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The unholy Catholic-Mormon alliance isn't limited to gay bashing. They share a history of covering up sex abuse of children.Yesterday's NY Times piece, which documented the major role played by the Mormon church in Proposition 8, also included this tidbit: First approached by the Roman Catholic archbishop of San Francisco a few weeks after the California Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage in May, the Mormons we... |
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● The end of Wall Street and Michael Lewis' new "fucking book"Michael Lewis takes a look at the current financial crisis and traces its roots back to the 1980s and the events chronicled in his book, Liar's Poker. He begins by introducing us to some analysts and investors that saw the whole thing coming. One of those people is Steve Eisman. "We have a ... |
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Watch Sex Drive (2008) Full Online For FreeJosh Zuckerman, Amanda Crew, and James Marsden star in this teen sex comedy concerning an inexperienced adolescent who rounds up the gang for a road trip from Chicago to Knoxville after receiving a particularly enticing message from a girl he met on the Internet. Ian (Zuckerman) has just turned 1... |
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A tragic tale, made worse by dogma [Pharyngula]Twelve year old Motl Brody has died. A tumor destroyed his brain, and the consequences are unambiguous. Unlike Terri Schiavo or Karen Ann Quinlan, who became the subjects of right-to-die battles when they suffered brain damage and became unconscious, Motl's condition has deteriorated beyond a... |
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Innovation from Constraint (the extended dance mix)I gave a talk a few weeks ago in Barcelona that was pretty well-received and widely blogged. Specifically, several bloggers have picked up and amplified the seven key points I offered in the talk - a list of principles that I believe characterize much of the best innovation coming out of Afr... |
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Ushahidi Documents Violence in the DRCMy friends at Ushahidi, an amazing team of creative Kenyans who built a dynamic system to allow for citizen reporting of violence during the post-election period in Kenya, have just rolled out a tool to help document violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The proxy war in Congo threa... |
