This question really only makes sense for people who are pro-choice:

If the compromise was necessary in order to get enough votes to pass an otherwise palatable health reform bill, would you accept a bill which did not cover abortions or did not allow subsidies to be applied to abortions?

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Don't necessarily watch this, but put it on loud when you're doing the dishes or something. It's the only time Tom Green gets owned on his show (including Blackilicious IMO). And yes, Tom Green starts with the same rhyme he uses in the more popular Xzibit video, but later in the video he gets in lots of great storytelling raps (11:40 ( Read more... )

I want a gyro so fucking bad right now.

I'm worried that people will end up blaming Obama for the unemployment numbers.  Obviously he painted himself into a corner with rosy forecasts.  What I don't think alot of people realize is that unemployment is going to remain high whatever happens to the economy.  In our lifetime we will see jobless recovery after jobless recovery.  And ( Read more... )

no surprises here, just a continuation of things that are already happening

Winners:
1. healthcare
2. higher education
3. robotics
4. international agribusiness
5. commodity extraction

Losers:
1. aerospace
2. automotive
3. trucking
4. non-internet media
5. primary education

If the mind is a computing system, even if it is also in other ways not a computing system or something "more" than a computing system, then it has evolved various mechanisms to avoid "freezing" or recovering from error and overload.  These overloads are happening constantly, on every possible timescale.  Sometimes they are absolutely devastating ( Read more... )

Poll Drug Legalization

 the student
microwaves the soy dog
to the perfect temperature where
the plate is hot but the
dog is not

After a long hiatus from investing, when I realized that I was not so much "using stocks as a savings mechanism" as "spending my erstwhile savings on stocks", I am now in a position to make a couple more buys over the next month or so.  My portfolio is up, but certainly not creaming the market or anything like that.

I am staying loosely in the ( Read more... )

Day vs. Lincoln

Suntan brown vans

Grown men, sport shorts

Storefronts, bus bench

Black trench on meth head

Cake donuts’ gold bread

Net café and herbal meds

Sleeping bag, urine sack

And with that,

Day takes back Lincoln Blvd.:

She cries crosswords

Face shut with passwords

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