January 2010
Obama expected to mention military gay ban in...
Under a 1993 law, gays and lesbians can serve in the US military if they keep their sexual orientation secret. Obama criticised the law in his 2008 election campaign and promised to repeal it.
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Opponents to lifting the ban argue that it will harm military cohesion and dissuade new recruits.
Dissuading such prejudiced people from joining the armed forces is a sound idea,...
watch big-titted milfs get hardcored 24/7
ragbag:
thus was the subject line of a piece of spam™ that infiltrated my gmail this morning and all i could think was: look at all that inventive anthimeria!
anthimeria is using one word class as a member of a different word class (eg. using a noun for a verb). this literary device is deftly employed not once, not twice, but thrice in the 6-word, ithyphallic spam header.
the noun phrase, big...
Apple Store madness.
lewiskingblog:
Apple stores don’t have “no smoking” signs. Legally they need them but they “ruin the design of the store”, so for every apple store in the UK they pay £50 a day to keep their windows sign free. Crazy shit.
EDIT: I forgot to include the source, it’s a friend who works in the Apple Store in Norwich, The evidence is the fact that they aren’t actually in the windows.
This is just...
Atheist Ireland Publishes 25 Blasphemous Quotes →
inky:
Via travors:
From today, 1 January 2010, the new Irish blasphemy law becomes operational, and we begin our campaign to have it repealed. Blasphemy is now a crime punishable by a €25,000 fine. The new law defines blasphemy as publishing or uttering matter that is grossly abusive or insulting in relation to matters held sacred by any religion, thereby intentionally causing outrage among a...