January 2012
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Signed up: Mel & I are chaser zombies in 2012 Run For Your Lives San Diego 5K. Braaiiins…
Vegan Red Velvet Cupcakes - Gourmet Cupcake... →
Sprinkles does vegan?!?
The French breast implant scandal and blaming the... →
“The NHS treats people for example who play rugby,” Charlotte Vere, the founder of a think tank named Woman On, pointed out on the BBC program. “They chose to treat people who have sexually transmitted diseases. Are we going to make moral judgments?”
Oh yes, we most certainly are. This taps into our disgust for what’s seen as a fundamentally female character flaw. Vanity, thy name is...
Favorite books/movies read/watched in 2011
Books:
Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels - not going to list ‘em out; loved ‘em all (well, except maybe Moving Pictures, which folks warned me was a bit of a let down)
The Way We Eat (Peter Singer & Jim Mason)
Ocean’s End (Collin Woodard)
Discover your Inner Economist (Tyler Cowen)
Brain Storm: The Flaws in the Science of Sex Differences (Rebecca M. Jordan-Young)
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December 2011
23 posts
Got a hulu free trial again. First time seeing tv ads in a while. So there’s a kitty litter ad with “but what about the feces?” as a line… and then an invisalign ad with twins, one of whom has invisalign while the other has braces and head gear. Really? “What about the feces” ?! Also, why does the ad not acknowledge that the parents clearly love one twin...
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If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into...
– H.P. Lovecraft (via socialistscum)
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The good news is, it wasn’t horrific news,” …
– Gov. Jerry Brown announces deeper cuts to California colleges and child care - Sacramento Politics - California Politics | Sacramento Bee
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The routine, mechanized cruelty of factory farming has been exposed so...
– Slaughter Undercover - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
November 2011
18 posts
Well, it’s been fun (or at least… interesting), Mr Cain.
On November 18th, President Obama signed a law, allowing Americans to kill and...
– Horse Slaughter for Human Consumption Now Legal in the U.S. | One Green Planet
Frankly, I don’t see any meaningful difference between horse slaughter and any other slaughter, so it’s interesting that so many people apparently are strongly opposed.
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http://www.theliberaloc.com/2011/10/15/scenes-from-... →
I guess there has actually been an occupy thing at the Irvine Civic Center Plaza for at least a month. I had no idea.
Native Foods Vegan Wellington →
Couldn’t resist - ordered this to try Friday (and considering how many it serves, we’ll probably still be having this for dinner for at least the rest of the weekend).
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Reblog this if you love "Community" and want NBC...
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