On Consent - Yes This post is about Sex

Is Anal Sex The New Dealbreaker? — The Good Men Project: "**To be clear, “you said that you don’t want to because anal sex hurts, but it doesn’t hurt if you go slow and use lots of lube, which we will, and if it ever hurts just say so and we’ll stop immediately” is good consent. “Please baby, just once, for me?” is not."

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On Fighting Back

Daily Kos: Boo-effing-hoo, for the bully Mitt Romney: "Romney won the Republican primaries by vastly outspending his opponents, and going overwhelmingly negative against them, which is what one does when one can't go overwhelmingly positive about oneself, because oneself is a petty, boorish ass. But Mitt isn't used to anyone being able to fight back. He isn't used to having to abide by accepted standards of behavior. This is all so painful and ugly. You people should just hand Mitt the keys to the White House. Since Versailles isn't available. "

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On The Turing Test

Computational Complexity: Is the Turing Test Still Interesting?: "In a couple of years it will be clear that computers easily pass the Turing test. It will be another milestone, like beating humans at Chess and Jeopardy. The computers won't be any more intelligent by passing the test but they will be more useful. And I'll take useful over intelligent any day. "

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Obama On Romney's Tax Plan

President Obama Throws Down The Gauntlet in New Hampshire | Crooks and Liars: "Governor’s Romney tax plan - this is not my analysis now - this is the analysis of independent folks who analyze tax plans for a living. That’s what they do. Their analysis showed that Governor Romney's tax plan would actually raise taxes on middle class families with children by an average of $2,000. Not to reduce the deficit, not to grow jobs, not to invest in education, but to give another tax cut to folks like him. "

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About Voter Fraud

Who Can Vote? - A News21 2012 National Project: "Two thousand cases of election fraud that could have been prevented by voter ID laws? Actually, no. The cases reported to News21 from all the public-records requests cover a dozen different kinds of election illegalities and irregularities. Only one of those categories — impersonation of another voter at a voting place — involves the kind of fraud that Election Day voter ID laws could prevent. And only 10 such cases over more than a decade were reported to News21 by election officials and prosecutors across the country. During that time, 146 million Americans were registered to vote."

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Stanton Friedman On Flying Saucers

A film by a friend and former classmate, Paul Kimball.

More on that Social Contract Thing

David Simon | Mitt Romney paid taxes at a rate of at least 13 percent. And he’s proud to say so.: "Can we stand back and pause a short minute to take in the spectacle of a man who wants to be President of The United States, who wants us to seriously regard him as a paragon of the American civic ideal, declaiming proudly and in public that he has paid his taxes at a third of the rate normally associated with gentlemen of his economic benefit."

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