May 2012
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This is what people are doing with their leisure... →
Costs of Voter ID Come Home to Roost
punditspodium:
At the time that the 2012 General Assembly was considering bills aimed at making sure that people who cast ballots in Virginia are, in fact, the people they claim to be, many legislators and proponents asserted costs would be minimal and could be handled within the scope of the State Board of Election’s existing budget. In addition, proponents of the legislation said that the...
UI of The Avengers →
straightouttastafford:
Wow. This is awesome.
“One of the strangest legacies of America’s founding is our national obsession...”
– 6 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About the Founding of America | Cracked.com
god damn
(via erikawithac)
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The Saddest Day Ever
straightouttastafford:
Joe and I blocked each other to test something for a user and now we can’t unblock each other.
MYTH BUSTED.
An open letter to a lot of you bashing North...
anarchyandscotch:
Yes, what happened yesterday in North Carolina was a disgrace.
Yes, it’s terrifying that in 2012 people are still willing to openly oppose equal rights.
But to use this unfortunate development as a way to further justify your own prejudice of the South is equally disgraceful. It is the height of irony that you would use this as a way to expose your own emphasis on stereotypes...
“The left media and Wasserman Schultz will try to tell you that I threaten the...”
– Okay, Ted Nugent — it might be time to just stop talking altogether. (via entertainmentweekly)
What the liberal media won’t tell you is that Ted Nugent in fact only wants to make sweet love to your puppy.
(via markcoatney)
“Because Tumblr is a relatively new thing in politics, there is a relative dearth...”
– So says The Fix’s Chris Cillizza over the Washington Post. Apparently, Cillizza found out that there are funny politically-inspired memes on Tumblr this week. So, he solicited the opinions of his Twitter followers and Fix readers about “the best political Tumblrs” and apparently he got … next to...
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New Obama slogan has long ties to Marxism,... →
The Obama campaign apparently didn’t look backwards into history when selecting its new campaign slogan, “Forward” — a word with a long and rich association with European Marxism.
Many Communist and radical publications and entities throughout the 19th and 20th centuries had the name “Forward!” or its foreign cognates. Wikipedia has an entire section called “Forward (generic name of socialist...
