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Yet another reason to hate FOX
As if we didn’t have enough reasons to hate FOX… They’ve gone and cancelled Arrested Development, which I would put right up there with Desparate Housewives as one of the best shows currently on network television. (I can’t talk about cable since I haven’t had it in years.) Those bastards! WARNING TO DESPARATE HOUSEWIVES FANS:…
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The downward spiral of the Civil Rights Division
Seems that the recent behavior of the Justice Department is part of a greater trend towards conservatism and a not-so-gradual rollback of what little progress has been made towards true equality and civil rights. From Prometheus 6: Civil Rights Focus Shift Roils Staff At Justice: The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, which has enforced the…
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The bastardization of civil rights
Few organizations make me as angry and disgusted as the Center for “Equal Opportunity”. Their website claims that their mission is to “to the promotion of colorblind equal opportunity and racial harmony.” How do they work towards this mission? Primarily, by promoting a twisted bastardization of civil rights thinking and legislation through lawsuits against colleges…
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Slightly disturbing; also, the required post-election snippet
Today, while reading this ABC news article about al Qaeda’s attempted justification of the bombings in Jordan, I glanced down at the bottom of the screen and noticed the “Most Sent Headlines” section: Can Your Cat Make You Crazy? Cat Show Plans Memorial Service for Dog Warm, Fuzzy Winter Bra Unveiled in Japan Apparently, ABC…
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Avian flu: who’s really at fault
This morning, I stumbled across this article on avian flu and the US poultry industry’s response to it: Asian governments must provide financial incentives and shut down as many backyard poultry farms as possible to halt the spread of bird flu, a leading U.S. poultry industry official said. “We cannot control migratory birds but we…