Human Rights Under Barack Obama

Rowan 5/25/2012
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How do you react to Amnesty International’s description of human rights under President Obama?

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What Should the National Mammal of the USA Be?

Rowan 5/25/2012
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Can you guess what animal a group of senators proposed as the national mammal of the USA?

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What Upcoming Protests Do You Know About? How Did You Find Out?

Jim Cook 5/21/2012
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When mainstream media outlets pointedly refuse to cover massive protests on the street, it becomes incumbent upon those of us who write off the mainstream to spread the word of upcoming protest. The problem with finding information off the mainstream …

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Occupy Grammar

Rowan 5/15/2012
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What’s the different message of a bumper sticker in the shape of the United States and the label “occupied territory” and a bumper sticker that’s exactly the same but with a label that reads “occupy”?

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U.S. House Playing Hooky Today

Peregrin Wood 5/14/2012
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For most Americans, the work week begins today, and we have to arrive bright and early at our jobs, on time or ahead of time, or risk getting fired. The elected members of the U.S. House of Representatives, however, have …

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What’s The Big Deal About Secret Service Prostitutes?

Rowan 4/15/2012
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If it was Barack Obama who hired a prostitute in Colombia, I could understand calling that a scandal, though it wouldn’t really be very political. If the Secret Service agents and American soldiers had passed classified secrets on to the prostitutes, I could understand calling that a scandal. But, there’s nothing of that sort in this story, so what makes it a scandal?

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Which Watch Wealth?

Peregrin Wood 4/12/2012
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Two watches. One costs just over $125. The other watch costs more than 20 times that much. What’s the difference?

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Why Aren’t Paranormal Investigators Taken Seriously?

Rowan 4/11/2012
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Should scientists stop criticizing each other’s work, and just try to get along?

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Luxury Handbag Challenge

Peregrin Wood 4/10/2012
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Without searching elsewhere online, can you identify which of these handbags is the extreme luxury handbag from Hermes? Can you explain what makes it worth $8,630.00 more than the handbag from Target?

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Why Is Gingrich Super PAC Still Spending?

F. G. Fitzer 4/5/2012
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Why would Sheldon Adelson and the Winning Our Future PAC keep spending money on Gingrich, when he now has virtually no chance of winning the Republican nomination? Take this poll to provide your explanation.

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Where Is Your Hole In The West?

Rowan 3/24/2012
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“Far, far away in the West, where things were blue and faint, Bilbo knew there lay his own country of safe and comfortable things, and his little hobbit-hole.” Modern life has brought us many accoutrements to obscure the shape of …

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Jason Buck Campaigns For A Tiny, Tiny Vision Of Life

F. G. Fitzer 3/19/2012
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To address issues of “life, family, and marriage”, all that Republican congressional candidate Jason Buck could muster was a 39-word statement. He’s not exactly imaginative, is he? What matters would you want to see discussed within those categories?

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No Labels CoFounder Mark McKinnon: “We Don’t Have Any Special Interest Money.” Bullshit or No?

Jim Cook 3/18/2012
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Since its founding in 2010, the 501c4 corporation called No Labels has refused to identify the names of its funders. Mock-interviewing No Labels co-founder Mark McKinnon on his comedy show this week, Stephen Colbert asked him about No Labels’ cash …

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What If I Don’t Desire Epictetus?

Rowan 3/11/2012
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“Freedom is secured not by the fulfillment of one’s desires, but by the removal of desire.” – Epictetus What’s the point of freedom, if you don’t want to do anything with it?

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The Anatomy Of A Centaur

Rowan 3/3/2012
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The idea of a centaur seems like mythological bliss, until you start asking the anatomical question of where all the parts go.

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The Softest Things

Rowan 3/3/2012
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“The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.” – Lao Tzu Is this brilliance or pure idiocy?

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Does Rocky Anderson for President Match Your Concerns?

jclifford 2/27/2012
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I’ve converted Anderson’s list of the top ten political issues for 2012 into a poll, which you can see below. Check off which of these items are important to you, and leave a comment below to indicate other important issues that Rocky Anderson did not include in this list.

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Reverse Dunne: Is This an Appropriate Asshole Test?

Jim Cook 2/16/2012
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In a popular book, Stanford Professor Robert Sutton helpfully boils down his 227 pages of text to a two-prong test: Test One: After talking to the alleged asshole, does the ‘target’ feel oppressed, humiliated, de-energized, or belittled by the person? …

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