- Frozen Embryos Produce Threatened, Adorable Kittens
- Researchers at the New Orleans-based Audubon Center for Research of Endangered Species recently presented two rare African Black-Footed kittens, demonstrating major advances in animal reproductive science and also general adorableness.
- Twenty-Five Percent of Republicans Still Fear ACORN, Which Doesn’t Exist Anymore
- More evidence emerges all the time to suggest that fearmongering by the conservative media has helped create a permanently paranoid voting bloc. Last year, a shocking number of voters, both Democrats and Republicans, said they believed President Obama had raised their taxes, which isn't anywhere near to being true.
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- House GOP Declares Emergency … Over NPR Funding | TPMDC
- House Republicans are holding an emergency meeting of the Rules Committee on Wednesday to take up legislation that would block funding to NPR in the wake of James O'Keefe's hidden camera prank on the news organization.
- Wis. GOPers Restore Voting Rights To Senate Dems, Lift Fines | TPMDC
- …will not enforce the contempt declaration handed down against the Dems — which, as Fitzgerald said Monday, stripped the Dems of the right to vote in committee proceedings.
In addition, Republicans will not enforce the fines, of $100 for each additional missed session day…
…the Senate Organization committee passed a rule rescinding some key punishments it had handed down against the Dems during the standoff, targeting the Dems' staffers: Limiting the staffers' access to copy machines, having the Republican majority leader approve the staffers' time sheets, and placing the staffers under the supervision of GOP senators.
- Santorum: JFK Was ‘Radical’ For Believing In Separation Of Church & State | TPMDC
- "Jefferson is spinning in his grave," he added.
- Social Security Suicide – NYTimes.com
- [Paul Krugman]
Let’s assume that we’re not talking about expropriating the money people have paid in, that we’re only talking about restoring actuarial balance. Well, on the conservative estimates of the Social Security trustees, we’re talking about 0.6 percent of GDP over the next 75 years. That’s not enough to make a major difference …
All you would do is undermine a key part of the US social safety net — and, of course, offer Republicans a big fat target.
- Back to the Future: Timeless Photography of Past and Present
- [WebUrbanist - Marc]
- Be a Copper in my New Novel
- [Paul Cornell's House of Awkwardness]
You know I've got this urban fantasy novel coming out from Tor next year? Well, more of a metropolitan fantasy, in that it's set in modern London, and involves the Metropolitan Police. Anyway, if you'd like to have a police officer in it named after you (real names only, no net names), and donate to Japanese disaster relief while you're at it, why not take part in the auction here? And do take a look at what other authors have offered interesting things for you to bid on here.
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- Lebanon was the forgotten player in the sixties space race
- [io9 - Alasdair Wilkins]
In the early 1960s, some twenty-something enthusiasts in Lebanon started building remarkably sophisticated rockets. These rockets made it as far up as the International Space Station is today, and even the United States and Soviet Union had to pay attention.
- A Discworld Cop Show, Coming to A Screen Near You
- [The Mary Sue - Susana Polo]
- Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s Sweded version of the original Star Wars
- [io9 - Charlie Jane Anders]
- Adinkra Symbology and its Origins
- [About.com African History]
Adinkra is a cotton cloth produced in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire which has traditional Akan symbols stamped upon it. The adinkra symbols represent popular proverbs and maxims, record historical events, express particular attitudes or behaviour related to depicted figures, or concepts uniquely related to abstract shapes. It is one of several traditional cloths produced in the region – the other well known cloths being kente and adanudo.
- Senate health reg passes two anti-abortion measures | Post on Politics
- The Senate Health Regulation Committee approved two anti-abortion measures this afternoon, including a proposed constitutional amendment banning public financing of abortions even in the case of rape or incest.
reproductive_justice misogyny let_them_eat_bandaids extremism
- Germany shuts seven nuclear power plants
- [MarketWatch.com]
Germany on Tuesday announces the at-least temporary closure of its seven oldest nuclear plants as it conducts a three-month safety review in response to Japan’s deepening nuclear crisis.
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