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TO INFINITY AND BEYOND. Frankly.

(via Vanity Fair)

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Amanda Marcotte: 

The Academy just really prefers to stick with what they know, and handsome white movie stars are their comfort food.

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I’m one of fourteen Americans who has never watched an entire episode of “Sex and the City.” The high heels and extreme grooming, the squealing girl talk, the pursuit of men—booooring. Give me a rerun of The Wire any day.

So I had to be brought up to cultural speed when Cynthia Nixon, who played the show’s sexy lawyer Miranda, made a little splash in The New York Times Magazine this past weekend by saying that, for her, being gay is a choice. Of course, the preferred LGBT movement line is that we were all “born this way”—and so her comments sent the Maoist portions of the LGBT thought police into an angry buzzing fury.

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— E.J. Graff, Cynthia Nixon, Gay and Proud

think-progress:

BREAKING: Newt Gingrich pledges to have a permanent base on the moon by the end of his second term.

mildly exciting.

Jaime Fuller:

The State of the Union will never hold as much sway with Congress or the public as it did during the “golden age of television,” but by pushing directly for votes from the public instead of Congress, he found the least bad way to use the damaged presidential tool he inherited, which unfortunately means going light on policy and heavy on campaign-winning platitudes. And you can thank Jersey Shore and Hoarders for that. 

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inothernews:

motherjones:

Congress, did you hear that? #SOTU

GETTING RICH IS SOOOOOO BIPARTISAN.

Spare change we can believe in.

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E.J. Graff:

Whether or not women should pay for having sex—whether financially or through pregnancy—has been, shall we say, a hot topic for centuries. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the U.S. birth rate dropped dramatically because of new technologies (rubber condoms, that invention of Goodyear). Teddy Roosevelt decried contraception as “race suicide.” Margaret Sanger went to jail for keeping women from withering and dying from gestating and delivering one after another bundle of joy. Late 19th and early 20th century pundits said the nation would become a bordello if anyone could have sex without consequences, and warned of the death of the American family. Not until 1965, in the landmark case Griswold v. Connecticut, did the United States Supreme Court declare that states had no right to ban the purchase of contraception, saying it violated citizens’ right to marital privacy, which was “intimate to the degree of being sacred.” (Declaring sex to be sacred? Moral crusader Anthony Comstock rolled over in his grave.) Seven years later, in Eisenstadt v. Baird, the Supreme Court struck down Massachusetts’ ban on distributing birth control to single women. Roe v. Wadegets all the love/hate, but Griswold and Baird changed more women’s lives. 

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tpmmedia:

U.S. Navy SEALs have rescued an American and a Danish hostage from Somali pirates after they had been held for months. The same SEAL team that raided Osama bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan carried out this raid, the AP reports. President Obama seemed to refer to the raid ahead of Tuesday’s State of the Union address, telling Panetta, “Good job tonight.”

Obama is seen in this White House photo phoning Jessica Buchana’s father John last night to inform him of her rescue.

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(Source: barackobamic)

"Hi. I’m Jerry. I’m a person.” Jerry Greenfield, co-founder of Ben and Jerry’s Homemade Ice Cream, introduced himself to the crowd with a smile. “Ben and Jerry’s Homemade Ice cream: not a person."

— Sarah Harris, “Vermonters United”