February 2012
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huskerred asked: As I said, it's not the exclusive fault of the poor that we're in such a mess. With that said, programs that are intended for the middle class and the poor eat up a not insignificant chunk of our budget. We need major cuts across the board to return to normal spending levels.
BBC Article: American 'illegals' in Mexico →
So it begins…
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What makes killing wrong? →
kohenari:
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Franklin G. Miller have a (perhaps controversial) new paper in the Journal of Medical Ethics [ungated] on morality, killing, and vital organ transplantation; here’s the abstract:
What makes an act of killing morally wrong is not that the act causes loss of life or consciousness but rather that the act causes loss of all remaining abilities. This account...
The face of self-deportation: emotional family...
univisionnews:
By: UNIVISION NEWS Channel: Immigration
In an emotional interview on Univision’s Al Punto Jorge Ramos reunited a family torn by self-deportation. Antonio Alarcon, a 17-year-old Mexican immigrant, was left behind in New York City after his parents were forced to return to Mexico. They were faced with poor job prospects in the U.S. and with the sudden death of the caregivers of...
“There is not a single gay Latino character in a lead role on all of television...”
– Where are the Gay Latino Characters on TV? [Latina]
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“We need Melissa Harris-Perry and we need Cornel West, what we don’t need...”
– The Crisis of the African-American Intellectual: What’s to Be Learned From the Cornel West v. Melissa Harris-Perry Debate by Mark Sawyer [Huff Post]
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wonklife:
here’s Bob Sutton writing about some evidence that you comprehend / retain information better when reading off the printed page versus the screen.
The point of reading e-books isn’t that you retain the information better than when you read it in print. It’s that the cloud retains the information better than you do, and it allows you to search that information, and access it wherever...
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The ‘biblical view’ that’s younger than the Happy... →
In 1979, McDonald’s introduced the Happy Meal.
Sometime after that, it was decided that the Bible teaches that human life begins at conception.
Ask any American evangelical, today, what the Bible says about abortion and they will insist that this is what it says. (Many don’t actually believe this, but they know it is the only answer that won’t get them in trouble.) They’ll be a little fuzzy on...
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Best Reply In My Tumblr History
letterstomycountry replied to your post: crushing on you hard, dude. damn.
My enzymes are denaturing just thinking about the size of your control group. #IveGotAFever
Did I leave the heater on?
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“You have implicitly implied that the practice of terminating fetuses in the...”
– Daniel Diner, to anti-choice student Andrew Kaake (via artemiskore)
I went to a seminar last night.
At the seminar, I noticed that one of my current professors was in the crowd. The crowd was predominantly graduate students and professors from the various bio departments so yeah, of course he would be at the lecture. I spoke privately to the scientist giving the lecture (he was the same guy who once told me that he was proud of my taking the class, he lectures for fun at my school) after he was...
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“OK, the idea that kids these days are “digital natives” is a nice, self-serving...”
– California Dreamin’ | MetaFilter (via ayjay)
UC Berkeley signed a deal with Adobe and gave every student a download of Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 (US $399), the problem is that most of us don’t even know how to use these programs.
“We live in a time when many religious people feel fiercely threatened by...”
– Marilynne Robinson (via ayjay)
Yet another interesting piece on religion.
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“Even secularism itself, Critchley maintains, is a religious myth, based as it is...”
– Tea with Simon Critchley: The Separation of Church and State Is Impossible [New Yorker]
Not fond of the entire blog piece but I enjoyed this bit.
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“I’m also sad to note that amongst the new slate of editors, you won’t find...”
– Ari Kohen hasn’t sold out but has accepted some of the editorial power of Tumblr’s politics tag (via tofias)
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UCLA Medical School's drive to graduate Latino...
nbclatino:
The UCLA Medical School started the IMG program which seeks to address the linguistic and cultural barriers that stand between most U.S. doctors and their Latino patients. (Courtesy of UCLA International Medical Graduates)
What do you do when your state has a 39 percent Latino population but Latino physicians are only 5 percent of doctors?
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Very interesting, I...
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The Hounding Of Pat Buchanan
cheatsheet:
There is so much I disagree with Pat Buchanan on - from World War II to marriage equality to immigration to my love of a multi-racial and multi-cultural society - that I could write a book in it. But let me say something in his defense: however repellent some of his views, he is intellectually honest. Yes, publicly bigoted, sometimes outrageous, a flame-thrower, a reactionary who...
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“(PNS reporting from MEXICO CITY) In the widest travel advisory since the Zoot...”
– Mexico issues travel warning for Los United Estates [Pocho]
Race baiting assholes suspended over Whitney...
Read about it here at the Los Angeles Times.
While what they said is despicable, I have heard them spew some of the most toxic statements about politicians (one of their segments is named Tax Revolt 201- Heads on a Stick) and minorities in Los Angeles. Who did they offend exactly? The Biz? Why was all of the other racist shit okay for their radio station KKKFI?
Check out this story from October...
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Anthony Shadid: In Remembrance by Angry Arab →
I was quite sad about the passing of Anthony Shadid. I never met Shadid although we have been in contact first via phone and then on email since his days in the Boston Globe. He was a nice, modest, open-minded, persistent, courageous, and thoughtful reporter. Comrade Talal after reading one of his long pieces on the Arab uprisings wrote to me that he was pleased that there is Anthony Shadid...
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“Tehran denies any involvement and accused Israel of attacking its own embassies...”
– In class yesterday, I came up with what I thought was the zaniest possible conspiracy theory about the recent bombings in India, Georgia, and elsewhere … only to have a student immediately point out that the Iranian government was way ahead of me. (via kohenari)
I want to remind you all of the...
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“The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has crossed the great Atlantic to...”
– Hipsters vs. Immigrants: NYC’s Newest Culture War [Latino Voices]
“They’re definitely not illegal immigrants.”
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“En realidad, hay mucho apoyo entre los latinos para las personas LGBT, y esto se...”
– Matrimonio Gay: Nuestro primer San Valéntin como esposo y esposo [AOLLatino]
In reality, there is a lot of support for LGBT people among Latinos and this is because of our culture and values. In fact, in the last few years we’ve seen growing support among Latinos, in great part because of...
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Asian-American male writers talk about how they do...
sarzha:
Lin’s Appeal: Faith, Pride Points - Michael Luo, The New York Times
Lin-Glorious Bastard - Chuck Leung, Slate
Jeremy Lin and the limits of the ‘hardworking Asian American’ narrative - Edmund Lee, Capital New York
Person of Interest: Jeremy Lin - Jay Caspian Kang, Grantland
Actually, the best thing I’ve read on Jeremy Lin I actually read a year ago on what I think was FreeDarko. By...
Your Daily Spanish Lesson
leftist-linguaphile:
There are more 4,000 words in the Spanish language with an Arabic langauge origin (due Muslim presence and occupation of the Iberian Peninsula between the years 711 and 1492). The most common words these two languages have in common are those that start with the letters “Al”. Here’s a short list of those words:
alacena = cupboard, closet
alacrán = scorpion
albóndiga...
“Suddenly no-drama Obama was neck deep in the kind of religious warfare he vowed...”
– ANDREW SULLIVAN, “How Obama Set A Contraception Trap for the Right,” in Newsweek (via inothernews)
Damn Sullivan.
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