
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“…while rape is a human universal, so are proscriptions against rape. Yet one has...”
– — Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Viking Adult Press, 2011)
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“He makes his money the same way I make my money. He makes money by moving around...”
– — Warren Buffett, on why Mitt Romney should pay higher taxes
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