This is the scene that greeted me as I opened the front door at sunrise to get the morning paper—note the golden light kissing the snow in the foreground before giving way to the blue daylight. …
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Make no mistake, hostile school environments encompass much more than peer-on-peer bullying: dress codes, unenumerated policies, lack of access to LGBT resources, and zero tolerance policies, for example, all feed the school-to-prison pipeline. More: Infographic: Schools Are Failing LGBT Youth and Funneling Them Into Prison and even more : americanprogress.org
"So a friend of mine recently told me I had no idea how hard it was being a girl, because when she wears leggings, everybody stares at her butt, so today, I'm going to find out exactly how hard it is," says Erakat in the video above. The YouTube video, which currently has over 6 million views, is making an important statement about women ...
I can't help it, I have to do the "wingnut" voice! [wingnut]I knew it. Our Marxist Muslim President will destroy us all! He is an enemy of America, and is siding with the Muslim brotherhood and Al Qaeda, even through we have no real evidence to suggest that he is![/wingnut] Because the Conservative Political Action Conference is not radical enough, far, far-right extremists who ...
The Bleach Blonde From Hell reminds us once again how ugly and bigoted her world is. CPAC is where Democracy Goes To Die. Ann Fugly states her case. Don't step in it."I think [women] should be armed but should not vote...women have no capacity to understand how money is earned. They have a lot of ideas on how to spend it...it´s always more money ...
Hobby Lobby executives and other conservative opponents of the contraception mandate of the Affordable Care Act have argued that the legal challenge before the Supreme Court right now is about "religious liberty" -- not controlling women's access to healthcare or their personal lives. That veneer falls away pretty quickly when you read the court briefs filed in support of Hobby Lobby, which are almost ...
The first thing you'll see tomorrow night when you tune in to Cosmos won't be Carl Sagan, or even Neil deGrasse Tyson. It'll be President Obama, kicking off the series premiere with a statement that "invites a new generation to embrace the spirit of discovery and inspires viewers to explore new frontiers and imagine limitless possibilities for the future." Maybe he took Bill Nye's ...
Sandra Fluke, infamous victim of Rush's self destructive "slut shaming", is considering running for the House in California. Of course, the mainstream right's base reacted exactly how you would expect them too - they lost their goddamned minds and spouted hate filled, bigoted memes, most of which have no basis in reality and are disgustingly offensive to everyone not themselves. Of course: (EDIT: I've ...
The Wake Up and Smell the Bacon device plugs into the headphone jack of an iPhone, and when it's activated, the device emits a small puff of the scent of bacon, with the accompanying sizzle sound. Bacon lovers -- and who isn't? -- can start applying Thursday to get the device for free; it won't be sold in stores and quantities are limited. "With ...
Armed with cooking pots in a potent symbol of Venezuela's chronic food shortage, thousands took to the streets Saturday in the latest public rally against the government of President Nicolas Maduro. The protest, which fell on International Women's Day, consisted mostly of female demonstrators who noisily clanged their cookware to show their discontent over scarcity of basic goods and insecurity they say has become ...
Alas, our next generation of conservative leaders are not chanting, "Amer-i-ca! Amer-i-ca!" They are, instead, chanting, "F**k O-bama! F**k O-bama!" And I hang my head. So, now, children at the hotel, parents, staff, tourists - both foreign and domestic - and every other conceivable variety of guest who happens to be staying at the Gaylord National hotel during CPAC 2014 has a skewed, and ...
Manchester United have risked further accusations of acting in a heavy-handed manner towards their fans after it emerged that one supporter's Twitter account was suspended because it featured the official club crest. Even though the function of the @ManUtd_Players account is to list everyone who has represented United and Newton Heath, and only has 138 followers, it is understood that club's brand protection department ...
The Con­fer­ence Board of Canada has is­sued a re­port ti­tled Re­form­ing Dairy Sup­ply Man­age­ment: The Case for Growth, which pretty much con­demns Canada's sys­tem of sup­ply man­age­ment of dairy prod­ucts. Au­thors, Michael Grant, Richard Barichello, Mark Liew, and Vi­jay Gill, say their re­port "makes the case for growth and sug­gests an eq­ui­table way to wind down sup­ply man­age­ment of dairy prod­ucts. ..." More: Russ ...
A captured ship Israel says carried advanced rockets from Iran bound for Gaza militants arrived to port Saturday, where authorities prepared its cargo for a public display Israel hopes will step up pressure on world powers as they negotiate with Tehran over its nuclear program. The KLOS C freighter sailed into Israel's southern Eilat port accompanied by naval vessels and masked commando forces that ...
Senate Rejects Blocking Military Commanders From Sexual Assault Cases -NYT On Thursday, an Army general accused of sexual assault pleaded guilty to three lesser charges. Brig. Gen. Jeffrey A. Sinclair is accused of twice forcing a female captain to perform oral sex, and threatening to kill her family if she told anyone about their three-year affair. General Sinclair admitted to having improper relationships with ...
The confirmation in December that former CIA Director Leon Panetta let classified information slip to "Zero Dark Thirty" screenwriter Mark Boal during a speech at the agency headquarters should result in a criminal espionage charge if there is any truth to Obama administration claims that it isn't enforcing the Espionage Act only against political opponents. I'm one of the people the Obama administration charged ...
This is incredibly sad. The poor baby did nothing to deserve this. I hope they actually do find a cure and find it soon. The sooner they're able to cure her, the greater the chance that they'll save her life. A second baby born with the AIDS virus may have had her infection put into remission and possibly cured by very early treatment -- ...
More: The Vicious Babushka: It's Pie Day! Pecan Pie Equipment you will need: Food ProcessorStand mixerRolling pinPie boardPie panMeasuring cupsMeasuring spoons1-qt. saucepan For the crust: 1 1/4 c. all purpose flour1/2 c. (1 stick) butter or shortening, frozen1/2 tsp. salt6 Tbsp. ice water Preheat oven to 375°. Put the flour and salt into the bowl of the food processor and combine. Cut the butter/shortening ...
Via TPM: When Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) made a thinly veiled reference comparing Eric Holder to George Wallace before a group of conservatives, it may not have occurred him that the attorney general's sister-in-law, Vivian Malone Jones, was one of the segregationist's actual victims during the Jim Crow era.
"The project bears two goals - economic and political," said Amir Dajani, deputy managing director at Bayti Real Estate Investment Company, which heads the city's construction. "The city provides and will provide thousands of jobs, and in the political angle, the idea is to construct the Palestinian state through establishing this city, as well as other cities." The city is planned to spread over ...
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