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  • The Sanctity of a Lightspeed Ball of Flesh

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    Fred at Scatterplot destroys the faux-sociological anti-gay-marriage argument of Ron Sider, who is "a peaceable, gentle man attempting to defend a belligerent, aggressive document while trying to avoid personally insulting and demeaning the people the document he just signed insults and demeans."Come on, evangelicals and fundy Catholics. The foundation of [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2009, 7:48am EST
    by ΕΡΜΕΣ

  • Twilight VS Buffy

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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 1:46pm EST
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  • Li'l Cthulu

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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 7:17am EST
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  • Radical Rage

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    On feministblogs I came across A Radical Profeminist, which is a blog written by a male (pro)feminist that is meant to provide a space for radical feminist discussion. Julian the proprietor notes in a comment: "This site is not for men. It does not exist to take care of men," [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 12:02pm EST
    by ΕΡΜΕΣ

  • Mayor Barrett Wants You...

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    ...to be counted! [...]
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    Posted: October 27, 2009, 8:05pm EDT
    by ΕΡΜΕΣ

  • Haas plus Cthulu

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    Happy Marriage to Jason!also, this(thanks Chesto! this warmed my cold, black heart.) [...]
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    Posted: October 21, 2009, 9:54pm EDT
    by ΕΡΜΕΣ

  • Good On Lena Taylor (Plus, Prayer & Politics Pt 2)

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    Props to Senator Lena Taylor for writing a bill to "repeal a provision in the state's child abuse and neglect statute that exempts parents from prosecution in some faith-healing cases," which exemption is allowed by the 1996 Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act. This is largely a response to this [...]
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    Posted: October 15, 2009, 7:15am EDT
    by ΕΡΜΕΣ

  • Prayer & Politics

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    There are about a bazillion ways religion interacts with politics in America. The religious right uses the power of networks to mobilize voters, and biblical inerrantism to advocate "traditional" or "family" values. Liberals invoke the "social gospel" as a reason for their activism, and use Jesus to justify their philosophies [...]
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    Posted: October 10, 2009, 4:39pm EDT
    by ΕΡΜΕΣ

  • Census News Summary

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    Newsweek has an excellent run-down of the political issues surrounding the 2010 Census, as well as a link to the dedicated Census news blog, MyTwoCensus. For the issues surrounding the entire history of the Bureau, check out The American Census: A Social History.Newsweek touches on: advertising funds, unprecedented anti-government sentiment, [...]
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    Posted: October 06, 2009, 7:00am EDT
    by ΕΡΜΕΣ

  • news on the reproductive rights front

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    it seems as though the contours of the battlefield may be shifting, according to some polling noticed by Appetite for Equal Rights. [...]
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    Posted: October 03, 2009, 9:15pm EDT
    by ΕΡΜΕΣ

  • mom vs career

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    Here is an article explaining that Census demographers and various sociologists have found that the "motherhood vs. career" choice that American society imposes on women is largely a myth - except for the youngest, poorest, and least educated Hispanic and foreign-born women. Oh, and a ridiculous and tiny minority of [...]
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    Posted: October 03, 2009, 1:08pm EDT
    by ΕΡΜΕΣ

  • The Census Will Take Your Gun Away

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    here's astonishingly stupid Glenn Beck talking to what I assume is Michelle Bachmann about how terrible the Census is.By now everyone knows about the tragic murder of a part-time Kentucky Census worker. Bachmann dodged that one.Luckily, MTV will counteract the negative publicity.' [...]
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    Posted: September 26, 2009, 8:11pm EDT
    by ΕΡΜΕΣ

  • Perplexing Personhood, pt. 2

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    Personhood USA has taken a step forward in their quest to outlaw all abortion, ever.They've gotten Florida to agree to some kind of legal language defining all human-beings as persons from the beginnings of biological development.The next step is to assert that fetus-Americans have more rights than full grown American' [...]
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    Posted: September 25, 2009, 6:13pm EDT
    by ΕΡΜΕΣ

  • damn lies and statistics

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    Tired of numbers that are kind of in the ballpark of reality??? Glenn Beck and "several conservative blogs" are. Thankfully, there's a new way to generate data for your talking points! When estimating takes too much work, and guesstimating is just too accurate... try NEW "just-making-shit-up-timating"(h/t to seth wright) [...]
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    Posted: September 16, 2009, 10:26am EDT
    by ΕΡΜΕΣ

  • Perplexing Personhood

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    On feminist blogs I discovered Personhood USA, which is a conservative Christian grassroots "pro-life" organization dedicated to the absolute outlawing of abortion, and some contraceptives. Good bedfellows for the Quiverfull nutters. The name of the group, "Personhood," obviously refers to their framing of unborn fetuses as actual persons who are [...]
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    Posted: September 13, 2009, 11:42am EDT
    by ΕΡΜΕΣ

  • Ri$ky Busine$$

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    In general, I can't help thinking that any insurance must be a scam. The "risk-management" theory seems OK: we want to spread the financial impact of misfortune out over the whole population so no one has to worry about ruination on top of injury or accident. But any insurance company' [...]
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    Posted: September 05, 2009, 11:16am EDT
    by ΕΡΜΕΣ

  • Walmart's Panopticon

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    Circumstances conspired yesterday to force me into Walmart for some milk. While standing in the check-out line, my gaze drifted upward and I noticed what seemed like a ridiculously large number of security cameras. I assume those black orbs mounted from the rafters are "concealed" so that you can't see' [...]
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    Posted: September 04, 2009, 10:08am EDT
    by ΕΡΜΕΣ

  • genius feminist comedian

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    Sarah Haskins FTW. [...]
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    Posted: September 02, 2009, 11:07am EDT
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  • Flee To Your Doom

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    Check out the interesting question and debate over at State Senator Jim Sullivan's blog. I don't know much about Sullivan's record, but he's got to be a better choice for State Senator than the terrible Leah Vukmir. But I digress. Sullivan wrote a "Police Protection Bill" that makes it a' [...]
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    Posted: August 26, 2009, 12:36am EDT
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  • Rational Self Interest & Libertarian Magic Dust

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    Are you sick and tired of the government doing all that government-y stuff? Try a vacation in Libertarian Paradise! [...]
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    Posted: August 25, 2009, 7:42am EDT
    by ΕΡΜΕΣ

  • Maskulinity

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    If you had to demonstrate your masculinity, using one photo of yourself, what would it be?I found this fascinating bit of art/photo-journalism over at Ectoplasmosis, and thought I'd comment. It's called "Men At Their Most Masculine," and it purports to depict a selection of men in a way that allows' [...]
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    Posted: August 19, 2009, 2:06pm EDT
    by ΕΡΜΕΣ

  • Barrett v. Thug

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    I don't really need to talk about Mayor Barrett taking a beating to save a woman from a "vicious thug." This is very heroic and somewhat fantastic, and other bloggers have covered it.Too bad everybody wasn't carrying concealed firearms. That would've made for a much more exciting narrative / bodycount.' [...]
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    Posted: August 18, 2009, 2:59pm EDT
    by ΕΡΜΕΣ

  • Bible-based marriage

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    Here is a discussion with Betty Bowers (America's Best Christian) on what marriage really means, according to the Bible. (h/t the Peace Train) [...]
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    Posted: August 08, 2009, 1:43pm EDT
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  • At Least One Dude Read My Stuff

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    Hey wow, this dude who I don't even know blogged about my journal article! And I found it at this interesting list that looks further back into the history of the gender-gap debate. How cool is that?!' [...]
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    Posted: August 07, 2009, 1:50pm EDT
    by ΕΡΜΕΣ

  • Family Feud

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    This is interesting: over at one of the right-wing blogs I occasionally read to get a taste of the other side's perspectives (GOP3: The Triumvirate), Brandon Henak complains about not being able to have a personal debate with Sen. Feingold. Brandon sent him an email urging him to about-face on [...]
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    Posted: August 07, 2009, 12:46pm EDT
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  • Silencing Squealers

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    My fellow mercenary friends over at Blackwater are getting a bad rap again. According to testimonial by one of the company's team of managers, owner Erik Prince may have been murdering people who were cooperating with a Federal investigation of Blackwater's activities (as well as other unsavory stuff). (h/t Pharyngula)update: [...]
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    Posted: August 06, 2009, 6:25am EDT
    by ΕΡΜΕΣ

  • Colbert on Hippie Replacement

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    Stephen debunks the anti-healthcare and other "grassroots" movements.The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cThe Word - Hippie Replacementwww.colbertnation.comColbert Report Full EpisodesPolitical HumorTasers [...]
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    Posted: August 06, 2009, 5:19am EDT
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  • The Tax Man Cometh

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    Hey wow, the Feds are gonna seize that Creationist theme park in Florida. The guy hasn't been paying his taxes to the tune of half a million bucks, because he claims he's exempt since he works for God and all.' [...]
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    Posted: August 04, 2009, 6:48pm EDT
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  • Folkbum on the healthcare "debate"

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    I intend to dissociate myself from the whole healthcare reform drama... I am "sick" of it. But before I do, I wanted to point to the erudite Folkbum, who explains why prominent elements of the anti-healthcare-reform crowd insists on spewing blatant lies about the proposed legislation... it's not about blocking [...]
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    Posted: August 04, 2009, 9:53am EDT
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  • Open Source Politics

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    this is really cool: the Open Left project (h/t Crooked Timber) aims to evoke a collaborative discourse on what it means to be "on the Left." What are the thoughts and philosophies and moral precepts that bind together political leftists? This is a complex cultural phenomenon. For my two cents, [...]
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    Posted: July 28, 2009, 2:34pm EDT
    by ΕΡΜΕΣ

  • Another movie feat. Milwaukee

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    Hey apparently they're shooting this movie right outside our office downtown: No God, No Master' [...]
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    Posted: July 23, 2009, 11:45am EDT
    by ΕΡΜΕΣ

  • health or wealth?

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    Some days being a community organizer is frightening, because the level of apathy out there can wear on you. But then again, you can often have amazing experiences meeting great people, and discovering things you would otherwise never have the opportunity to learn about. The other day I discovered an [...]
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    Posted: July 08, 2009, 9:30am EDT
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  • playing in the religious ecosystem

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    Now this is a game show I would watch! (hat tip to Boingboing)Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and Buddhist holy men compete to covert the most atheists. Of course, the concept is kind of a sacrilicious train wreck, but we are drawn to horrifying spectacle, aren't we?The comments, both at the news' [...]
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    Posted: July 04, 2009, 5:04pm EDT
    by ΕΡΜΕΣ

  • new Rushkoff

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    go read this. [...]
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    Posted: July 03, 2009, 11:44pm EDT
    by ΕΡΜΕΣ

  • why not squat?

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    Just saw an MPTV show on the laudable Take Back The Land organization. I've often wondered how we can let some many homes sit vacant, while homeless people live in the same neighborhoods. It makes sense for them to squat, and now I find out there is an organization dedicated' [...]
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    Posted: June 26, 2009, 8:24pm EDT
    by ΕΡΜΕΣ

  • the dark side of stats

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    Statistics are a tool which can be used for good or ill. Here is how statistics should not be used: Let's say your government purposefully uses racial profiling to hunt for terrorists. Now, your pesky social scientists use statistics to track the race of the individuals your police force investigates, [...]
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    Posted: June 17, 2009, 11:04am EDT
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  • not dead

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    I'm still alive... I keep changing jobs and am getting ready to move... more at some point in the future...' [...]
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    Posted: May 25, 2009, 1:16pm EDT
    by ΕΡΜΕΣ

  • Coo-Coo For Catholics!

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    The Journal-Sentinel went coo-coo for Catholics today, with at least 3 articles on us. Plus, I just received a copy of Mother Angelica's book, "Private and Pithy Lessons From The Scriptures," so yeah, that's gonna be a riot.This article, on the silly dismissal of reiki by Church authorities. Apparently, the [...]
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    Posted: May 02, 2009, 3:40pm EDT
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  • Craving Anarchy

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    Anybody going to Burning Man this year? I'm dying to go back if I can swing it with work and finances and such.' [...]
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    Posted: May 01, 2009, 2:03pm EDT
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  • flame on!

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    genius:Watch We Didnt Start the Flame War and more funny videos on CollegeHumor [...]
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    Posted: April 19, 2009, 1:24am EDT
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  • redefining marriage

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    So props to Iowa for "allowing gay and lesbian people full access to the institution of civil marriage"And the inevitable push-back: via boingboing comes a frighteningly serious ad called "A Gathering Storm" put out by something called the National Organization for Marriage (NOM). Of course, the ad paints same-sex marriage [...]
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    Posted: April 09, 2009, 4:26pm EDT
    by ΕΡΜΕΣ

  • best abortion guy ever!

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    Posted: April 03, 2009, 7:07pm EDT
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  • Zing!

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    There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. [...]
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    Posted: March 31, 2009, 6:03pm EDT
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  • Let Them Eat Cake

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    Really? We're going to fire 230 county workers? Our county services are horribly under-staffed as it is. In this era of the Brand New Deal, Scott Walker doesn't want any federal money, but he does want to slash public service and pull the rug from under 230 human beings with [...]
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    Posted: March 25, 2009, 10:24am EDT
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  • We're famous on Colbert

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    How cool is this!My high school, Wauwatosa East, known as 'Tosa East, was totally referenced on The Colbert Report. About 9 minutes in.Hat tip to DarkNES' [...]
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    Posted: February 26, 2009, 9:50am EST
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  • Lamenting the lame-itude of politics

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    Does anyone else think politics has gotten, well, boring?Ever since the election, it's "money this, money that, taxes, stimulus, blah blah blah."Politics used to be about fun arguments. We used to get worked up about foreign policy. Should we massacre the brown people? We used to argue about cultural definitions [...]
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    Posted: February 24, 2009, 10:07am EST
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  • Money for Art

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    The opinion poll in this week's Shepherd Express asked whether money from Obama's stimulus package should be given to the National Endowment for the Arts. Evil, soul-hating, aesthetically retarded Republicans were supposed to say No, while good liberals were supposed to say Yes. But here is why I have to [...]
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    Posted: February 20, 2009, 7:30am EST
    by ΕΡΜΕΣ

  • Facebookers Anonymous

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    I heard an interview on NPR today with a journalist writing about Facebook. It struck a couple of chords with me. I use Facebook, about 5 to 10 minutes per day. Back in the olden days (2006, 2007) I used it more, but that was mostly for playing games. Now [...]
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    Posted: February 17, 2009, 6:37pm EST
    by ΕΡΜΕΣ

  • amusing!

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    Posted: January 29, 2009, 9:30pm EST
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  • note to self

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    Here's a fun little glance at some Wisconsin legislators. [...]
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    Posted: January 29, 2009, 10:59am EST
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  • bicycle boon

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    Hey this is a little old, but I just heard that we'll finally be getting bike racks on our buses here in Milwaukee this spring! That is awesome, a minor but much-needed and long-overdue improvement. More than 300 transit systems in America have bike racks. It's one of those "Duh" [...]
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    Posted: January 15, 2009, 5:54pm EST
    by ΕΡΜΕΣ

  • Money - part 1

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    I've grappled with the idea of money for a long time. I begrudgingly need it to live in society. I know people sometimes do good things with it. But I hate it! I sense it lurking beneath the social problems I want to fix. So I am going to try' [...]
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    Posted: January 10, 2009, 2:09pm EST
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  • Hermes Will Blog Again

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    Hello int0rweb, how've you been? I know, I know, I've been distant lately. But I'm going to try to change that. I'll be more involved. I have a new job, and it should leave me more time for blogging, so hopefully we'll see more of each other now. To celebrate,' [...]
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    Posted: January 09, 2009, 6:46pm EST
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  • MMAC Whiny Bitches

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    Milwaukee just passed a mandatory paid sick-leave ordinance (thanks in large part to CAW) by a 69% majority. The Shepherd Express is covering resistance to the mandate by the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce. I just wanted to poke fun at them for a second: their lawyers believe compliance will [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2008, 4:57pm EST
    by ΕΡΜΕΣ

  • Taxi Tragedy

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    I am upset to learn that my erstwhile Sociology of Religion professor (and author of approximately twelve-gajillion books), Fr. Andrew Greeley, was defeated in single combat with a Chicago taxi last Friday. He is in critical condition following a skull fracture. Andy is a marvelous man, infinitely gentle and prodigiously [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2008, 12:01pm EST
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  • Hermes' Doldrums

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    Don't have much time for writing these days, what with all the canvassing and teaching, and things are only getting more hectic at least up until the election. So for now I'm on hiatus from blogging, except possibly for some trivial updates. I plan to get back on track in [...]
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    Posted: October 15, 2008, 12:02pm EDT
    by ΕΡΜΕΣ

  • manic mondays

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    "Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7th of your life." - Steven Wright [...]
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    Posted: October 06, 2008, 8:37am EDT
    by ΕΡΜΕΣ

  • magic & markets

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    Why is there such resistance to socialized healthcare? Apparently it is just peachy with everyone to have a socialized financial system. Is that what is basically happening with the bail out? I find the situation very confusing. So the giant banks and investors created a 700 billion dollar black hole, [...]
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    Posted: September 23, 2008, 8:28pm EDT
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  • Pinocchio Syndrome

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    props to queerbychoice [...]
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    Posted: September 12, 2008, 10:30pm EDT
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  • War Pigs

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    Somehow I managed to get on some Republican mailing list, and I got a postcard yesterday urging me to vote McCain on account of his "fiscal responsibility." According to the postcard's implication, a vote for McCain would save us ONE BILLION tax dollars a year in pork barrel earmark money [...]
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    Posted: September 12, 2008, 8:43am EDT
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  • Science, Politics, Video Games

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    from my friend Legolastn, kids apply scientific method to beat games.McCain campaign distills complex political platform into 2-bit shooter. [...]
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    Posted: September 10, 2008, 12:01pm EDT
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  • Got Union?

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    Come on down to the Labor Day Parade tomorrow around 11 at Zeidler Park (4th and Michigan) and say hi to me (I'll be marching around with Citizen Action's "Got Healthcare?" Cow). Following that, stop by the free Laborfest at the summerfest grounds, and in the evening check out special [...]
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    Posted: August 31, 2008, 5:20pm EDT
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  • Why Not Just Hire Blackwater?

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    Whew, jobs are hard work. Luckily I found a few minutes of freedom and wakefulness to post.so Why is Milwaukee Police Dept. providing security officers for the RNC in St. Paul, MN??? Because Bush and Cheney will be there, so they expect a full-scale assault on the city?According to the [...]
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    Posted: August 22, 2008, 12:14pm EDT
    by ΕΡΜΕΣ

  • Mission Acquired

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    Target Profile: Non-institutionalized adult humans, located in Wisconsin, where status = "citizen"Primary Objective: Locate contacts matching target profile and debrief them on the desirability and rationality of legislating quality, affordable health care for all. Recruit them as associate members of CAW.Secondary Objective: Hermes gotsta get paid, son. [...]
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    Posted: August 14, 2008, 12:21pm EDT
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  • Inner Glass Ceiling

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    Wow this is fun stuff. From Folkbum I heard of a "study" that purports to explain the gender gap in politics.It comes from the Brookings Institute which, while better funded, is certainly inferior to the Krollington Institute. Researchers Lawless and Fox believe that the ladies among us have a discouraging [...]
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    Posted: August 11, 2008, 5:07pm EDT
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  • Ode To Joy

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    Posted: August 07, 2008, 10:01pm EDT
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  • End The Middle Class

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    I just returned from a trip to Mishicot, where I finally finished John Kennedy Toole's delectable novel, A Confederacy Of Dunces. I present you with my favorite passage...In a sense I have always felt something of a kinship with the colored race because its position is the same as mine:' [...]
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    Posted: August 06, 2008, 9:49pm EDT
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  • Screw You, Giant Corporations!

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    Ha ha, liberty persists in the bits and bytes we int0rweb types like to share with each other. Common ownership of culture will not be squashed by the gluttonous hand of greedy capitalism. Well, not in America, not today. But what's up with Canada?Unrelatedly, I'm happy my nickname for the [...]
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    Posted: August 01, 2008, 10:19pm EDT
    by ΕΡΜΕΣ

  • Aw, The Poor Rich

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    A tear comes to my eye when I think of somebody's dire situation of having more than the federally insured $100,000 in the bank. What an onerous chore it is, the NPR financial guest experts tell us, for those with multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars to have to split [...]
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    Posted: July 22, 2008, 10:35pm EDT
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  • Exploring the Prophetic

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    I've joined a sort of longitudinal focus group run by 7th Day Adventists. But it's conducted in the meeting hall of a United Methodist church, and it consists of members of various faiths. Which makes it interesting from my point of view as a researcher for the SECP, where we're [...]
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    Posted: July 21, 2008, 8:30pm EDT
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  • Liberal Libations

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    Went to another round of Drinking Liberally last night. Apparently, wearing ridiculous patriotic hats makes people more likely to buy you drinks! Thanks y'all. Interesting folks I met included a county supervisor with whom I shared revilement for Scott Walker, and a cute small-town girl who used to have the' [...]
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    Posted: July 17, 2008, 6:54pm EDT
    by ΕΡΜΕΣ

  • Set Phasers On Blog

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    After traveling around California and Oregon, coming home and moving to Riverwest, and having no internet for weeks, the Time-Warner tech finally came out and wired our new place. So I'm finally back online and will resume with the blah-blah-bloggity-shmackity very soon. Just as soon as I recover from this [...]
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    Posted: July 11, 2008, 10:55am EDT
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  • Toasty on the Coast

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    California is bloody HOT. I drove out here with an old friend from Tucson and her dog and doped-up cat. We stopped to visit burners in Salt Lake City who put us up and showed us around Mormon-land. Now we're in Santa Cruz at her new home, hanging out with [...]
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    Posted: June 21, 2008, 6:30pm EDT
    by ΕΡΜΕΣ

  • Chicks Play Dress-up

    Number of comments: 8
    From Vox Popoli, whatever that means, who claims that some unnamed soldier (or is it Rustman?) who we are supposed to presume is real, comes the following: "the simple fact of the matter is that the large majority of women in the military are not soldiers. They may wear a uniform...even [...]
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    Posted: June 10, 2008, 5:39pm EDT
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  • The Edges of Reality

    Number of comments: 2
    Aw crap. I just finished reading the first page of Sex, Drugs, Einstein, & Elves, and it is now glaringly apparent that I'm going to have to read everything by Cliff Pickover. Color me daunted. Why do awesome authors have to write so MUCH??? I'm just one man, you jerks! In [...]
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    Posted: June 07, 2008, 3:04pm EDT
    by ΕΡΜΕΣ

  • NEWSFLASH - Religion Stirs Controversy

    Number of comments: 3
    Once upon a time there was this guy named Jesus who got nailed to a tree for saying people ought to be nice to each other. (OK, I stole that from somewhere, maybe Monty Python or something.) Then there was this guy over at Alienated Blogology who said that A) some people [...]
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    Posted: June 03, 2008, 4:49pm EDT
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  • Limbaugh vs. Colbert

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    So I was trying to explain Rush Limbaugh's character or idiom to a friend, and the following silliness resulted. [...]
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    Posted: June 02, 2008, 9:33am EDT
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  • Relationship Venn Zen

    Number of comments: 8
    So in light of recent conversations I've had, I've come to an understanding of my problems vis-a-vis romantic relationships. To illustrate my theory, I've made a simple Venn diagram.The "X" section represents what another person tends to want out of a relationship, or what they envision an ideal-typical relationship to [...]
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    Posted: May 31, 2008, 6:43pm EDT
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  • Music Soothes the Savage Gun

    Number of comments: 1
    Last night Mixter and Zero and I ended up at this peace-nik music show that benefited the Brady Campaign to "Curb Handgun Violence." It was hosted by, and included a powerful performance from, Cheddarsphere denizen Mike "Let's Get Political" Plaisted. Other stand out acts I discovered for the first time were [...]
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    Posted: May 26, 2008, 12:08pm EDT
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  • Evangelicals: The Good News

    Number of comments: 3
    Hey cool! I just stumbled across an article over at The Immanent Frame written by my old U of A classmate (and a fellow burner) Rebecca Sager. I always looked up to her in soc. of religion classes because she was always involved in the cool research projects. She's gone [...]
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    Posted: May 03, 2008, 6:08pm EDT
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  • Hermes' Hospital Habitus

    Number of comments: 5
    I've been spending this week at the bedside of my roommate, at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, where she is recovering from having a chunk of her lung removed. So I'm a bit out-of-the-loop on politics and current events and such, as most of my time has been spent trying [...]
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    Posted: May 01, 2008, 2:52pm EDT
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  • Islam in America

    Number of comments: 3
    For any of my old colleagues who are into the sociology of religion, you really must track down and watch Little Mosque On The Prairie (the bittorrent is not hard to find). I'm just a couple episodes in, but it is a hilarious goldmine of religion jokes! What are some other [...]
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    Posted: April 26, 2008, 7:33pm EDT
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  • (Twilight Zone) x 10^9

    Number of comments: 0
    Play this as you drift off to sleep, and you just might wake up dead, never having realized that your subconscious managed to reach around and strangle your brain. [...]
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    Posted: April 24, 2008, 4:50am EDT
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  • By Your Profits Combined

    Number of comments: 2
    Ladies and gentlemen, I now bring you today's episode of Adventures In Feigned Corporate Obsequiousness! h/t to my friend Karen and Urban Milwaukee for the tip. Here's the JS coverage. In a grotesquely self-aggrandizing gesture, Wal-Mart has suddenly made itself the Captain Planet of the global mega corporations. One might be [...]
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    Posted: April 21, 2008, 6:16pm EDT
    by ΕΡΜΕΣ

  • We Are The Romans

    Number of comments: 1
    Your Score: Citizen You scored 71% on Social Skills! You are the bulk of the Roman world. You sweat and toil in Rome's name, but you are free to do so. No one beats you to force your labor. You most likely do it out of love for [...]
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    Posted: April 21, 2008, 2:17pm EDT
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  • We Are The Robots

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    While you were doing whatever it is that you do, I was getting my robot on at one of the only four Kraftwerk concerts on the 2008 American tour! What I like about Kraftwerk is the excitement for society and the future that flavors a lot of their music. It began [...]
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    Posted: April 20, 2008, 10:47pm EDT
    by ΕΡΜΕΣ

  • Mercenary Socialite

    Number of comments: 0
    Had a right good time Drinking Liberally with a great bunch of folks out in meatspace last night. We'll have to do that again sometime. Tonight I'm off to see some Girls Gone Wild. Then tomorrow night it's the Dead Man's Carnival. In the mean time, I'll be totally gay for [...]
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    Posted: April 17, 2008, 5:29pm EDT
    by ΕΡΜΕΣ

  • Hermes hurls

    Oh God, I think I'm going to be sick. I believe You are, too. [...]
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    Posted: April 15, 2008, 8:50pm EDT
    by ΕΡΜΕΣ

  • Un-cussing-believable.

    Number of comments: 7
    This shit relates somewhat to that crap going around the Cheddarsphere about all the pussies bitching about the goddamn blogosphere becoming less fucking civil recently. I agree with that cantankerous motherfucker Drek that it must be broken considering the less-than-asshole rating it gave me, but it's a goddamn interesting gizmo [...]
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    Posted: April 12, 2008, 12:05pm EDT
    by ΕΡΜΕΣ

  • A Who's Who Of The Ruling Class

    This may be the coolest thing ever in the history of information. [ They Rule ] is a very comprehensive network snapshot of the power structure of America, as of 2004. They also have a 2001 version. Go. Play around with it. Fun toy! Educational, yet terrifying. See what structures run [...]
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    Posted: April 10, 2008, 11:30am EDT
    by ΕΡΜΕΣ

  • Whiners and Meek Bloggers

    If you can't stand the heat... GET OUT OF THE KITCHEN! A recent topic in the Cheddarsphere has been the appropriateness of blog content of a less-than-civil nature (see Boots & Sabers, From Where I Sit, Folkbum, and Whallah! for examples). I hope my readers understand that I sometimes require them to [...]
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    Posted: April 07, 2008, 2:49pm EDT
    by ΕΡΜΕΣ

  • Good Grief, People!

    Number of comments: 2
    What have you done in my absence? I go away for a few days and look what you let happen! Scott Walker takes another term as County Exec?!? What the heck happened? And Jill Didier becomes the new Mayor of Wauwatosa?!? Oh, the humanity!!! I can't let you people do [...]
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    Posted: April 02, 2008, 10:13pm EDT
    by ΕΡΜΕΣ

  • Cobra Retreeeat!

    Number of comments: 1
    Well I'm off to a retreat in Arizona for a few days. You'll just all have to get along with out me until Tuesday. Don't forget to vote on April Fool's! [...]
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    Posted: March 27, 2008, 5:19am EDT
    by ΕΡΜΕΣ
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