December 2009
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Dec 26th
ListenA.C. Newman - Prophets
Dec 23rd
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Listenjandro: Vampire Weekend - White Sky. Another...
Dec 23rd
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“And finally, a few of you have asked about the schedule of the Secretary of...”
– State Department spokesman PJ Crowley on Hillary Clinton’s holiday schedule. HA. I’m not above a good Santa joke.
Dec 23rd
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Dec 23rd
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“Tons by which U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions would be reduced if our obesity rate...”
– Harper’s Index Yikes.
Dec 23rd
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“Surely all art is the result of one’s having been in danger, of having...”
– Rainer Marie Rilke, to his wife after viewing a Paul Cézanne exhibition in Paris, 1907
Dec 23rd
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“The time for talk is over, this is the bottom line: We can embrace this accord,...”
– Obama in Copenhagen, on signing the climate change agreement
Dec 18th
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Rant of the Day: The Anti-Choicers in Dallas
rabbleprochoice: leeleeleelee: OK, so like I’ve said before, I drive past abortion protesters every single day on my way to work.  I’m alright with that on some level.  It is within their right to peacfully protest on a sidewalk, and they’re not firebombing the clinics (yet).  I would equally expect the same courtesy during anti-war rallies or many of the other hippie activities that I partake...
Dec 17th
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WatchWatch
awkwardsilence: thedailywhat: The Colbert Report: Stephen Colbert joins Alicia Keys for a surprise duet during her performance of “Empire State of Mind (Part II) Broken Down” on last night’s show. [via.]
Dec 17th
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“The Republicans seem bent on making sure that every single 40-year-old woman in...”
– Gail Collins, NYTimes.com
Dec 16th
“We’ve aspired to compare ourselves to Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn.”
– Joseph Gordon-Levitt on him and Zooey Deschanel Hmmm.
Dec 15th
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Yes.
An art-world wall has fallen. The list of the 55 artists to be included in the 2010 Whitney Biennial was made public this morning, and 52 percent of those artists are women. Depending on where you stand, hell has frozen over, or there’s a fissure in the force. (The 2000 Biennial was made up of 36 percent women; in 2008, it was 40 percent.) Of the unusually high percentage of women artists in his...
Dec 12th
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“I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does...”
– Maya Angelou (via julie911) (via quote-book) (via claudiacrayon)
Dec 11th
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“The achievement gap in Wisconsin between white and African American kids is the...”
Dec 9th
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“Sweeter even than to have had the joy of caring for children of my own has it...”
–  Susan B. Anthony 1889. Pro-choice “feminists”, LOL @ you. I take it you know who Susan B. Anthony is ;) (via littlelightx) I do. I also know who bell hooks is. And who Margaret Sanger is. Here’s the deal, Susan B. Anthony is speaking from the perspective of 1889, remember that things were...
Dec 9th
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Dec 9th
ListenDiscovery - Swing Tree
Dec 8th
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You've already got Medicaid
I practice ob-gyn in new york, and estimate that about 80% of the abortions we do at my hospital are covered by Medicaid - probably similiar stats in the other 16 states where medicaid will cover it. With stupak, that coverage might disappear, if medicaid gets pulled into the “exchange”. Most of my patients will not have the money for an abortion. They will go to the pharmacy and buy...
Dec 8th
buh.
robot-heart-politics: audd: anyone with the nerve to kill something as precious as a baby is lowest of the low. i wouldn’t even consider them people. I’m going to ask you to reread that statement and let it sink in what that implies before moving on. Okay. So here’s the thing. 1 in 4 women have had an abortion. Chances are pretty good that not only do you know someone who has had an...
Dec 8th
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Dec 7th
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“Cute’s good. But cute only lasts for so long, and then it’s, Who are you as a...”
– Michelle Obama, from her Glamour Magazine interview with Katie Couric I’ve never bought Glamour until I saw her on the cover. I’ve got some serious love for her.
Dec 5th
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Dec 4th
The rich are closer to God
In his book Something for Nothing, Jackson Lears describes two starkly different manifestations of the American dream, each intertwined with religious faith. The traditional Protestant hero is a self-made man. He is disciplined and hardworking, and believes that his “success comes through careful cultivation of (implicitly Protestant) virtues in cooperation with a Providential plan.” The hero of...
Dec 2nd
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“This attention disorder undermines our security as well. Next week the president...”
– Robert Borosage
Dec 2nd