Archive for April 4th, 2010

Whoa! McNabb to Skins?

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According to just-breaking news from Adam Schefter of ESPN, the Birds have agreed to trade DMac to the Skins. I’m guessing that they get the ‘Skins’ second round choice, which would be pick # 37. Trading within the division is really unusual. It’s clear that the Iggles are in rebuilding mode. They’d better have a great draft.

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Pretty Much the Whole Story

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Pretty Much the Whole Story

Courtesy of the Facebook page Ethical Reporters Against Faux News page — this is pretty much what I see when I hear teabaggers explaining why associating with racists and racist language isn’t racist:

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Anniversary of Dr. King’s Assasination

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Anniversary of Dr. King’s Assasination

While many of us are celebrating Easter, Passover, baseball season or at least the fact that this long-coming spring is finally here, we also take a few minutes to remember that on April 4, 1968, Dr.Martin Luther King was assassinated at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee. He was in Tennessee helping the city’s sanitation workers to get a living wage and safer working conditions.

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The Nuance of Studying Same-Sex Behavior in Animals

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The Nuance of Studying Same-Sex Behavior in Animals

This is not a political post, rather it is an anti-political post regarding zoology and how it relates to human beings. In this morning’s New York Times Magazine, Can Animals Be Gay? focuses on one of the largest same-sex Laysan albatross colonies and how it does not relate to human behavior. First and foremost, when […]

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