Quickies: Birth control, Luke Cage, sexist language, and gila monsters
Arizona’s adorable monsters – “Perhaps because of their name, their garish warning colors, or their infamously venomous bite, these lizards are often persecuted, even though it is against state law …
Science
A Response to Jordan Peterson
An interview with University of Toronto Psychology professor Jordan Peterson has been circulating around social media for a few days now. In the interview, Peterson says a number of disturbing …
Religion
Congress Wastes Billions Telling Us Not to Have Sex
Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca! Sorta transcript: It’s long been a running joke that the US government is terrible at spending money, and usually the joke is told …
Skepticism
Seriously, Don’t Donate Money to the NC GOP
In a detestable act of violence, a Republican County Office in North Carolina was firebombed over the weekend, which fortunately resulted in no casualties. Unsurprisingly, both presidential candidates took to …
Feminism
UN Names Wonder Woman Ambassador! Fuck Everything About That
The United Nations has just announced that Wonder Woman will be named an honorary ambassador as a “women’s champion.” Did you hear that, fellow nerdy comic-book-loving feminists? Rejoice, for the …
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weatherwax
Michael Moore’s Surprise Trump Documentary Isn’t What You’d Expect a Michael Moore Trump Documentary to Be http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2016/10/19/michael_moore_in_trumpland_is_not_what_you_would_expect_a_michael_moore.html
mrmisconception
The same night that the RNC was fire bombed the DNC in Carrboro was vandalized as well (graffiti only, but still) and yet it not really being reported. I find…
John the Drunkard
The 1940 British version of 'Gaslight' is really, really worth seeing as well. Hollywood did its best to hide the existence of this earlier version. It occasionally showed up under…
namidim
Having rule of law around elections is important and donating to political opponents' rebuilding efforts has a symbolic function to support that. More tactically, I think an unanswered act of…
Jack99
Mary, that breast cancer article fails to address the question of "why" at all. As usual, the primary source is behind a paywall and the abstract was not much more…