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02.14.12 - 9:13 PM
Far exceeding their initial goal, progressive groups gathered more than 800,000 signatures in 24 hours of Americans opposed to the Keystone pipeline. The emergency drive is aimed at thwarting a move to revive the project.
02.14.12 - 4:39 PM

For Valentine's Day, the story of creation and God's girlfriend, who feels like she never sees Him. From The New Yorker.

On the first day, God created the heavens and the earth. 'Let there be light,' He said...And God saw that it was good... On the second day, God separated the oceans from the sky... On the third day, God’s girlfriend came over and said that He’d been acting distant lately. 'I’m sorry,' God said. 'Things have been crazy this week at work.' He smiled at her, but she did not smile back. And God saw that it was not good.

02.14.12 - 1:42 PM

In what one admirer called "a concise masterpiece of sanity," U.S. District Judge Fred Biery settled a high-profile case involving prayer in a Texas school, fabulously blasting critics who have "demagogued this case for their own political goals," as in, Newt calling him "un-American." Biery pointedly noted what the case was about - the effort to harmonize competing interests in the First Amendment - and what it was not about: the right to pray.

"Any American can pray seven days a week, 24 hours a day, in private as Jesus taught or in large public events as Mohammed instructed....To those who have prayed for my death: Your prayers will someday be answered, as inevitability trumps probability."

-Abby Zimet
02.14.12 - 11:27 AM

An Israeli military court has rejected the appeal of Khader Adnan, leaving the 33-year-old Palestinian near death as he enters the 60th day of a hunger strike. Amidst hundreds of Palestinian solidarity hunger strikes, calls for international action and pleas from his wife, Adnan vowed to continue his strike on behalf of "my dignity and my people’s dignity."

"The only thing I can do is offer my soul to God...I am confronting the occupiers not for my own sake (but for) thousands of prisoners being deprived of their simplest human rights while the world and international community look on."

-Abby Zimet
02.13.12 - 8:08 PM

The surreal saga of Scott Henson, a (white) Texas political consultant and blogger on the criminal justice system who was stopped, cuffed and questioned by a swarm of Austin police for walking his (black) five-year-old granddaughter home from a roller-skating rink. It was not the first time he's been stopped with her. It seems we - and most notably cops - have a long way to go toward a post-racial America.

-Abby Zimet
02.13.12 - 5:09 PM

Just when you think Fox News can't get any further out there, here comes Liz Trotta proclaiming that pesky feminists who cite appalling figures on sexual assault can't decide if they're "warriors" or "victims" and jeez what did they expect insisting on this "equality" nonsense. Which is worse: Hearing this crap from a woman, or from a Santorum? There will always be idiots. But with national platforms?

-Abby Zimet
02.13.12 - 1:34 PM

Arizona's racist move to ban ethnic studies - ie: real history that includes brown people - and a long list of books pertaining to same may have backfired. Along with a legal fight, activist teachers have launched a month-long initiative, students are holding teach-ins, lists of the books are circulating, librarians have blasted the move and commentators say they're weary of "enduring fools."

-Abby Zimet

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Tuesday February 14, 2012

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