"An anti-religion sign in the Washington state Capitol has started a firestorm on national television.
Fox News' Bill O'Reilly had an eight-minute segment on his show Tuesday night decrying the inclusion of the atheistic sign along with a holiday tree and a Christian Nativity scene." [Go hometown!] - Jennifer Dittrich
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"A British doctor volunteering in DR Congo used text message instructions from a colleague to perform a life-saving amputation on a boy." - Jennifer Dittrich
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Don't most of the tax dollars there in Seattle go to sports stadiums? I think you're still paying for the demolished Kingdome... - Chris Reed
A large portion do - that's the tax that's set to expire. It isn't a huge amount per person, and largely affects tourists, but I hate to see a limited time tax get extended for something that wasn't planned. To be fair, I'm opposed to public money going to renovate a University sports stadium (even my own alma mater) when that sports program has been extremely profitable. - Jennifer Dittrich
"You ask, What makes it worth defending? and the only answer I can give is this: Freedom to write, freedom to read, freedom to own material that you believe is worth defending means you're going to have to stand up for stuff you don't believe is worth defending, even stuff you find actively distasteful, because laws are big blunt instruments that do not differentiate between what you like and what you don't, because prosecutors are humans and bear grudges and fight for re-election, because one person's obscenity is another person's art.
Because if you don't stand up for the stuff you don't like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you've already lost." - Jennifer Dittrich
omg. I thought Teeth was hysterical. Great nod to classic horror flicks. The audience cringed but had to look too. Awful in so many ways and brilliant, if that's possible. - Shellee
