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Anonymous asked: What are your thoughts on Libertarians?
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“The kids want to know why the Boy Scouts have this policy. We talk about how people have a variety of beliefs and values. We also talk about how...”
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Three great Tumblrs: Reporthers, Journos of Color, and Flip the News
Here are three great Tumblrs that focus on women and people of color in the...
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Every Friday we get our newly appointed “Obituarian” Josh Eisenberg on the phone with us to inform us on which important figures...
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Yahoo wants to buy Hulu now too. They’re going on an “I lost 50 pounds” shopping spree.
As someone who played a lot of games on Yahooligans as a...
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Apparently, for some, today is Willful Ignorance Day.
Silly me: I thought it was Labor Day.
The first “War on Christmas” was waged almost 400 years ago by our Puritan forefathers. The Pilgrims who came to America in 1620 were outraged by Christmas, partially because it did not originate as a Christian holiday. The upper classes in ancient Rome celebrated Dec. 25 as the birthday of the sun god Mithra. Beyond that, the Puritans considered it historically inaccurate to place the Messiah’s arrival on Dec. 25. They thought Jesus had been born sometime in September. They felt so strongly about the holiday that in New England, they banned Christmas celebrations entirely. Christmas Day was only formally declared a federal holiday in 1870.
