CM “I’m actually looking at a pot store,” a local tells me as we standing outside this building, where Main Street Marijuana will open tomorrow. “It’s so unreal. I actually lived to see this.” [In their continuing coverage of new recreational pot shops opening in Washington state, The Stranger‘s Charles Mudede visits our next-door-neighbor to […]
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Under Bush: 8 Million Lost Health Insurance; Under Obama: 15 Million Have Already Gained Health Insurance
Eclectablog: Of George W. Bush’s myriad of failures that continue to wreck havoc at home and abroad, 7.9 million Americans losing their health insurance rarely gets mentioned. “When [former president Bill] Clinton left office, the number of uninsured Americans stood at 38.4 million,” Ron Brownstein wrote in 2009. “By the time [former president George W.] […]
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Pat Robertson to Kids: Don’t Call the Cops If Father Threatens Mom With a Gun
Raw Story: “Whenever my parents fight, my dad threatens my mom with his gun,” a viewer told [Televangelist Pat Robertson] in an email. “Fortunately, this now means nothing to my mom, and she never goes nuts about it; she is very calm.” “But as a child, I get nervous and worried when this happens,” the […]
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Sandy Hook Father on the Terrible Club UCSB Families Joined Last Week
Time Magazine: Last week in Santa Barbara, six more families joined that terrible club. I don’t personally know Richard Martinez, but when he said in an interview “you never think it can happen to you,” I hung my head and cried. Mark Barden’s 7-year-old son was killed by Adam Lanza at Sandy Hook Elementary School […]
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Joe the Plumber Returns With: Guns Are More Important Than the Dead UCSB Kids
TPM: In an open letter published Tuesday on the website Barbwire, [Joe the Plumber] went out of his way to explain to the victims’ parents that the deaths won’t undermine his “Constitutional rights.” “I am sorry you lost your child. I myself have a son and daughter and the one thing I never want to […]
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The Cost of Living in 1938
Keep in mind these numbers when looking at the cost of living in 1938: Tuition at Harvard is now $38,891, a 2014 Prius is about $25,000, the median price for a single-family home is around $200,000, and per capita income is just below $30,000… 1938 Cost of Living pic.twitter.com/0oRcpmyNQi— History In Pictures (@HistoryInPics) May 1, […]
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Which Country Googled “Global Warming Fake” the Most?
The largest consumer of petroleum in the world, of course… Photo: spacequakes: Worldwide web searches for ‘global warming fake.’ The darker the blue, the more web… http://t.co/kAUfANMwJc— Andrew Lassiter (@andrewlassiter) April 28, 2014
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Another Earth Is Discovered
What is that we can now say with the recent discovery of a distant planet that appears to be just like the only planet on which we humans know for sure that life exists? “This is the first validated Earth-sized planet in the habitable zone of another star,” Dr. Quintana said. “We can now say […]
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Zimmerman Signed Autographs at a Florida Gun Show
TMP: We are officially living in a world where George Zimmerman is treated like a famous person.The man who will forever be known for killing an unarmed black teenager basked in the limelight Saturday at — where else? — a gun show in central Florida. According to television station WESH, Zimmerman “greeted people and autographed […]
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Hidden Camera Shows the Normal Stupidity of Children in the Presence of a Real Gun
What was revealed by a small experiment at a Florida elementary school? That the NRA’s gun safety rap video, and a lecture from a enforcement officer about the dangers of guns were not enough to prevent unattended children from toying with a real gun… See more US News from ABC|ABC World News Every hour, one […]
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Good News for Portland
It was completed in 1982 and is considered a masterpiece of a movement in architecture that is best forgotten… Is it worth saving? Michael Graves’ postmodern Portland Building faces demolition http://t.co/TWtzDCPcuh via @Dezeen pic.twitter.com/TUKEgeRrLD— Jenna M. McKnight (@JennaMMcknight) January 15, 2014 The building does have this virtue: Its substance and appearance are one. Meaning, Graves’ […]
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The Bleeps Are Fake on that Duck Family Show
Radar: The Robertson family of Duck Dynasty have won over millions of fans with their unaffected, genuine attitude and behavior. But much of what fans see on the smash A&E series is totally fake — and patriarch Phil Robertson is the first to admit it! Robertson confessed how TV editors in L.A. “with no moral […]