In the right-winger’s war on sex, the birth control pill is like Iran — it’s where the wingnuts want to invade, but they’re getting a bit ahead of themselves. The birth control pill is often credited as a significant factor in the increase of women’s rights, and has been under attack recently, again, as an [...]

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I know a lot of programmers who listen to techno, trance, hardcore, or other electronic music while coding. The repetition, fast beat, and lack of pop hooks have a hypnotic effect which seems to make it easier to focus on problems on a granular level. The problem is the music is pretty sterile, and after [...]

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My comments on Powerline’s charges that Al Gore’s movie is faltering are “at the Anvil and Sprocket”:http://www.anvilandsprocket.com/wordpress/anvil/weblog/an-inconvenient-slump. You know, where I talk about movies.
Of course, “Powerline has a way of munging research”:http://www.thudfactor.com/wordpress/2004/09/09/on-faces/.

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So, you may or may not know that I am a web developer; I’ve been at it for ten years as of April.
But before I got into web development I was on track to be an English literature academic. Occasionally, I have work experiences that make me wish I’d gone that course. I’m not going [...]

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In the “Religious Left speaking more loudly” category, Jason at the Wild Hunt “draws attention to the Religious Coalition for the Freedom to Marry”:http://www.wildhunt.org/2006/06/stop-trying-to-decide-who-we-can-marry.html, an interfaith organization of people who support the legalization of gay marriage.
Dominionist political strategy relies on tricking people into thinking their agenda is universal among religious communities[1] and that tolerance for [...]

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