Best.
Dress codes are bullshit. If you have a dress code, your bar sucks. Even if I have no interest in wearing these things. The fact that you watch Jersey Shore just to keep track of who to keep out of your bar, makes you the kind of asshole I don’t want to drink around.
A snow Venus de Milo created by Elisa Gonzalez at her home in Rahway, New Jersey. Gonzalez and her two children created the snow sculpture, and were visited by the police who said a neighbour had complained and they had to cover it up or knock it down. Picture: AFP/GETTY, via telegraph uk
Snow girls have to cover up?
Yeah, this is pretty bad—even for the most puritanical in the US. Snowmen don’t even have nipples.
And of course, it’s a reproduction of a famous sculpture - would there have been outcry for a stone or ceramic version thereof?
If the 10 commandments really were the foundation of the American legal system
This…this is hilarisad.
There’s photoshop and then there’s this …
A Florida judge awarded custody of a 1-year-old boy to the foster family he’d been living with, saying the boy was “happy and thriving.”
The adoptive parents, however, happen to be gay.
And that didn’t sit well with the Florida Family Policy Council of Orlando, who sent out an alert to its members about the judge’s “arrogant judicial activism.”
On the left is the picture that the Policy Council used to illustrate the gay couple that was awarded custody. On the right is the actual couple.
(from The Orlando Sentinel)
This is a little off topic but, the woman with the blonde crew cut looks like a Teenage Mutant Turtle villain.
hilarisad is exactly the best word for this.
“The conceit that corporations must be treated identically to natural persons in the political sphere is not only inaccurate but also inadequate to justify the Court’s disposition of this case.
In the context of election to public office, the distinction between corporate and human speakers is significant. Although they make enormous contributions to our society, corporations are not actually members of it. They cannot vote or run for office. Because they may be managed and controlled by nonresidents, their interests may conflict in fundamental respects with the interests of eligible voters. The financial resources, legal structure,and instrumental orientation of corporations raise legitimate concerns about their role in the electoral process. Our lawmakers have a compelling constitutional basis, if not also a democratic duty, to take measures designed to guard against the potentially deleterious effects of corporate spending in local and national races.”
Justice JOHN PAUL STEVENS, in his dissent against the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of a key aspect of campaign finance law that prohibits corporations from paying for TV ads backing political candidates. The majority in the 5-4 decision said such laws curbed corporations’ free speech rights, which, you know, LOL.
Read the ruling here. Justice Stevens’s dissent begins on pg. 88.
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I’m sure I’ll be getting an email from change congress about this shortly. bleh. The Corporations-as-people metaphor is so broken. But now it would be even harder to go about changing that, because they have even more influence.
showerbeers:thrownness:gamesockson:
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i never thought about this, but it’s true.
i support legalized/regulated prostitution, but i think it’s pretty naive (if sweet) to say that they deserve the same rights and respect afforded to everyone else. that assumes that everyone else receives rights and respect (they don’t [many groups are disenfranchised]).
The thing about a regulated vice: still a vice. Example- “Big Tobacco”. An evil, disease causing industry driven by greed and exploitation of the addicted.
IMAGINE FIGHTING BIG PUSSY.
hahaha. i laughed so loud in my office at this.
That’s hilarious, BUT let’s be serious for a second here, because a bad analogy was used to make this work for the joke. If anyone’s “addicted,” it’s the people seeking sex, and not the sex workers in the case of the regulated forms of this (again, see Nevada as a state where this is actually the case. No really, go to one of the locations, and come back to read this later.).
The sex workers aren’t exploited, because in a regulated business, they’re getting fair pay (instead of it being snatched from them by some two-bit…). Their health is a concern, and various tests ensure that it’s not just a way to spread STDs while exploiting both sides. The sex workers aren’t addicts, because it’s a job. The clients aren’t necessarily addicts, unless you’re trying to say that all guys are addicts. If you are: Hi, my name is Karthik, I am a North American heterosexual male, and I am addicted to sex (I guess… it doesn’t really matter if I am, I think about it as much as the average male does and technically make as many decisions toward it in my overall life if you take it objectively). No one gives a damn about whether dudes like sex that much (see Annie Hall for relative comparisons), but that doesn’t make it an addiction in the negative sense of the word.
Okay, so we’ve basically mitigated harmful effects and noted that neither party is necessarily an addict, so much as someone wanting to pay for sex without most of the complications and someone operating in (potentially) a legal business fashion to supply the demand.
I would kill to have the fight against Big Tobacco be so clean-cut.
Of course, let’s presume that is all correct (somehow):
Oh okay, so I guess spending a bunch of money to forbid something that’s never going to be effectively snuffed out, driving it more and more out of the public eye and thusly out of any real chance of safety (Black Market Sex, basically). Now, something that could have proved not necessarily harmful in the long-run (see your psychologist if you think that you honestly have a problem, people) is now more in the hands of crooks who don’t give a flying fuck about keeping licenses or regulations or respectability.
INSTEAD, I HAVE IMAGINED FIGHTING A BIG DICK.
Nevada’s legal brothels are a long way from some sort of fair pay, honest work, at least that’s my understanding from reading the accounts on Bound, Not Gagged.
FWIW, I do support rights and respect for sex workers, but legalizing and regulating prostitution is not a panacea.
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Help Find the Person Who Hit Mariel Mentink
Please read and reblog.
WTF is going on with all the hit’n’runs and vindictive drivers? It feels like being on the verge of class war. My coworker’s friend was recently hit(and run’ed), and the police said that a car matching that description had been involved in 3 other unsolved hit’n’run’s. Double-ewe Tee Eff.
from Travors.comFrom today, 1 January 2010, the new Irish blasphemy law becomes operational, and we begin our campaign to have it repealed. Blasphemy is now a crime punishable by a €25,000 fine. The new law defines blasphemy as publishing or uttering matter that is grossly abusive or insulting in relation to matters held sacred by any religion, thereby intentionally causing outrage among a substantial number of adherents of that religion, with some defences permitted.
This new law is both silly and dangerous. It is silly because medieval religious laws have no place in a modern secular republic, where the criminal law should protect people and not ideas. And it is dangerous because it incentives religious outrage, and because Islamic States led by Pakistan are already using the wording of this Irish law to promote new blasphemy laws at UN level.
We believe in the golden rule: that we have a right to be treated justly, and that we have a responsibility to treat other people justly. Blasphemy laws are unjust: they silence people in order to protect ideas. In a civilised society, people have a right to to express and to hear ideas about religion even if other people find those ideas to be outrageous.
In this context we now publish a list of 25 blasphemous quotes, which have previously been published by or uttered by or attributed to Jesus Christ, Muhammad, Mark Twain, Tom Lehrer, Randy Newman, James Kirkup, Monty Python, Rev Ian Paisley, Conor Cruise O’Brien, Frank Zappa, Salman Rushdie, Bjork, Amanda Donohoe, George Carlin, Paul Woodfull, Jerry Springer the Opera, Tim Minchin, Richard Dawkins, Pope Benedict XVI, Christopher Hitchens, PZ Myers, Ian O’Doherty, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor and Dermot Ahern.
List of 25 Blasphemous Quotes Published by Atheist Ireland
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Finally, as a bonus, Micheal Martin, Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs, opposing attempts by Islamic States to make defamation of religion a crime at UN level, 2009: “We believe that the concept of defamation of religion is not consistent with the promotion and protection of human rights. It can be used to justify arbitrary limitations on, or the denial of, freedom of expression. Indeed, Ireland considers that freedom of expression is a key and inherent element in the manifestation of freedom of thought and conscience and as such is complementary to freedom of religion or belief.” Just months after Minister Martin made this comment, his colleague Dermot Ahern introduced Ireland’s new blasphemy law.(Via Atheist Ireland)
I honestly have no idea why I remember a Slate article from 2002, but What’s Wrong With Marrying Your Cousin? is fascinating. Also, it’s legal in Canada.
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