July 2011
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“The 2-income family gives a shocking amount of the extra money they scramble to...”
– Gosh darn it this is an easy question to answer: because most people don’t make child care decisions based on the tax code.
Really.
Despite libertarian and conservative claims to the contrary, I have never met a single person who ever, ever got married for a tax benefit, or failed to get married...
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“Nothing can be done to bring Mr Breivik’s victims back to life. The most...”
– Will Wilkinson, Plush and unusual punishment (via ilyagerner)
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GOOD Health || The Cost of Being Female →
suzyxisntreal:
The Institute of Medicine has named eight preventive services that women should get for free under the new health care law. Exactly how much money are we talking about? GOOD took stock of the money spent by a “typical” American woman whose sexual health and life choices correlated with the national averages. Turns out being a woman is pretty pricey.
Follow the link to view the...
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“From South Africa’s Business Day, July 18:
“Deficit reduction will...”
– Great (as usual) compilation of international commentary on the US debt circus from The Rude Pundit.
“Here’s where the insidious comes in: When all children see are stories in which...”
– Maryann Johnson, Winnie the Pooh: Slayer of Feminist Fantasies (via thesnarkwasaboojum)
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“Norway’s Prime Minister is a liberal atheist, they have one of the best...”
– Matthew Trevithick, responding to this story, “Former Bush Official Places Blame For Oslo Attack On Norwegians For Not Being ‘Serious’ About Terrorism,” with a comment that wins the universe. (via cognitivedissonance)
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greenstate:
U.S. wastes $34 billion in Afghan and Iraq contracting | Reuters
The United States has wasted some $34 billion on service contracts with the private sector in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a study being finalized for Congress.
The findings by a bipartisan congressional commission were confirmed to Reuters by a person familiar with the draft of the study, which...
stfupenguins:
someauthorgirl:
In my humble, lazy fucking opinion, the only thing it’s okay to congratulate yourself for is actual contribution to human society. Do you treat other people with respect and kindness? Well, okay then.
Except, it is my general observation that people contributing to human society don’t pat themselves on the back much. They’re too busy using those hands to reach...
“The party that became so powerful by sinking
foreign boats
Is dreaming up new...”
– Days Like These - Billy Bragg (via amodernmanifesto)
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“Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our...”
– Audre Lorde (via lunetlautre)
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Corporate bullshit
You know the higher ups in the Fortune 500 company you work for have too much money & don’t give a shit about anybody else. You know they feel entitled to everything at the expense of other people’s lives. But when you see it on paper? Still pisses me off every godamn time. I have nominations for the head of the line when we break out the guillotines. My Dad could probably...
npr:
Black men survive longer in prison than out: study | Reuters
Black men are half as likely to die at any given time if they’re in prison than if they aren’t, suggests a new study of North Carolina inmates.
You know something’s wrong when…
Eric Cantor Stands to Make Serious Bucks if... →
stfuconservatives:
stfucongressionalrepublicans:
“Mr. Cantor, who walked out of debt discussions with Vice President Joe Biden last week, owns up to $15,000 in shares of the ProShares Trust Ultrashort 20+ Year Treasury ETF, Salon notes today, updating a Wall Street Journal report on this from last year.”
Yes, you’re reading this correctly: the guy in charge of bargaining for the GOP shorted...
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Jill Filipovic Op-Ed In The Daily (trigger warning...
fuckyeahfeminists:
The not-guilty verdict reached this week in the Casey Anthony murder trial set off a social media avalanche of indignation and cynicism directed at the American justice system. The consensus on Twitter seems to be that Anthony got away with killing her daughter. Outraged Facebook statuses asked, “How could this happen?”
If you want to be jaded by our justice system, there...
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They meet in secret. They write our laws. They... →
wilwheaton:
ALEC is not a lobby; it is not a front group. It is much more powerful than that. Through ALEC, behind closed doors, corporations hand state legislators the changes to the law they desire that directly benefit their bottom line. Along with legislators, corporations have full membership standing in ALEC. Corporations sit on all nine ALEC task forces and vote with legislators to...
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“Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky (via fernandaiz)
Perfume that smells like libraries.
likeproust:
In the Library is a warm blend of English Novel*, Russian & Moroccan Leather Bindings, Worn Cloth and a hint of Wood Polish
*The main note in this scent was copied from one of my favorite novels originally published in 1927. I happened to find a signed first edition in pristine condition many years ago in London. I was more than a little excited because there were only ever...
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The Rude Pundit →
A drug benefit cut for an old lady in a diaper and a closed tax loophole on private jets are not balance. That six bucks cut into that woman’s limited income in profound ways. To use the friend’s equation in reverse (times ten), $6 is like $3000. And even that’s not a big deal to the wealthy because you can bet that the woman is living paycheck to paycheck. The millionaire has...
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fuckyeahfeminists:
NY Post Smears DSK Rape Victim as “Hooker,” Can’t Back Up Their Claim
shelbyknox:
The New York Post’s sensational headline calling the hotel maid who reported being raped by Dominique Strauss-Kahn a “hooker” probably sold a lot of papers. Too bad the claim is completely unsubstantiated, not to mention irrelevant, sexist, and offensive.
I especially...
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bohemianarthouse:
Why the Biggest Energy Suck in Your House May Have to do With Your TV
That little cable box sitting atop your television set is likely the largest single source of electrical waste in your entire household.
Another reason to hate Comcast? Sure!!!
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“Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is guilty in not providing...”
– The Bishop of Dinge (Les Miserables)
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“Does Bin Laden, due to the way he died, look more feminine to his followers and,...”
– CNN interviewer consulting terrorism experts about Osama Bin Laden’s death Like my gender is “ridiculous.” (via microaggressions)
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Iraq War veteran on Manning, the media and the... →
vruz:
by Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com
Last week, New York Magazine published a somewhat tabloidy profile of Bradley Manning by Steven Fishman, focusing on the purported personal and psychological aspects of his life as a means of understanding his alleged leaking, and I responded to it the following day. Now there is another response that I hope as many people as possible read; with...
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Canada is boycotting a United Nations committee on... →
stfuhypocrisy:
Collecting rainwater now illegal in many states as Big Government claims ownership over our water
leftish:
Many of the freedoms we enjoy here in the U.S. are quickly eroding as the nation transforms from the land of the free into the land of the enslaved, but what I’m about to share with you takes the assault on our freedoms to a whole new level. You may not be aware of...
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Oh please...
Link posted by my inexplicably right wing sister-in-law on FB (because uber-partisan fear-mongering, oversimplification of complex concepts, and ignorance of facts is so very contructive):
The Ant and the Grasshopper, revised edition
The following is the Democratic “common good” version of the old favorite, the Ant and the Grasshopper:
Remember the ant and the grasshopper?
OLD...
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Best paranoid delusions of the week! →
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“The question is not, I repeat, which community will be the more secure, the...”
– Leo Tolstoy
“On Anarchy”
(via discosherpa)
