Short story: ILU-486 | Panda-monium Every part of you belongs to you. tags: reproductive_justice fiction How an interview with Detroit talk show host Lou Gordon effectively ended Mitt Romney’s father’s presidential hopes | MLive.com Michigan Governor George Romney—Mitt Romney’s father—received 48 delegate votes at the 1964 Republican convention and was considered a front-runner for the [...]
New Study From Consumer Advocates Shows Mass Servicer Abuse | FDL News Desk – By: David Dayen – February 22, 2012 …“mortgage servicers continue to initiate foreclosure proceedings improperly, either while a homeowner is awaiting a loan modification or due to improper fees or payment processing.” This is a key element of the servicing standards [...]
The National Museum of African American History and Culture | About.com African-American History The museum, which is being built on the The Mall in Washington, D.C., will be devoted to the documentation of African American life, art, history, and culture. President Obama, speaking at the groundbreaking ceremony, noted that the idea for the museum had [...]
Scott Brown struggles to refight old culture war with Elizabeth Warren – The Plum Line – The Washington Post – Greg Sargent – 02/16/2012 You can watch video of the interview here. The reporter repeatedly pointed out that the measure goes much further than just exempting religious organizations from covering contraception; it also allows employers [...]
Image-of-the-Week: Boozy Fruit Flies | Mother Jones Fruit flies live on fruit, and a lot of fruit rots and ferments, so that fruit flies also live to some extent on alcohol. A new paper in Current Biology reports on whether this boozy lifestyle contributes anything besides slurred flight, impromptu couplings, and fruit fights (okay, I [...]
Yesterday in asshattery: Congressional Republicans tell us that the fight over birth control access is unrelated to reproductive rights and that the only woman put forward as a candidate to testify on the subject is “not qualified” to do so. Links below. Please sign the petition urging Congress not to reduce access to birth control, [...]
This Girl Snuck Into a Russian Military Rocket Factory | Gizmodo Her name is Lana Sator and she snuck into one of NPO Energomash factories outside of Moscow. Her photos are amazing, like sets straight out of Star Wars or Alien. Now the Russian government is harassing her. tags: photography Alternate titles for Dr. Seuss [...]
How Pinterest Changed Website Design Forever – Mashable! Even if you haven’t ever visited popular visual bookmarking site Pinterest, you might recognize its design elements — which have been popping up everywhere… “It flattens the information hierarchy,”… Pinterest puts web content into sticky-note sized blocks users can organize onto pinboards that fill the entire browser [...]
Daily Kos: Mitt Romney spits on Michigan’s unionized autoworkers in Detroit News op-ed – by Eclectablog – Feb 14, 2012 NOTE: I highly commend your attention to Congressman Gary Peters’ diary “I was there – why Romney is still wrong on Michigan’s auto industry.” [link] … Today, in a Detroit News op-ed titled “Taxpayers should [...]
Obsidian Wings: Remix at the Super Bowl When I heard the halftime show at the Super Bowl would be Madonna, I knew it was going to be something pretty flamboyant in the way of over-the-top entertainment. But I didn’t imagine that it was going to be a fannish remix. …She is performing *about* the Super [...]
Watch Ants Sip Grenadine, Spheres of Algae Spin, and Other Small-Scale Spectacles in These Movies | 80beats | Discover Magazine The many-times-magnified photos of the Nikon Small World photomicrography contest entrance us year after year, with mesmerizing close-ups of nature’s microscopic marvels. Now, in the first Small World in Motion movie competition, we get to [...]
Letters of Note: To My Old Master In August of 1865, a Colonel P.H. Anderson of Big Spring, Tennessee, wrote to his former slave, Jourdon Anderson, and requested that he come back to work on his farm. Jourdon — who, since being emancipated, had moved to Ohio, found paid work, and was now supporting his [...]
Just want to highlight the Komen Foundation story below. PR fauxpology aside, they are still standing by their anti-choice director and their decision to defund Planned Parenthood (as best as I can tell from a quick survey of this morning’s news). Also, later today/tomorrow there will be more exciting links concerning similar asshattery on their [...]
Technologies that we’ve lost – and the quest to find them again – io9 Greek fire. Damascus steel. These are two technological innovations whose secrets are said to be lost to time. Even the original schematics for the Apollo missions have disappeared into the mists of history, forever hidden inside hopelessly obsolete computers. Wednesday Geek [...]
Senators Don’t Want Your Netflix Viewing History on Facebook [VIDEO] A number of U.S. senators are opposed to amending the 1988 Video Privacy Protection Act to let Netflix automatically publish user views on Facebook via frictionless sharing. [This seems oddly specific to me. -L] Paint Your Desktop with Words with These Typographic Wallpapers – LifeHacker [...]
Tea Party Group Wants To ‘Soften’ Slavery In Textbooks – News Story – WCYB Tri Cities Some members of the Tea Party say what’s in your kid’s textbook may be giving them a negative opinion about our nation’s founding history. … Notably, they’re hoping to make changes in how slavery and encroachment on Native Americans [...]