Imagine if American citizens of a certain race were denied equal protection under law. Just fucking imagine that.
A good cartoon.
So it’s official that Cagle has NO CLUE what the significance of the Miranda warning is. Way to have an informed opinion.
(Protip: Having your rights read to you does not bestow those rights: you always have them. It is, however, a prerequisite that those rights be read to you for your questioning to be admissible in court)
There is a petition on Whitehouse.gov that will restrict congressmen and senators salaries to $75,000 a year for the next THREE YEARS to pay off the deficit! It needs 20,919 signatures, And it’s still under 5,000
HELP GET THIS DONE!
SIGNAL FUCKING BOOST
My first political post since the election!
even if it gets those signatures it’s just a petition. it doesn’t mean it’ll happen. this is dumb.
No, it’s not a promise that it’ll happen. But once it has 25,000 signatures, Obama will look at it. :)
I disagree. We don’t need more useless gestures about the deficit and pissing contests about who is the most serious. This isn’t even 60 million dollars worth of savings. The FY2012 deficit as enacted is over 1.3 trillion. The savings amounts to around 0.004%. Not even a percent of a percent.
I didn’t like any of the existing reference graphics for pseudorapidity, so here’s one I threw together in OSX’s grapher program. The unit circle is shown with lines of constant pseudorapidity from 0.5 to 5 in steps of 0.5 imposed.
Tagging the crap out of it so it can be found by someone who might find it useful.
Prop 37 was pushed by the classic fear of science and new technology that has turned up again and again over the decades, mixed with the Appeal to Nature Fallacy, the idea that anything not man-made is bad, and anything natural is good.
Surprisingly, Rall doesn’t go as far as other anti-GMO advocates can go; there’s no human eyes on the produce, no implication that people who eat GMO food will grow tentacles or antennae. Because wild-eyed fearmongering is one of the most basic tools of many special interest advocates, and anti-GMOers are no different. You think the term ‘Frankenfoods’ is meant to be subtle or convey any articulate arguments? It’s intended to make people afraid of what they know little to nothing about.
Rall also doesn’t go as far as he could with the ‘Evil big corporations poured money into defeating Prop 37’ (there’s no mention of Monsanto, which is slowly becoming seen as one of the Great Satans of corporate America), maybe because he’s aware the organic food industry is hardly the poor, oppressed alternative-to-the-mainstream people may think it is.
Are GMOs harmful to humans? I’m open to whatever solid evidence there is (this does not include conjecture), but as long as those against it are pushing blatant fearmongering and logical fallacies I refuse to take them seriously.
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And yes, I’m aware of the legal issues involving copyrights on DNA and other issues, but that’s not what this cartoon is about so I didn’t go into that. It’s a different matter, even if it falls under the same umbrella.
Well stated. Also, I’m not even sure what the point of the worker’s line is supposed to be. Yes, Rall, radioactivity is “organic.” Let me introduce you to my good friend, Potassium-40
The strategy of staring longingly at your opponent is making me uncomfortable.
O-obama kun, Biden san
Oh Biden you… you got what I nee-eeed…
