December 2011
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I want to get a tattoo of Chomsky, Sagan, and Zinn.
And then, while I was typing that, I decided maybe Tyson too.
Need to start thinking of a cool design for it.
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Chomsky to Occupy: move to the next stage →
Noam Chomsky has advice for the Occupy movement, whose encampments all over the country are being swept away by police. The occupations were a “brilliant” idea, he says, but now it’s time to “move on to the next stage” in tactics. He suggests political organizing in the neighborhoods.
The Occupy camps have shown people how “to break out of this conception that we’re isolated.” But “just...
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Amy Koch Affair Scandal: Minnesota's LGBT... →
Minnesota Senate Majority Leader Amy Koch’sresignation amidst allegations she engaged in an “inappropriate relationship” with an unnamed male Senate staffer has prompted an apology from her state’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community.
“On behalf of all gays and lesbians living in Minnesota, I would like to wholeheartedly apologize for our...
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My wife and I are planning to leave the South in a few years. I’d move now, but we really do need to take advantage of the stability of having two incomes for the first time ever. After we pay off some debt and save some money, we’ll be in a much better position to pack up and move away.
We’re looking for somewhere much more progressive and far less religious than Georgia. I...
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myartisticnature:
“As I shopped for infant clothes for my first daughter, I was disgusted that almost everything was pink and there was no mistaking the boys’ section of the store from the girls’. I refused to make my baby daughter fit in the box that society had created for her. “What if she doesn’t like pink?” I thought. “What if she likes tigers and dinosaurs?”-Melissa Bollow Tempel
This....
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