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McDonald's Makes Jesus Cry
Society & Culture  (tags: McDonalds, AFA, boycott, politics, gay rights, right wingers )

Scarlett
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- 14 days ago - huffingtonpost.com
There are billions and billions of reasons to hate McDonald's. There's at least one good reason to like McDonald's: They're being boycotted by the American Family Association [due to their support of gay rights. ]
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Decades Later, Still Asking: Would I Pull That Switch?
Society & Culture  (tags: humans, society, psychology )

Scarlett
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- 17 days ago - nytimes.com
Some of psychology's most famous experiments are those that expose the skull beneath the skin, the apparent cowardice or depravity pooling in almost every heart.
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With the World's Highest Drug Use Rates, Our Fraudulent Drug Policy Is Fully Exposed
Society & Culture  (tags: drug, Drug Policy, drug abuse, USA, marijuana, crime )

Scarlett
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- 17 days ago - stopthedrugwar.org
"...it's striking that the lifetime marijuana use rate in the U.S. (42.4 percent) is more than twice as high as the rate in the Netherlands (19.8 percent), despite the latter country's famously tolerant cannabis policies.
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Another One Bites the Dust: University Closes Observatory, Evicts Famous Astronomer
Society & Culture  (tags: university, observatory, astronomy, science, society, sadness )

Scarlett
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- 17 days ago - treehugger.com
Tom Bolton discovered the first black hole using the 75 inch reflector at the David Dunlap Observatory just north of Toronto; how sad to see him sitting on the steps, crying, as the University of Toronto kicks him out and shuts it down...
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Sam Harris: The Boundaries of Belief
Society & Culture  (tags: humans, culture, society, pew survey, sam harris, atheist )

Scarlett
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- 16 days ago - newsweek.washingtonpost.com
According to a recent Pew survey...21 % of atheists in the United States believe in "God," and 8 % are "absolutely certain" that such a Being exists. One wonders if they were also "absolutely certain" they understood the meaning of the term "atheist"...
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Free Gas Becoming a Prize in State Lotteries
Society & Culture  (tags: cars, transporation, gas, lotto, lottery, usa, society )

Scarlett
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- 15 days ago - treehugger.com
In yet another sign of how gas prices are affecting the economy, several states, including Florida, Georgia and Oklahoma, have begun offering free gas for life instead of the usual cash prizes in lotteries.
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WALL-E: A World Without Us
Society & Culture  (tags: Americans, children, movies, environment, death, culture )

Scarlett
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- 18 days ago - alternet.org
Stores are overfilling with WALL-E merchandise that will soon clog our landfills. Yet this new Disney movie bills itself as pro-environment.
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Judge Orders YouTube to Give All User Histories to Viacom
Society & Culture  (tags: government, viacom, google, privacy, freedoms, internet, law )

Scarlett
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- 18 days ago - blog.wired.com
Google will have to turn over every record of every video watched by YouTube users, including users' names and IP addresses, to Viacom
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WHALE NEWS: Greenland Denied on Whale Catch
Society & Culture  (tags: Greenland, International Whaling Commission, whales, cetaceans, poaching, extinction, species erradication )

Rooibos
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- 26 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
The first vote at this year's International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting has resulted in defeat for Greenland's request to expand its hunt.
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Houston School Workers Hope to Get $250 Gas Money
Society & Culture  (tags: school employees, gas prices, financial aid, GoodNews, interesting, houston, texas )

Damaris
StarsButterflies
- 18 days ago - hosted.ap.org
These days, everyone's feeling the pain at the pump, but for Houston's lowest-paid school district employees - who make as little as $15,000 a year - some relief may be on the way.
 
 
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