- Photos: Massive quake unleashes tsunami on Japan | Posted | National Post
- [http://www.google.com/search?q=help+japan]
- Bee Colony Collapse Spreading Around The World, Putting Global Food Supply At Possible Risk
- [I don't link about this very often because the bee decline makes me sh*t my pants.
For "bee decline", read "food shortage".
It's in my top five list of Things I Do Not Think Much About Due To The Horror, along with nuclear warfare, peak oil, global anti-bacterial-resistant pandemic, and the Republic of Gilead. Wait, no, I think about Gilead a lot.
-L]
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- Handshake Down In Alabama
- [Crooks and Liars - Matt Osborne]
- No Decency
- [Campaign for America's Future - Terrance Heath - link-o-rama]
In the midst of anemic job creation, an unemployment crisis that's deeper than any one in the media wants to admit, and a jobs deficit of 28 million threatening our economic future, Rep. Eillison — along with Rep. George Miller — had to leave capitol hill to find people in Washington who were talking about jobs.
…when Republicans do turn from demonizing minority groups, or defending the Defense of Marriage Act, they propose budget cuts that will endanger hundreds of thousands of jobs at the state and local level. When told what their cuts would mean to actual people — the GOP basically responds with "So be it," or "So what?".
- The Monkey Cage: Epistemic closure – climate change edition
- [Doug Hill @ Balloon Juice pointed to this article, summarizing it as a discussion "of the data showing that, among Democrats, concern over global warming increases with education while among Republicans, it decreases."]
If Gentzkow and Shapiro are right, then there is less ideological segregation in consumption of Internet information sources than one might imagine e.g. from looking at blogs alone. It is possible, for example, that highly educated strong Republicans may be exposed to both contrarian and conventional sources of information on climate change, but trust the former much more than the latter because of partisan cues.
[See also the second commenter's remark about the implications re higher education. Some of the commenters are quibbling with the quality of the report cited, but in a later post, the blogger asserts hir point stands despite the weakness of the report.]
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- King Hearing Was Counterproductive and Discriminatory
- The ACLU and a broad coalition of civil liberties and civil rights groups sent a letter explaining our concerns. Please click here to sign a pledge of opposition asking King to cease holding hearings that target any specific religious or ideological group for investigation based on unsubstantiated theories about "radicalization" and instead focus the government's anti-terrorism investigations on actual terrorist acts and those who commit them.
- Strange bedfellows
- The secret camera is fair game as long as it isn't edited to completely change the context or what really happened as Giles and O'Keefe have done over and over again and Breitbart himself is being sued for doing in the Shirley Sherrod case.
The question in this situation is why NPR felt they needed to fire someone for saying what he said.
- Who needs Tsunami warnings anyway?
- I'm sitting here now, six blocks from the beach in California, waiting for the wave [from the earthquake in Japan] to hit the west coast. Luckily it doesn't appear to be dangerous to us at this point.
The good news is that if the Republicans have their way, when one of these things does hit us in this earthquake zone, we won't have warning:…
I realize that the productive wealthy can't be taxed but I hope they're all thinking ahead and employing their own natural disaster experts or they might suffer right along with the rest of us.
- Ghana Achieves Independence from Britain
- [About.com African History]
War between the British and the Ashanti was brought to an end in 1874 when the defeated King, Asantehene, signed a treaty with the British. The Gold Coast colony was created, incorporating the Ahanti and a Protectorate in the north. Following the re-disposition of German colonies after World War I, British Togoland was joined as a fourth territorial element. Independence was achieved on 6 March 1957, and the country named after an Islamic empire that existed a thousand years ago in the Sahel region south-west of the Sahara.
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- The Legal and Cultural History of Legal Aid
- [Law & Humanities Blog - Christine Corcos]
Felice Batlan, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicag-Kent College of Law, has published The Gendered Lives of Legal Aid: Lay Lawyers, Social Workers, and the Bar, 1863-1960. Here is the abstract.
- Neanderthal stone tools found in Greece
- 50,000 to 35,000-year-old stone tools which may have been used by the last of the Neaderthals have been found in Greece’s Pindos Mountains.
- Victoria Woodhull, Infamous Feminist
- Victoria Woodhull's role was welcomed by some in the movement, and opposed by others. She defended women's right to vote as already supported by the Constitution, and ran for president in 1872 in part to prove that women could do so. But her candidacy was quite the failure — she even ended up in jail, for her role in exposing several cases of sexual hypocrisy in her newspaper. In the accompanying cartoon, she's represented by famous cartoonist Thomas Nast as Mrs. Satan for her support of the idea of free love.
- Red Riding Hood – Review
- [Women and Hollywood]
You have to give it to Catherine Hardwicke. She specializes in making movies for teenage girls. …It took me about 20 minutes to get into the rhythm of Red Riding Hood. This is the type of movie that you just have to go with as much as you can.
- Zimbabwe: IWD marchers harassed by police
- [The F-Word Blog - Helen G]
- Highlights of recent press coverage: women leaders and census kickoff
- [The Ada Initiative]
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[My bookmarks live at delicious.com/camryl. In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. Also, signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
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