hulu: What happens when Congress cuts PBS’ funding and the network becomes more and more reliant on the generosity of viewers like you?  According to Jane Mayer of The New Yorker, censorship, courtesy of a select few with deep pockets who didn’t want a film about income inequality in America aired.  That film, Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream, is currently streaming for free on Hulu.  Check it out and tell us what you think. Saw this on Frontline last year and it made me feel both depressed and furious. Worth seeing again or for the first time.
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What happens when Congress cuts PBS’ funding and the network becomes more and more reliant on the generosity of viewers like you?  According to Jane Mayer of The New Yorker, censorship, courtesy of a select few with deep pockets who didn’t want a film about income inequality in America aired.  That film, Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream, is currently streaming for free on Hulu.  Check it out and tell us what you think.

Saw this on Frontline last year and it made me feel both depressed and furious. Worth seeing again or for the first time.

The traditional marriage laws “reflect a unique social difficulty with opposite-sex couples that is not present with same-sex couples — namely, the undeniable and distinct tendency of opposite-sex relationships to produce unplanned and unintended pregnancies,” wrote Clement, a solicitor general under President George W. Bush. “Unintended children produced by opposite-sex relationships and raised out-of-wedlock would pose a burden on society.

Gay marriage opponents take unusual tack with Supreme Court - latimes.com

o_O This sounds more like an argument to outlaw divorce between heterosexual couples, than banning same-sex marriage since they will apparently not product such “unplanned” burdens on society.

Source: Los Angeles Times

A Democrat is like this really nice aunt who promises to take you to Disney World, but then something always comes up and she never comes through and a Republican is sort of like this really mean uncle who tells you that he can afford Disney World, but then you find out he went without you.
Cory Kahaney stand up, explaining the difference between a Democrat and a Republican to her eight year old on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson 11/27/12

Willful ignorance.

  • GQ: How old do you think the Earth is?
  • MARCO RUBIO: I'm not a scientist, man. I can tell you what recorded history says, I can tell you what the Bible says, but I think that's a dispute amongst theologians and I think it has nothing to do with the gross domestic product or economic growth of the United States. I think the age of the universe has zero to do with how our economy is going to grow. I'm not a scientist. I don't think I'm qualified to answer a question like that. At the end of the day, I think there are multiple theories out there on how the universe was created and I think this is a country where people should have the opportunity to teach them all. I think parents should be able to teach their kids what their faith says, what science says. Whether the Earth was created in 7 days, or 7 actual eras, I'm not sure we'll ever be able to answer that. It's one of the great mysteries.
  • Stitch-n-time: ok, so I actually kind of agree with Rubio. It's not his job as a politician to know a thing about how old the Earth is. It's his job to encourage teachers to teach (in this case, ALL the theories), worry about how to fix the economy, and take care of the nation to the best of his abilities. IMO, it was a good answer.
  • My response: http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2012/11/19/why-marco-rubio-needs-to-know-that-the-earth-is-billions-of-years-old/ -- it matters.

Source: GQ