February 2012
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a pill by any other name
honest question here, if a little rhetorical. if birth control were given another name, could it then be covered by religious organization’s health care? here are some listed benefits of the pill via planned parenthood: reduce menstrual cramps make periods lighter  offer some protection against pelvic inflammatory disease, which often leads to infertility when left untreated The...
Feb 10th
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Feb 8th
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Feb 3rd
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kateoplis: Planned Parenthood, Komen & Moving... →
So Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure today announced that they will no longer give any funding to Planned Parenthood. This funding allowed Planned Parenthood to provide breast examinations and referrals for mammography and ultrasound to patients at their health centers, patients who were able…
Feb 1st
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January 2012
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Jan 31st
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MURK AVENUE: I FOUND ICE CUBES 'GOOD DAY' →
murkavenue: CLUE 1:      “went to short dogs house,        they was watching Yo MTV        RAPS” Yo MTV RAPS first aired:                Aug 6th 1988 CLUE 2: Ice Cubes single “today was a good day” released on:                Feb 23 1993 CLUE 3:       ”The Lakers beat the Super         Sonics” Dates between Yo MTV Raps air date AUGUST 6 1988 and the release of the single FEBRUARY 23 1993 where...
Jan 27th
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Jan 19th
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Jan 16th
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House Kills SOPA →
utnereader: infoneer-pulse: In a surprise move today, Representative Eric Cantor(R-VA) announced that he will stop all action on SOPA, effectively killing the bill. This move was most likely due to several things. One of those things is that SOPA and PIPA met huge online protest against the bills. Another reason would be that the White House threatened to veto the bill if it had passed....
Jan 16th
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Jan 16th
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am-neubs asked: BAHAHA - totally didn't see the guy in the background that you were referring to, and thought you were being absolutely terrible to lovely Miss Winslet. But seriously ... WHAT HAPPENED, TIGER?!
Jan 16th
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Jan 12th
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Jan 12th
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putitinh:  best ever. he got the dud! he looks like you, poindexter.
Jan 11th
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Pvt. Danny Chen, 1992-2011 →
A group of his superiors allegedly tormented Chen on an almost daily basis over the course of about six weeks in Afghanistan last fall. They singled him out, their only Chinese-American soldier, and spit racial slurs at him: “gook,” “chink,” “dragon lady.” They forced him to do sprints while carrying a sandbag. They ordered him to crawl along gravel-covered ground while they flung rocks at him....
Jan 10th
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humans placed on benny XVI's endangered species... →
Pope Benedict said on Monday that gay marriage was one of several threats to the traditional family that undermined “the future of humanity itself”.
Jan 10th
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ha!
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“Uh, Biggie? It’s Morty. Listen, we … we gotta talk about this phone...”
– Biggie Smalls’ accountant Morty
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December 2011
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WatchWatch
Roo - Xmas morning
Dec 25th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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this is your man? →
 “I’ve urged everyone in my family to know how to use a gun in self defense. For the animals are coming.” -Ron Paul’s newsletter, on his prediction of an impending race war in 1992
Dec 23rd
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Dec 22nd
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call me "tim" →
A few years ago, I was working on a story about a Catholic priest who travels with the Ringling Brothers circus. Cleveland was the closest the circus would come to the Twin Cities for quite some time, so I enlisted my friend Tim to join me, and early one morning we piled into my Toyota for the 14-hour drive across the Midwest. In our attempt to alleviate the tedium of a long drive, we started...
Dec 21st
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domino's rolex
because, of course.
Dec 21st
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One teachers approach to preventing gender...
togetherforjacksoncountykids: “It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got in line for art, and I noticed that she still had not removed her hood. When we arrived at the art room, I said:...
Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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'MST3K' alumni to meet, greet fans, with new books... →
Trace Beaulieu and Mary Jo Pehl, who along with writing for MST3K played Crow/Dr. Clayton Forrester and Pearl Forrester respectively, will be coming to the Wilde Roast Cafe to talk about their new books. For Beaulieu, it’s an illustrated collection of dark and funny poetry titled Silly Rhymes for Belligerent Children, which was published last year. For Pehl, it’s a recently released...
Dec 21st
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Dec 20th
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