Thursday, July 24, 2014

Salon: The right's anti-healthcare jubilee! Why they can't quit the Obamacare obsession

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July 24th, 2014
Sarah Palin, Antonin Scalia, Rick Santorum

The right's anti-healthcare jubilee! Why they can't quit the Obamacare obsession

Conservatives' gloating over Halbig reveals why the right's insular, fact-resistant world is so dangerous

A memorial for Eric Garner in Staten Island, New York, July 21, 2014.

"When does your decency kick in?" Police overreach and the Eric Garner difference

Another funeral for another unarmed black man taken down by NYPD. But here's how videotape may set this case apart

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11 hilariously awful pieces of sex advice courtesy of Fox News

"Before you sexually experiment, check your state laws" and other gems to get you in the mood

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"I was illegally terminated": A working mom's Wal-Mart nightmare

An absurd policy allowed the mega-retailer to run roughshod over Tiffany Beroid. Here's how bad it really got

An Air Algerie plane.

Another plane has gone missing

An Air Algerie flight carrying 116 people disappearing over western Africa last night, according to France

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I can't breathe at work: How making cushions for Hyundai is making us ill

I work on the production line where we make seat cushions for Hyundais. Here's why I'm at risk for getting cancer

James Clapper and CIA Director John Brennan at the Senate Intelligence Committee, Capitol Hill in Washington, Jan. 29, 2014

"Evil that is stalking us": Fear-mongering and the real Middle East scandal

A new counterterrorism report warns of all kinds of global doom. But there's something particularly odd about that

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10 more strange facts about penises

From a fish with genitals on its head to four-headed privates, we bring you more odd trivia about the male member

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"Lucy": The Eurotrash "2001″ ScarJo action sequel you've been waiting for

Scarlett Johansson ingests designer drugs and becomes a godlike being in Luc Besson's pseudo-science extravaganza

Ayman Mohyeldin

"The more the dead, the better": Israel's crumbling media war

As the world watches in horror at the massacre of Palestinians, Israel's propaganda war is being challenged

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5 reasons it's time for a 4-day work week

Research suggests it won't just make us happier -- it will actually make us more productive

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Minuteman co-founder announces grand vision for new border patrols in 2015

Jim Gilchrist hopes to capitalize on the mounting right-wing outrage over Central American refugee children VIDEO

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The real problem with sexy profile pics

A new study suggests people think less of women who post revealing photos. It speaks to a greater culture of sexism

Vladimir Putin

5 countries that love America (and 5 that hate it)

A new survey from the Pew Research Center reveals anti-Americanism is highest in the Middle East

J.K. Rowling

VIP boxes and seven-figure advances: How fiction gets the publishing industry laughably wrong

The book business is not an easy setting to dramatize. But that sure hasn't stopped thriller writers from trying

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Twitter releases diversity report, admits "we have a lot of work to do"

Like Facebook, Google, Yahoo and others Twitter is mostly white males

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Women who are more educated than their husbands are not more likely to get divorced

Because if women were expected to have a lower professional and educational status, nobody would be married anymore

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Wearable technology that hurts you on purpose

A fitness tracker that sends an electric shock when you slack off? What could possibly go wrong?

Duran Duran-Lawsuit

Duran Duran is suing its fan club

A new lawsuit seeks $40,000 in damages

Still from an Axe commercial

Pinterest just hired the guy behind Axe's notoriously sexist advertisements

Will the female-dominated site attract male users by peddling its own brand of reductive thinking?

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