Maddow’s “make your own verb suffix contest”
I’m not sure I can even adequately paraphrase the point of this contest, so let me take advantage of their paraphrasing: “The short version is that an Amazonian tribe uses verb suffixes as a means of indicating the source of their information. Your challenge is to come up with verb suffixes for English to make it easier to know where a person is coming from with what they’re talking about (and whether they’re worth listening to).”
Be sure to read the comments; they’re priceless.
90 years of women’s suffrage
90 years ago today, The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, guaranteeing women’s suffrage in the United States of America.
Well done, Sister Suffragettes.
Women have been able to vote throughout the US for less than 100 years. We still have a long way to go before women enjoy true equality. Some Schoolhouse Rock for those of you who grew up in the 1970’s.
Barack’s Summer BBQ
I’m not a fan of College Humor usually, but I liked this one.
Support Early voting in Marion County, Indiana
There’s a move afoot by the local GOP to try to kill early voting in Marion County, Indiana. Early voting is convenient for people with busy schedules and was wildly successful in 2008 and 2009 in getting record numbers of people to the polls.
Marion County Clerk Beth White is supporting a plan to resurrect satellite voting for the November General Election. If you would like early voting, you can attend an Election Board meeting, call or email the election board, or:
Sign the petition sponsored by the County Clerk to keep early voting in Marion County.
Pay your damned taxes, deadbeat
“Personal property is the effect of society; and it is as impossible for an individual to acquire personal property without the aid of Society, as it is for him to make land originally. Separate an individual from Society, and give him an island or a continent to possess, and he cannot acquire… He cannot become rich…. All accumulation, therefore, of personal property, beyond what a man’s own hands produce, is derived to him from living in Society; and he owes, on every principle of justice, of gratitude, and of civilisation, a part of that accumulation back again to society from whence the whole came.”
Thomas Paine – “Agrarian Justice”, 1797
Hello, Comrade!
So has the sky fallen yet?
No? Yeah, I didn’t think so.
Tea Bag Desperation
Video from two opposing health care rallies in Columbus, Ohio. Here tea baggers mock a Parkinson’s victim.
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Most people get this, but libertarians seem to have a hard time with it – "It seems like every time I discuss taxation, some libertarian will waltz in and say 'it’s my money and I don’t see why the government should be able to take it.' So let’s run through why, no, it isn’t your money."
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This is by far the best first year on the environment of any president in history, including Teddy Roosevelt," said Carl Pope, executive director of the Sierra Club. "Most presidents have done their best environmental work late in their term. This is a very, very strong opening."
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And he was a tea bagger railing against the IRS for taking "his" money awa from him. Domestic terrorism.
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The U.S. already had the highest inequality of wealth in the industrialized world prior to the financial crisis — and it's gotten even worse.
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Comparing this with Hamilton County, the immediate neighbor to the north, you can really see the results of institutionalized white flight.