“Sitting alone in the school nurse’s office, local student Vanessa McMillan, 12, was welcomed to the most beautiful and special time in her life Tuesday by a four-page educational pamphlet.” —
Girl Welcomed To Womanhood With 4-Page Pamphlet | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
I really liked the phrase “unexpectedly frightening illustration of a butterfly emerging from its cocoon.”
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Pretty.
Wesley. His favorite expression. His GIANT NOSE!
'Weird Science' vs. 'Real Genius': 25th Anniversary Geek-Off -
Come on, is this really a contest? Of course Real Genius is the best geek movie of the 80s.
“It’s also extremely problematic that Judge Walker is a practicing homosexual himself. He should have recused himself from this case, because his judgment is clearly compromised by his own sexual proclivity.” —
the president of the American Family Association
‘I Feel Like I Don’t Live In America:’ The Best Worst Prop 8 Reactions | TPMMuckraker
It’s funny how straight people don’t refer to themselves as having a “sexual proclivity.” Perhaps what we needed in this case was someone asexual?
“The court decision said the F.C.C. lacked the authority to require that an Internet service provider refrain from blocking or slowing down some content or applications, or giving favor to others. The F.C.C. has since sought another way in which to enforce the concept of net neutrality. But its proposals have been greeted with much objection in Congress and among Internet service providers, cable companies and some Internet content producers.
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The prospect of a Google-Verizon agreement infuriates many consumer advocates, who feel that it would concentrate in a few corporations control of what to date has been a free and open Internet system in which consumers decide which companies are successful.”
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Google and Verizon Near Deal on Pay Tiers for Web - NYTimes.com
I will not like Google anymore if they do not step up to the plate on the side of net neutrality. This is a historic opportunity to not fuck up something infinitely precious.
Symbolic Subway Maps by Zero Per Zero
These beautiful maps are yet another piece of evidence that shows that real world-class cities all have extensive and meaningful transit systems that include trains.
Not lame-duck or totally nonexistent systems alongside 16-lane highways.
Judge strikes down Prop. 8, allows gay marriage in California -
More good news!
I’m sure this is not the last we’ll hear of it, but a good start. I like that he says “an irrational classification on the basis of sexual orientation.” Irrational. Good word, appropriate use.
I think people who oppose gay marriage should get to spend a month in the shoes of someone who’s struggled for recognition and lost that battle. It’s not fun.
“Last week, the entire brain-enabled world was dumbfounded when the Anti-Defamation League, breaking with its stated traditions of being against defamation, came out against the Cordoba Center, also known as the so-called “Ground Zero mosque.” —
ADL’s Ground Zero Mosque Opposition Prompts Pushback
That’s some good writing there.