Kurt Vonnegut's Letter To Drake High School: 'You Have Insulted Me'

...thanks. You were right; it was very much worth reading.
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Fiona Apple's Letter To Gay Teen Goes Viral

LOL - maybe somebody's gonna show up and trick you into cheering up :-)
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Paul Van Dyk: Madonna Is 'So Stupid' For Making 'Molly' Ecstasy Joke

Good one. But not being stupid is not the same as genius.
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Paul Van Dyk: Madonna Is 'So Stupid' For Making 'Molly' Ecstasy Joke

...maybe Madonna's a lot of things, but stupid is not one of them. If the goal is admiration and success, as was hers, then let's hear your decryption of her failure.



I've never purchased anything from Madonna, but I never need to buy air, either - it's already everywhere, and everyone has inhaled.
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Spike Lee Apologizes For Retweeting Wrong Address For Zimmerman

yup, I agree, but to me it's still unethical to broadcast someone's personal information as a form of punishment, as was done here. When you connect the 'id' to the 'keyboard' you're flirting with danger...



hmmm... an 'app' that locked a breathalyser to the 'send' button could be a real boon... could save many marriages, and maybe prevent that 10 to 20 in Sing Sing sensation.
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Apple And Foxconn, Now With Less Guilt: Seven And A Half Things To Know

'Gee, I Can't Believe It's Not Journalism!' - every third page of anything these days has an "Apple Tortures Asian Workers" article, re-describing the same old horrors, and intentionally leaving the assumption that all the Android products are made by nuns, pixies, and upwardly mobile Nebraskans who are living in Peking just for kicks and pot stickers...



There is an honest story out there - but it's a tad more subtle than upwardly-grabby writers can sell to today's dumbed-down American reader...
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Teens Say 'Senior Assassins' Squirt Gun Game Is Safe, Despite Accident

...everything is suspect today, isn't it quite clear? The inexorable slide into madness - like the movement of the moon, is hard to notice. But you'll know you're there when there is no longer anything you can do that can escape the scrutiny of the new cops - other people.
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Duggars' Mom, Michelle, Thinks Overpopulation Is A Lie

When you see those manic fundamentalist wide-eyes sitting on top of that infamous, insipid grin, grab your second amendment, park your lazy-boy by the door... and wait. If nothing happens after an hour or so, you can assume that they finally gave up, lit up their blunts and are now yacking away about petty dreads and superstitions - the usual malarky...
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Foxconn Factory's Violations: iPad Factory Workers' Grievances Detailed In Report

...the basic rightie numpty buys android stuff - and hates the fact that somewhere a lib is using an iSomething and enjoying the hell out of it.
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Spike Lee Apologizes For Retweeting Wrong Address For Zimmerman

...eeek! Spike's got 2 big problems - even if had been the correct information, it's still unethical to broadcast others' personal information as he did, and the wife comes across as a very pleasant, sincere and sympathetic victim.
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Amy Winehouse Estate; Singer's $4.66 Million Fortune To Go To Family

...if she's your favorite, then surely you were a big fan... so you must be one of her dope dealers - but I don't believe it ;-)
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Spike Lee Apologizes For Retweeting Wrong Address For Zimmerman

...easy there smarty. I'm a lib and never defend anyone posting someone else's personal information, because it's unethical to do so - it's not complicated. You should be howling at problems that actually exist...
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Harold Simmons On Obama: 'That Socialist'

...good comments. The founders also generally understood that the Constitution is inevitably a flexible device - designed for renewal and expected to grow along with reality - or it is a piece of paper. The fact that righties can always scrounge up naysayers means nothing - the facts still exist, and humanity staggers forward, furiously rewriting - as great authors do.
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Japan Fukushima Disaster: Nuclear Reactor Still Has Fatally High Radiation Levels, Little Water

...but right-wingers don't care - when they show up at your pool party, they still ask, "which end of the pool is the peeing end?"
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'Romniacs' Express Their Passion For Mitt Romney

Nobody I know has ever expressed anything like "a passion for Mitt". In fact, I don't know anybody who can even talk about it without smirking - try it... see?
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John McCain Predicts 'Huge Scandals' In The Super PAC Era

John McCain Predicts 'Huge Scandals' In The Super PAC Era

"What the Supreme Court did is a combination of arrogance, naivete and stupidity the likes of which I have never seen," said McCain.

JetBlue Pilot: Passengers Recount Scare After Pilot Outburst (VIDEO)

Oh thanks for reminding me that when I turn on the TV I always go right to those channels where fear and hate matches my ginned-up outrage... but I don't think it's just me...
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Arizona Birth Control Bill: Employers Could Charge Fee To Process Insurance Claim

Up until recently, I thought these people were merely conservative throwbacks. But how can anyone not notice that today's self-flagellating, self-terrorizing conservatives of red-state America are steadily morphing from humanity to insanity - with Arizona becoming the vast ward of the crazed.
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Turin Shroud Led Apostles To Believe In Resurrection of Christ, Claims New Book

Yes, it is amazing - and good examples!
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Rick Santorum Defends Cursing Out New York Times Reporter

...all you gotta do is watch the video and listen to the words he spoke and you know that Santorum is wrong - and the reporter was right.
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Rich Won't Move Even If State Raises Income Taxes: Report

'Getaway Plans of the Rich and Famous' - I assume that private jets are waiting patiently on runways all across America so that conservative rich people can leave the country in a huff anytime they please - like the jet that waited in vain in 2004 for Alec Baldwin to keep his promise and leave the country when Bush was re-elected...
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Living Alone Linked With Depression In Young And Middle-Aged Adults, Study Finds

...you need Damitol - cures absolutely nothing, but will keep you entertained with side effects until you meet divorce lawyer number two...
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Dirty Words and Gender Switching in the Blues

I really enjoyed reading your article. Terrific topic. Music has been the vessel for so much of human experience, and it's so easy to carry from place to place - world to world. Thanks for whetting the appetite to know more about who we all really are.
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Debra Devi: Dirty Words and Gender Switching in the Blues

Debra Devi: Dirty Words and Gender Switching in the Blues

"Luckily, their cultural values were strong. They expressed them through the one art that left no artifacts for slave owners to destroy -- music. As the Africans became Americans, they created the blues, a music so emotive and rich with possibility that it birthed jazz and rock 'n' roll within decades of its own conception.


They may have arrived here with nothing, but they enriched and vitalized American language and culture beyond measure."

Lumia 900 Release Date: Nokia To Release Flagship Phone In Early April: Report

...but every new edition of Windows requires a booster shot - tons of people forget this!
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Jose Hernandez's 'Astronaut' Title Challenged By Lawyers In California House Race

Let me get this straight. These lawyers are saying that Neil Armstrong is not an "astronaut" for life, and John Glenn is just a white-haired old guy with neato anecdotes.



Well, here a news alert for those legal eagles in Sacramento - better get into Kevlar panties before Buzz finds out !!!!
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Arizona Birth Control Bill: Democrat Responds To Republican Sponsor's 'Extremist Tactic'

We all know what a bagger is, but you're obviously a 2-bagger - a whole different animal. Maybe that's why you're so bunched.
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After A Lifetime Of Hard Work, The Indignity Of A Layoff

Nope. I never forget anything important, so I never forget to dismiss rightie gibberish before I even get to the period at the end of the statement.
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After A Lifetime Of Hard Work, The Indignity Of A Layoff

The degeneration of everything civil is just overwhelming in it's scope, but what struck me in this article was hearing of the callous theft of tips, and being "spit out like a peach pit" - both of which adds to the mosaic image of American society's spiraling descent, to a final disgrace. Without a change of course, the future looks to be a sea of serfs servicing eternal billionaire trustbabies.
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Titanic A Magnet Topic For Students, Tricky Fine Line For Educators

Titanic A Magnet Topic For Students, Tricky Fine Line For Educators

"...palatable, inspirational fare focused on survivors, animals on board or the mechanics of shipbuilding. ..."

Pat Robertson: Peyton Manning, Broncos Would Be Served Right By Injury After Tim Tebow Trade (VIDEO)

...Robertson's asinine statements are like sunrise over an atoll - there's a new one every day, yet it's always the same atoll. Fortunately some volcano god is bound to get so bunched and bored listening to Robertson's malarkey that the atoll will suddenly blow up and dissappear...
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Newt Gingrich: Obama's Trayvon Martin Statement 'Disgraceful'

Is this easy, or what? Almost anyone could come up with Gingrich's ever-so-predictable statements - just listen to TV until you hear something you can distort to your own purpose.



The only thing Gingrich has that most of us lack is the phone number of some bagger journalist who's waiting for somebody - anybody! - to take a nice big colorful info dump directly into their ears... Yup, this is easy!
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Offensive Obama Cartoon Leads North Carolina Blogger To Resign

Of course she didn't realize the cartoon was offensive, and of course she doesn't "think in those terms". She's just a talk-radio rightie bloviator minding her own business - if you define "her own business" as everything you do.
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Arizona Abortion Bill: Constituent Said State Rep. Terri Proud's Abortion-Watching Proposal Came From Form Email

Watching other people go under the yoke is a special thrill for America's new, debased conservatives, and Proud certainly knows the moves. She's a dangerous entity, and especially so because she's in a position of power and can do things - and what she plans to do is satisfy herself in public, while putting other people in peril.
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Celebrity Boobs, Please Put Yourselves Away (PHOTOS)

Silliest article so far today... It's like that Seinfeld episode where Elaine complains to the police that restaurant owners tend to hire waitresses with large breasts!!!... the horror!!



We're evidently supposed to take the writer seriously, while we enjoy her references to the "the twins" or "the girls" - but of course, who could?
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Geraldo Rivera: Trayvon Martin's 'Hoodie Is As Much Responsible For [His] Death As George Zimmerman' (VIDEO)

How low can you go until you're no longer sanitary? Most of us will never know the answer - but Rivera sees it every morning - in the mirror.
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Obama On Trayvon Martin Case: 'If I Had A Son, He'd Look Like Trayvon'

wow, nobody here at this table believes Obama is exploiting anything.
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Pinterest's Terms of Service, Word By Terrifying Word

...the copyright fish just crawled ashore on brand new legs, and is learning how to scoot up to your front door and into your home; declaring the right to license anything and everything you think you own - and anything they don't want, they'll steal and sell back to you.
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Brazil Poor Receive Free Beauty Treatment

Brazil Poor Receive Free Beauty Treatment

"What's a wrinkle? Something minor, right? Something with precious little importance," Dr. Nelson Rosas said. "But when we treat the wrinkle, that unimportant little thing, we're actually treating something very important: The patient's self esteem."

Paul Krugman: Paranoia Over Gas Prices Strikes Deeper

Well, if I was a right-wing billionaire with some control over the flow of oil into the economy, I would gladly spend 9 figures and 2 years setting up dominos within the gasoline delivery system that will fall on cue and drive consumer oil prices higher and higher - all through the long run-up to the national election in November. Then I would have my yacht lengthened...
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Mitt Romney: George W. Bush And Henry Paulson Saved Country From Depression#comments

Mitt Romney: George W. Bush And Henry Paulson Saved Country From Depression#comments

Romney keeps coming up with one dog after another - and he'll flog this new puppy until it voluntarily goes up on the car roof - just to get away from this numpty !


If Obama doesn't pull an election victory out of the hat in November, then we're all up on that roof goin' woof !

Teachers' Satisfaction Tanks On Survey When Higher Expectations Come With Fewer Resources

Insulting Teachers Is Like Pissing Off The Captain During Iceberg Season

Kenneth Bernstein, as Daily Kos blogger 'TeacherKen', says "We cannot fix the problem that over 20 percent of our students are coming from poor families."


Says William Chamberlain, a teacher in rural Missouri, "We're being blamed by the public for problems out of our control."

But it's not just the teachers who see the polarization. "Teachers are under attack," says Margery Mayer, the president of Scholastic's education arm, who oversaw the latest survey. "I personally find it very disturbing that we're putting teacher evaluations in the newspaper and putting all the blame on them."

...Christie, the Republican governor of New Jersey, is perpetually at loggerheads with the state's teachers union. Rhee says she tells teachers to listen closely to Christie. "He blames the teachers union," Rhee says she tells teachers. "I've never in my life heard Chris Christie blame the problems of public education on teachers."Some teachers would beg to differ. "A lot of people bash teachers unions," says Stephen Lazar, a social-studies high-school teacher in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. "They don’t think they bash teachers, but teachers are the union."

Debate: Can It Be More Ethical To Eat Meat?

I am sorry, but on certain topics, I am way beyond wanting to hear balanced arguments. So far, this HuffPo series of yes/no texts has no relationship to the way I think - or consider information. The one on marijuana was ridiculous to read as a free person who enjoys the age-old quest for transcendent experiences, and this new one offers interesting confusion where none is needed.
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iPhone Ranks Highest In U.S. Customer Satisfaction, J.D. Power And Associates Study Says

People that say 'end of story' are afraid of conversations about anything more complicated than Bazooka Joe's lunch. You should just go out and buy a big ole' honkin' truck full of assorted Android phones, tablets, and mood rings - that oughta keep you and your fans pretty busy...
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iPhone Ranks Highest In U.S. Customer Satisfaction, J.D. Power And Associates Study Says

...excellent points - that's how I see it too, and I think it touches on the real power of the Apple concept - one universe, under warranty, with liberty and justice as apps.



I'm actually a recent convert to things Apple, for they go against much of what I used to believe was of paramount importance for the shape of progress, but at this point in cyber-evolution the supremacy of the Apple paradigm feels like an important mid-course correction that needs to be observed and absorbed.
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Peter Lewis Leaves Democracy Alliance, The Liberal Donor Network

No, I can't hear anything because the GOP is screaming about getting the government out of our lives - while they're helping the government crawl through our bedroom windows to 'regulate' our private lives - and put a (your Christian bible version here) in the side-table drawer.



Here's the takeaway for you righties - we progressives just don't cotton to squirrelly little people pretending to be big based on their ability to accumulate nuts.
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Dutch Roman Catholic Church Castrated Boys As 'Treatment' For Homosexuality

...you're right of course, but for me the sick, depraved act of castrating these boys - for being abused and desecrated, is abomination without equal.
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Butter vs. Margarine: Which Is Better For You (And For Baking)?

...and those who eat smart can do it longer.
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Chuck Winder, Idaho Lawmaker, Suggests Women Use Rape As Excuse For Abortions

The conservative men on the U.S. Supreme Court are gonna make Roe v Wade their "own frikkin' business" real soon now. When they're done, right-wing lawyers will fan out across the country, instructing local authorities, in briefs, on how to handle a woman's vagina.
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Dutch Roman Catholic Church Castrated Boys As 'Treatment' For Homosexuality

Just when you think the horrific stories of massive Catholic church failure have covered it all, this shows up - an unbelievable, rotten extreme of brutality that challenges and defeats the existence of any honor anywhere in this church. It is not hyperbole to say that for the Catholic world this is a failure of biblical proportions...
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Fox News' Bret Baier Hits Back At Obama Over Alleged Criticism (VIDEO)

...so then Baier coughs this up: "For the record, we found no examples of a host saying President Obama is a Muslim."



Of course not - what FOX does is relentlessly refer to and quote those who 'do' question Obama's religion. Plus, once again it sorta depends on twisting what the meaning of "is" is - a great, historic, political sport.
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Florida Drug Testing: Rick Scott Signs Bill Allowing Random Drug Testing Of State Workers

...absofukinlootly !! We've got hordes of GOP Walking Dreads voting for mumbo-jumbo because some uber-cool progressives dropped the soap, refused to vote, and got reamed - you betcha that this one's for you !!
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Aging Myths: 5 Big Misconceptions About Growing Older

congrats... keep heading into the wind - sounds like you're doing your part to good affect, and you seem to have inherited a sound body. Happy trails... :-)
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Edward Ristaino Dead: Missing Hot-Air Balloon Pilot's Body Found Following Accident

...yeah, in his fumbling he accidentally saved the lives of every human being who depended on him to be the captain and keep them safe. I think that's the story of this man - not your blighting carp.
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Edward Ristaino Dead: Missing Hot-Air Balloon Pilot's Body Found Following Accident

...yeah, you seem stunned.
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Pastor Dennis Terry Introduces Rick Santorum, Tells Non-Christians And Liberals To Get Out (VIDEO)

It's an awful timeline of terror, that's for sure, but not being a follower of any specific religion I feel that being a Christian does not make one a terrorist, and being a Christian is absolutely no guarantee that one is not a terrorist.



As far as I've been able to determine, the best course to follow is to always behave as though everything you do matters. Everything; without exception.
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