June 2012
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RIP Jon Huntsman's Campaign, 2011–2012 →
motherjones:
You’re Jon Huntsman. You like to play the keyboard and talk about young people things, like rock music. You once called called Mitt Romney a “perfectly lubricated weather vane”—a pretty good line—and said he was running for “the Waffle House” instead of the White House. You cut an advertisement juxtaposing your toughest rival with a flip-flopping monkey. You said he represented...
RIP Jon Huntsman's Campaign, 2011–2012 →
motherjones:
You’re Jon Huntsman. You like to play the keyboard and talk about young people things, like rock music. You once called called Mitt Romney a “perfectly lubricated weather vane”—a pretty good line—and said he was running for “the Waffle House” instead of the White House. You cut an advertisement juxtaposing your toughest rival with a flip-flopping monkey. You said he represented...
After a date rape (by a "poet") during a trip to... →
motherjones:
“The Way It Was”: Abortion in the US before Roe v. Wade.
If I woke up from a coma and a guy that looked...
#8. Gregory T. Angelo (Log Cabin Republican) -...
100interviews:
Photo: ontopmag.com
It would not be unusual to find Gregory T. Angelo at a Kiwanis club in Missouri standing in front of a room full of people who think he is an abomination of the Lord.
Or maybe at a church in Mississippi shaking hands with people whose fathers and grandfathers would have shunned him or worse. Or making good with people who simply, have never met “one of...
100 Interviews: THE FINISHED LIST →
100interviews:
1. Someone who pickets abortion clinics 2. A Buddhist priest 3. Someone whose family is in another country 4. A transgender person 5. Someone who married their high school sweetheart 6. Someone who is remaining a virgin until marriage 7. A porn actor/actress 8. Someone…
MURK AVENUE: I FOUND ICE CUBES 'GOOD DAY' →
motherjones:
murkavenue:
CLUE 1: “went to short dogs house, they was watching Yo MTV RAPS” Yo MTV RAPS first aired: Aug 6th 1988 CLUE 2: Ice Cubes single “today was a good day” released on: Feb 23 1993 CLUE 3: ”The Lakers beat the Super Sonics” Dates between Yo MTV Raps air date AUGUST 6 1988 and the release…
Not really sure what to say, except…Thanks?
"He came up from nothing. His father immigrated... →
motherjones:
A Florida voter defends his candidate, Mitt Romney, to Slate’s Dave Weigel.
We give up.
“She did the Secretary of State job, she was a G, she held it down, she didn’t...”
– Ice-T, on why Hillary Clinton will be the first female president
The best part about this story is that the Huffington Post (via the AP) decided to explain to us what a “G” is. In case you didn’t know — it’s “the hip-hop term for gangster (a positive thing)”.
(via newsweek)
