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News & ArtsThursday, February 2, 2012
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Posted by Jen Graves on Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 9:08 AM
State Senators Pass Gay Marriage: And even behave like humans while doing it.
Yes, I'm Still Angry About This: Puget Sound donors and supporters of Komen tacitly support the bigotry of national.
Portraits of the Facebook Millionaires and Billionaires: About to be minted.
Ugh: Home-birth advocate dies giving birth at home. Her daughter survives.
Another Shipwreck This Week: A ferry sinks off Papua New Guinea. Number of deaths unknown, some 200 survivors.
Romney Attacks Obama's Afghanistan Withdrawal Strategy: And some experts agree with Romney.
The Sad, Sad News That Hit UW's College of Arts and Sciences This Week: The son of dean Bob Stacey and history professor Robin Stacey was killed in Afghanistan by an IED on Tuesday. He was a Marine. An obituary.
Europe's Debt Crisis: Bailout help from China?
U.S. No-Fly List of Known or Suspected Terrorists: Has doubled in the last year.
White Striped Seal Rarely Seen in Puget Sound: Deemed healthy (and beautiful).
Egyptians Mourn: After soccer riot.
Amy Winehouse's Coroner Resigns: The inquest into her death could be reopened.
And....THIS IS SOME HISTORIC SHIT, WASHINGTON! Vote FUCK YEAH when it comes time, y'all.
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Lessons from today's news:
1. Reasonable people can be elected. Elected representatives can be reasonable.
2. Universal healthcare would be pretty handy right now.
3. Gambling can sometimes pay off big.
4. If natural maternal and fetal death rates haven’t halted reproduction on a wide scale, gay marriage probably won’t make too big a dent in birth rates.
5. What 5280 @1 said.
6. War is bad.
7. War is bad.
8. China is so going to own the world soon. Learn Chinese.
9. War is still bad.
10. Even sea mammals get lost without GPS.
11. Poverty is bad.
12. Alcohol is bad.
1. Reasonable people can be elected. Elected representatives can be reasonable.
2. Universal healthcare would be pretty handy right now.
3. Gambling can sometimes pay off big.
4. If natural maternal and fetal death rates haven’t halted reproduction on a wide scale, gay marriage probably won’t make too big a dent in birth rates.
5. What 5280 @1 said.
6. War is bad.
7. War is bad.
8. China is so going to own the world soon. Learn Chinese.
9. War is still bad.
10. Even sea mammals get lost without GPS.
11. Poverty is bad.
12. Alcohol is bad.
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Also: Giving birth in a hospital isn't so bad. Have your baby at home, sure, if you want, but why would you want to have to clean up all that mess yourself? Hospitals actually have staff who'll clean up your poo, vomit, blood and baby pee puddles for you. And, bonus, if you have heart failure, they have defibrillators there.
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@1, agree, but I'm even less interested in coastal cruises than ever before (which wasn't much).
The big lesson from the Costa Concordia disaster is that, even though these newer boats bear a passing resemblance to the giant transatlantic liners of the past, they're very different. You have shallow-draft hulls for pottering around shallow seas and picturesque islands combined with tier upon wedding-cake tier of cabins to maximize profits, and giant sloshy super-heavy swimming pools at the summit. Add showoffy, complacent local yokels manning the bridge, and you've got a bunch of top-heavy disasters waiting to happen. The lawyers must be salivating.
Also, Slog is apparently in post-orgasmic collapse. But that's cool.
The big lesson from the Costa Concordia disaster is that, even though these newer boats bear a passing resemblance to the giant transatlantic liners of the past, they're very different. You have shallow-draft hulls for pottering around shallow seas and picturesque islands combined with tier upon wedding-cake tier of cabins to maximize profits, and giant sloshy super-heavy swimming pools at the summit. Add showoffy, complacent local yokels manning the bridge, and you've got a bunch of top-heavy disasters waiting to happen. The lawyers must be salivating.
Also, Slog is apparently in post-orgasmic collapse. But that's cool.
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Agree with Allyn @3. I know at least 3 women who had very difficult/traumatic births in hospitals who would have died if they had tried to give birth at home. There are hospitals who will do the whole natural childbirth thing there in a hospital room, and then if things go horribly awry, you've got a whole ER right there to back you up. Home births seem like a crazy risk to me.
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The ending of the ferry article is ridiculous: "Papua New Guinea, Australia's nearest neighbor, is largely undeveloped, with poor infrastructure and limited facilities despite enormous resources wealth. The majority of Papua New Guinea's six million people eke out subsistence lifestyles in villages clinging to jungle-clad mountainsides or scattered around its many islands."
As if that's relevant to the article...
As if that's relevant to the article...
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@9 - You and me both. Let us retire to the old-folks' home where we can leer at the pretty young things who walk by our porch.
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Well, there's a seal in the news, so here's my favorite seal joke:
A little Penguin went on a long-planned trip to the North Pole. He rented a car and drove all the way North by himself. He did make it to the North Pole, but his rental car started to chug and make terrible noises, so he took it in to the Polar Bear Car Repair shop, and had the Polar Bear mechanic take a look at it. The Polar Bear mechanic told him that it would take at least an hour for him to know what could be wrong with the car, so he suggested that the Penguin walk around town and do some sight-seeing. Which is just what the little Penguin did. He saw Santa's house, the North Pole Post Office, the North Pole Gift Mall, and various other tourist-y things. Before he headed back to Polar Bear Car Repair, he stopped and got himself a yummy frozen snack. Walking in to the Car Repair shop, the little Penguin was wiping his mouth and preparing to hear the worst about the rental car. The Polar Bear came out from the back, wiping his paws on a shop rag, and said to the little Penguin, "Well, you blew a seal.." And the little Penguin, flustered and upset, said "No, No! It's seal ice cream! Seal Ice Cream!!"
Ba-dum-PUM. Thank you, I'll be here all week.
A little Penguin went on a long-planned trip to the North Pole. He rented a car and drove all the way North by himself. He did make it to the North Pole, but his rental car started to chug and make terrible noises, so he took it in to the Polar Bear Car Repair shop, and had the Polar Bear mechanic take a look at it. The Polar Bear mechanic told him that it would take at least an hour for him to know what could be wrong with the car, so he suggested that the Penguin walk around town and do some sight-seeing. Which is just what the little Penguin did. He saw Santa's house, the North Pole Post Office, the North Pole Gift Mall, and various other tourist-y things. Before he headed back to Polar Bear Car Repair, he stopped and got himself a yummy frozen snack. Walking in to the Car Repair shop, the little Penguin was wiping his mouth and preparing to hear the worst about the rental car. The Polar Bear came out from the back, wiping his paws on a shop rag, and said to the little Penguin, "Well, you blew a seal.." And the little Penguin, flustered and upset, said "No, No! It's seal ice cream! Seal Ice Cream!!"
Ba-dum-PUM. Thank you, I'll be here all week.
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@Romney Attacks Obama's Afghanistan Withdrawal Strategy
Those aren't experts. Those are idiots who still think Afghanistan is a war we can win.
Max Boot: "The specifics of the downsizing matter less than the signal it sends—a signal of American irresolution."
Fuck no. It sends a signal of American resolution to get the fuck out of there.
Jennifer Rubin: "in slashing defense, prematurely pulling out troops from Iraq and Afghanistan and being meek on human rights, Obama is choosing decline"
Do I wish Obama were firmer on human rights in the US? Yes. But I don't see any connection between that and his desire to get us out of that quagmire. Staying in Iraq and Afghanistan would help the US about as much as staying in Vietnam helped the US in the 1970s.
Those aren't experts. Those are idiots who still think Afghanistan is a war we can win.
Max Boot: "The specifics of the downsizing matter less than the signal it sends—a signal of American irresolution."
Fuck no. It sends a signal of American resolution to get the fuck out of there.
Jennifer Rubin: "in slashing defense, prematurely pulling out troops from Iraq and Afghanistan and being meek on human rights, Obama is choosing decline"
Do I wish Obama were firmer on human rights in the US? Yes. But I don't see any connection between that and his desire to get us out of that quagmire. Staying in Iraq and Afghanistan would help the US about as much as staying in Vietnam helped the US in the 1970s.
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