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make porn, not guns?

Florida State House Declares Porn Is Health Risk, Assault Weapons Totally Fine Though

Yeah, the headline is provocative, but if more porn = more people…err…”keeping busy at home” instead of plotting to go on rampages…

…seems to me that the health risk is letting the Florida House make sensible decisions.

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well that would explain a lot…

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the truth about post-truth

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word of the day – kakistocracy

I hate that I know this word or that it even exists. Kakistocracy is a government where the worst person/people is/are in power.

According to the online etymology dictionary, it’s:

“government by the worst element of a society,” 1829, coined (by Thomas Love Peacock) on analogy of its opposite, aristocracy, from Greek kakistos “worst,” superlative of kakos “bad” (which perhaps is related to the general Indo-European word for “defecate;” see caco-) + -cracy. Perhaps the closest word in ancient Greek was kakonomia “a bad system of laws and government,” hence kakonomos “with bad laws, ill-governed.”

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what’s a “book”?

books!

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vote for beer

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I’d rather vote for the most qualified person who’s too busy to have a beer with me…

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this election…

2016 election

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FBI delays case against Apple

FBI translation: um…err…sorry, (nervous laugh)…nevermind…sorry we wasted taxpayers’ money, and sorry that by forcing Apple to spend money on lawyers, we’re also responsible for eroding shareholder value and potentially making future Apple devices juuust a bit more expensive…our bad…

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“just one phone”…ORLY?

All you really need to read if you believe that “just one phone” is somehow a compelling *or* realistic argument is right here:

…New York City police commissioner, William J. Bratton, and the Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., criticized Apple after it refused to comply with the court order and said that they currently possessed 175 iPhones that they could not unlock.

Charlie Rose recently interviewed Mr. Vance and asked if he would want access to all phones that were part of a criminal proceeding should the government prevail in the San Bernardino case.

Mr. Vance responded: “Absolutely right.”

Even people who oppose the Justice Department’s request concede the government made a smart first move, one that could establish precedent to justify more invasive tactics.

“They’ll come up with a reason why for every single phone,” said Chris Finan, a former White House security adviser…

Courtesy of the New York Times.

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the cycle of poverty…

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