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  2. Matt Bors is a great political cartoonist.  He’s in Afghanistan for a month and cartooning and blogging about it.  Pretty cool getting that perspective.

     

  3. Photosynthesizing sea slug!  WEIRD.  Aniplant.

     


  4. Young people reading Robin Givhan’s article on Kagan’s scandalously open knees think they’re reading something hilarious from their grandparents’ stack of dating magazines from the 1950s. When they hear us yelping about racial diversity at the court, they think about the fact that their classrooms are already incredibly diverse and their Facebook friendships span continents. When they hear us shrieking over women’s softball, they shake their Title IX heads and figure we’re just idiots for thinking straight women don’t play sports. And when they hear us whispering behind our hands about whether someone is gay, most of them tell me they think we’re just freaking idiots. Just as they embody Barack Obama’s post-racial America, they identify almost completely with Kagan’s post-gender America—in which womanhood simply isn’t defined by skirts, babies, or boyfriends anymore.

     


  5. Maybe 3,000 less jobs than the old GM/Toyota factory, but hey more green tech in Fremont?  I like this.

     

  6. Motherboard model of Helsinki.

     


  7. Okay, kind of unfair to Arizona businesses that may not support its state’s new law - but suck it, Arizona.

     


  8. This doesn’t help Arizona’s case that the immigration bill isn’t about race.

    The bill was written to target the Chicano, or Mexican American, studies program in the Tucson school system, said state Supt. of Public Instruction Tom Horne.

     

  9. This is always the reaction.

     


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