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@ToolPackinMama Until the Republicans get the Supreme Court to decide that the Comstock Act applies to Plan B.

Which they're openly promising to do.

And it's already been decided that "by mail" doesn't just mean the US Postal Service, it means any common carrier.

@sjvn In the 1970s that kind of patching was a standard requirement for computer science majors. (Along with FORTRAN 🙄.)

@corlin Yeah, right. "Apolitical" just means "the way things are has worked out pretty well for me so don't talk to me about how it might be improved."
I find it hypocritical to talk about "living off the land" when your government took it away from its original inhabitants and now defends your right to it. Living off whose land?

@Same_James And San Francisco means "without frankness," i.e. mealy-mouthed or deceptive. When you know Latin you know everything.

@CJLavoie We had a baby fawn in our front yard once or twice last year. Its mom came up our driveway and made a soft, brief sound very like a cow lowing; baby responded with a calf-like bleat, again soft and short. I don't think either would have been audible more than twenty feet away.

@Bix Yes, we should look at actions, not words. Putin and Kim are making nice with each other, but Putin's giving Kim a Russian car and Kim is retaliating by giving him North Korean ammo.

@BreakingNews It's so refreshing when this court gets something right for a change. But I hope they're not just softening us up for an outrageous Trump immunity ruling.

@mcfate @redenigma This looks to me like one of those jobs where you triple-check the numbers on your pay stub every single time, and never accumulate more vacation time than you can afford to sue for.

On June 23, 1947, The Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 – more commonly known as the Taft-Hartley Act – becomes a federal law when Congress overrides President Harry Truman’s veto. The law prohibited a variety of strikes, boycotts, and picketing; union shops were restricted and states were allowed to pass “right-to-work” laws that outlawed closed union shops. Here are the roots of the many anti-labor platforms of several Republican Party candidates for the U.S. presidency.

@mcfate @redenigma Simple: if you give less than three months' notice, you're fired. That'll learn ya!

Went to the dentist for three small gumline fillings. Not halfway through he asks his collaborating dentist "How'd they miss that one?" ("They"--i.e., him, it's a small practice.) OK, four.
"How about the teeth on the other side, that you were going to schedule later? We have the time now, save yourself a trip."
Uh...it took me years to accumulate the willpower to schedule this phase...but we may as well get it over with.
So eight small fillings in less than an hour. Upper lip still numb.

@LiberalLibrarian Ignore the polls, vote like it’s the apocalypse if Trump wins.

@LiberalLibrarian Actually I think Russia and North Korea are both satrapies to China -- sister satrapies, but who's the older sister?

@aasteppin I wonder how they figured out that the deadly mushrooms were deadly. The deadly Amanitas don't kill you right off; you feel fine for a day or two and then start noticing the effects of severe liver damage. A lot of deaths must have been blamed on witchcraft or bad air or something before anyone thought about the mushrooms the deceased ate the other day.

@rpardee "Since the resolution of the 35-year-old matter, there have been no other moral failures" ... as far as we know.
Part of me wants to give the guy a little slack. Early 20s, I don't care what anyone says, a guy is still an adolescent, barely capable of responsible behavior in most cases.
But his victim was 12 years old. Throw the book at him.

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