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NY Lesbian Weds Male Stranger in Gay Marriage Protest - video

2/12/2010 at 7:00 AM

Kitty Lambert and her longtime partner Cheryl attempted to apply for a marriage license yesterday in Buffalo, New York. When she was denied, she turned to the crowd:

"With news cameras rolling, Kitty then turned to the crowd and asked for any male who would be willing to get married to her. A gay man named Ed stepped forward and volunteered. They briefly exchanged information and presented the appropriate documents along with $40. City staff verified the information, and proceeded to give them a marriage license. Kitty’s point in approaching the City Clerk for a marriage license is that there is no religious basis for marriage, and it serves only as a legally binding contract in our society. Instead of being offered the ability to receive a license with her long-term partner, she was able to secure a license with a virtual stranger, strictly based on their gender."

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Free Documentary Films

2/06/2010 at 6:31 AM

and tons of em!

http://freedocumentaries.org/

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Billy's balloon - video - lol

at 6:30 AM

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good news you will never hear on talk radio

at 6:24 AM

In fact, a great deal of empirical evidence argues that, if anything, we are in the midst of a social and cultural re-norming of some significance. For example, on issues of particular concern to Dobson—abortion and divorce—we have made great strides. The number of abortions performed annually in the United States has dropped to a level not seen since [Roe v. Wade]. The divorce rate, meanwhile, is now at its lowest level in decades.

There is more good news.

Since the high-water mark of 1994, the national welfare caseload has declined by around 60 percent. Teen drug use has declined significantly since the 1990s; so has the birth rate for teenagers aged 15 to 19. The number of high-school students who have reported ever having sexual intercourse has dropped as well. Teen use of alcohol and binge drinking have also fallen sharply. (For more, see here.)

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Flying to New York by luxury airship - video

at 6:22 AM

Article here:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1248159/Aircruise-touted-scenic-new-millennium-luxury-ships-floating-U-S-37-hours.html?ITO=1490

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LIVE FREED OR DIE An Interview

at 6:20 AM

Dolly Freed is my hero. In 1978, at the age of 18, she wrote this smart, funny, and frank manifesto called Possum Living: How to Live Well Without a Job and With (Almost) No Money. In it, she explains how she and her dad (whom she refers to throughout the book as “the Old Fool”) lived on about $700 a year and had a jolly old time not having to answer to the Man. And it’s not like they were hippies or hillbillies either—as Dolly writes in her intro:

“Why is it that people assume one must be a hippie, or live in some dreary wilderness, or be a folksy, hard-working, back-to-nature soybean-and-yogurt freak in order to largely bypass the money economy? My father and I have a house on a half-acre lot 40 miles north of Philadelphia, PA (hardly a pioneer homestead), maintain a middle-class facade, and live well without a job or regular income—and without working hard, either.”

Doesn’t she sound cute?

the rest is here:

http://www.viceland.com/int/v17n1/htdocs/live-freed-or-die-298.php?page=1

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to scale video tour of the entire universe - video

at 6:19 AM

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Im totally confused - and so is the author aparently

at 6:02 AM

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Take Your Imperial Son To Work Day - pic

at 6:00 AM

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Snooki is watching you

at 5:54 AM

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NJ Grandma watches Jersey Shore - video

at 5:48 AM

plus a bonus:

NJ Lady: at the Zoo

NJ Lady: at the Zoo from Jesse Selwyn on Vimeo.

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disney thinks you have NO MEMORY - video

1/24/2010 at 10:15 AM

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4 Big Myths of Profile Pictures: how to be seductive - article

at 9:44 AM

analyzing three primary things:

* Facial Attitude. Is the person smiling? Staring straight ahead? Doing that flirty lip-pursing thing?
* Photo Context. Is there alcohol? Is there a pet? Is the photo outdoors? Is it in a bedroom?
* Skin. How much skin is the person showing? How much face? How much breasts? How much ripped abs?

http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/2010/01/20/the-4-big-myths-of-profile-pictures/

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Prehistoric life was not short - it is a statistical "error"

at 9:42 AM

"Prehistoric life was not short. This is a blessed scientific lie.

We explain this in much more detail in the book, but here's the misunderstanding in a nutshell.

* There was high infant mortality in prehistory. (How this compares to infant mortality in Medeival Europe or modern India and China is an interesting question we look at in the book, but no space for it here.)
* There are technical difficulties in distinguishing age of death beyond the early 30s, when one's last teeth are fully erupted from the jaw bone.
* These two factors combined with sloppy thinking to create the wide-spread "fact" that "if you made it to 30 or so, you had done well."

full article here:

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/sex-dawn/201001/lies-damned-lies-and-blessed-lies

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