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BREAKING: NAACP Endorses Marriage Equality
Seeded on Sat May 19, 2012 7:11 PM EDT (Think Progress)
The board of the NAACP, the “nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization,” endorsed marriage equality at a meeting this afternoon. The move comes 10 days after President Obama announced his support of same-sex marriage. The NAACP’s move comes a …
College Tuition Fight Surges in Texas - WSJ.com
Seeded on Sat May 19, 2012 3:13 PM EDT (Wall Street Journal)
The national debate over the cost of a college degree is roiling the University of Texas's flagship campus, where the school's president has been at odds with board members and with Gov. Rick Perry over the wisdom of raising tuition. The dispute has reached such a point that t …
ESPN.com - All the world is staged
Seeded on Fri May 18, 2012 2:28 PM EDT (ESPN.com)
ON THE MORNING of Feb. 20, 2011, a man from Singapore walked into the central police station of Rovaniemi, Finland, a town that sits along the Arctic Circle. The man told officers that another Singaporean, Wilson Raj Perumal, was in Rovaniemi on a false passport. He offered no …
The Economic Case for Same-Sex Marriage - Bloomberg
Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 11:50 AM EDT (Bloomberg.com)
Viewed through an economic frame, modern partnerships are based upon “consumption complementarities” -- the joy of sharing things and experiences -- rather than the production-based gains that motivated traditional marriage. Consistent with this, co- parenting has r …
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Seeded on Sun May 13, 2012 2:16 PM EDT ()
Back in the sixth grade, at the end of a school day, I tried to get a cheap laugh from the rest of the class by pulling away a friend’s chair while he tried to sit down. I wasn’t trying to be mean, but yeah, it was really mean, and dumb. It’s not like I’ …
This is no way to run an athletics program, A&M
Seeded on Wed May 9, 2012 12:48 PM EDT (The Austin American-Statesman)
The storm ended Tuesday when the 66-year-old administrator stepped down after being totally emasculated and stripped of all power by a Machiavellian school president and an overstepping board of regents that decided to micromanage college athletics, and no longer trusted the de …
Socialist Hollande triumphs in French presidential poll - FRENCH ELECTIONS 2012 - FRANCE 24
Seeded on Sun May 6, 2012 2:55 PM EDT (Frace24)
François Hollande has won France’s presidential election, giving the country its first Socialist president in almost two decades, exit polls showed Sunday. According to Ipsos polling institute, the left-wing candidate took 51.9% of the vote to incumbent Nicolas Sa …
Nobody Seems to Understand What Jeff Bezos is Doing. Does He? | PandoDaily
Seeded on Sun May 6, 2012 2:40 PM EDT ()
Amazon is so opaque, with so many mysterious businesses and revenue streams, that you've got to wonder whether the people who work there even understand what it's up to. In business, simplicity often wins. Selling me a device to get me to buy a membership in order to get a book f …
Salt & Fat, Khao man gai burger
Seeded on Sun May 6, 2012 12:48 PM EDT ()
Khao man gai is my favorite Thai dish, a careful balance of boiled capon (chicken), rice cooked in the resulting broth, a crucial garnish of cucumber and cilantro, and the miracle ingredient: the sauce, oh dear lord the sauce. You should definitely make the whole thing from Leela …
Alcoholidays In America: ¡Viva El Tequila Julep! : NPR
Seeded on Sat May 5, 2012 10:42 AM EDT (NPR)
America is not a two-party country — it's a multiparty extravaganza. We turn every possible pause from work into a party: New Year's Day, the Super Bowl, Mardi Gras, St. Patrick's Day, Memorial Day, the Fourth of July, Labor Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and Ne …
Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys dies at 47
Fri May 4, 2012 1:47 PM EDT
Adam Yauch, the gravelly voiced Beastie Boys rapper and the most conscientious member of the seminal hip-hop group, has died. He was 47.
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Board of Regents votes to bring medical school to UT Austin | kvue.com Austin
Seeded on Fri May 4, 2012 12:24 PM EDT ()
With an unanimous vote, it was decided that Austin will be the home to a new UT medical school.
A Complete Guide to 'Hipster Racism'
Seeded on Thu Apr 26, 2012 5:46 PM EDT (Jezebel: Celebrity, Sex, Fashion for Women. Without Airbrushing.)
It's all tied up with the deliberately obtuse people who conflate "freedom of speech" with "immunity from criticism." You "can" say the n-word. Go ahead and say it if you want, Skrillex. And I will go ahead and give you the world's most sidewaysiest eyeball forever. Because it …
Mathematics of Eternity Prove The Universe Must Have Had A Beginning - Technology Review
Seeded on Wed Apr 25, 2012 6:46 PM EDT (Technology Review)
Cosmologists use the mathematical properties of eternity to show that although universe may last forever, it must have had a beginning
Opera Confirms WebKit Prefix Usage [FarukAt.eş]
Seeded on Wed Apr 25, 2012 6:37 PM EDT (Faruk Ateş)
Opera, the browser with a small desktop market share but huge mobile market share, particularly in developing and less-opulent countries, has confirmed today that they will start implementing support for the -webkit- prefix.
Tor/Forge E-book Titles to Go DRM-Free
Seeded on Tue Apr 24, 2012 4:11 PM EDT (TOR)
Our authors and readers have been asking for this for a long time,” said president and publisher Tom Doherty. “They’re a technically sophisticated bunch, and DRM is a constant annoyance to them. It prevents them from using legitimately-purchased e-books in per …
Jon Huntsman: GOP Is Like Communist Party In China
Seeded on Mon Apr 23, 2012 5:09 AM EDT (Politics | The New Civil Rights Movement)
Jon Huntsman, a former Republican Party candidate for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination, told an audience in Manhattan on Sunday evening that the GOP is like the Communist Party in China. Huntsman, who was President Obama’s Ambassador to China, certainly is in a positi …
Catholic nuns group 'stunned' by Vatican slap - The Washington Post
Seeded on Sat Apr 21, 2012 10:45 PM EDT (The Washington Post)
A prominent U.S. Catholic nuns group said Thursday that it was “stunned” that the Vatican reprimanded it for spending too much time on poverty and social-justice concerns and not enough on condemning abortion and gay marriage.
Amazon Low Prices Disguise a High Cost - NYTimes.com
Seeded on Mon Apr 16, 2012 5:28 PM EDT (The New York Times)
The Justice Department finally took aim at the monopolistic monolith that threatened to dominate the book industry. So imagine the shock when the bullet aimed at threats to competition went whizzing by Amazon — which not long ago had a 90 percent stranglehold on e-books & …
While Apple Is Criticized for Foxconn, Other Companies Are Silent - NYTimes.com
Seeded on Sun Apr 8, 2012 7:50 PM EDT (The New York Times)
Over the past week I have asked Hewlett-Packard, Samsung, Microsoft, Dell, Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Lenovo about their reports on labor conditions. Many, if not all, of these electronics makers also use Foxconn.
PhotoBlog - Protests break out, as Egypt considers disqualifying presidential candidate
Seeded on Fri Apr 6, 2012 9:39 PM EDT (msnbc.com)
An Egyptian man against Salafist candidate Hazem Abu Ismail scuffles with his supporters in Cairo on April 6 as thousands of his supporters gather nearby to protest against a potential decision to rule him out of Egypt's presidential election because his mother reportedly held …
Arcade Fire - Pastime becomes passion project becomes Pinballz
Seeded on Fri Apr 6, 2012 8:40 PM EDT (Austin Chronic)
Pinballz Arcade should not exist. Game arcades are a dead industry, swept aside by home gaming and console ports of Dance Dance Revolution. Conventional wisdom says no one wants to pump quarters into a table anymore. Watching steel balls fly around the playfield just isn't enou …
Video: A Critical Discussion, Obama's Reelection (in which I try to keep up with a professor of political science in front of a live audience)
Tue Apr 3, 2012 12:12 PM EDT
Earlier this year I was approached by the Theta Psi chapter of the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity at Virginia Tech and asked to participate in a discussion of the Obama Presidency which took place on March 21st.
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Why Baseball Is The Best—And Least Exploitative—American Sport | The New Republic
Seeded on Sat Mar 31, 2012 4:11 PM EDT (TNR's The Worst Political Sex Writing The New Republic)
Major League Baseball (MLB), the oldest spectator team sport in the nation, has become the most affordable and least exploitative one—and its labor relations are remarkably harmonious, too. Compared to the dysfunction, scandal, and discontent commonplace in other professi …
The Mike Daisey apology tour begins, but doesn't go far enough.
Mon Mar 26, 2012 1:12 PM EDT
Monologuist Mike Daisey is now offering an "accounting" after the revelation that most of the critical details of his "Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs" monologue were fabricated for dramatic effect:
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thanks for the FrReq. where'd you see me on the 'Vine to prompt the invite? :)
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— McSpocky
I was just looking through your seeds and comments, they are good ones.
Keep up the good work...— McSpocky
Spiffie...are you avoiding the mainstream convos these days? Come out and play!!! There's plenty of tea party glutes to be kicked!!!
Contrary to the public opinion on here, I agree with almost everything spiffie has to say, and just reading the comments of people who he has apparently virtually gotten under the skin of gives me the hoots and giggles for endless hours. Keep pumpin' out the good stuff!
— L(a)T
Yuriy thinks he's swell.
— Chasing
I almost never agree with you on your leftist agenda, but I do respect you as a human bean.
— schnoo
I may not agree with most of your posts but I see you are a good person. Keep up the good work.
— k9kline
Highly intelligent, very detailed in his debates. And a wicked sense of humor. And a Texan. ;)
I read somewhere "As it was in Sodom & gomorah, so shall it be at the coming of the Son of Man" Less and less "humans" are believing that. BUT look at the corruption in our society
OK Spiffie here are some resources to chew on if you got the brain cells to do it
Moreland has authored or co-authored numerous publications, including:* Scaling the Secular City: A Defense of Christianity (1987) * Christianity and the Nature of Science: A Philosophical Examination (1989) * The Life and Death Debate: Moral Issues of Our Time (with Norman Geisler, 1990) * Does God Exist?: The Debate Between Atheists and Theists (with Kai Nielsen, 1990) * The Creation Hypothesis: Scientific Evidence for An Intelligent Designer (1994) * Love Your God With All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul (1997) * Body and Soul: Human Nature and the Crisis of Ethics (with Scott Rae, 2000) * Naturalism: A Critical Analysis (co-editor with William Lane Craig, 2000) * Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview (with William Lane Craig, 2003) * Kingdom Triangle: Recover the Christian Mind, Renovate the Soul, Restore the Spirit's Power (2007)
Spiffie is, well...spiffie. Calm. Even tempered. Smart. He is an anchor at Newsvine. I'm really glad he's here. : )
— lauhal
Even when Spiffie takes a picture he's a bit too far to the left.
man with the eyes to see what's right before his face. A man of another caliber.
He's like some kind of atheist prophet.
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