Hobby Lobby and contraception: How conservative evangelicals went from not caring about abortion and birth control to being obsessed with them. Photo by Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images In its challenge to the “contraception mandate” of the Affordable Care Act, Hobby Lobby claims that certain forms of birth control—Plan B, “ella,” and IUDs—induce abortion and therefore go against the owners’ religious beliefs. The government’s response is that none of these contraceptives ends a pregnancy. Rather, they prevent implantation in the uterine lining. Jamelle Bouie is a Slate staff writer covering politics, policy, and race. More on Slate Plus The rejoinder, from supporters of Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood Specialties, is that this doesn’t matter.
There’s no doubt that this belief is sincere. In his book Broken Words: The Abuse of Science and Faith in American Politics, Jonathan Dudley notes that most evangelicals held far more liberal views at the time. By 1982, however, the SBC—along with most American evangelicals—had switched gears entirely. _AnonymousCoward_ comments on ELI5: Why do Americans put so much importance on the thoughts of their founding fathers? Dwwo explains why corporate income tax isn't as big a problem as it's made out to be. : bestof.
As an Australian I have grown up with universal health care and see it as a necessity in a western democracy. Im curious, why is it Americans are against "Obama Care" or universal health care for all? : AskReddit. Britain's five richest families worth more than poorest 20% : worldnews. If Other Businesses Worked Like the Cable Company. Where Good Grows - Recycle. WGG Use Terms These Use Terms form part of the Service’s Terms and incorporate WGG’s General Terms by reference. This means that the General Terms supplement these Use Terms and you are bound by them as part of your contract with WGG. Important Provisions Our Terms contain a number of words and phrases which have specific meanings and most of which are capitalised.
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Texpeare comments on Why do actors in modern movies today feel more "real" than the acting we see in old movies like Casablanca? /u/DashingLeech ELI5 in /r/politics the importance of unions in the free market. : bestof. Wilbarp comments on Did celebrity efforts like Band Aid's "Do they know it's Christmas?" and USA for Africa's "We Are The World" actually help alleviate famine in the 1980s? She Thinks Too Much [Such Girls Are Dangerous] My Grandfather's childhood toy : WTF. That’s Zef: The True Story Behind Die Antwoord’s Mysterious Style. Does zef exist? Or did Yolandis and Ninja of Die Antwoord make it all up in a frenzied (and successful) bid to capture international attention a year ago? Does it even matter now?
Marlon Bishop traveled to South Africa to discover the "real" zef, and how it's connected to what he describes as "some of the worst music on planet Earth, objectively. " Turns out Zef exists, but it might not be what you think it is... “Crocs are zef. Where the U.S. has its guidos and Britain has its chavs, South Africa has a little something called zef. Ninja of Die Antwoord. Zef has existed for long while in South Africa, but the word really began to ricochet around the internet around the time that YouTube-sensation-cum-pop-stars Die Antwoord exploded out of Cape Town in early 2010.
Audiences abroad were both delighted and confused by whole thing. In South Africa, nobody was asking that question. As the story goes, part of Jones’ inspiration for the whole Die Antwoord concept was Wat Kyk Jy? Ghostalker474 comments on Rant: A good portion of people I deal with are incompetent, not just IT staff. Take a Look At These Fascinating Happiness-Related Word Clouds. A thoughtful reader sent me the link to Michael Kelley's piece, "Scientists Used Facebook for the Largest Ever Study of Language and Personality, about a fascinating study done by University of Pennsylvania researchers, "Personality, Gender, and Age in the Language of Social Media. " They used 700 million words, phrases, and topic instances taken from Facebook, from 75,000 volunteers, to analyze linguistic patterns. This might not sound fascinating, but looking at the word clouds generated by this study is riveting.
They generated word clouds that track the traits of introversion and extroversion, neuroticism and emotional stability, gender, and age. It's quite funny to compare the word clouds generated by 13-18 year old, 19-22 year olds, 23-29 year olds, and 30-65 year olds (I didn't notice an explanation of why they picked these particular age groupings). Here it is, but note, there are a lot of curse words, if that bothers you.
Hmmmmm. Chinese immigrants find Australian small talk too awkward. Are language skills alone enough to ensure overseas Chinese fit well into their new home? The answer is no, according to a study of the social experience of recent Chinese immigrants in Australia, which found that their biggest barrier to communication is not language or knowledge, but the ability to make small talk. The experience of 25-year-old Fei - a financial adviser who has lived in Melbourne for seven years, speaks fluent English and considers himself outgoing - is typical. Every time the company holds a social function, he's reluctant to join, he says.
"Australians can walk into a party where they know no one and straight away they are able to talk with anyone, but we Chinese tend to hang on to one person, usually also Chinese or Asian, and stick to that person throughout. It feels awkward," he says. And for 30-year-old Bai, who is married to an Australian husband and works in the chemical industry, even responding to "how are you" throughout the day proves stressful. His First 4 Sentences Are Interesting. The 5th Blew My Mind. And Made Me A Little Sick. YkLLtyl.jpg (309×600) The World of 100 : Toby Ng Design. The Science of Familiar Strangers: Society's Hidden Social Network. We’ve all experienced the sense of being familiar with somebody without knowing their name or even having spoken to them. These so-called “familiar strangers” are the people we see every day on the bus on the way to work, in the sandwich shop at lunchtime, or in the local restaurant or supermarket in the evening.
These people are the bedrock of society and a rich source of social potential as neighbours, friends, or even lovers. But while many researchers have studied the network of intentional links between individuals—using mobile-phone records, for example—little work has been on these unintentional links, which form a kind of hidden social network. The results are a fascinating insight into this hidden network of familiar strangers and the effects it has on people. All this is made possible by the Singaporean bus service’s smart card ticketing system. The pattern of in-vehcicle encounters is rich, and the results of their analysis make for interesting reading. Thenextosama.com. Paula Deen’s Racist Wedding Fantasy Was Once Reality. Paula Deen is in trouble. Last month, in a deposition for a discrimination suit brought by an employee, the Food Network star blithely admitted to using racial slurs.
Perhaps equally disturbing, she also said she had fantasized about throwing a slavery-themed wedding for her brother, an idea that came to her after eating at a restaurant with an all-black staff. Deen has apologized, though the Food Network has announced that it won’t renew her contract. Whatever her motivations, she tapped into a long history of slavery fantasy in the U.S. In the years preceding the Civil War, as northern states gradually emancipated their slaves, many expensive hotels in New York and other northern cities made it a policy to hire only black men to wait tables in their dining halls. Because New York was a center of the cotton trade, southern cotton merchants and their emissaries spent a lot of time in the city’s hotels. Read more from Echoes online. Generation X: An Inconvenient Era. A data-based look at the financial context of the past 30 years from the perspective of Gen X. I am honored to publish an insightful essay by longtime contributor Eric A. on the inconvenient financial era Generation X finds itself in.
What sets this essay apart from most other generational analyses is its focus on data and charts. In The Brewing Generational Conflict (May 15, 2013), I mentioned the Cultural Monster Id (CMI) that arises whenever inter-generational emotions are freely expressed. Every generation-- the Baby Boomers, Gen X and Gen Y/Millennials--is slammed for its supposed character flaws. Personally, I don't find much value in these outpourings of Cultural Monster Id, for several reasons. One is that generations do not naturally divide into crisp cohorts; people are shaped by the events and shifting myths/worldviews of their culture. There's also a bit of intrinsic falsity in defining generational characteristics.
Luck matters, timing matters, but so does context. Wow! U.S. Generation X: An Inconvenient Era. I don’t hate millennials anymore! Like many of my colleagues in the American academy, each fall I consult the Mindset List for entering college freshmen produced annually by Beloit College of Wisconsin. Designed to identify “the experiences and event horizons of students and . . . not meant to reflect on their preparatory education,” the list is marked by a frequent use of “always” and “never,” reminding us that many cultural and experiential commonplaces for those writing syllabi are foreign, inscrutable, and sometimes ancient history to the syllabi’s intended audience. On the list for the class of 2013, three facts controverting my own early experience catch the eye: one demographic, one geographic, and one pedagogic.
First, in these students’ lifetime, “Smokers have never been promoted as an economic force that deserves respect.” The Marlboro Man never galloped across their television screens, nor will they recall Virginia Slims’ women’s-lib-hijacking “You’ve come a long way, baby!” Advertising campaign. Is 'Adventure Time' One Big Allegory For Discovering Sex? Cuber presents five more short graybles in latest "Adventure Time.
" Cartoon Network Watching last night's anthology episode of "Adventure Time," entitled "Five More Short Graybles," I was reminded of the crazed photographer in Leos Carax's "Holy Motors" when he first spots the scraggly-haired Merde character, played by Denis Lavant, in the middle of a crowd and can't stop snapping pictures: "So... weird! So weird! " That's the reaction "Adventure Time," with its loopy blend of bright colors and surreal mini-plots, constantly invites. A sequel to last season's "Five Short Graybles," the episode once again featured narrator Cuber, a portly futuristic being who presents a series of interlocking "Adventure Time" short stories on his Holo-Pyramid Viewer.
READ MORE: Why 'Adventure Time,' Now In Its Fifth Season, Is More Groundbreaking Than You May Realize Jake and Finn stick their thumbs in a lot of holes. The final installment with BMO brought everything home. Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes. Image copyright Milla Kontkanen For 75 years, Finland's expectant mothers have been given a box by the state. It's like a starter kit of clothes, sheets and toys that can even be used as a bed. And some say it helped Finland achieve one of the world's lowest infant mortality rates. It's a tradition that dates back to the 1930s and it's designed to give all children in Finland, no matter what background they're from, an equal start in life.
The maternity package - a gift from the government - is available to all expectant mothers. It contains bodysuits, a sleeping bag, outdoor gear, bathing products for the baby, as well as nappies, bedding and a small mattress. With the mattress in the bottom, the box becomes a baby's first bed. Image copyright Finnish Labour Museum Werstas Mothers have a choice between taking the box, or a cash grant, currently set at 140 euros, but 95% opt for the box as it's worth much more. The tradition dates back to 1938. Contents of the box Not for long. Transhumanism. Transhumanism (abbreviated as H+ or h+) is an international cultural and intellectual movement with an eventual goal of fundamentally transforming the human condition by developing and making widely available technologies to greatly enhance human intellectual, physical, and psychological capacities.[1] Transhumanist thinkers study the potential benefits and dangers of emerging technologies that could overcome fundamental human limitations, as well as the ethics of developing and using such technologies.
They speculate that human beings may eventually be able to transform themselves into beings with such greatly expanded abilities as to merit the label "posthuman".[1] History[edit] According to Nick Bostrom,[1] transcendentalist impulses have been expressed at least as far back as in the quest for immortality in the Epic of Gilgamesh, as well as historical quests for the Fountain of Youth, Elixir of Life, and other efforts to stave off aging and death. First transhumanist proposals[edit] Double Feature Finder. Naked Came the Stranger. Cover of reissue of Naked Came the Stranger Naked Came the Stranger is a 1969 novel written as a literary hoax poking fun at contemporary American culture. Though credited to "Penelope Ashe", it was in fact written by a group of twenty-four journalists led by Newsday columnist Mike McGrady.
McGrady's intention was to write a deliberately terrible book with a lot of sex, to illustrate the point that popular American literary culture had become mindlessly vulgar. The book fulfilled the authors' expectations and became a bestseller in 1969; they revealed the hoax later that year, further spurring the book's popularity. [ 1 ] Hoax [ edit ] Mike McGrady was convinced that popular American literary culture had become so base—with the best-seller lists dominated by the likes of Harold Robbins and Jacqueline Susann —that even a wretchedly written, literarily vacant work could succeed if enough sex was thrown in.
Synopsis [ edit ] Reception [ edit ] See also [ edit ] Notes [ edit ] References [ edit ] The Justice League : funny. In Montreal The Swings Are Alive With The Sound Of Music | PlayGroundology. These are sweetnote dreamswings an innovation in play and sound. The 21 swings installation is located in Montreal’s Quartier des spectacles on the Promenade des Artistes. This is part of the city’s celebrated arts district where the Jazz Festival and Just for Laughs strut their stuff. Now strangers can make music together by leaning back and kicking for the sky. Cooperation, the unbearable lightness of swinging and musical permutations scoring new compositions – it just doesn’t get any better. Photo credit – Quartier des spectacles on flickr I’m sure this trio’s work has inspired many a passerby since the exhibition opened toward the end of April. Beautiful concept. Montreal Gazette reporter, Jeff Heinrich wrote a good review that includes a nicely shot video – check the bottom lit swing seats.
Credits for 21 Balançoires here. Follow the conversation on Twitter at #21B. Like this: Like Loading... Folsom Street Fair. The event started in 1984 and is California's third-largest single-day, outdoor spectator event[citation needed] and the world's largest leather event and showcase for BDSM products and culture.[1] It has grown as a non-profit charity, and local and national non-profits benefit with all donations at the gates going to charity groups as well as numerous fundraising schemes within the festival including games, beverage booths and even spanking for donations to capitalize on the adult-themed exhibitionism. The coordination agency, Folsom Street Events (FSE) is a registered charity and has also started similar events in Canada and Germany. Origin of the leather subculture[edit] History of the leather community in San Francisco[edit] The first proto-leather bar in San Francisco was the Sailor Boy Tavern, which opened in 1938 near the Embarcadero YMCA and catered to Navy boys looking for some male-to-male action.[5] In 1971, the modern bandana code came into use among leather people.
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