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- "You Silver Spring transients are ruining our neighborhood."
- You asked for new pics of Abby.
- American cheese.
- "There was a howling noise... then I heard a roar and she landed in the kitchen, the roof was broken..."
- 60 years ago today: The rock 'n' roll era begins.
- The Freedom From Religion Foundation settles with the IRS about investigating tax-exempt religious groups that get involved in politics.
- "[T]he tragic news equivalent to losing hundreds of years of broad expertise in combatting HIV/AIDS."
- "When your thought process is as mangled as this author's tour de force of reasoning, you just might be an idiot."
- Lake Mendota... with "cross process" accidentally selected on my Lumix camera.
- Which 2016 presidential candidate are you? I'm Chris Christie.
- "The same-sex marriage movement suffered setbacks in two states on Friday, while enjoying an advance in one."
"You Silver Spring transients are ruining our neighborhood." Posted: 19 Jul 2014 08:21 AM PDT |
You asked for new pics of Abby. Posted: 19 Jul 2014 08:11 AM PDT |
Posted: 19 Jul 2014 08:05 AM PDT |
Posted: 19 Jul 2014 06:24 AM PDT |
60 years ago today: The rock 'n' roll era begins. Posted: 19 Jul 2014 06:18 AM PDT On July 19, 1954, Sun Records released the Elvis Presley record "That's All Right." During an uneventful recording session at Sun Studios on the evening of July 5, 1954, Presley, [Scotty] Moore, and [Bill] Black were taking a break between recordings when Presley started fooling around with an up-tempo version of Arthur Crudup's song "That's All Right, Mama." Black began joining in on his upright bass, and soon they were joined by Moore on guitar. Producer Sam Phillips, taken aback by this sudden upbeat atmosphere, asked the three of them to start again so he could record it.If you're inclined to cry "cultural appropriation": 1. Take note that Elvis innovated by playing Crudup's song very fast, and 2. Read John McWhorter's piece "You Can't 'Steal' a Culture: In Defense of Cultural Appropriation." |
Posted: 19 Jul 2014 05:50 AM PDT AP reports: "This is a victory, and we're pleased with this development in which the IRS has proved to our satisfaction that it now has in place a protocol to enforce its own anti-electioneering provisions," said [Freedom From Religion] co-president Annie Laurie Gaylor....("Flaunting." Somebody — AP or FFRF — made the old flouting/flaunting mistake.) Anyway, the point is — as we know from the big IRS scandal about Tea Party groups — if a group is too political, it doesn't qualify for a tax exemption. The same degree of enforcement should apply to all groups who seek tax-exempt status, whether they are conservative or liberal and whether they are religious or secular. The IRS had said publicly in 2012 that it was not investigating complaints of partisan political activity by churches, leaving religious groups who make direct or thinly veiled endorsements of political candidates unchallenged.Perhaps you think religious organizations should get special treatment from the IRS or, at least, you may not be comfortable with this issue getting resolved in a settlement between the IRS and the Freedom From Religion Foundation. I prefer applying the same rules to everyone and not giving special deference to religious groups, but the Religious Freedom Restoration Action requires the federal government to justify substantial burdens on religion with a compelling interest and narrow tailoring, as we saw in the Hobby Lobby case. You can't expect the Freedom From Religion Foundation to push that point, however, and nothing about this settlement prevents other parties from raising that question in their own lawsuits. In any event, the IRS has a moratorium on investigations right now, but it will be interesting to see what happens in the future with this FFRF-satisfying "protocol" if some church that's used to telling its parishioners how to vote gets surprised by a deprivation of its tax-exempt status. |
Posted: 18 Jul 2014 05:00 PM PDT |
Posted: 18 Jul 2014 03:52 PM PDT "She doesn't merely have a different opinion - she seems to not understand the difference between statistic and anecdote, she is under-educated about the topic she chose to write on... and she seems to have a great deal of trouble drawing logical conclusions. You pick the epithet. This author also seems to have a pathological need for attention - a craving so strong that she doesn't care who she hurts...." Want to get the most hostile possible reactions in the comments? Do what Erin Auerbach did. Write: "Why I'd never adopt a shelter dog again." |
Lake Mendota... with "cross process" accidentally selected on my Lumix camera. Posted: 18 Jul 2014 03:39 PM PDT And a little tweaking in iPhoto. Differently tweaked here: You can buy the camera here. And here's Panasonic's explanation of the "cross process" setting. Supposedly it "emulat[es] the look of cross processing in film photography." "What the hell is Cross-Processing?" Cross-processing (also known as 'x-pro') is the procedure of deliberately processing one type of film in a chemical solution intended for another type of film. As particular chemical solutions are optimized for specific kinds of film, you will get unpredictable and interesting results when they are combined differently.... |
Which 2016 presidential candidate are you? I'm Chris Christie. Posted: 18 Jul 2014 03:28 PM PDT Based on this quiz, which isn't about politics. |
Posted: 18 Jul 2014 03:20 PM PDT WaPo reports: A federal appeals court ruled Oklahoma's same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional, affirming a federal judge's January decision while keeping the state's ban in place for now. Meanwhile, the Colorado Supreme Court ordered the Denver County clerk stop issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples and Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor ruled that the state of Utah may continue to deny marriage benefits to more than 1,000 married same-sex couples. |
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