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Odin2005

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January 19, 2013

Looks like a good old-fashioned Fargo blizzard, outside.

Snowing like crazy, snow drifting around, and winds of 35mph.

Gonna be -30F on Monday morning.

January 14, 2013

Why do wing-nuts always call the president "Barry"?

I know that was his nickname when he was a kid, but why does it seem like it's only wing-nuts who call him that now? Is it a dog whistle of some kind, a way of calling a black man "boy"?

It is really getting on my nerves.

January 3, 2013

This galaxy looks like the Milky Way's twin

I found this pic on the Hubble's website:



It's almost identical to artist's renderings of the Milky Way I've seen. It's even got the same major arm vs. minor arm pattern as the Milky Way.

January 2, 2013

Since when is tax cuts for 98% of Americans a bad thing?

I've seen several posts moaning about this as a legitimization of Bushism. Which is really fucking stupid.

Tax cuts for the 1% takes money OUT of the real economy.
Tax cuts for the 99% is a Keynesian stimulus that puts money BACK INTO the real economy.

January 1, 2013

I think I understand the anti-psychiatry BS on DU, now

Admitting that SSRIs and other psychiatric medications work would mean admitting that the mind and our thoughts are just the firing of neurons, and that is EVIL MATERIALISM and so is bad in the minds of many people and all the determinism and "scientism" that implies.

January 1, 2013

I think I understand the anti-psychiatry BS on DU, now

Admitting that SSRIs and other psychiatric medications work would mean admitting that the mind and our thoughts are just the firing of neurons, and that is EVIL MATERIALISM and so is bad in the minds of both the New Agers and the mainstream Christians.

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Name: Taylor Selseth
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