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In the news was National Coming Out Day, and we hope that at some point in our lives, no person will have to be afraid of coming out as whomever they are, be it QUILTBAG, otherkin, submissive, dominant, or anything else that is an integral part of their identity.
Advice to writers - if placing your story in steampunk Asia, there is a very broad swath of possible things to write about past a stylized Imperial Japan.
And then, a scientific breakthrough - a vaccination for malaria.
Finally, a letter of note about the ill effects of censorship, but also the reality that they will be with us always, a letter about having cash in reserve from teh father of a multibillionare, and a letter from a man paralyzed from the neck down giving encouragement to other people about their ability to change the world for the better.
Out in the world today, The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to three women for their efforts in helping women in their countries.
Domestically, we are totally not surprised by A Rick Perry supporter at the Values Voter Summit calling Mitt Romney a member of a cult, Mormons not "real true Christians", and that the values voters should vote for the evangelical Perry as a good Christian.
Elsewhere, people likely to be depressed are also likely to be poor and oppressed. Funny how those two things line up with each other, isn't it?
Mississippi intends to pass an amendment declaring personhood conferred on a zygote at the moment fertilization, making abortion and most methods of birth control into chargeable offenses for murder, and the possibility of manslaughter charges against any pregnant woman who might end up killing her fetus through no fault of her own.
And nationally, the Congressional Republicans are doing their best to prevent any funding from going to organizations that help women.
Mr. Fisher of the AFA believes there have been no terror attacks against the United States since 11 September 2011 because Major League Baseball chose to sing God Bless America (which he considers a prayer) instead of Take Me Out To The Ballgame.
On the matter of those still occupying Wall Street, they have supplies and donations enough that they could last a winter, and a warehouse to keep them in. Around the world, many thousands more gathered to protest the manner in which the richest corporations and persons have systematically stolen the wealth from the rest of us for their own further enrichment.
As a movement with potential, politicians move to position themselves on their side and attack their opponents as enemies of that movement. And run attack pieces claiming that their opposition is getting donations from the very people they're trying to screw.
The Republican candidates held another debate, attcking each other with greater venom and bite, as the current polling indicates a fairly big fight for the top spot. Mr. Cain, as a fairly new person to the frontrunner position, will learn not only how seriously his audience will take him, but how much spotlight he will be in as the man up front. Mr. Paul, with his particular economic plan, will likely still languish in the back...perhaps because of that economic plan.
Last out, the Infamous Brad suggests how Occupy Wall Street came to be, and why it has managed to stay.
In technology, the search is on for a more perfect kilogram, but all of the proposed replacements for the current kg have their own difficulties in holding their mass. Elsewhere, the supposed FTL experiment finds a possible disproving factor - the motion of the satellites used for measurements was not taken into account. And this is why we rigorously peer-review all of our papers and experiments, and try to repeat them.
That Air Force drone squad, with the virus in it? They didn't report it up the chain of command. There will probably be demotions for this one.
Our technology compromises our privacy routinely. And then, our friends do the same for us all the time, using their technology. Then combine that with the idea that DARPA wants to quantify storytelling, so it can detect the influence of narrative on the facts and counter it.
In opinions, Mr. Pendry accuses the Occupy Wall Street movement of being Soros-funded Marxists and Communists, and that the appropriate response to them and the establishment of politicis is to engage in a "patriotic" revolution. Shouldn't one be embracing possible allies against the establishment, instead of trying to lump them in with the enemy? Anyway, Mr. Pendry is not alone - Mr. Schoen is also ready to attack the Occupy Wall Street movement as disillusioned anticapitalist progressives, as if saying so was a sufficient slur to make them beyond the pale of acceptable discourse. Mr. Prager believes the class sentiments expressed by OWS are similar to those that preceded major genocide in Communist China, and apparently also believes that OWS will act in a violent manner on those sentiments. Everyone wants to hammer home how much OWS is just a fringe movement. And then, of course, there's always someone to blame ACORN. And someone else to blame the government, instead of the private sector, for all the problems.
(We wonder whether these writers realize how they're doing the same thing to OWS that they accused the mainstream media of doing to the Tea Party...)
The editors of the WSJ are critical of the supposed austerity government that has still managed to spend far more than any other. Although austerity is still wildly unpopular outside of the Republican Congress and the richest people who are already doing quite well.
The editors of the WSJ believe they have an inroad to repealing the Affordable Care Act - force it to prove that it can pay for itself.
Amity Shlaes says the best thing about the economy before the crash was that it had few regulations and lower capital gains taxes, so if we wanted to get back to prosperity, we should repeal regulations and lower taxes on capital gains.
Heritage wants you to believe that the Obama administration still doesn't take Iran seriously as the Bastion of Terrorists and the Blodthirsty Religion, because of a plot uncovered by an agent talking to an agent - and once again, regular judicial and law enforcement measures worked. Not that it stops other people from using it as yet another casus belli. But, there are some institutions that are still complaining about the idea that America might need to apologize for some things.
Last for tonight, the DeLorean Motor Company is relaunching, with an all-electric vehicle that looks just like the classic Back to The Future icon.
Oh, and one other thing. The seal of the Comics Code Authority is dead, as no comics companies seek their approval any more. And thus, long live the seal of the Comics Code Authority as a property of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.
In the news was National Coming Out Day, and we hope that at some point in our lives, no person will have to be afraid of coming out as whomever they are, be it QUILTBAG, otherkin, submissive, dominant, or anything else that is an integral part of their identity.
Advice to writers - if placing your story in steampunk Asia, there is a very broad swath of possible things to write about past a stylized Imperial Japan.
And then, a scientific breakthrough - a vaccination for malaria.
Finally, a letter of note about the ill effects of censorship, but also the reality that they will be with us always, a letter about having cash in reserve from teh father of a multibillionare, and a letter from a man paralyzed from the neck down giving encouragement to other people about their ability to change the world for the better.
Out in the world today, The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to three women for their efforts in helping women in their countries.
Domestically, we are totally not surprised by A Rick Perry supporter at the Values Voter Summit calling Mitt Romney a member of a cult, Mormons not "real true Christians", and that the values voters should vote for the evangelical Perry as a good Christian.
Elsewhere, people likely to be depressed are also likely to be poor and oppressed. Funny how those two things line up with each other, isn't it?
Mississippi intends to pass an amendment declaring personhood conferred on a zygote at the moment fertilization, making abortion and most methods of birth control into chargeable offenses for murder, and the possibility of manslaughter charges against any pregnant woman who might end up killing her fetus through no fault of her own.
And nationally, the Congressional Republicans are doing their best to prevent any funding from going to organizations that help women.
Mr. Fisher of the AFA believes there have been no terror attacks against the United States since 11 September 2011 because Major League Baseball chose to sing God Bless America (which he considers a prayer) instead of Take Me Out To The Ballgame.
On the matter of those still occupying Wall Street, they have supplies and donations enough that they could last a winter, and a warehouse to keep them in. Around the world, many thousands more gathered to protest the manner in which the richest corporations and persons have systematically stolen the wealth from the rest of us for their own further enrichment.
As a movement with potential, politicians move to position themselves on their side and attack their opponents as enemies of that movement. And run attack pieces claiming that their opposition is getting donations from the very people they're trying to screw.
The Republican candidates held another debate, attcking each other with greater venom and bite, as the current polling indicates a fairly big fight for the top spot. Mr. Cain, as a fairly new person to the frontrunner position, will learn not only how seriously his audience will take him, but how much spotlight he will be in as the man up front. Mr. Paul, with his particular economic plan, will likely still languish in the back...perhaps because of that economic plan.
Last out, the Infamous Brad suggests how Occupy Wall Street came to be, and why it has managed to stay.
In technology, the search is on for a more perfect kilogram, but all of the proposed replacements for the current kg have their own difficulties in holding their mass. Elsewhere, the supposed FTL experiment finds a possible disproving factor - the motion of the satellites used for measurements was not taken into account. And this is why we rigorously peer-review all of our papers and experiments, and try to repeat them.
That Air Force drone squad, with the virus in it? They didn't report it up the chain of command. There will probably be demotions for this one.
Our technology compromises our privacy routinely. And then, our friends do the same for us all the time, using their technology. Then combine that with the idea that DARPA wants to quantify storytelling, so it can detect the influence of narrative on the facts and counter it.
In opinions, Mr. Pendry accuses the Occupy Wall Street movement of being Soros-funded Marxists and Communists, and that the appropriate response to them and the establishment of politicis is to engage in a "patriotic" revolution. Shouldn't one be embracing possible allies against the establishment, instead of trying to lump them in with the enemy? Anyway, Mr. Pendry is not alone - Mr. Schoen is also ready to attack the Occupy Wall Street movement as disillusioned anticapitalist progressives, as if saying so was a sufficient slur to make them beyond the pale of acceptable discourse. Mr. Prager believes the class sentiments expressed by OWS are similar to those that preceded major genocide in Communist China, and apparently also believes that OWS will act in a violent manner on those sentiments. Everyone wants to hammer home how much OWS is just a fringe movement. And then, of course, there's always someone to blame ACORN. And someone else to blame the government, instead of the private sector, for all the problems.
(We wonder whether these writers realize how they're doing the same thing to OWS that they accused the mainstream media of doing to the Tea Party...)
The editors of the WSJ are critical of the supposed austerity government that has still managed to spend far more than any other. Although austerity is still wildly unpopular outside of the Republican Congress and the richest people who are already doing quite well.
The editors of the WSJ believe they have an inroad to repealing the Affordable Care Act - force it to prove that it can pay for itself.
Amity Shlaes says the best thing about the economy before the crash was that it had few regulations and lower capital gains taxes, so if we wanted to get back to prosperity, we should repeal regulations and lower taxes on capital gains.
Heritage wants you to believe that the Obama administration still doesn't take Iran seriously as the Bastion of Terrorists and the Blodthirsty Religion, because of a plot uncovered by an agent talking to an agent - and once again, regular judicial and law enforcement measures worked. Not that it stops other people from using it as yet another casus belli. But, there are some institutions that are still complaining about the idea that America might need to apologize for some things.
Last for tonight, the DeLorean Motor Company is relaunching, with an all-electric vehicle that looks just like the classic Back to The Future icon.
Oh, and one other thing. The seal of the Comics Code Authority is dead, as no comics companies seek their approval any more. And thus, long live the seal of the Comics Code Authority as a property of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.
