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Background: Something Awful commentators react to recently-released footage of then 16-year-old Omar Khadr being cruelly interrogated by Canadian officials at Guantanamo. Their reactions range from sympathetic to death threats—these soft children of privilege who never leave the comfort of their parents’ basement, let alone face unending hell in an illegal […]

If only it’d been in the States. I’m so jealous of Canada right now. (via Amanda.)
Morgentaler among those named to Order of Canada

Gov. Gen. Michaëlle Jean has named a leading abortion rights crusader to the Order of Canada, news that has outraged anti-abortion groups.
Dr. Henry Morgentaler is one of 75 Canadians to receive […]

Water ice and evidence of historic rainfall on Mars.
Smaller, rocky exoplanets near the habitable zone around their stars are being found. For a totally awesome exoplanet slideshow, click here.
(Because I need to think about something other than people right now. Ugh!)

I live right on the commuter train line to DC. Seriously. It would cost me less than ten bucks to attend this thing AND in an environmentally-friendly fashion too! (Okay, plus $95 for the ticket, but still! CHEAP!)
For $95, they do emphasize a refusal to feed you, but you get […]

This totally made my day. From PZ Myers:
I just got an email listing 50 “proofs” for the existence of a god.
You can see the whole list here; I’m just gonna reproduce my absolute favorites. With possibly a little commentary.

2. How do you explain the paranormal, such as people witnessing positive or negative sightings, […]

Via.

As some of you may know, Utah Phillips, the great storyteller, musician, hobo, and Wobbly, passed away last weekend. I posted a bit about him here, but since then, the tributes from friends and Fellow Workers have been pouring in, and I thought I’d share one of the more inspiring with the PunkAss crew.
This is […]

Seriously, I had all the ones in the Solar System memorized when I was six years old. Yeah, back when Pluto (a) was not only a planet but the smallest planet and (b) didn’t have a moon, and when Jupiter only had 9 moons and Saturn only had 12 moons…oh, those were the dayz…
Of […]

You know that asshole giving away his SSN on TV and telling you he can protect yours as good as he protects his?
You’ll be shocked to find that he has 20 drivers licenses and is apparently 67 years old.
“While LifeLock has only publicly acknowledged that Davis’ identity was compromised on one occasion, there are more […]

I’m not much one to blog on news stories, but this deserves a PunkAss mention.
The California Supreme court overturned Proposition 22, the amendment to the California constitution that would ban marriage for lesbians and gays.
And that’s fucking awesome.
Tomorrow, let’s do talk about how this doesn’t do all we might hope. Tomorrow, we can talk about […]

For the last week or so, I’ve been telling people, “you know what I want? I want Jet Set Radio Future and The Itty Bitty Titty Committee to get together and have beautiful, free-running radical lesbian babies.”
Then I saw Mirror’s Edge.

Which isn’t exactly what I had in mind, but still… “Whoa.” Parkour! Fluid movement! The […]