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[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.] BBC News – Philippines pulls new tourism website in porn mix-up none Bryan Fischer: We’ve ‘Feminized’ Medal Of Honor By Not Giving It To Soldiers Who Kill More People | TPMMuckraker sexism asshattery Sheriff Joe’s New ‘Posse’ Includes Hulk Lou Ferrigno, Steven Seagal | TPMMuckraker racism security_theater arizona_sb1070 [In case [...]

[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.] 11.013J American Urban History I [MIT OpenCourseWare: New Courses - Robert Fogelson] This course is a seminar on the history of institutions and institutional change in American cities from roughly 1850 to the present. Among the institutions to be looked at are political machines, police departments, courts, schools, prisons, public [...]

[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.] Wednesday Geek Woman: Maria Goeppert-Mayer There are two women who have won the Nobel Prize in physics. Most people can name one: Marie Curie. This post is about the other woman, Maria Goeppert-Mayer, who is equally awesome …she developed the nuclear shell model independently from others working on the same [...]

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[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.] Finger skating [kottke.org] [Is it] more amazing that people can do crazy things on skateboards or that some of those same crazy things can be done on tiny skateboards using your fingers? [video] wtf Why You Shouldn’t Switch Your Email to Facebook [Lifehacker - Adam Pash] facebook_is_annoying Whether to Tether: [...]

[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.] Freshman GOPer: Hey, Where’s My Health Care? | TPMDC healthcare asshattery Fourteen-Year-Old Michigan Student Awesomely Stands Up for Suspended, Gay-Defending Teacher — Daily Intel lgbt [In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Tweet

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[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.] Tea Party Fail: Patriots’ Conspiracy Theory Leads To Mass Calling Of Reps’ Personal Cell Phones | TPMDC The grassrootsiest of the tea party movement's central players, the group is often a chaotic free-for-all of competing messaging and goals among its hundreds of affiliate groups. This, the Patriots will tell you, [...]

[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.] Glenn Beck: A Quarter of Americans May Face Starvation [Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center - Leah Nelson] Cranking up his doomsday predictions to a new fever pitch, Glenn Beck this week warned that by January some 75 million Americans could be starving. asshattery fake_crises Street harassment reporting app now [...]

[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.] Limbaugh Calls Dem Leaders Racist, Says Clyburn Should Chauffeur Pelosi | TPMDC …accused House Democratic leaders of racism today, for attempting to squeeze Jim Clyburn (the highest ranking African-American congressman in history) out of party leadership… only to then suggest that Clyburn would be a good fit for a new [...]