October 2010
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September 2010
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Fallon and Timberlake give rap history lesson
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Newt Gingrich Launches Tea Party Campaign To Stop... →
With the incendiary claim that the “Obama presidency is the greatest threat the American people have ever faced,” Gingrich has launched a massively funded effort to mobilize ten million conservative voters this November. In an online video promoting the “Power of 10” campaign by his American Solutions for Winning the Future (ASWF) 527 group, Gingrich rails against the “genuinely...
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A Romp Through Time: Key moments in our sexual... →
c. 1700: Sex “invented.” “Some time in the 18th century, sex as we know it was invented,” writes Berkeley historian Thomas W. Laqueur. Before that time, Laqueur argues, most anatomists accepted the ancient idea expressed by the Greek doctor Galen that there was really only one gender: Women’s sexual organs were essentially the same as men’s, except they were inverted due to a lack of “vital heat.”...
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“So how does a group of billionaire businessmen and corporations get a bunch of...”
– Matt Taibbi
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Watchericmortensen:imageoscillite:
Cult filmmaker, musician, photographer, and producer Chris Cunningham’s audiovisual remix of Gil Scott-Heron’s New York Is Killing Me, which premiered last night across three screens at MoMA
Read the Gil Scott-Heron profile in the 8/9/2010 New Yorker if you get a chance.
If you’re into the art of the video, come join ericmortensen and I on our...
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“It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a façade of order...”
– Douglas Hofstadter
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Prisoners of War: Bob Woodward and All the... →
Once a serious journalist, the Washington Post’s Bob Woodward now makes a very fine living as chief gossip-monger of the governing class. Early on in his career, along with Carl Bernstein, his partner at the time, Woodward confronted power. Today, by relentlessly exalting Washington trivia, he flatters power.
Essentially, news reports indicate that Woodward’s latest book, Obama’s...
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“I wanted to come here tonight to tell you that working in Albany is just like...”
– Governor Paterson on SNL, delivering the only funny line in the entire show
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Braingasm →
It is a cliché that the brain is the “largest sex organ,” but the repetition of the phrase doesn’t make it any less true. The mechanics of its role during sex are less obvious and less well understood than that of the body’s other sex organs, but by using brain imaging scans, neuroscientists have begun to get a sense of what parts of the brain light up during sex,...
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Obama Argues His Assassination Program is a "State... →
At this point, I didn’t believe it was possible, but the Obama administration has just reached an all-new low in its abysmal civil liberties record. In response to the lawsuit filed by Anwar Awlaki’s father asking a court to enjoin the President from assassinating his son, a U.S. citizen, without any due process, the administration late last night, according to The Washington Post,...
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