by matttbastard First they came for the “queers” [sic], then they came for the (apparently heterosexual) Baptist kid trying to take his freakin’ girlfriend to her freakin’ prom: A student at a fundamentalist Baptist school that forbids dancing, rock music, hand-holding and kissing will be suspended if he takes his girlfriend to her public high school prom, his principal said. Despite the warning, 17-year-old Tyler Frost, who has never been to a dance before, said he plans to attend Findlay High School’s prom Saturday. Frost, a senior at Heritage Christian School …
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by matttbastard In a must-read post, Dan Froomkin takes on recent attempts by OG ‘eventheliberal’ Michael Kinsley and pseudo-contrarian Slate guru Jacob Weisberg to whitewash the Bush Admin’s torture record by arguing that “the nation’s collective guilt for torture is so great that prosecution is a cop-out.” Froomkin points out the elephant in the room–and it’s wearing a press pass: While it’s true that the public’s outrage over torture has been a long time coming, one reason for that is the media’s sporadic and listless …
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by matttbastard Get it? Nudge nudge, wink wink? Oh teh irony, indeed, Michele (also, FAIL.) Recommend this post at Progressive Bloggers …
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by matttbastard Three must-reads on the consequences of embracing torture as official US policy at the expense of long-established (if not always consistently applied) American values. Glenn Greenwald: It’s certainly true that Reagan, like most leaders, regularly violated the principles he espoused and sought to impose on others, but still, there is an important difference between (a) affirming core principles of the civilized world but then violating them and (b) explicitly rejecting those principles.  Doing (a) makes you a hypocrite; doing (b) makes you a morally depraved …
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Well, we know the Harper hates women. But Iggy, too? Let’s see.  Iggy supported Harper’s budget which saw a continuation of Harper’s attack on women. And Iggy encouraged the Senate to push it through even though Senators had problems with it. And Iggy’s done nothing to appease women since taking the helm of the Liberal Party of Canada. But now, this seems to ice the cake, so to speak. Grit insiders say the federal Liberals are unlikely to nominate one-third female candidates in the next election and that the new Liberal leader’s main focus is finding winnable …
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I’ve found the ultimate Protools plug-in – a virtual HDRI (high dynamic range imaging) filter. The one I’ve been playing with turns this: into this, with the touch of a button. The plug-in is called ReDynamix by Mediachance. There may be other, better ones. I haven’t really looked, but I can’t seem to stop playing with it. I will post more experiments after I get the hang of this. …
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