http://www.pewforum.org/2013/12/30/publics-views-on-human-evolution/
"A majority of white evangelical Protestants (64%) and half of black Protestants (50%) say that humans have existed in their present form since the beginning of time."
Probably the same people that think animal slaughtering religious pedophiles like Phil Robertson make entertaining TV.
Being an ignorant cracker like Phil is a sin and a affront to human dignity. May he rot for the rest of his unnatural life in a Louisiana jail getting butt-fucked by his black guards. But, remember, I don't hate him -- only his sin
---Steve
Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Monday, December 30, 2013
Asshole of the year
It is official:
@TheDailyEdge: In 2014, 5,400 poor Texans will die because of Rick Perry, our choice for Asshole of the Year
http://assholeoftheday.us/post/71326173163/is-rick-perry-asshole-of-the-year
---Steve
@TheDailyEdge: In 2014, 5,400 poor Texans will die because of Rick Perry, our choice for Asshole of the Year
http://assholeoftheday.us/post/71326173163/is-rick-perry-asshole-of-the-year
---Steve
Tuesday, December 24, 2013
Punk Rockers Knock Christmas
But there's another kind of Christmas denial: the kind that simply stomps on Christianity as ridiculous and kicks over the nativity set. Take the atheist punk band Bad Religion and its new record of Christmas songs they found "hilarious" to record.
Co-founder Brett Gurewitz told LA Weekly, "Clearly, it's a satire. We were rolling on the floor a lot of the time ... it felt like a Monty Python skit to me."
Greg Graffin, the other co-founder, is a part-time professor of biology and author of the book "Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science, and Bad Religion in a World Without God." This is Graffin in a nutshell: "Our faith should be expressed in working toward a better planet for our children and not the selfish, juvenile hope for a better afterlife for ourselves. I don't think anyone is going to Hell, because it only exists in the minds of people who wish ill will on others."
---SPSmith
Monday, December 23, 2013
Father on “attacking Christians”.
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wwjtd/2013/12/father-on-attacking-christians/
First, most atheists do not attack Christians, but they often attack the idea of Christianity. I have to agree that attacking PEOPLE is wrong. However, once you bring an IDEA—such as Christianity— into the marketplace of ideas, it is subject to criticism just like any other idea, such as socialism, trickle down economics, or the theory of gravity.
---SPSmith
First, most atheists do not attack Christians, but they often attack the idea of Christianity. I have to agree that attacking PEOPLE is wrong. However, once you bring an IDEA—such as Christianity— into the marketplace of ideas, it is subject to criticism just like any other idea, such as socialism, trickle down economics, or the theory of gravity.
---SPSmith
Sunday, December 22, 2013
Not just the Koch brothers: New study reveals funders behind the climate change denial effort
Powerful funders are supporting the campaign to deny scientific findings about global warming and raise public doubts about the roots and remedies of this massive global threat
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-12-koch-brothers-reveals-funders-climate.html#jCp
---SPSmith
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-12-koch-brothers-reveals-funders-climate.html#jCp
---SPSmith
Saturday, December 21, 2013
Slate: Utah Judge “Agrees with Scalia,” Strikes Down Gay Marriage Ban
Pretty funny: Scalia must be proud: Not many people can say they were integral in bringing about the end of anti-gay-marriage bans.
Utah Judge "Agrees with Scalia," Strikes Down Gay Marriage Ban
http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2013/12/20/utah_gay_marriage_judge_agrees_with_scalia_strikes_down_ban.html
http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2013/12/20/utah_gay_marriage_judge_agrees_with_scalia_strikes_down_ban.html
---SPSmith
The Economist’s country of the year: Earth’s got talent | The Economist
http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21591872-resilient-ireland-booming-south-sudan-tumultuous-turkey-our-country-year-earths-got?spc=scode&spv=xm&ah=9d7f7ab945510a56fa6d37c30b6f1709
we think, are path-breaking reforms that do not merely improve a single nation but, if emulated, might benefit the world. Gay marriage is one such border-crossing policy, which has increased the global sum of human happiness at no financial cost. Several countries have implemented it in 2013—including Uruguay, which also, uniquely, passed a law to legalise and regulate the production, sale and consumption of cannabis. This is a change so obviously sensible, squeezing out the crooks and allowing the authorities to concentrate on graver crimes, that no other country has made it. If others followed suit, and other narcotics were included, the damage such drugs wreak on the world would be drastically reduced.
---SPSmith
we think, are path-breaking reforms that do not merely improve a single nation but, if emulated, might benefit the world. Gay marriage is one such border-crossing policy, which has increased the global sum of human happiness at no financial cost. Several countries have implemented it in 2013—including Uruguay, which also, uniquely, passed a law to legalise and regulate the production, sale and consumption of cannabis. This is a change so obviously sensible, squeezing out the crooks and allowing the authorities to concentrate on graver crimes, that no other country has made it. If others followed suit, and other narcotics were included, the damage such drugs wreak on the world would be drastically reduced.
---SPSmith
The Bible and homosexuality | What the Bible says about Homosexuality | Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry
But, believe it or not. We Christians aren't judging them. We are informing them. God has declared that homosexuality is a sin. It isn't our preferences we're declaring. It is God's. I know. I know. Some will say the Bible isn't true, that it is archaic, sexist, homophobic...blah, blah, blah. I've heard it all before. Kill the messanger and let's all jump into bed together and have our fun. Sorry, I'm not interested in freedom without responsibility and the resulting promiscuity and diseases that accompany the politically correct, sexual freedom of abberant liberal morality. Instead, I'll follow my Lord who calls all to repentance (Acts 17:30), myself included.
---SPSmith
What Persecution Looks Like | Right Wing Watch
Conservative activists were prepared to see Phil Robertson as a victim of religious persecution because they've been primed for years with the "religious liberty" narrative being pushed by Religious Right leaders and their conservative Catholic allies. They portray criticism as persecution. They equate being on the losing side of policy debates with being under the heel of oppression. And when courts and legislatures struggle with the challenge of balancing religious liberty with other constitutional values like equality under the law, they see only black-and-white battles between good and evil.
Their rhetoric cheapens and distorts the meaning of terms like tyranny. Anti-religious persecution is a violent, heartbreaking reality for Christians in many parts of the world. But not for the privileged and powerful figures in the United States who wrap themselves in the mantle of martyrdom.
- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/what-persecution-looks#sthash.vScIOsLH.dpuf---SPSmith
Friday, December 20, 2013
Companion Animal Psychology: Can Fatal Dog Attacks Be Prevented?
http://www.companionanimalpsychology.com/2013/12/can-fatal-dog-attacks-be-prevented.html
This research suggests that Breed Specific Legislation does not protect people from dog bite fatalities. At worst, it may even distract people (and financial resources) from the factors that do make a difference: close supervision of children and vulnerable adults, and good animal husbandry practices that involve the dog in family life. Given the prevalence of husbandry-related factors in these incidents, legislations should consider strengthening measures aimed at preventing cruelty and neglect and supporting responsible ownership. - See more at: http://www.companionanimalpsychology.com/2013/12/can-fatal-dog-attacks-be-prevented.html#sthash.928XuoWO.dpuf
---SPSmith
This research suggests that Breed Specific Legislation does not protect people from dog bite fatalities. At worst, it may even distract people (and financial resources) from the factors that do make a difference: close supervision of children and vulnerable adults, and good animal husbandry practices that involve the dog in family life. Given the prevalence of husbandry-related factors in these incidents, legislations should consider strengthening measures aimed at preventing cruelty and neglect and supporting responsible ownership. - See more at: http://www.companionanimalpsychology.com/2013/12/can-fatal-dog-attacks-be-prevented.html#sthash.928XuoWO.dpuf
---SPSmith
The Robertson Family Official Statement | Duck Commander
"We want you to know that first and foremost we are a family rooted in our faith in God and our belief that the Bible is His word."
If the family admits that they get their moral guidance from a superstition-filled book brimming with hate, bigotry, murder, and slavery then why are people surprised that the patriarch of this inbreed clan is a raging bigot?
The true shame here is that many Americans enjoy Duck Dynasty, a made-up "reality" TV show, where the writers have tried to glorify a sick nostalgia for the old days and down-home family values, including a business based on devices used to aid the slaughter of beautiful animals, and a cast of unsavory inbreed evangelical characters, each proud of their inability to think rationally and each espousing discredited and outdated Biblical doctrines for their ethics and morality.
Thursday, December 19, 2013
Duck Dynasty
Duck Dynasty, a made-up "reality" TV show, where the writers have tried to espouse a sick nostalgia for the old days and down-home family values, including a business based on the slaughter of beautiful animals, and a cast of unsavory inbreed characters, whose inability to think rationally or behave morally would doom a true business in the real world marketplace.
So why be surprised when the redneck scum and ridiculously bad actor that A&E hired for the show actually believes that the Old South values are to be admired? Yep, blacks were happy singing ni**ers before the government stepped in and freed them and gave them welfare. And retarded old white men, who like nothing more uplifting than munching down on some old hag's hairy pussy and then washing their mouths out with some homemade moonshine, are of course the ones chosen by an imaginary god to be better than everybody else.
---SPSmith
So why be surprised when the redneck scum and ridiculously bad actor that A&E hired for the show actually believes that the Old South values are to be admired? Yep, blacks were happy singing ni**ers before the government stepped in and freed them and gave them welfare. And retarded old white men, who like nothing more uplifting than munching down on some old hag's hairy pussy and then washing their mouths out with some homemade moonshine, are of course the ones chosen by an imaginary god to be better than everybody else.
---SPSmith
Slate: Mesmerizing Map Shows Which Way the World's Winds Are Blowing
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Mesmerizing Map Shows Which Way the World's Winds Are Blowing
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/12/18/global_wind_map_cameron_baccario_s_visualization_of_world_weather_patterns.html
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/12/18/global_wind_map_cameron_baccario_s_visualization_of_world_weather_patterns.html
---SPSmith
Slate: The Best Jazz of 2013
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---SPSmith
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Legal Know-How: Taming the Neighbor’s Trees | Realtor Magazine
- Clean up the debris. Clear away all of the leaves, sticks, and yard debris that come from the neighbors' trees. If the debris is on your property, the neighbors are not responsible for cleaning these up.
---SPSmith
BBC News - North Korea's way with extreme insults
Despicable human scum Jang, who was worse than a dog, perpetrated thrice-cursed acts of treachery in betrayal of such profound trust and warmest paternal love shown by the party and the leader for him," astatement by the agency said.
---SPSmith
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Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Annals of Internal Medicine | Enough Is Enough: Stop Wasting Money on Vitamin and Mineral Supplements
Enough Is Enough: Stop Wasting Money on Vitamin and Mineral Supplements
---SPSmith
Slate: The Two Inequalities
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Monday, December 16, 2013
This is a modern Christmas, so eat, drink and forget about the poor and the needy - Comment - Voices - The Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/this-is-a-modern-christmas-so-eat-drink-and-forget-about-the-poor-and-the-needy-9006181.html
Mariana Mazzucato, a professor of economics and innovation at Sussex University has just published a vital, incontestable new book, The Entrepreneurial State, debunking private vs public sector myths. She makes the case for a bigger and smarter state which would benefit everyone, including governments and business. I fear we will never have that again. Instead, as she points out, people have got used to the idea that social welfare should be "relentlessly trimmed" while "corporate welfare grown inexorably", by which she means tax breaks and deregulation.
---SPSmith
Mariana Mazzucato, a professor of economics and innovation at Sussex University has just published a vital, incontestable new book, The Entrepreneurial State, debunking private vs public sector myths. She makes the case for a bigger and smarter state which would benefit everyone, including governments and business. I fear we will never have that again. Instead, as she points out, people have got used to the idea that social welfare should be "relentlessly trimmed" while "corporate welfare grown inexorably", by which she means tax breaks and deregulation.
---SPSmith
Sunday, December 15, 2013
Saturday, December 14, 2013
The History and Toxicity of Chlorine
http://www.eoearth.org/view/article/171547/
Although proposed as a disinfectant in the 1700s, it wasn't until 1825 that chlorine became widely used for the purpose of disinfecting. In 1825, the Royal Institute of France awarded the pharmacist Antoine Germain Labarraque for his recommendation of a chlorine solution for the enhancement of public health of France. Labarraque recommended that a chlorinated soda solution be used for disinfecting purposes and as a deodorant. After three years of various published clinic success using this chlorine solution, it became widely used and known as Labarraque's solution.
---SPSmith
Although proposed as a disinfectant in the 1700s, it wasn't until 1825 that chlorine became widely used for the purpose of disinfecting. In 1825, the Royal Institute of France awarded the pharmacist Antoine Germain Labarraque for his recommendation of a chlorine solution for the enhancement of public health of France. Labarraque recommended that a chlorinated soda solution be used for disinfecting purposes and as a deodorant. After three years of various published clinic success using this chlorine solution, it became widely used and known as Labarraque's solution.
---SPSmith
Omar Little is the gay stick-up man who robs drug dealers for a living in The Wire
http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2008/jul/19/television.wire
When he robs an illicit card game, psychotic drug lord Marlo Stanfield fixes him with an evil glare and hisses, "Thats my money." Omar just smirks and explains, "Money ain't got no owners, only spenders."
---SPSmith
When he robs an illicit card game, psychotic drug lord Marlo Stanfield fixes him with an evil glare and hisses, "Thats my money." Omar just smirks and explains, "Money ain't got no owners, only spenders."
---SPSmith
Mormon Church Finally Says Dark Skin is Not a Sign of God's Curse | Alternet
http://www.alternet.org/belief/mormon-church-dark-skin-sign-gods-curse-no-longer?paging=off¤t_page=1#bookmark
So, even the Mormons admit their book is steeped in blatant racism...
---SPSmith
So, even the Mormons admit their book is steeped in blatant racism...
---SPSmith
Slate: Why Won't Anyone Take the NYC Intel Experience Store's Free Pizza?
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Why Won't Anyone Take the NYC Intel Experience Store's Free Pizza?
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/12/13/intel_experience_store_in_nolita_new_york_can_t_seem_to_draw_in_visitors.html
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/12/13/intel_experience_store_in_nolita_new_york_can_t_seem_to_draw_in_visitors.html
---SPSmith
Slate: The Tragedy of Common-Sense Morality
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The Tragedy of Common-Sense Morality
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/new_scientist/2013/12/evolution_of_morality_the_brain_science_of_ethical_decisions.html
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/new_scientist/2013/12/evolution_of_morality_the_brain_science_of_ethical_decisions.html
---SPSmith
Friday, December 13, 2013
The Manhunt for Christopher Dorner - Los Angeles Times
Riverside Police Chief Sergio Diaz, who had stood over Crain's body at the hospital, called support for Dorner "ignorance and hate masquerading as intellectualism."
Thursday, December 12, 2013
Eye on Sedona City Code with City Attorney Mike Goimarac
http://sedonaeye.com/eye-on-sedona-city-code-with-city-attorney-mike-goimarac
The City's sound regulations prohibit any animal from making noise for more than five minutes if continuous, or for more than 15 minutes if intermittent.
---SPSmith
The City's sound regulations prohibit any animal from making noise for more than five minutes if continuous, or for more than 15 minutes if intermittent.
---SPSmith
Failure loves company
Failed President encourages failed field goal kicker. It is heartwarming to see the mediocre stick together. http://blogs.marketwatch.com/themargin/2013/12/11/george-w-bush-to-tormented-alabama-field-goal-kicker-life-has-its-setbacks-i-know/
---SPSmith
---SPSmith
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
One more attack on New Atheism from an atheist who should know better « Why Evolution Is True
Atheism is nothing more than a commitment to the most basic standard of intellectual honesty: One's convictions should be proportional to one's evidence. Pretending to be certain when one isn't—indeed, pretending to be certain about propositions for which no evidence is even conceivable—is both an intellectual and a moral failing. (Sam Harris, 2005)
---SPSmith
Slate: Slate’s Favorite Recipes of the Year
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Slate's Favorite Recipes of the Year
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/food/2013/12/slate_staff_favorite_recipes_of_2013_granola_chicken_cabbage_cobbler_and.html
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/food/2013/12/slate_staff_favorite_recipes_of_2013_granola_chicken_cabbage_cobbler_and.html
---SPSmith
Monday, December 09, 2013
Saturday, December 07, 2013
Florida man kills wife and son with crossbow, then slits throat - CNN.com
http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/05/justice/florida-crossbow-killings/index.html?hpt=hp_t3#cnn-disqus-area
No matter how you dress it up, there are some fundamental difficulties with Christianity that are pretty hard to overcome.
1. At its most fundamental level, Christianity requires a belief that an all-knowing, all-powerful, immortal being created the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies 13,720,000,000 years ago (the age of the Universe) sat back and waited 10,000,000,000 years for the Earth to form, then waited another 3,720,000,000 years for human beings to gradually evolve, then, at some point gave them eternal life and sent its son to Earth to talk about sheep and goats in the Middle East.
While here, this divine visitor exhibits no knowledge of ANYTHING outside of the Iron Age Middle East, including the other continents, 99% of the human race, and the aforementioned galaxies.Either that, or it all started 6,000 years ago with one man, one woman and a talking snake. Either way "oh come on" just doesn't quite capture it.
Friday, December 06, 2013
Thursday, December 05, 2013
Wednesday, December 04, 2013
Martin Bashir Says Someone Should Sh*t in Sarah Palin’s Mouth | Mediaite
Martin Bashir Says Someone Should Sh*t in Sarah Palin’s Mouth | Mediaite: " Bashir lit into Palin straight away, referring to her as America’s “resident dunce” and characterizing her remarks as “scraping the barrel of her long-deceased mind, and using her all-time favorite analogy in an attempt to sound intelligent about the national debt.”"
'via Blog this'
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“PISA Day”—An Ideological and Hyperventilated Exercise | Economic Policy Institute
http://www.epi.org/blog/pisa-day-ideological-hyperventilated-exercise/
Today, threats to the nation's future prosperity come much less from flaws in our education system than from insufficiently stimulative fiscal policies which tolerate excessive unemployment, wasting much of the education our young people have acquired; an outdated infrastructure: regulatory and tax policies that reward speculation more than productivity; an over-extended military; declining public investment in research and innovation; a wasteful and inefficient health care system; and the fact that typical workers and their families, no matter how well educated, do not share in the fruits of productivity growth as they once did. The best education system we can imagine can't succeed if we ignore these other problems - See more at: http://www.epi.org/blog/pisa-day-ideological-hyperventilated-exercise/#sthash.JvKvAAcb.dpuf
---SPSmith
Today, threats to the nation's future prosperity come much less from flaws in our education system than from insufficiently stimulative fiscal policies which tolerate excessive unemployment, wasting much of the education our young people have acquired; an outdated infrastructure: regulatory and tax policies that reward speculation more than productivity; an over-extended military; declining public investment in research and innovation; a wasteful and inefficient health care system; and the fact that typical workers and their families, no matter how well educated, do not share in the fruits of productivity growth as they once did. The best education system we can imagine can't succeed if we ignore these other problems - See more at: http://www.epi.org/blog/pisa-day-ideological-hyperventilated-exercise/#sthash.JvKvAAcb.dpuf
---SPSmith
Tuesday, December 03, 2013
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To Settle Infinity Question, a New Law of Mathematics | Simons Foundation
To Settle Infinity Question, a New Law of Mathematics | Simons Foundation: "“If forcing axioms are right, then the continuum hypothesis is false,” Koellner said. “And if the inner-model axiom is right, then the continuum hypothesis is true. You go through a whole list of issues in other fields, and the forcing axioms will answer those questions one way, and ultimate L will answer them a different way.”"
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Monday, November 25, 2013
Article: The Thermapen Is the Last Cooking Thermometer You'll Ever Need
The Thermapen Is the Last Cooking Thermometer You'll Ever Need
http://lifehacker.com/the-thermapen-is-the-last-cooking-thermometer-youll-ev-1470085413
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Sunday, November 24, 2013
Saturday, November 23, 2013
Joseph Campbell
http://www.forbiddenheights.com/main/catlayoutmythicguides/joseph-campbell
"It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of
life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure."
---SPSmith
"It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of
life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure."
---SPSmith
RELEASE: DYLAN GOES ELECTRIC: CHRISTIE’S PRESENTS THE FENDER STRATOCASTER GUITAR PLAYED BY BOB DYLAN AT THE 1965 NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL, ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT CONCERT PERFORMANCES IN MUSIC HISTORY
Article: Intel TV dies on vine, leaving its pop-up shops as, er, 'experience stores' • The Register
Intel TV dies on vine, leaving its pop-up shops as, er, 'experience stores' • The Register
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/22/intel_holiday_experience_stores/
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Friday, November 22, 2013
Article: Wintel is DEAD: Intel lusts for Android, Chrome OS, Windows FOUR-way • The Register
Wintel is DEAD: Intel lusts for Android, Chrome OS, Windows FOUR-way • The Register
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/22/intel_end_of_wintel/
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Slate: The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars
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The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/11/22/book_review_the_hockey_stick_and_the_climate_wars_by_michael_mann.html
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/11/22/book_review_the_hockey_stick_and_the_climate_wars_by_michael_mann.html
---SPSmith
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
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Article: Bill Gates: Here’s My Plan to Improve Our World — And How You Can Help
Bill Gates: Here's My Plan to Improve Our World — And How You Can Help
http://www.wired.com/business/2013/11/bill-gates-wired-essay/
These days I get to spend a lot of time trying to advance innovation that improves people's lives in the same way that fertilizer did. Let me reiterate this: A full 40 percent of Earth's population is alive today because, in 1909, a German chemist named Fritz Haber figured out how to make synthetic ammonia. Another example: Polio cases are down more than 99 percent in the past 25 years, not because the disease is going away on its own but because Albert Sabin and Jonas Salk invented polio vaccines and the world rolled out a massive effort to deliver them.
---SPSmith
Slate: Pain vs. Polls
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Monday, November 11, 2013
Article: Why Intel Is Right to Sell Its Brilliant Internet TV Service to Verizon
Why Intel Is Right to Sell Its Brilliant Internet TV Service to Verizon
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/11/intel-selling-internet-tv-service/
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Slate: Why the U.S. Should Take Notes From Britain's Health Care System
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Why the U.S. Should Take Notes From Britain's Health Care System
http://www.slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2013/11/10/national_health_insurance_britain_s_system_is_great.html
http://www.slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2013/11/10/national_health_insurance_britain_s_system_is_great.html
---SPSmith
Sunday, November 10, 2013
Saturday, November 09, 2013
Friday, November 08, 2013
The Paintings of George W. Bush - Likes
http://likes.com/politics/the-paintings-of-george-w-bush?page=7&v=eyJjbGlja19pZCI6IDEwNDUzNzM4MjcsICJwb3N0X2lkIjogMjUwMzAzNjZ9
One killer clown paints another...
---SPSmith
One killer clown paints another...
---SPSmith
Thursday, November 07, 2013
APS -66th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics - Event - Urinal Dynamics
http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/DFD13/Event/202554
In response to harsh and repeated criticisms from our mothers and
several failed relationships with women, we present the splash
dynamics of a simulated human male urine stream impacting rigid and
free surfaces. Our study aims to reduce undesired splashing that may
result from lavatory usage. Experiments are performed at a pressure
and flow rate that would be expected from healthy male
subjects.\footnote{Lapides, J., Fundamentals of Urology, W.B.
Saunders, Philadelphia, 1976.} For a rigid surface, the effects of
stream breakup and surface impact angle on lateral and vertical
droplet ejection distances are measured using high-speed photography
and image processing. For free surface impact, the effects of velocity
and fluid depth on droplet ejection distances are measured. Guided by
our results, techniques for splash reduction are proposed.
---SPSmith
In response to harsh and repeated criticisms from our mothers and
several failed relationships with women, we present the splash
dynamics of a simulated human male urine stream impacting rigid and
free surfaces. Our study aims to reduce undesired splashing that may
result from lavatory usage. Experiments are performed at a pressure
and flow rate that would be expected from healthy male
subjects.\footnote{Lapides, J., Fundamentals of Urology, W.B.
Saunders, Philadelphia, 1976.} For a rigid surface, the effects of
stream breakup and surface impact angle on lateral and vertical
droplet ejection distances are measured using high-speed photography
and image processing. For free surface impact, the effects of velocity
and fluid depth on droplet ejection distances are measured. Guided by
our results, techniques for splash reduction are proposed.
---SPSmith
Wednesday, November 06, 2013
Monday, November 04, 2013
Friday, November 01, 2013
Article: Meet the American Nomads of Walmart's Plentiful Parking Lots | Raw File | Wired.com
Meet the American Nomads of Walmart's Plentiful Parking Lots | Raw File | Wired.com
http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2013/11/walmart-parking-lots/?viewall=true
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Thursday, October 31, 2013
Article: Here are 12 sites where you can legally download free Kindle books
Here are 12 sites where you can legally download free Kindle books
http://ebookfriendly.com/download-free-kindle-books/
Shared from News on e-books on Flipboard. Download Flipboard for free here.
---SPSmith
Article: 9 best sites with free ebooks for Google Play
9 best sites with free ebooks for Google Play
http://ebookfriendly.com/sites-with-free-ebooks-for-google-play/
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---SPSmith
Slate: U.S. Budget Deficit Is Lowest in Five Years
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U.S. Budget Deficit Is Lowest in Five Years
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/10/30/_2013_budget_deficit_is_lowest_since_2008_treasury_dept_says.html
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/10/30/_2013_budget_deficit_is_lowest_since_2008_treasury_dept_says.html
---SPSmith
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Article: The 10 Best Buys in 2014 Motorcycles
The 10 Best Buys in 2014 Motorcycles
http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/motorcycles/news/the-10-best-buys-in-2014-motorcycles?%3Fsrc=rss
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---SPSmith
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Arcade Fire’s ‘Reflektor’: Still devoid of wit, subtlety and danger, now with bongos - The Washington Post
Arcade Fire’s ‘Reflektor’: Still devoid of wit, subtlety and danger, now with bongos - The Washington Post: "Look, I’m sure they’re very nice people, but on their fourth album, “Reflektor,” Arcade Fire still sound like gigantic dorks with boring sex lives."
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Article: Dell And HP Are In A Race To Hurt Intel
Dell And HP Are In A Race To Hurt Intel
http://www.businessinsider.com/dell-and-hp-are-in-a-race-to-kill-intel-2013-10
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---SPSmith
Monday, October 28, 2013
Sunday, October 27, 2013
Lou Reed, Velvet Underground Leader and Rock Pioneer, Dead at 71 | Music News | Rolling Stone
With the Velvet Underground in the late Sixties, Reed fused street-level urgency with elements of European avant-garde music, marrying beauty and noise, while bringing a whole new lyrical honesty to rock & roll poetry. As a restlessly inventive solo artist, from the Seventies into the 2010s, he was chameleonic, thorny and unpredictable, challenging his fans at every turn. Glam, punk and alternative rock are all unthinkable without his revelatory example. "One chord is fine," he once said, alluding to his bare-bones guitar style. "Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz."
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/lou-reed-velvet-underground-leader-and-rock-pioneer-dead-at-71-20131027#ixzz2ixTS2giL
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---SPSmith
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/lou-reed-velvet-underground-leader-and-rock-pioneer-dead-at-71-20131027#ixzz2ixTS2giL
Follow us: @rollingstone on Twitter | RollingStone on Facebook
---SPSmith
Saturday, October 26, 2013
Monday, October 21, 2013
Sunday, October 20, 2013
Ten Good Reasons to Hate Oprah - Page 2 | Nerve.com
7) She treats celebrities as medical experts
Giving celebrities a platform to express their fringe medical ideas as fact is not only irresponsible, but dangerous. When Jenny McCarthy took to Oprah's stage to talk about her belief that a vaccine caused her son's autism, Oprah fueled a dangerous anti-vaccine conspiracy theory that had been building in the United States. And when Suzanne Somers raved about how a quite possibly dangerous hormone treatment helped her with menopause, millions of American women began inquiring about how they could receive the same treatment.
8) She endorsed The Secret and other pseudoscience
When Oprah became enamored with The Secret, so, of course, did everyone else. Its central idea — that you're solely responsible for your own happiness — aligns with Oprah's ethos, but it's a dressed-up version of blaming the victim. When you believe that the universe rewards positive thinking, you must also believe the converse — that the universe punishes those who have negative thoughts. Negative thinking isn't responsible for poverty, illness, abuse, or misfortune. Oprah didn't rise to fame by wanting it more than anyone else — she worked hard and had a lot of help. To insinuate that success is based on sending good thoughts into the universe is junk science and offensive to anyone who has suffered a tragedy.
---SPSmith
Saturday, October 19, 2013
Friday, October 18, 2013
Tea party
The Tea Party is led by ignorant, bigoted deadbeats, so is it any
wonder its principles are asinine and incorrect. Substantiating
proof:
We are taxed enough already: No, you are just too much of a deadbeat
to pay your share of the support structures of society:
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/tax-reform/news/2011/06/10/9751/ten-charts-that-prove-the-united-states-is-a-low-tax-country/
So it is no surprise:
http://www.wweek.com/portland/mobile/articles/articleView/id:21408
Process servers can't find the Oregon Tea Party founder, who's more
than three years behind on mortgage payments.
---SPSmith
wonder its principles are asinine and incorrect. Substantiating
proof:
We are taxed enough already: No, you are just too much of a deadbeat
to pay your share of the support structures of society:
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/tax-reform/news/2011/06/10/9751/ten-charts-that-prove-the-united-states-is-a-low-tax-country/
So it is no surprise:
http://www.wweek.com/portland/mobile/articles/articleView/id:21408
Process servers can't find the Oregon Tea Party founder, who's more
than three years behind on mortgage payments.
---SPSmith
Thursday, October 17, 2013
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
The Dangers of Pseudoscience - NYTimes.com
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/10/the-dangers-of-pseudoscience/?_r=1&
The borderlines between genuine science and pseudoscience may be
fuzzy, but this should be even more of a call for careful
distinctions, based on systematic facts and sound reasoning. To try a
modicum of turtle blood here and a little aspirin there is not the
hallmark of wisdom and even-mindedness. It is a dangerous gateway to
superstition and irrationality.
---SPSmith
The borderlines between genuine science and pseudoscience may be
fuzzy, but this should be even more of a call for careful
distinctions, based on systematic facts and sound reasoning. To try a
modicum of turtle blood here and a little aspirin there is not the
hallmark of wisdom and even-mindedness. It is a dangerous gateway to
superstition and irrationality.
---SPSmith
Monday, October 14, 2013
Slate: Google’s Big Break
I thought you would like this article from The Slate Magazine for iPad
---SPSmith
Sunday, October 13, 2013
Saturday, October 12, 2013
Friday, October 11, 2013
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Article: HP no longer playing by Microsoft, Intel rules, exec says
HP no longer playing by Microsoft, Intel rules, exec says
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-57606827-75/hp-no-longer-playing-by-microsoft-intel-rules-exec-says/?subj=news&tag=title
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---SPSmith
Wednesday, October 09, 2013
Slate: The Trouble With Malcolm Gladwell
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---SPSmith
Tuesday, October 08, 2013
Amazon Kindle Paperwhite review (2013) | The Verge
http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/7/4811694/amazon-kindle-paperwhite-review-2013
Last year's $119 Kindle Paperwhite was the best ebook reader ever
made, the default choice, the one I recommend to everyone without a
second's thought — and 12 months later it still is. There isn't even
viable competition at this point.
---SPSmith
Last year's $119 Kindle Paperwhite was the best ebook reader ever
made, the default choice, the one I recommend to everyone without a
second's thought — and 12 months later it still is. There isn't even
viable competition at this point.
---SPSmith
Monday, October 07, 2013
Sunday, October 06, 2013
Breaking Bad Quotes
 | WALTER WHITE Absolutely not. I simply respect the chemistry. The chemistry must be respected. |
Thought you'd like this azcentral article
Hi,
I thought you'd like this azcentral article. Check it out:
Pinal sheriff: Man kills mother, said God told him to
http://www.azcentral.com/community/pinal/articles/20131005arizona-mother-killed-stabbing-god-pinal-county-sheriff-brk.html
I thought you'd like this azcentral article. Check it out:
Pinal sheriff: Man kills mother, said God told him to
http://www.azcentral.com/community/pinal/articles/20131005arizona-mother-killed-stabbing-god-pinal-county-sheriff-brk.html
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---SPSmith
Friday, October 04, 2013
Tuesday, October 01, 2013
'Breaking Bad' Quotes: 20 Most Badass - Hollywood Reporter
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/gallery/breaking-bad-quotes-20-badass-612801#10-i-am-one-who-knocks
The most famous Walt quote has been celebrated by fans and inspired an homage by Samuel L. Jackson.Breaking Bad writer Gennifer Hutchison, who wrote the episode, told THR she didn't realize the monologue would become iconic. "It was always a cool scene. I didn't realize how big it would become." Here's the quote in full: "You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not in danger, Skyler. I amthe danger. A guy opens his door and gets shot, and you think that of me? No! I am the one who knocks!"
---SPSmith
---SPSmith
Sunday, September 29, 2013
Link from Twitter
www.slate.com/articles/arts/tv_club/features/2013/breaking_bad_final_season/week_8/breaking_bad_finale_recap_final_episode_of_breaking_bad_was_perfect.html
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The whole thing felt kind of shady, morality wise,
---SPSmith
'Breaking Bad' Series Finale: 5 Most Shocking Quotes
1. "I did it for me. I liked it. I was good at it. And I was really – I was alive." (Walt to Skyler)
---SPSmith
Review of Breaking Bad, "Blood Money" | TIME.com
* "Why do you think McCoy never likes to beam nowhere? Cause he's a doctor, bitch! Look it up, it's science!"
Read more: http://entertainment.time.com/2013/08/11/breaking-bad-watch-i-am-the-one-who-gets-knocked-out/#ixzz2gIy42JdF
---SPSmith
Friday, September 27, 2013
Thursday, September 26, 2013
Q&A – Danny Trejo (Tortuga)
Q: Tortuga says, "There are two kinds of men in this world, those who drink and those who pour." Which one are you?
---SPSmith
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Saturday, September 21, 2013
Friday, September 20, 2013
Thursday, September 19, 2013
Slate: 9 Things Wrong with BuzzFeed’s Article about 9 Potential Mass Shootings that Were Stopped by Someone with a Personally Owned Firearm
I thought you would like this article from The Slate Magazine for iPad
9 Things Wrong with BuzzFeed's Article about 9 Potential Mass Shootings that Were Stopped by Someone with a Personally Owned Firearm
http://www.slate.com/blogs/crime/2013/09/18/mass_shootings_concealed_carry_9_things_wrong_with_buzzfeed_s_article_about.html
http://www.slate.com/blogs/crime/2013/09/18/mass_shootings_concealed_carry_9_things_wrong_with_buzzfeed_s_article_about.html
---SPSmith
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Breaking Bad’s Los Pollos Hermanos Has a Yelp Page, And It’s Hilarious | TIME.com
"This must be a front for a meth lab because their wings are crazy addictive!"
---SPSmith
Monday, September 16, 2013
Thursday, September 12, 2013
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Sunday, September 08, 2013
Friday, September 06, 2013
Tuesday, September 03, 2013
Saturday, August 31, 2013
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Saturday, August 24, 2013
Thursday, August 22, 2013
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Wealth inequality
Sutter: List of must-reads on inequality
http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/19/opinion/sutter-inequality-must-reads/index.html
---SPSmith
http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/19/opinion/sutter-inequality-must-reads/index.html
---SPSmith
Monday, August 19, 2013
10 Things You Didn't Know About Oktoberfest...Zinzinnati That Is
10 Things You Didn't Know About Oktoberfest...Zinzinnati That Is: " Oktoberfest Zinzinnati is the second biggest Oktoberfest celebration in the world - the only one bigger is the original in Munich."
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Wednesday, August 14, 2013
Monday, August 12, 2013
Thursday, August 08, 2013
Wednesday, August 07, 2013
Homeowner Legal Options Against HOA | The Bainbridge Law Firm, L.L.C. | Scottsdale Arizona
Arizona law places certain restrictions on HOAs, regardless of the powers given to the HOA in the community documents. Below is a list of some common restrictions on HOA power. If the following principles are not followed, an HOA decision could be invalidated.
- Board members must act as fiduciaries to the association, meaning all board members must put the interests of the community ahead of their own personal interests when acting on behalf of the HOA.
- If any HOA action could financially benefit a board member or that board member's immediate family, the board member must state this conflict at an open meeting before voting on the issue.
- HOAs must act reasonably and treat members fairly. An HOA may not carry out its duties in a manner that is arbitrary, capricious, or unreasonable. In other words, community rules must be reasonably enforced.
- HOAs may not selectively enforce community rules against particular homeowners. HOA rules must be enforced as equally as possible.
---SPSmith
Former President George W. Bush recovering after heart surgery | wfaa.com Dallas - Fort Worth
http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/blockage-discovered-in-president-george-w-bushs-heart-218505281.html
"He had a stress test as part of his annual physical. During the
stress test there were EKG changes, which prompted a CT angiogram that
confirmed the blockage."
---SPSmith
"He had a stress test as part of his annual physical. During the
stress test there were EKG changes, which prompted a CT angiogram that
confirmed the blockage."
---SPSmith
Tuesday, August 06, 2013
Sunday, August 04, 2013
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Friday, July 26, 2013
Thursday, July 25, 2013
Slate: Lennon + McCartney = Nilsson
I thought you would like this article from The Slate Magazine for iPad
---SPSmith
doi:10.1016/j.annemergmed.2013.05.030
Despite public perception to the contrary,12,46,47 when all types of injuries are considered together, rural areas, not urban, bear a disproportionate amount of injury-related mortality risk in the United States
---SPSmith
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Eye on Psych: The Myth of Catharsis: Why Ranting and Venting are Terrible Ways to Handle Anger
http://scottsworlds.blogspot.com.au/2013/07/the-myth-of-catharsis-why-ranting-and.html
However, decades of research have shown that venting, far from
releasing anger, actually makes it worse
---SPSmith
However, decades of research have shown that venting, far from
releasing anger, actually makes it worse
---SPSmith
Saturday, July 20, 2013
20 Great Insults from Science Fiction and Fantasy Books
http://io9.com/20-great-insults-from-science-fiction-and-fantasy-books-826828044
disposition of a grizzly bear with hemorrhoids trying to pass pinecones
---SPSmith
disposition of a grizzly bear with hemorrhoids trying to pass pinecones
---SPSmith
Thursday, July 18, 2013
Monday, July 15, 2013
Sunday, July 14, 2013
Friday, July 12, 2013
Thursday, July 11, 2013
Rationally Speaking: Democracy: the Egyptian conundrum
Contra what many of my secular humanist and atheist friends seem to think, it is not necessary for religious discourse to be sealed off from the public square. It is perfectly all right — indeed, inevitable — for politicians, say, to be guided in their thinking by their religious faith. What is not acceptable is the advancement of religious arguments when it comes to policy debates. Rather, the religious person needs to translate his objections (or positive proposals) into neutral language that can be debated on secular (in the sense above, not as in "secular humanism") terms.
---SPSmith
---SPSmith
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Tuesday, July 09, 2013
Sunday, July 07, 2013
Saturday, July 06, 2013
Friday, July 05, 2013
Thursday, July 04, 2013
Victor J. Willi: Letter From Cairo
Once again it showed the Brotherhood's limited understanding of democracy, which is restricted to the mechanics of voting, elections and ballot boxes, while showing precious little appreciation for the values that make up the essence of a democracy, such as the rule of law, citizenship, equality and human rights
Wednesday, July 03, 2013
Rationally Speaking: Theories of truth
"morality is a biological and cultural adaptation for increasing the benefits of cooperation in groups. No big surprise there."
---SPSmith
Tuesday, July 02, 2013
Paula Deen's Ugly Roots : The New Yorker
The controversy stems from a suit brought by a former employee, who claims, among other things, that Deen presided over a culture of racial and sexual impropriety, particularly at Uncle Bubba's Oyster House, the Savannah restaurant Deen set up for her brother, Bubba Hiers: pornography in the workplace, racial insults, nostalgia for the antebellum South. (In planning Bubba's wedding, the employee asserts in the complaint, Deen allegedly said, "I want a true southern plantation-style wedding.… Well what I would really like is a bunch of little n-----s to wear long-sleeve white shirts, black shorts and black bow ties, you know in the Shirley Temple days, they used to tap dance around.") In other words, we now have "Kitchen Confidential: Georgia Edition," with an inverted power structure and markedly un-Vassar politics.
---SPSmith
Monday, July 01, 2013
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