December 2011
RHPolitics: If I Was A Poor Black Kid, I'd Key... →
rocknrollmartian:
So there’s this fancy new column on Forbes from Gene Marks called “If I Were A Poor Black Kid”. Shockingly, it is not written by a poor black kid, but a middle-class white man. But don’t worry, this isn’t just any rich white man: this is the middle-class white man who knows…
STFU, Conservatives: Marie Annelle's Abortion... →
prolongedeyecontact:
[Starting on November 28, 2011 Marie Annelle began blogging about her experience deciding to have a medical abortion, as well as the process of the procedure itself. She has multiple posts so far because this is a multi-day process, but I’m going to put them all in one…
Ardeur en l'Odyssée: My Views on Corporations &... →
metamorphoseandbodhi:
by Mark Cuban | Blog Maverick
I understand why CEOs of public corporations take advantage of every opportunity to condemn taxes. The lower the tax rate, the greater the after tax profit. The greater the after tax profit, the greater the share price. The greater the share price, the closer they…
Mark Cuban Views on Corporate Taxes
Ardeur en l'Odyssée: What do you think of... →
metamorphoseandbodhi:
jtotheizzoe responded
Oh man, vegetarianism. This is a tough one. I think “Opining About Vegetarianism” is Chapter 7 of “How To Lose Friends and Alienate People”.
First, let’s assume you’re not baiting me. Then, I’m only going to approach this from the evolutionary and biological point…
"Trial of the Will." — Christopher Hitchens,... →
longreads:
However, one thing that grave illness does is to make you examine familiar principles and seemingly reliable sayings. And there’s one that I find I am not saying with quite the same conviction as I once used to: In particular, I have slightly stopped issuing the announcement that “Whatever doesn’t kill me makes me stronger.”
In fact, I now sometimes wonder why I ever thought it...
