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Chart Of The Day

Ezra illustrates the new findings of a congressional panel:

A Republican plan to extend tax cuts for the rich would add more than
$36 billion to the federal deficit next year -- and transfer the bulk
of that cash into the pockets of the nation's millionaires, according
to a [nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation:] analysis released Wednesday.

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Life Imprisonment For A Half-Ounce Of Medical Marijuana?

The latest absurdity from the drug war.

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Moore Award Nominee

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The Unique Quality Of "Lifelong Heterosexual Monogamy" Ctd

Ross responds to Serwer's objections, by citing the celibate lesbian Catholic, Eve Tushnet. It's a long and complicated post but it boils down to the need especially to regulate heterosexuality by providing a procreative life-long ideal that is unique to them. The strongest point, I think, is this:

If you have a unisex model of marriage, which is what gay marriage requires, you are no longer able to talk about marriage as regulating heterosexuality and therefore you're not able to say: Look...

Mental Health Break

When a paw just isn't enough:

Mental health - Health - Protocols - HTTP - Multimedia

Why They Torture

The woman spared from stoning for adultery in Iran now shows up on television confessing to complicity in her husband's death:

Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani's lawyer told the Guardian on Thursday that his client, a 43-year-old mother of two, was forced to give the interview, which was recorded in Tabriz prison where she has been held for the past four years."She was severely beaten up and tortured until she accepted to appear in front of camera. ... The lawyer said he feared the Iranian...

The Past And The Present

My bro just sent me a whole new disk of old family color photos that prompted my husband to note, "Holy shit. I married Harry Potter."

But the restoration of old color pictures of the early twentieth century really does help clear the historical air. I don't think we fully appreciate how black-and-white images always somehow distance the recent past from the present - so we see events like the Second World War or the First World War as further away than they really are in the sweep of human h...

San Francisco's Libertarian Dream

Human Transit reports that the city will soon have "the most aggressive free market parking policy in the nation."

The goal is to ensure that there's always a space available, so that people stop endlessly driving in circles looking for parking. People will be able to check online to find out the current parking cost in the place they intend to visit. Parking garages will have a better chance of undercutting on-street rates, so that those garages can fill. If you've ever driven in San...

Creepy Ad Watch

Someone gets killed if you don't click fast enough:

(Hat tip: Copyranter)

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Cheney vs Bush

A sign of how radical and extremist the GOP now is: on the question of the war on terror (and immigration), some of us are beginning to see the relative moderation and sophistication of George W. Bush.
















George W Bush - Republican - United States - President - War on Terrorism