2010-06-21

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2010-06-21 14:51
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Political
* Sharing and tracking net worth online
* Venn diagram of British parties. Not labeled for foreigners, but from the positions I infer that red is Labour, blue is Conservative, and yellow is Liberal Democrat. Of course,, there's stated policy and then there's raising tuition fees in coalition
* Thomas Jefferson letter advocating a 19 year limit to laws and national debts, on the grounds that one generation cannot encumber another, and that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living. Life expectancy is longer now, so his calculations might extend that number somewhat.
* Socialist fast food in Venezuela. Red-shirted waiters with such slogans as "Chavez is a winner" attend the diners. Speaking as a leftist myself... he's doing it wrong. In Boliva, socialist Coca Colla
* Crisis in California's marijuana economy


Geeky
* Testing natural selection via island lizards
* Weird magnetic slopes optical illusion. And tunnel house
* PICS: Nanoha time travel fan thingy. SAN loss Fantasy physics. Doctor Who x Green Lantern. She's One of Ours!
* Element Girls
* World's largest lightning storm. link
* Virtual reality used to transfer men's minds into a woman's body
* Artificial light causing sleep problems?. Doing without electric light

Sadface
* Woman strip-searched, abandoned at US border.
* Bloomberg wants British-style surveillance for NYC">
* School attacks
in China
* Disappearing jobs
* Hawaii vs. Birthers
* Alabama candidate denounces lie that he believes in evolution
* Arnold out to cut health programs. And The governor unveils a proposal that would cut the welfare-to-work program and reduce child care for the needy.
* Global warming and mass extinction of lizards
* Urban inequality, social mobility, and poor education
* CO2 inhibits plant uptake of nitrates
* Maine GOP searches classroom, steals labor poster.

When Clifford returned to school on Monday, he found that a favorite poster about the U.S. labor movement had been taken and replaced with a bumper sticker that read, "Working People Vote Republican."

Later, Clifford learned that his classroom had been searched. Republicans who had attended the convention called Principal Mike McCarthy to complain about "anti-American" things they saw there, including a closed box containing copies of the U.S. Constitution that were published by the American Civil Liberties Union.

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