all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned
Buried on Page 31 of the [US Senate Finance Committee’s policy reform document] was a proposal to “Modify the Requirements for Tax-Exempt Hospitals,” which would require nonprofit hospitals to maintain minimal levels of charitable...
Baruch Spiegel / colonisation / Eretz Yisrael Hashlemah / ha-Aretz ha-Muvtachat / Israel / Nahal / occupation / Palestine / settlement / ×רץ ישר×ל השלמה / ×”×רץ המובטחת
by mike · Published 2009-06-16
Most settlers take out long-term mortgages on units in multistory apartment buildings. Detached, single-family homes are hard to find in the densely populated settlements. Low-price rentals are often available directly from the state, sometimes...
Ayers / diacetylmorphine / Diamorphine / heroin / medicine / morphine / paediatrics / pediatrics / pharmaceuticals
by mike · Published 2009-06-13
Kids Go Wild For Ayers Cherry Morphine Soothers!
1980s / BASIC / Electric Pencil / home computer / James Fallows / PC / personal computer / Processor Technology / SOL-20 / The Atlantic / word processing
by mike · Published 2009-06-11
The Processor Technology SOL-20 came into my life when Darlene went out. … I simply type on the keyboard and the words appear on the screen … It is faster to type this way...
Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad / George Tiller / Quinton Ezeagwula / Scott Roeder / terrorism / terrorist / United States / US Army / USA / William Long
by mike · Published 2009-06-11
Two men, one Christian and the other Muslim, commit murder just one day apart in the United States. Both appear to have been motivated by their religious beliefs. The Christian murderer is Scott Roeder...
abortion / doctor murders / George Tiller / Kansas / reproductive choice / Scott Roeder / terrorism / terrorist
by mike · Published 2009-06-01
A Kansas doctor who managed a late-term abortion clinic in Kansas was assassinated by a lone gunman while ushering at his local church. He had survived earlier bomb and multiple gunshot attempts. Abortion doctor...
anatomy / Damon Knight / medical school / medicine / poison / surgery / To Serve Man / toxicology
by mike · Published 2009-05-26
Updates have been completely absent for an age now. I was distracted by a pressing need to pass the final year of “book learning” in medical school, and right around the end of November...
artificial insemination / bestiality / farming / food / industrial farming / semen / Thanksgiving / turkeys
by mike · Published 2008-11-24
Today’s domesticated turkeys are anatomically manipulated to be so heavy and large breasted … that they are now incapable of breeding naturally. Practically all of the turkeys raised commercially in the United States are...
Al Qaeda / Iraq / Nouri al-Maliki / Shiite / Sunni
by mike · Published 2008-11-16 · Last modified 2008-11-24
Nouri al-Maliki wants US troops out of Iraq. He leads a Shiite coalition comprised of religious parties, including his own Dawa party, which is committed to making Iraq into a Shiite Islamic state. Like...
collaborative filtering / death metal / goregrind / grindcore / Last.FM / noisecore / porngrind
by mike · Published 2008-11-13
Last.FM’s recommendation stream is usually pretty good at finding music I haven’t heard before and might like but every so often it goes crazy. Like a few weeks ago when it suddenly started pushing...
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