February 2012
24 posts
Liberals Are Cool: Santorum: Takes One To Know One →
liberalsarecool:
Dana Milbank calls out that horrid little man for equating President Obama with Adolf Hitler:
“This is where Santorum exists, in a place of binary extremes of good and evil, where his political foe isn’t just wrong but adheres to a ‘phony theology’ not found in the Bible. His frequent…
Romney Admits Spending Cuts Slow Economic Growth
liberalsarecool:
Mitt Romney:
“If you just cut, if all you’re thinking about doing is cutting spending, as you cut spending you’ll slow down the economy. So you have to, at the same time, create pro-growth tax policies.”
Mitt broke the First Rule of Republican Fight Club: Never talk about reality.
RSS Is Dead (In OS X Mountain Lion) →
parislemon:
As Dan Frakes notes for Macworld, there’s something missing in OS X Mountain Lion: RSS.
Previously, a (shitty) RSS reader was built into Mail. And Safari would sniff for RSS feeds. Both functionalities are now gone.
Good riddance.
Liberals Are Cool: The Commercial You Will Never... →
liberalsarecool:
It is very easy to promote the idea of having children.
The commercials you will never see are the real lives of millions of people who used contraception, who never had children when they were young or not ready, no single parents with kids out of wedlock, who were able to go to school, get that…
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Corning Sees Many Types of Glass Displays in Our... →
sciencenewsblog.com
Corning - the company behind Gorilla Glass used in iPads and many other smartphones and tablets - reveals its glassy vision of our future in this video called, “A Day Made of Glass 2: Unpacked.” The futuristic glass displays include close…
Very cool video. Totally want the national parks to incorporate that.
The world has changed, Mr. Romney →
Fareed Zakaria, washingtonpost.com
Dear Mitt Romney, Congratulations on Florida. Now that you are again the front-runner, and your campaign focus is returning to President Obama, I’d like to call attention to a line you have used repeatedly: “This is a president wh…
Fareed Zakaria’s book, honestly the only book I’ve read completely in the past 4 years is spot on....
Intelligence Study Links Low I.Q to Prejudice,...
liberalsarecool:
“Reality is complicated and messy. Ideologies get rid of the messiness and impose a simpler solution. So, it may not be surprising that people with less cognitive capacity will be attracted to simplifying ideologies.”
Dr. Brian Nosek, a University of Virginia psychologist
Where education is poor, intelligence is lower.
January 2012
30 posts
Liberals Are Cool: Romney Converted His... →
liberalsarecool:
Gawker: “Two readers have sent us confirmation that Edward Davies, Mitt Romney’s militantly atheist father-in-law, was indeed posthumously converted to Mormonism by his family, despite the fact that when he was alive he regarded all religions as ‘hogwash.’”
Context via catholic.com:
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Creepy.
“We should start with our tax code. Right now, companies get tax breaks for...”
– Obama (via kateoplis)
Kill Hollywood, Not Movies
parislemon:
The fallout from the failure of SOPA and PIPA is just as interesting as the main topics themselves. First, many on the web with loud voices are finally waking up to how corrupt the lobbying/political system is in this country. Second, directly-related, there’s a quickly growing anti-Hollywood sentiment.
The most forceful stance has to be Y Combinator putting out a new RFS...
Andrew Sullivan: How Obama's Long Game Will... →
I could list the reasons, I could argue my case but Andrew Sullivan from The Daily Beast does it so well. The truth, the facts, not the spin. Why I (a “republican”) am voting for Barrack Obama.
Liberals Are Cool: Citizens United: Two Years Of... →
liberalsarecool:
It’s been two years since the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision which unleashed millions of dollars of ads financed not by candidates but by groups with innocuous names claiming no relationship to the candidates.
Norm Orenstein: “By giving corporations free rein to meddle in politics…
Reverse Drive Thru
animalsbeingdicks:
This is the honey camel. Honey camel just takes what he wants. Honey camel don’t care. Honey camel don’t give a shit.
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Cutting Government Is Not An Economic Fix
“If you look at job creation over the last 20-25 years in America, you’ll notice that we haven’t been able to create any jobs in what is called the “tradable sector” of the economy - those jobs that are subject to global competition. The only jobs we’ve really created have been in industries like health care, government, and construction, which are basically local industries shielded...
The Roku Stick →
parislemon:
This is interesting, a new Roku box that’s not a box at all, it’s a stick — essentially a thumb drive. Yes, that’s insanely small for a set top box but perhaps more importantly, it doesn’t require a power cord.
This is possible thanks to MHL (Mobile High-Definition Link) which is integrated into newer HDMI ports. This also allows you to control the Roku with your standard TV...