Obama supporters court Hispanics by using Romney’s words against him.
via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/11/pro-obama-ad-targets-hispanics-in-swing-states/
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Obama supporters court Hispanics by using Romney’s words against him.
via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/11/pro-obama-ad-targets-hispanics-in-swing-states/
This amazing photo was taken by astronaut Don Pettit on board the International Space Stations—of which you can see a chunk at the top of the frame. It’s part of a whole series of absolutely stunning photos that you need to go check out as soon as you have a free 20 minutes to spend staring at your monitor and going, “Woah,” to yourself over and over.
Here’s what Pettit had to say about the process.
“My star trail images are made by taking a time exposure of about 10 to 15 minutes. However, with modern digital cameras, 30 seconds is about the longest exposure possible, due to electronic detector noise effectively snowing out the image. To achieve the longer exposures I do what many amateur astronomers do. I take multiple 30-second exposures, the ‘stack’ them using imaging software, thus producing the longer exposure.â€
Via Smithsonian, which is where you can find the rest of Don Pettit’s photos.
Nick Ut will commemorate a pair of anniversaries today — both stemming from iconic photographs he snapped of two tearful girls in the throes of terror.
Carl Zimmer in his excellent blog, The Loom:
In the past few weeks, there’s been a string of horrific tales of cannibalism and other zombie-esque behavior in the news. How to explain a handful of reports of people doing the unspeakable? One answer circulating around these days is that it must be parasites. And for some journalists, the question demands a call to the Centers for Disease Control to find out what they’re hiding from us!
1. Andy Campbell of the Huffington Post asked the CDC if some kind of zombie virus was to blame for the recent attacks. On June 1, he reported on HuffPo’s Politics page the following scoop:
“CDC does not know of a virus or condition that would reanimate the dead (or one that would present zombie-like symptoms),†wrote agency spokesman David Daigle in an email to The Huffington Post.
The Huffington Post entitled Campbell’s hard-hitting investigation, “Zombie Apocalypse: CDC Denies Existence Of Zombies Despite Cannibal Incidents.â€Â That’s perhaps the finest deployment of the word despite in the history of journalism.
The story, by the way, received 65,797 likes on Facebook.
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via 3quarksdaily http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2012/06/your-guide-to-zombie-parasite-journalism.html
Joe Eszterhas on his new book, “Heaven and Mel,” about his explosive time with the troubled actor.
via The Daily Beast – Latest Articles http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/06/08/joe-eszterhas-on-his-book-heaven-and-mel-and-his-mel-gibson-ordeal.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thedailybeast%2Farticles+%28The+Daily+Beast+-+Latest+Articles%29
The GOP-controlled House passed a $46 billion measure Thursday funding the Homeland Security Department, including more than $5 billion in disaster relief spending that complies with a budget agreement last summer opposed by tea party conservatives.
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Police believe the ex-porn star may be linked to the murder of a gay former airline worker, whose head, hands and feet were found at the famous LA landmark in January
via mirror – Home http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/cannibal-killer-luka-magnotta-may-be-behind-865988
EXCLUSIVE: CANNIBAL killer suspect Luka Magnotta has been linked to a severed head, hands and feet found in LA
via TheSun.co.uk/News http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4358772/Cannibal-Luka-Magnottas-possible-link-to-LA-murder-investigated.html?OTC-RSS&ATTR=News
It rang while he was speaking on the Senate floor.
via Daily Intel http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/06/chuck-grassley-cell-phone.html
Forget last year’s Slut Walks in Canada, New York’s brightest high school students put together the most badass demonstration ever yesterday—or, as the students dubbed it, “Slutty Wednesday.†Stuyvesant High School students stripped to spaghetti straps and short shorts to protest the school’s new dress code, which was imposed September of last year. The mini-skirt-and-tank-top-wearing smartest kids in the city marched into school with flyers reading “Redress the Dress†and some with examples of the current dress code crossed out with red Xs.
The fresh sartorial regulations are as follows: “Sayings and illustrations on clothing should be in good taste; shoulders, undergarments, midriffs, and lower backs should not be exposed; the length of shorts, dresses, and skirts should extend below the fingertips with the arms straight at your side.†Since September, students have been butting heads with administrators not over the code itself, but “rather…the administration’s faulty, subjective enforcement of the policy,†as Tiffany Phan, a junior, writes in an op-ed in the Stuyvesant student newspaper. The Stuy Spectator is crawling with grievances by students, particularly by female students, who experience the code as being aimed at them directly. They have their students IDs confiscated (evidently some kind of guideline at Stuyvesant High School), and are even given long grey t-shirts to cover their inappropriate dress. Writes senior Jacqueline Krass, “I was advised to ‘think knees,’ or just wear pants. I was released with a warning, and left feeling like I’d been called out for wearing a bikini top to school, or a garter belt. It was an unpleasant, shaming experience.†Senior Lucinda Ventimiglia said an administrator told her, “the dress code was only instituted for [her] protection, because there are a lot of bad men outside school, and if [she were] raped, nobody would be able to take that away…Then, she said, ‘and you want a husband, don’t you?’â€
And so yesterday, in a radical act of free will, Stuyvesant students by the hundreds bared their shoulders and kneecaps. “We’re going to overpower the grey t-shirts,†Madeline Rivera, a senior, told reporters. “We’re outnumbering them now.†Senior Benjamin Koatz, who is credited with having helped organize the protest, is quoted as having said “It’s called ‘Slutty Wednesday’ because it’s not actually slutty.†(I can only wonder if anyone wore anything from Top Shop.)
Anyway, these kids are going to have an awesome time once they get to college, huh? (Image: Stuy Spectator)