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Niche Blog Of The Day

Shani Hilton profiles Holla Back DC:

Taken objectively, it's...an amazing collection of often
short accounts of street harassment, written by harassees who
mainly women. They can be as simple as a few sentences describing a
want to rape the harassee. And there are stories of men groping and assaulting women....

One thing that nearly all of the...

Quote For The Day

"(The bailiff just made Maggie NOM put her bare feet down. She is so
disrespectful)," - Rick Jacobs, live-blogging the closing arguments of the Prop 8 trial.

Maggie Gallagher had her bare feet up on a chair or table?

Maggie Gallagher - California Proposition 8 - United States - Same-sex marriage - National Organization for Marriage

The American View Of Soccer, Ctd

Yglesias tweaks Drezner's argument:

I guess what I wonder is what would soccer displace if it wereto become more popular? It's not like people are spending tons of timethese days sitting alone on the couch playing solitare and hoping forsomeone to dream up a new sport to watch. The general trend has beentoward creating more and more options and more and more fragmentationof the audience for just about everything. The TV networks are indecline, the record labels are in decline, the movie...

Lowering The Temperature

Bradford Plumer flags the EPA's new global warming analysis:

Yesterday, the EPA released its modelingof the Kerry-Lieberman climate bill. A lot of the coverage focused onthe agency's conclusion that the cap-and-trade program would be quiteaffordable—costing families less than a dollar a day. But I'd say themost salient part of the analysis was the section Brad Johnson highlighted: If the United States passes something like the Kerry-Lieberman climate bill andhelps negotiate an international...

Another Neda

Cameron Abadi reveals that a famous photo of Iranian martyr Neda Agha-Soltan isn't of the right woman:

A woman named Neda did indeed die last summer on the streetsof Tehran, gunned down by members of an Iranian militia. Her full namewas NedaAgha-Soltan. But mixed in with the tragic footage of that Neda's death,broadcast around the world in a viral video that galvanized worldopinion against theIranian regime, was a compelling Facebook snapshot of a smiling youngbeauty ina flowered headscarf.

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The Final Day Of The Prop 8 Trial

Closing arguments are today. You can read the plaintiff's and the defendant's answers to Judge Walker's questions here. Brian Leubitz summarizes:

So what are the proponents' [of Prop 8:] advantages? Well, if you read more than apage of their responses you see what they think is their strong point:rational basis scrutiny. In other words, Pugno and the gang believethat because gays and lesbians have never been considered a "suspectclass" under the law, they are the ones defending the strategic...

Palin And Pot

Scott Morgan embeds a clip of Palin and Ron Paul talking about marijuana:

Though unwilling to support legalization, Palin clearly has somesympathy for marijuana users on privacy grounds and sort of gets thefact that marijuana enforcement is a stupid distraction from importantpolice work. But you can't have it both ways. As long as police andprosecutors hold the power to pursue and punish people for pot, they'llcontinue to do so, and they'll say they were just doing their job whensome poor...

Mental Health Break

Food trying to escape:

The Huber Experiments - Vol. 1 from The Upthink Lab on Vimeo.

Vimeo - Multimedia - Development Frameworks - Flash - Protocols

Drawing Up Districts

Yglesias is tired of hearing that gerrymandering is the root of all evil.

Gerrymandering - United States - Health - Politics - New York

The Stonewall Myth

The salience of the drag queen revolt in the West Village in June 1969 is not in any historical dispute. It was a cultural and psychological breakthrough - an empowering moment that clearly shifted something deep in gay America's psyche. But the notion that before this, there was no gay rights movement, that those amazing drag queens were the first gay Americans ever to stand up for their rights in public, is as preposterous as it is now deemed indisputable. Take this quote from Eric...