Daily Archive: January 19, 2012

Jan 19 2012

Serial adulterer Newt Gingrich wanted an open marriage

Via ThinkProgress, more hypocrisy amongst the Republican candidates, this time by Newt Gingrich. How is it hypocrisy, you ask? Well, he believes marriage should be legislated and mandated by law to be one man, one woman. But for his own marriage, he wanted one man, multiple women instead. Of course, he wasn’t actually arguing for …

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Jan 19 2012

Russia Times on SOPA/PIPA media blackout

With all the fooforaw surrounding the Republican race-to-the-bottom, the mainstream media has effectively ignored SOPA and PIPA. This is why we, the residents of the Internet, need to fight it. Yesterday, your access to Freethought Blogs was slightly inconvenienced via a splash page. Your access to Wikipedia was inconvenienced with a Javascript pop-over blackout. Your …

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Jan 19 2012

It’s a lousy existence, Charlie Brown

Edited together by Rob Yulfo, set to The Vega Choir‘s cover of Radiohead’s Creep, all those old TV specials take on a decidedly different caste in this treatment. No wonder Charlie Brown was always whinging about everything.

Jan 19 2012

Obama rejects Keystone XL Pipeline proposal

But that doesn’t mean the end of the pipeline, or Canada’s tar sands. The U.S. government has denied an application by TransCanada to build the Keystone XL pipeline, the State Department announced Wednesday. A statement released by the department said it doesn’t preclude TransCanada applying again with a different route. Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver …

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