February 2012
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On The First Amendment. . .
In an escalation of the sometimes fiery language that he has used throughout the race, Mr. Santorum declared that colleges were no longer a “neutral setting” for people of faith and described how he had become sickened after reading John F. Kennedy’s 1960 speech calling for the rigid separation of religion and politics.
“What kind of country do we live in that says only people of nonfaith can...
“…for all the lack of enthusiasm for the extant crop of candidates, no one...”
– How the 2012 Primary Has Revealed a GOP on the Verge of Collapse — New York Magazine
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“In still other words, what if we chose to accept the fact that every few years,...”
– Just Asking, David Foster Wallace
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Settled Debates
Birth Control
“We need to take sensationalism out of this topic so that it can no longer be used by militants who have no real knowledge of the voluntary nature of the program but, rather, are using it as a political stepping stone. If family planning is anything, it is a public health matter.” - George H.W. Bush, 1970 (source)
Evolution
“Of course, like every other man of...
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Thin Mint Milkshake
Me: This is life changing.
Kevin: I'm an architect now
Kevin: (After Lacey tastes) What is your new life going to be?
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On Propaganda & The Mormon Church. . .
The following are my personal opinions relating to the Pro-Mormon ad campaign I have been seeing ads for. I do not believe that anyone should be limited in their religious belief, but I do believe that they should be able to soundly defend their beliefs and that no belief system is above question.
I have a problem with propaganda. The billboards and advertisements proclaiming that “I am a...
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“It doesn’t matter how obscure or arcane or esoteric your place of publication may be: some sweet law ensures that the person who should be scrutinizing your work eventually does so.”
Hitch 22, Christopher Hitchens
I’m not entirely sure he had the Internet and its myriad forms of expression and record keeping in mind when he wrote this, but it is a romantic idea all...
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Cases of Original Jurisdiction in the United...
For the actual wording you can read Section 2 Article 3 of the Constition, but I’ll give a quick summary. The U.S. Supreme Court most often hears cases on an appellate basis only. It can claim original jurisdiction in many types of cases but in practice it has only done so in cases involving two or more states as the parties.
So, what is a young political science major who is taking...
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“When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?”
– John Maynard Keynes
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“I had thought out this sentence, at first it had been a small part of myself....”
– Nausea, Jean-Paul Sartre
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History of the browser user-agent string →
Chrome used WebKit, and pretended to be Safari, and WebKit pretended to be KHTML, and KHTML pretended to be Gecko, and all browsers pretended to be Mozilla
I had thus far been unable to explain to clients why all user-agent strings began with Mozilla, and that is no more! No longer will the marketing analysts be confused by things they shouldn’t worry about anyway.
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lacey replied to your quote: The term “second-party” developer is a common…
BOOOO!!! TEAM KEVIN!!!!!
Traitor! What happened to the solidarity that was Team Alien!?
“The term “second-party” developer is a common misnomer used...”
– Video Game Development Party, Wikipedia Why yes my proving that there could be no second party required looking this up and a twenty minute discussion alienating all others at the party.
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“In January, prodded in part by outrage over a series of articles in the New York...”
– n+1: Raise the Crime Rate
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