Joe Stanley: Archive

“To protest a bill that would require women to undergo an ultrasound before having an abortion, Virginia State Sen. Janet Howell (D-Fairfax) on Monday attached an amendment that would require men to have a rectal exam and a cardiac stress test before obtaining a prescription for erectile dysfunction medication.” —Heard about this earlier today. I’m going to have to swing by the General Assembly and tell her thanks.

“There is an irony here: one of the criticisms of Mitt Romney’s record at Bain Capital is that private equity firms put unhealthy amounts of leverage on the firms they acquire in order to exploit the favorable tax treatment of debt. The Buffett Rule would make that strategy even more attractive.” —Josh Barro, Forbes Contributor

Jan 28, 2012

Incredibly insightful look at the highs, low, and future of the TRPG Industry.

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Jan 27, 2012117 notes

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I think this is probably the first time I’ve ever agreed with Lynn Mitchell on anything, but there’s no denying that this is a solution in search of a problem.

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“If Google doesn’t like your name, it can block you; if Facebook doesn’t like your status, it can delete it; and if Twitter gets a takedown request for your message, it will disappear. Our freedom of speech relies on these new information gatekeepers.” —Matthew Ingram questions How much should we trust our new information overlords? on GigaOm. (via onaissues)

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Jan 24, 20122,987 notes

“Candidly, those who count on quote ‘Hollywood’ for support need to understand that this industry is watching very carefully who’s going to stand up for them when their job is at stake. Don’t ask me to write a check for you when you think your job is at risk and then don’t pay any attention to me when my job is at stake.” —

Chris Dodd, former U.S. senator and chief executive of the Motion Picture Association of America, to Fox News last week.

As anti-piracy legislation stalled in Congress last week, the movie industry’s top lobbyist, former U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd, warned Democrats not to count on Hollywood money if they turn their backs on the industry’s legislative priority. Read more.

Jan 24, 201220 notes

joshsternberg:

This doesn’t sit well. At all.

The information will enable Google to develop a fuller picture of how people use its growing empire of Web sites. Consumers will have no choice but to accept the changes.

And of course, I await the iPhone commercials…

The policy will take effect March 1 and will also impact Android mobile phone users, who are required to log in to Google accounts when they activate their phones.

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Unlike Cain, many more people in poor communities than the news media ever show us consider social conservatism an indispensable but not sufficient condition of personal and community improvement. The point is that there is no “whiteness” in it. There never has been. Anyone who wants to roll back Republican racism should stop equating whiteness with it.

And we should consider that, whatever our black president’s failings portend for this year’s election, his strong nuclear family and Christian metaphors, coupled with a background in community organizing and a shrewd, low-key way of handling the racism that rained down upon him, made him the paradigmatic candidate of 2008.

” —Jim Sleeper, discussing how social conservatism isn’t “white”

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“A man who assisted in autopsies in a big urban hospital, starting in the mid-1950s, describes the many deaths from botched abortions that he saw. ‘The deaths stopped overnight in 1973.’ He never saw another in the 18 years before he retired. ‘That,’ he says, ‘ought to tell people something about keeping abortion legal.’” —Sunday was the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade

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February 2012

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January 2012

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