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...WTF.
Originally posted by lavenderfrost at ...WTF.
Well, there goes my good mood for the day.
NYTimes, the bastion of quality reporting, reported on the gang-rape of an 11 year-old girl in Texas that's led to charges against 18 high-school boys so far - all well and good so far, right? Shit like this NEEDS publicity to raise awareness.
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Well, things are all geared up for a Democratic slaughter come November, with the GOP taking the reins once again all because, you know, jobs. A lot of people don't have one. A lot of other people are wondering if they're about to lose one. And the reason that lots of people have lost a job or are uncertain about the stability of the one they ( Read more... ) -
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I will say this exactly once (in this particular block of text): There is no tenth planet called Nibiru, there (probably) never has been, and more importantly, it will not come hurtling past or into the Earth at some point in the near or not-so-near future ( Read more... ) -
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My contact list has vanished. Sort of ( Read more... ) -
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California voters (those of you who read this journal), come election day, vote no on Prop. 8. I'll outline some points below, but I promise to try to avoid a "ripple of evil" lecture:- Claim: If Prop. 8 does not pass, then churches will lose their tax exempt status.
- Fact: No, they won't. Churches haven't lost their tax exempt status as is (before ( Read more... )
- Claim: If Prop. 8 does not pass, then churches will lose their tax exempt status.
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A new tool that steals GMail IDs from unencrypted sessions was unveiled and made available at the most recent DEFCON. If you use GMail for anything, make sure you go into your setting and, at the bottom of the General tab, set GMail to always use https. -
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I'll be honest with all of you; when Clinton mentioned Bobby Kennedy's assassination, I really do think she was intending to make a point with it. I really do think that. Unfortunately, she either forgot what that point was, forgot she was intending to make a point, or realized too late that it wasn't going to work for her as well as she thought ( Read more... ) -
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But this is a lot more important than D&D.
All he needs to do now is say he was just following orders, and his career is set forever.
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The Death of Cyberpunk
"God is dead," said Nietzsche, "And we have killed him." It's probably not the best segue into this, but I'm going to use it regardless. Unlike God (or specifically, God as a source of moral codes), cyberpunk as a genre is not dead. Neither have we killed it. But more and more, I note that it seems to be dying a slow death brought on by ( Read more... )
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