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* master: Adding Mother Jones feeds for testing. Fixing the ghost story unread count bug. Turns out it is a weird condition where a story changes its date after being published, but a user's mark_feed_as_read date is inbetween the new date and the original date, leading to a ghost unread story that can't be read. Fixing errant linkify text bug that resulted in some javascript being executed and overwriting the page. Thanks to @aaronlidman for the help in identifying the bug. Conflicts: assets.yml
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<p>Undaunted by the fiasco of his misogynist diatribe against Sandra Fluke, Rush Limbaugh has aimed his rhetorical bile at another accomplished young woman (via <a href="http://inthesetimes.com/duly-noted/entry/12837/limbaugh_takes_on_tracie_mcmillan_author_of_the_american_way_of_eating/">Lindsay Beyerstein</a>). This time his target is an acquaintance of mine: Tracie McMillan, author of the new book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/American-Way-Eating-Undercover-Applebees/dp/1439171955" target="_blank"><em>The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebees, Farm Fields, and the Dinner Table</em></a>.</p>
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<p>By Limbaughian standards, the anti-McMillan tirade was tepid and banal; he didn't use the word "slut" or demand sex tapes. Yet it drips with the woman-hating idiocy that has become central to the Limbaugh brand. From the the show's <a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/03/06/contrivances_of_the_left_s_attack_on_liberty_the_war_on_women_and_food_justice">transcript</a>, here's the money bit (the rest is running commentary on the recent <em>New York Times</em> review of MacMillan's book, in which a barely coherent Rush seems to be waxing paranoid about an impending government takeover of the food system):</p>
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<p><img align="right" style="border: 1px solid black; margin: 8px 20px 15px 30px;" class="image image-_original" alt="" src="http://www.motherjones.com/files/images/Blog_HSR_California.jpg">Regular readers know that I'm not a fan of the proposed LA-San Francisco high-speed rail project, and as the projected costs have ballooned I've become even less of a fan. But lord almighty, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-bullet-vision-20120308,0,3644887,full.story">stuff like this could change my mind:</a></p>
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<p>What is it with all of these young single white women, overeducated&mdash;doesn&rsquo;t mean intelligent. For example, Tracie McMillan, the author of this book, seems to be just out of college and already she has been showered with awards, including the 2006 James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism. Social justice journalism. This woman who wrote the book on food inequality, food justice, got an award for social justice journalism. She has a B.A. from New York University in political science. She's a political scientist. She's a journalist. She has received awards for social justice journalism, and she has a book out on food justice.</p>
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<p>The fast trains connecting Los Angeles and San Francisco would create new communities of high-density apartments and small homes around stations, reducing the suburbanization of California, rail advocates say. That new lifestyle would mean fewer cars and less gasoline consumption, lowering California's contribution to global warming.</p>
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<p>....Opponents, most of whom are political conservatives, regard the ambitious project as a classic government overreach that will require taxpayer subsidies. <strong>But they also see something more sinister: an agenda to push people into European or Asian models of dense cities, tight apartments and reliance on state-provided transportation.</strong></p>
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<p>...."It is a real movement in California of controlling the masses, controlling land use, deciding where people should live," said Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Tulare). "I oppose that absolutely, because it is a form of left-wing social engineering."</p>
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<p>...."It has nothing to do with transportation. This is entirely social policy," said Rep. Tom McClintock (R-Granite Bay). "It is all about the far left's fever dream to get mother Earth back to a pristine condition by elbowing us into these dense urban cores."</p>
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<p>So who spilled the beans, anyway? Now the whole world knows that we lefties are drooling over the prospect of taking away everyone's homes and engineering a forced march into modern-day high-rise concentration camps where the cable companies don't offer Fox News. All the better to control you with, my sweeties.</p>
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<p>Yeesh. But that's the mindset we're up against. Not <em>we're giving people <u>more</u> lifestyle choices</em> but <em>your lifestyle choice is inherently insulting to the one I prefer</em>. And sweet reason will do little to change this. As Matt Yglesias, one of our most vocal proponents of denser lifestyles, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2012/03/08/the_elusive_quest_for_solutions.html">says,</a> "A lot of the time there's genuinely no substitute for changing people's minds."</p>
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<p style="font-size: 1.083em;"><a href="/tom-philpott/2012/03/rush-lashes-out-another-accomplished-young-woman"><strong><em>Continue Reading &raquo;</em></strong></a></p><div class="service-links"><span><a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Ftom-philpott%2F2012%2F03%2Frush-lashes-out-another-accomplished-young-woman&amp;title=Rush+Lashes+Out+at+Another+Accomplished+Young+Woman" title="Digg this post on digg.com" id="service-links-digg-1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/digg.png" alt="Digg" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span><span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Ftom-philpott%2F2012%2F03%2Frush-lashes-out-another-accomplished-young-woman&amp;t=Rush+Lashes+Out+at+Another+Accomplished+Young+Woman" title="Share on Facebook." id="service-links-facebook-1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/facebook.png" alt="Facebook" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span><span><a href="http://reddit.com/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Ftom-philpott%2F2012%2F03%2Frush-lashes-out-another-accomplished-young-woman&amp;title=Rush+Lashes+Out+at+Another+Accomplished+Young+Woman" title="Submit this post on reddit.com." id="service-links-reddit-1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/reddit.png" alt="Reddit" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span><span><a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Ftom-philpott%2F2012%2F03%2Frush-lashes-out-another-accomplished-young-woman&amp;title=Rush+Lashes+Out+at+Another+Accomplished+Young+Woman" title="Thumb this up at StumbleUpon" id="service-links-stumbleupon-1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/all/modules/patched/service_links/images/stumbleit.png" alt="StumbleUpon" title="" width="16" height="16" /></a>&nbsp;</span></div></description>
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<p>This sound is terrifying even a year later. It's the voice of Japan's 9.0 temblor and its aftershocks. <a target="_blank" href="http://www.eas.gatech.edu/people/Zhigang_Peng">Zhigang Peng</a> at Georgia Tech&rsquo;s School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences converted the quake's seismic waves into sped-up audio files that we can hear.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>The clip above was&nbsp;taken near the coastline of Japan between the nuclear reactor at Fukushima Daiichi and Tokyo. The initial blast is the 9.0 mainshock. Following that you can hear aftershocks, popping sounds, as the earth's plates slip into new positions.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>Here's&nbsp;Peng's recording of the 2011 Japanese earthquake taken from seismic measurements thousands of miles away in California. The quake created subtle movements deep in the San Andreas Fault known as distant triggering.</p>
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<p>You can hear the initial noise, which sounds like thunder and corresponds with the Japanese mainshock. Afterwards a continuous high-pitch sound, like rain turning on and off, reflects continuing tremor activity at the fault, as heard from afar in California.</p>
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<p><a target="_blank" href="http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/06/obama-challenges-republicans-on-iran/?hp">From Barack Obama,</a> on the casual bellicosity toward Iran that's overtaken the Republican Party:</p>
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<p>This is not a game....If some of these folks think we should launch a war, let them say so, and explain to the American people.</p>
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<p>On a related note, <a target="_blank" href="http://prospect.org/article/when-do-reporters-start-calling-mitt-romney-liar">Paul Waldman has a question:</a> "When Do Reporters Start Calling Mitt Romney a Liar?" It's a poser, all right. Romney has repeatedly said that Obama doesn't support sanctions against Iran; that Obama refuses to leave military options open; and that Obama hasn't clearly said that it's unacceptable for Iran to have a nuclear weapon. This isn't a matter of exaggeration or interpretation. These are exactly the things Obama <em>has</em> done. Romney is just flat-out lying.</p>
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<p>On the other hand, Obama has also made it clear that he thinks war is a last resort, not a first. Romney could truthfully say that about him. But as Obama says, if that's his position, maybe he ought to step up to the plate and let everyone know.</p>
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<p><em>This <a target="_blank" href="http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175512/tomgram%3A_eyal_press%2C_chilling_dissent_on_wall_street/">story</a> first appeared on the </em><a target="_blank" href="http://www.tomdispatch.com/">TomDispatch</a><em> website.</em></p>
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<p>What's worse: to be persecuted and indicted for trying to expose an act of wrongdoing&mdash;or to be ignored for doing so?</p>
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<p>Whistleblowers have been under intense scrutiny in Washington lately, at least when it comes to the national security state. In recent years, the Obama administration has <a target="_blank" href="http://www.tomdispatch.com/archive/175500/peter_van_buren_silent_state">set a record</a> by accusing no fewer than six government employees, who allegedly leaked classified information to reporters, of violating the Espionage Act, a draconian law dating back to 1917. Yet when it comes to workers who have risked their careers to expose misconduct in the corporate and financial arena, a different pattern has long prevailed. Here, the problem hasn't been an excess of attention from government officials eager to chill dissent, but a dearth of attention that has often left whistleblowers feeling no less isolated and discouraged.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.tomdispatch.com" target="_blank"><span class="inline inline-left"><img width="100" height="33" class="image image-preview" title="" alt="" src="http://motherjones.com/files/images/tdispatch-notch.jpg"></span></a>Consider the case of Leyla Wydler, a broker who, back in 2003, sent a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) about her former employer, the Stanford Financial Group. A year earlier, it had fired her for refusing to sell certificates of deposit that she rightly suspected were being misleadingly advertised to investors. The company, Wydler warned in her letter, "is the subject of a lingering corporate fraud scandal perpetrated as a 'massive Ponzi scheme' that will destroy the life savings of many, damage the reputation of all associated parties, ridicule securities and banking authorities, and shame the United States of America."</p>
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<p>It was a letter that should have woken the dead and, as it happened, couldn't have been more on target. Wydler didn't stop with the SEC either. She also sent copies to the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), the trade group responsible for enforcing regulations throughout the industry, as well as various newspapers, including the<em> Wall Street Journal </em>and the<em> Washington Post</em>. No one responded. No one at all.</p>
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<p><em>Are the United States and Iran on a collision course over the Middle Eastern country's controversial nuclear program? We'll be posting </em><a target="_blank" href="http://motherjones.com/category/secondary-tags/iran-war-watch"><em>the latest news on</em></a><em> Iran-war fever&mdash;the intel, the media frenzy, the rhetoric.</em></p>
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<p>The following will sound a lot like a scene from <a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqhnIZ2kd54"><em>Kung Fu Panda</em></a>. It happened during the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/05/us-usa-israel-obama-idUSTRE8230EM20120305">high-profile meeting</a> between President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Monday.</p>
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<p>Bloomberg's <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/#!/jferziger">Jonathan Ferziger</a> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-05/netanyahu-gives-obama-purim-scroll-on-ancient-persian-plot-during-meeting.html">has the story</a>:</p>
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<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave President Barack Obama a Purim Megillah scroll, which tells the story of how Jews prevailed over a plot to kill them in ancient Persia, which is present-day Iran.</p>
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<p>Netanyahu gave Obama the gift...during a White House meeting, two days before the Jewish holiday of Purim begins.</p>
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<p>A true-sounding aside from Alex Pareene: "Rick Santorum is the 2016 GOP nomination frontrunner." It's true because the runner-up of the last Republican primary always starts off with an advantage. McCain 2008. Dole 1996. Bush 1988. Reagan 1976. Romney looked like the candidate most likely to break the trend, but no longer.</p>
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<p>In case you're not familiar with the details of said Hebrew scroll: The Megillah, commonly known as the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.beingjewish.com/yomtov/purim/esther_intro.html">Book of Esther</a>, is the part of the Hebrew Bible that tells the story of how a hard-partying Persian king was convinced by an evil adviser that it'd be fun to decimate the Jewish minority population in his dominion. He declares a government holiday in the month of Adar during which his subjects are given carte blanche to murder Jews and steal their property. Long-story-short, the Jews do a fantastic job of defending themselves against the state-sponsored onslaught, and then proceed to commit a <a target="_blank" href="http://jreuter.hubpages.com/hub/The-Book-of-Esther-Its-Canonization-Historicity-and-Relevance">hugely successful counter-slaughter</a>&nbsp;of the Persians. (This bit of Biblical spin has long since found a home in the annals of <a target="_blank" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2010/dec/27/iranian-antisemitism-graves-jewish-saints">fascist and far-right propaganda</a>.)</p>
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<p>Flash forward a couple dozen centuries, and the Jews now have something of a home-plate advantage over Persian foes: They are the regional superpower. They have <a target="_blank" href="http://motherjones.com/mojo/2012/03/iran-war-watch-obama-aipac-speech-reactions">backing</a> of the only global superpower. The track record of the Israeli <a target="_blank" href="http://www.cnas.org/blogs/abumuqawama/2010/06/two-thoughts-israel.html">military</a>&mdash;and <a target="_blank" href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-07-04-palestinian-pressure_x.htm">special ops</a> forces&mdash;has achieved a <a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doX2E1vNtY8">Hollywood</a>-<a target="_blank" href="http://www.cracked.com/article_19178_9-absurd-movie-premises-that-actually-happened.html">level</a> of renown. Oh, and one other thing: <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_and_Israel#Stockpile">They have nuclear bombs</a>.<strong><br></strong></p>
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<p>Maybe! This is why I sort-of-but-not-really-but-then-again-maybe-seriously want Rick Santorum to win the nomination this year. The only hope for the future of the Republican Party is to finally nominate the conservative of their dreams and then go down to an epic, ego-shattering defeat. It would, perhaps, pound some sense into them and finally give the party's moderates the backbone they need to wrest control away from the Limbaugh/Fox/Dobson/Norquist brigade. But if they nominate Romney and lose? Then, once again, it will be because they denied the one true faith. And that could, I suppose, make Santorum the frontrunner for 2016. Buckle up.</p>
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<p>Katherine Mangu-Ward thinks people are freaking out way too much over Google's plan to aggregate personal information about its users <a target="_blank" href="http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/03/take-my-privacy-please-a-defense-of-google/254159/">across all its platforms:</a></p>
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<p>As it happens, we know how much people value their privacy: They'll sell information about every prescription they fill at CVS &mdash; or every pint of Haagen Dazs at Safeway &mdash; in exchange for a steady infusion of $1 coupons. They'll hand <img align="right" style="border: 1px solid black; margin: 20px 20px 15px 30px;" class="image image-_original" alt="" src="http://www.motherjones.com/files/images/blog_surveillance_0.jpg">off information about the timing of their daily commute in exchange for a couple of minutes saved at a toll booth every day. They'll let Amazon track their diaper and book purchases because they would rather not re-enter their credit card number every time they want to buy something.</p>
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<p>This is totally true. I happen to think that most people don't take this seriously enough, but who cares what I think? If you're willing to sell information about your buying habits to the highest bidder, there's no reason I should be able to stop you. She's also right about this:</p>
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<p>But if you're more skeeved than pleased, consider letting your brain overpower your gut here. This is a fact you cannot change: All the free stuff on the Internet is possible because you slap your eyeballs on some ads from time to time. If Google and other retailers can't scrape and sort your data to offer a few well targeted ads, there are two other viable choices: 1) Less of the free stuff you like. Like this blog. It might stop being free. For instance. 2) More ads in the throw-spaghetti-at-the-wall-and-see-what-sticks school. Think: those annoying dancing silhouette gals selling cheap mortgages.</p>
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<p>In fact, because of the fundamental failure of the online advertising model, more and more of the web is inaccessible all the time. Archives are unavailable, news sites are behind paywalls, etc. That's a pain in the ass for someone like me.</p>
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<p>So, yeah, maybe some targeted ads are a small price to pay for all this stuff being collected. And if targeted ads were the only thing to be worried about, I wouldn't be worried. But I don't think you need to have a very active imagination to figure out that both the public and private sectors can eventually do a whole lot more with this stuff than learn what brand of ice cream you like. Just as they can use it to offer you services, they can also use it to deny you services. They can use it to discriminate in subtle ways that are putatively based on data mining, not race/sex/ethnicity. They can use it to make decisions about who should and shouldn't be allowed to fly on airplanes. They can sell it to marketers <a target="_blank" href="http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/02/why-i-dont-want-target-know-quite-so-much-about-me">somewhat less scrupulous</a> than Procter &amp;&nbsp;Gamble. They can subpoena it in divorce cases. They can make it a part of massive NSA-run surveillance programs.</p>
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<p>It's not the targeted ads I mind. It's everything that comes <em>after</em> targeted ads that I mind. I'd suggest that the rest of us ought to mind it a little more too.</p>
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<p>In his <em>New York Times</em> dispatches from across the Middle East, Anthony Shadid&mdash;a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner&mdash;cuts a swashbuckling figure. In the last year alone, he braved tear gas and live fire in <a target="_blank" href="http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/01/whats-happening-egypt-explained">Egypt</a>, was <a target="_blank" href="http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/02/whats-happening-libya-explained">kidnapped by Qaddafi's thugs in Libya</a>, and <a target="_blank" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/magazine/syrias-sons-of-no-one.html?_r=1&amp;pagewanted=all">secretly traversed Syria's killing fields</a> by motorcycle. <em>House of Stone</em> casts the correspondent in a softer light, recalling his 2007 return to his ancestral village in southern Lebanon to rebuild his great-grandfather's abandoned home&mdash;and perhaps piece together his own wayward life in the process. At once outsider and native son, Shadid elegantly reflects on the violent splintering of the once-vibrant Levant and its uphill struggle to reclaim its dwindling notions of regional identity.</p>
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<p><strong><em>Editor's Note</em></strong><em>: </em>Anthony Shadid <a target="_blank" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/17/world/middleeast/anthony-shadid-a-new-york-times-reporter-dies-in-syria.html">died of an asthma attack</a> in February while reporting for the <em>New York Times </em>inside Syria. Shortly before his death, he spoke with <em>Mother Jones</em> about <em>House of Stone</em>, Syria's future, and the high cost of getting the story in a war zone. <a target="_blank" href="http://motherjones.com/politics/2012/01/anthony-shadid-libya-syria-house-of-stone">You can read Shadid's interview with <em>Mother Jones</em> here</a>.</p>
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<p>The latest issue of the <em>Journal of Psychiatric Research</em> includes a scathing critique of a 2009 study it published linking abortion to a variety of mental health problems. Via the <em>New York Times</em> blog <a href="http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/05/study-linking-abortion-and-mental-health-problems-is-called-false/"><em>Motherlode</em></a>, the article states that the data the authors of the study relied on doesn't actually support their "assertions that abortions led to psychopathology."</p>
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<p>As Republican lawmakers have pushed ever <a target="_blank" href="http://motherjones.com/mojo/2012/03/transvaginal-ultrasounds-coming-soon-state-near-you">more intrusive</a> and <a target="_blank" href="http://motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/republican-war-birth-control-contraception">expansive</a> uterus-related legislation, some of their colleagues across the aisle have fired back with intentionally and equally ridiculous counterproposals. From mandatory rectal exams for guys seeking Viagra to prohibitions on sperm-stifling vasectomies, most of these male-only provisions have, unsurprisingly, flopped. But they've scored big as symbolic gestures, spotlighting the inherent sexism of laws that only regulate lady parts.</p>
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<p>That <a target="_blank" href="https://motherjones.com/files/coleman_et_al._jpr.pdf">2009 study</a> linked conditions like panic disorder, panic attacks, PTSD, agoraphobia, bipolar disorder, mania, major depression, and alcohol and drug abuse to women who have had abortions. The paper, from lead author Priscilla Coleman of Bowling Green State University, has been <a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2008/11/28/nat-4617/">touted by anti-abortion groups</a> and deployed to support <a href="http://www.guttmacher.org/statecenter/spibs/spib_OAL.pdf">state laws</a> requiring doctors to warn women of potential health problems before they can have an abortion in places like <a href="http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/02/south-dakota-abortion-crisis-pregnancy-center-bill">South Dakota</a>.</p>
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<p>Some of the tongue-in-cheek ideas introduced across the country:</p>
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<p><strong>Delaware:</strong> By an 8 to 4 vote, the Wilmington, Delaware, city council <a target="_blank" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/02/wilmington-city-council-sperm-egg-personhood_n_1316924.html%20">recognized the personhood of semen</a> because "each 'egg person' and each 'sperm person' should be deemed equal in the eyes of the government."</p>
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<p>But the results just don't hold up, <a href="https://motherjones.com/files/j.jpsychires.2012.01.019.pdf" target="_blank">according to a critique</a> from Julia Steinberg, an assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of California-San Francisco, and Lawrence Finer, the director of domestic research with the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive rights group. For one thing, they report, the paper failed to factor in whether the women included in the study had exhibited those mental health problems <em>before</em> having an abortion. Steinberg and Finer reevaluated the data Coleman and her colleagues relied on and found that the conclusions in the paper were not supported by the data. "These deficiencies are fundamental analytical errors that were incorrectly presented in the original paper," they write, "&hellip; not a scholarly difference of opinion."</p>
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<p>This is <a target="_blank" href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/mitt-romneys-advice-for-obamacare-look-at-romney">yesterday's news,</a> but I just now got around to reading Mitt Romney's <em>USA&nbsp;Today</em> op-ed from 2009 in which he criticized the way healthcare reform was being designed and recommended that Obama look instead to <a target="_blank" href="http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20090730/column30_st.art.htm">Romney's healthcare reform in Massachusetts:</a></p>
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<p>With more than 1,300 health insurance companies, a federal government insurance company isn&rsquo;t necessary. It would inevitably lead to massive taxpayer subsidies, to lobbyist-inspired coverage mandates [etc.]....Our experience also demonstrates that getting every citizen insured doesn&rsquo;t have to break the bank. First, we established incentives for those who were uninsured to buy insurance. Using tax penalties, as we did, or tax credits, as others have proposed, encourages &ldquo;free riders&rdquo; to take responsibility for themselves rather than pass their medical costs on to others.</p>
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<p>So Romney's advice is to (a) avoid mandates and instead (b) use tax penalties to encourage the uninsured to buy insurance. And he's specifically recommending this as a model for national legislation.</p>
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<p>But this is, of course, exactly what PPACA does. If you don't have insurance, you have to pay a tax penalty. That's how the mandate is enforced. And it's what Romney recommended Obama do.</p>
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<p>At this point I guess it doesn't matter. Everyone knows perfectly well that Romney shepherded through a healthcare reform bill in Massachusetts that included a mandate, and everyone knows that he used to point to it as a model for the whole country. And either you care about this, or else you've already decided to shrug your shoulders and just accept Romney's obfuscations on the subject. Still, it's pretty remarkable that he's getting away with it. As recently as two years ago, he thought that a mandate enforced by a tax penalty was aces. Today he thinks it's the gravest threat to the country since Pearl Harbor. Go figure.</p>
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<p>So how are those Iranian oil sanctions going? Stuart Staniford took a crack at figuring it out yesterday, but luckily for me I got busy with other stuff and didn't link to his post. "Luckily" because he's now spent several hours obsessing even more over Iranian production data and has what he thinks is a more reliable look at how much oil Iran is producing. The chart is below. <a target="_blank" href="http://earlywarn.blogspot.com/2012/03/better-iranian-oil-production-chart.html">Stuart's conclusion:</a></p>
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<p>My interpretation of the [data] is that Iran used to be able to produce about 4mbd of oil. They voluntarily reduced production following the 2001 recession (in line with the behavior of other OPEC nations at the time). However, while the reduction at the end of 2008 may also have been voluntary, the fact that they've made no increase in production in 2011 &mdash; the opposite in fact &mdash; suggests they've lost the capacity to produce (or at least export) that much oil. I assume this is due to western sanctions.</p>
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<p>Whether the sanctions are "working" depends on whether you think we ought to be pressuring Iran over its nuclear program. But that's certainly what the Obama administration wants to do, and judged on their own terms it looks like the sanctions are working. If Iran really has been forced to reduce production by 400,000 bbd, that comes to about $40 million per day, or $14 billion per year. Depending on how you count, that amounts to about 2-3% of GDP.</p>
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<p><strong>UPDATE:</strong> But even if oil production is down, isn't that more than made up for by higher prices caused by the sanctions in the first place? Maybe. It depends on how much oil Iran sells on the spot market and how much is tied up in long-term contracts. I don't if anyone really knows that, and I don't know what the terms of Iran's long-term contracts are anyway. So this is, admittedly, a bit of a crapshoot. Either way, though, Iran certainly seems to be selling less than they could if the sanctions didn't exist.</p>
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<p>Are you a slut? It's a question that, to be perfectly honest, we would have felt more than a little uncomfortable asking as recently as a few weeks ago.&nbsp;For one, there's the word itself&mdash;as misogynistic an insult as you could conjure. And there wasn't much of a peg, what with the rest of the world focused on more pressing issues, like Israel's threats of conflict with Iran, and jokes about Mitt Romney's dog (<a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/03/05/147982460/new-yorker-cover-puts-new-twist-on-old-romney-shaggy-dog-story" target="_blank">this</a> is a particularly good one).</p>
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<p>But then conservative icon Rush Limbaugh&mdash;<a href="http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/rush-limbaughs-dominican-stag-party" target="_blank">who was once caught trying to bring 29 100 mg Viagra pills with him to the Dominican Republic</a>&mdash;spent three days ripping into Georgetown&nbsp;law student Sandra Fluke (rhymes with "look"), calling her a "slut" and a "prostitute" for testifying before Congress about birth control, and suggesting that he'd like her to send him a sex tape. The #iamnotaslut Twitter campaign went viral; Limbaugh began losing sponsors (20, at last count). And now we can't seem to talk about anything else <em>but</em> "sluts." Seriously, just <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeedpolitics/chart-the-great-slut-spike-of-2012" target="_blank">take a look at this chart</a> from&nbsp;BuzzFeed.</p>
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<p><b>Virginia:</b> As the state Senate debated <a target="_blank" href="http://motherjones.com/mojo/2012/03/why-virginias-new-mandatory-ultrasound-law-still-sucks">requiring transvaginal ultrasounds</a> for women seeking abortions, Sen. Janet Howell proposed mandating rectal exams and cardiac stress tests for men seeking erectile dysfunction meds. Her amendment failed by just two votes.</p>
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<p><strong>Georgia:</strong>&nbsp;Responding to a Georgia<b> </b>house bill banning abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, Rep. Yasmin Neal wrote a bill <span>outlawing most vasectomies because they leave "<a target="_blank" href="http://www1.legis.ga.gov/legis/2011_12/versions/hb1116_LC_21_1703_a_2.htm%20">thousands of children&hellip;deprived of birth.</a>"</span></p>
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<p>The national conversation about sluts of 2012 hasn't really given us much clarity&mdash;but it has given a variety of commentators a platform from which to disseminate their definition of "slut." Which, it turns out, is really, <em>really</em> broad. Fluke&mdash;who noted in her testimony about contraception access that she has a friend who uses the pill out of medical necessity&mdash;has been maligned for oversharing about her sex life, which she didn't even discuss on the Hill. One Georgetown law school classmate of Fluke's <a href="http://motherjones.com/mojo/2012/03/limbaugh-not-only-conservative-who-fails-understand-how-birth-control-works" target="_self">quoted in the <em>National&nbsp;Review</em></a> put it worst: "When did Georgetown Law start admitting Kardashians?"</p>
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<p><strong><span>Ohio: </span></strong><span>A bill introduced by state Sen. Nina Turner would compel men to get psychological screenings before getting prescriptions for impotence meds. </span><span>"</span>We must advocate for the traditional family," Turner <a target="_blank" href="http://www.progressohio.org/blog/2012/03/senator-turner-introduces-legislation-to-protect-mens-health.html">said</a>, "and ensure that all men using PDE-5 inhibitors are healthy, stable, and educated about their options&mdash;including celibacy as a viable life choice.<span>"</span></p>
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<p>So back to that question:&nbsp;Are you a slut? It's a head-scratcher, so we've put together this handy flowchart to help you out:</p>
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<p><strong>Illinois</strong><strong>:</strong> State <span>Rep. Kelly Cassidy proposed requiring men seeking Viagra to watch a video showing <a target="_blank" href="http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/03/02/lawmaker-men-who-want-viagra-should-have-to-watch-graphic-side-effects-video/">the treatment for persistent erections</a>, an occasional side effect of the little blue pill. As she explained, "</span>It's not a pretty procedure to watch."</p>
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<p><strong>Missouri:&nbsp;</strong>Protesting the legislature's vote to reject <a target="_blank" href="http://motherjones.com/mojo/2012/02/obama-birth-control-rule-change-why-its-not-cave">Obama's contraception coverage mandate</a>, nine female lawmakers cosponsored a bill <a target="_blank" href="http://www.kansascity.com/2012/03/02/3465617/female-legislators-introduce-cheeky.html">restricting access to vasectomies</a> except for men risking death or serious bodily harm. "In determining whether a vasectomy is necessary," the bill reads, "no regard shall be made to the desire of a man to father children, his economic situation, his age, the number of children he is currently responsible for, or any danger to his wife or partner in the event a child is conceived."</p>
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<p><strong>Oklahoma:</strong> When a zygote-personhood bill came before the state Senate, Sen. Constance Johnson penned an amendment<strong> </strong>declaring that <a target="_blank" href="http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/02/08/421018/oklahoma-democrat-adds-every-sperm-is-sacred-amendment-to-personhood-bill/">ejaculating anywhere outside a woman's vagina</a> constitutes "an action against an unborn child." Bonus:&nbsp;Johnson <a href="http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=sb1433%20" target="_blank">also suggested</a> that any man who impregnates a woman without her permission should pay a $25,000 fine, support the child until age 21, and get a vasectomy, "in the spirit of shared responsibility." <span>In response to the same bill, state Sen. Jim Wilson <a href="http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=336&amp;articleid=20120207_16_A5_OKLAHO862914&amp;r=7811" target="_blank">proposed</a> an amendment requiring the father of an unborn child to be financially responsible for its mother's health care, housing, transportation, and nourishment during pregnancy.</span><strong><br></strong></p>
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<p><strong>Texas:&nbsp;</strong>Contesting a bill mandating sonograms before abortions, Rep. Harold Dutton unsuccessfully offered<span style="font-style: italic;"> </span>three amendments in a row. The first would have required the state to pay the college tuition of children born to women who decide against an abortion after seeing a required ultrasound image. The second would have subsidized the children's health care costs until age 18. When that failed, he lowered the age to 6. <a href="http://www.texastribune.org/texas-legislature/2011-abortion-sonogram-bill/democrats-attack-abortion-sonogram-bill/" target="_blank">That didn't fly, either</a>.<strong><br></strong></p>
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<p><img align="right" style="margin: 8px 30px 15px 40px;" class="image image-_original" alt="" src="http://www.motherjones.com/files/images/blog_rent_too_damn_high.jpg">I see that the hounds have been let loose on Amazon today. Matt Yglesias has a new eBook out, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Rent-Too-Damn-High-ebook/dp/B0078XGJXO/ref=cm_cr_pr_pb_i"><em>The Rent is Too Damn High</em>,</a> and according to the chart accompanying the Amazon page it's already garnered 24 one-star reviews. Not bad! This reviewer explains what's up:</p>
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<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.metacritic.com/tv/game-change/season-1"><em><strong>Game Change</strong></em><strong><br></strong></a><strong>HBO Films<br>
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<p>If you purchase this book, you'll be putting money in the pocked of a ghoul who revels in the deaths of people he disagrees with politically. Of course, if this is your intention, you're no better than he.</p>
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<p>A few days ago Matt tweeted something nasty about Andrew Breitbart after his death, so now Breitbart's fans &mdash; who obviously haven't read the book and don't care about it &mdash; are surging into Amazon to take their revenge. Isn't the internet wonderful?</p>
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<p>I haven't read the book myself because I'm swamped with other stuff, so I can't say anything in particular about it. However, I'm familiar with Matt's general argument that the high price of city living is an obvious sign that there's high demand for housing in cities, which means that we ought to loosen up zoning and construction regulations and allow more housing to be built. Since cities are engines of economic growth, and bigger cities are even bigger engines, this would be good for everyone. If you want to read his full argument, which I imagine is pretty cogent, it will only set you back $3.99 thanks to the marvel of the Kindle eBook publishing model.</p>
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<p>At its core,<em> Game Change </em>is a Gothic fable in the most classic and traditional sense: A well-intentioned (<a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/category/steve-schmidt/" target="_blank">political</a>) scientist sets out to perform a feat of <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2008/11/05/back-from-the-dead.html" target="_blank">tremendous galvanism</a>. In his pursuit of this <a href="http://douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/11/dreams-of-a-mccain-presidency/" target="_blank">big dream</a>, he inadvertently creates a monster&mdash;one he comes to disown. In a flash, the <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=2Zc3AAAAYAAJ&amp;q=daemon#v=onepage&amp;q=the%20beauty%20of%20the%20dream%20vanished%2C%20and%20breathless%20horror%20and%20disgust%20filled%20my%20heart&amp;f=false" target="_blank">beauty of the dream vanishes, and breathless horror and disgust fills the creator's heart</a>. But too late! The monster is unleashed on the world, leaving a trail of chaos, defeat, and bewilderment in its wake. The scientist later <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/31335.html" target="_blank">confesses</a> at length his confounding regret.</p>
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<p>But none of this matters at Amazon itself. Their review section is merely a place to piss on your political enemies. I suppose that's nothing new, but this is certainly a starker example than usual. Caveat lector.</p>
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<p>In this version, campaign strategist Steve Schmidt is Dr. Victor Frankenstein, John McCain is the corporation that he works for, all of America is the unsuspecting village people, and Sarah Palin is [<a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeZftK2kO6U">cue the music</a>....] the <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein#Name_origins">Adam</a> of Schmidt's labors.</p>
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<p><em>Game Change</em>, which premieres on HBO on Saturday March 10 at 9 p.m. EST to a flurry of Beltway <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0312/73591.html" target="_blank">anticipation</a>, zeros in on the more depressing chapters of the 2008 presidential campaign, namely the <a href="http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/09/joe-mcginniss-sarah-palin-the-rogue" target="_blank">former governor of Alaska and mayor of Wasilla</a>. In adapting the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/11/books/11book.html" target="_blank">bestseller</a> by <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/#!/jheil">John Heilemann</a> and <a target="_blank" href="http://thepage.time.com/">Mark Halperin</a>, the filmmakers jettison much of the 2010 book's inside scoopage&mdash;on the Obama camp, Rudy Giuliani, the Clintons, John Edwards <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=T2Mp9EEd3ncC&amp;q=john+edwards#v=snippet&amp;q=john%20edwards%20affair&amp;f=false" target="_blank">messin' 'round</a>&mdash;to focus exclusively on the fumbling, dysfunctional McCain campaign.</p>
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<p>Senior adviser Steve Schmidt (played by a feisty, riveting <a target="_blank" href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/woody-harrelson-ama-ask-me-anything-goes-disastrously-wrong-on-reddit/">Woody Harrelson</a>) is the story's reluctant protagonist. He's brought aboard the McCain Train to tighten up messaging and restore a sense of discipline. His signature master stroke comes just days before the nominating convention, in which he leads the push to scrap McCain's original <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/us/politics/31reconstruct.html" target="_blank">post-partisan plan</a> to tap Joe Lieberman as his running mate. McCain's one-sentence directive for locking down an emergency replacement?</p>
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<p>"Find me a woman."</p>
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<p>And thus enters "game-changer" Palin&mdash;in top hockey-momming form&mdash;with her poise and social-conservative street cred. McCain gets a bump in the polls, the Republican base gets a <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/28/barack-obama-democratic-c_n_122224.html" target="_blank">much-needed</a> shot of energy.</p>
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<p>If you're a deep-pocketed political donor, contributing vast sums of money to advance your own ideology is just what you do. Pouring money into TV ads and get-out-the-vote efforts on behalf of politicians you thoroughly and completely disagree with? Not so much.</p>
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<p>But the Campaign for Primary Accountability isn't your typical super-PAC, and its top donor, Houston construction magnate Leo Linbeck III, isn't your typical conservative sugar daddy. While groups like American Crossroads and Priorities USA have sprouted up in the last two years to boost specific values and candidates, the CFPA has a different goal entirely: Electoral mayhem.</p>
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<p>Led by Linbeck, the group's aim is to use the power of the purse to do what political parties and state redistricting panels won't&mdash;make congressional races competitive again. CFPA, which has raised $1.8 million to date, is targeting at least 10 Republican and Democratic incumbents in half a dozen states, with plans to increase that number over the next few months. And it's starting to work. The group has taken credit for the Super Tuesday defeat of Rep. Jean&nbsp;Schmidt (R-Ohio) and the retirement of another Republican, Dan&nbsp;Burton of Indiana.</p>
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<p>"It's not just a matter of 'Hey, they've been there a long time, let's get rid of them,'" Linbeck says. "It's more like they've been there a long time and they&rsquo;re disconnected from the voters in their district, and they would win without some other force coming in. Well, we're that other force."</p>
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<p>Their criteria is straightforward. For CFPA to take action they look at four factors: The district must be solidly red or blue ("we're not looking to swing power from one party to the other," Linbeck says); the challenger must be credible and capable of standing on his own; the current incumbent must be entrenched&mdash;no freshmen; and their own private polling has to show that there's actually a chance their candidate could win.</p>
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<p>The lobbyist who helped kill California's Proposition 19, the 2010 ballot measure that would have legalized recreational marijuana, has constructed an entire business model around keeping pot illegal.&nbsp;While fighting against the proposed law, lobbyist John Lovell accepted nearly $400,000 from a wide array of police unions, some of which he also represented in attempting to steer millions of federal dollars toward California's marijuana suppression programs.</p>
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<p>The revelation, reported yesterday by the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.republicreport.org/2012/exclusive-why-cant-you-smoke-pot-because-lobbyists-are-getting-rich-off-of-the-war-on-drugs/" target="_blank"><em>Republic Report</em>'s Lee Fang</a>, illustrates how Proposition 19 threatened the paychecks of some of its biggest foes. Police departments stood to lose lucrative federal grants like a $550,000 payment in 2010 to police departments in three Northern California counties that covered 666 hours of police overtime spent eradicating marijuana. And Lovell would have presumably lost a job as a guy who helped land those kinds of grants. Here's a copy of a notice sent to a police department in&nbsp;Lassen County, California:</p>
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<p><span class="inline inline-center"><img width="630" height="94" src="https://motherjones.com/files/images/lovell.png" class="image image-_original " title="" alt=""></span>Police unions and their lobbyists weren't the only economic interests with a stake in Prop. 19. The alcohol industry and prison guards also contributed money to fight the measure. And on the other side, the passage of Prop. 19 would have given thousands of "<a href="http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/01/wegrow-dhar-mann-derek-peterson" target="_blank">hempreneurs</a>" behind the state's $1.3 billion medical marijuana industry a stimulus stronger than a vaporized bowl of Hindu Kush. The likely side effects&mdash;a decline in budget-busting law-enforcement costs and millions of dollars in tax revenue for the state of California&mdash;don't seem all that bad compared to what we got stuck with: a war on drugs that makes people like John Lovell even richer.</p>
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<p><strong>Also read: Tony D'Souza's "</strong><a href="http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/12/tony-dsouza-marijuana-growers" target="_blank"><strong>The New Dealers</strong></a><strong>," a tale of recession-strapped Americans who turned to dope dealing to make ends meet.</strong></p>
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<p>Before you read this, I want to remind you that only a few months ago Michele Bachmann was considered a serious contender for the Republican nomination <img align="right" src="http://www.motherjones.com/files/images/blog_bachmann_baby.jpg" alt="" class="image image-_original" style="border: 1px solid black; margin: 20px 20px 15px 30px;">for president. Hard to believe, I know, but it's true. With that thought firmly in mind, <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/bachmann-warns-feds-could-use-budget-to-limit-number-of-babies-born-per-family/" target="_blank">here is Bachmann last night:</a></p>
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<p>Kathleen Sebelius, the Health and Human Services secretary, she said that it's important that we have contraceptives because that prevents pregnancy, and pregnancy is more expensive to the federal government. Going with that logic, according to our own Health and Human Services secretary, it isn't farfetched to think that the president of the United States could say, <strong>we need to save healthcare expenses, the federal government will only pay for one baby to be born in the hospital per family, or two babies to be born per family. That could happen. You think it couldn't?</strong></p>
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<p>This was in an interview over at The Blaze, Glenn Beck's website, and even the Blaze folks were sort of aghast that Bachmann could suggest something like this. But it's comforting in a way. This is old school Bachmann.</p>
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<p>But as long as we're on the subject, here's a wee bit of factmongering for you. Did you know that lots of women have no health insurance, and the only reason they have any maternity coverage at all is because of federal programs like Medicaid and CHIP? It's true! It turns out that about 40% of all births in the United States are paid for by these programs.</p>
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<p>And even women who <em>are</em> insured don't always have maternity coverage. Lots of them do, thanks to the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA) of 1978, which conservatives and the business community hated at the time. But there are still gaps: small businesses are exempt, and most individual insurance plans don't cover maternity expenses. Obamacare will take care of that shortly, but of course, conservatives and the business community consider that an act of unprecedented tyranny.</p>
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<p>Your garden variety hospital delivery &mdash; not counting prenatal and postnatal care &mdash; will set you back about ten grand or so these days. Most people would have a hard time affording that, but thanks to Medicaid, CHIP, the PDA, and Obamacare, most women are either covered or soon will be. In other words, the only reason most women can afford modern childbirth in modern hospitals <em>at all</em> is because of various federal laws that either mandate it in the private sector or pay for it out of public funds. If it weren't for that, most families couldn't even have one baby born in the hospital, let alone two. That's some pretty pro-family policy from us liberals, no?</p>
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<p>(<a href="http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2012_03/from_50000_feetor_mars035911.php" target="_blank">Via an equally dumbfounded Ed Kilgore.</a>)</p>
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<p>Undaunted by the fiasco of his misogynist diatribe against Sandra Fluke, Rush Limbaugh has aimed his rhetorical bile at another accomplished young woman (via <a href="http://inthesetimes.com/duly-noted/entry/12837/limbaugh_takes_on_tracie_mcmillan_author_of_the_american_way_of_eating/">Lindsay Beyerstein</a>). This time his target is an acquaintance of mine: Tracie McMillan, author of the new book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/American-Way-Eating-Undercover-Applebees/dp/1439171955" target="_blank"><em>The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebees, Farm Fields, and the Dinner Table</em></a>.</p>
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<p>A monster EF4 tornado with winds of 180 mp/h (290&nbsp;km/h) that caused extreme damage in Harrisburg, Illinois, on leap day happened to travel across an array of seismographs recently deployed for studying earthquakes.</p>
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<p>The <a target="_blank" href="http://geology.indiana.edu/hamburger/">scientists</a> working with the OIINK array (named for its coverage of parts of the Ozarks, Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky) thought their instruments had been destroyed by the twister. Instead, the seismographs recorded<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px; text-align: left; ">&nbsp;</span>the tornado.</p>
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<p>Or rather not the tornado itself,<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; ">&nbsp;as their preliminary investigation suggests, but the</span>&nbsp;passage of the large atmospheric pressure transient pushing ahead of the thunderstorm that spawned the tornado... one of an anomalous number of tornadoes so far this winter. Some of which may<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; ">&nbsp;add up 2012's first billion-dollar disaster in the US&nbsp;</span>.</p>
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<p><span class="inline inline-center"><span class="caption">&nbsp;<a href="http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/21533.html"><img alt="Location of seismographs in eastern Missouri and southern Illinois and the path of the tornado that struck Harrisburg IL on 29 Feb 2012: Courtesy of Indiana University" title="Location of seismographs in eastern Missouri and southern Illinois and the path of the tornado that struck Harrisburg IL on 29 Feb 2012: Courtesy of Indiana University" class="image image-preview " width="640" height="414" src="https://motherjones.com/files/images/tornado_seismic_track_sm.preview.jpg"><br></a><strong>Location of seismographs in eastern Missouri and southern Illinois and the path of the tornado that struck Harrisburg IL on 29 Feb 2012: </strong>Courtesy of Indiana University&nbsp;University</span></span></p>
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<p>In the image above you can see the seismic stations sets against the ground path of the 29 Feb Harrisburg tornado. These stations are part of&nbsp;the NSF's <a target="_blank" href="http://www.earthscope.org/">EarthScope</a> program planned to cover the entire US with a grid for detecting and better understanding and eventually maybe predicting earthquakes. Seems they might come in handy for tornadoes too.</p>
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<p>I wrote about the EarthScope program <a target="_blank" href="http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2011/03/science-quake-dissenters-arrive">here</a> after Japan's 9.0 quake last year.</p>
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<p>This animation shows <span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; ">&nbsp;EarthScope stations lighting up in response to ground shaking following </span>a 21 February 2008 earthquake in Wells, NV. From the video's YouTube <a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzphPZakPaA">page</a>:</p>
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<p>By Limbaughian standards, the anti-McMillan tirade was tepid and banal; he didn't use the word "slut" or demand sex tapes. Yet it drips with the woman-hating idiocy that has become central to the Limbaugh brand. From the the show's <a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/03/06/contrivances_of_the_left_s_attack_on_liberty_the_war_on_women_and_food_justice">transcript</a>, here's the money bit (the rest is running commentary on the recent <em>New York Times</em> review of MacMillan's book, in which a barely coherent Rush seems to be waxing paranoid about an impending government takeover of the food system):</p>
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<p>What is it with all of these young single white women, overeducated&mdash;doesn&rsquo;t mean intelligent. For example, Tracie McMillan, the author of this book, seems to be just out of college and already she has been showered with awards, including the 2006 James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism. Social justice journalism. This woman who wrote the book on food inequality, food justice, got an award for social justice journalism. She has a B.A. from New York University in political science. She's a political scientist. She's a journalist. She has received awards for social justice journalism, and she has a book out on food justice.</p>
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<p>Each circle represents a seismometer and the colors change to reflect variations in the signal amplitude crossing the array. The ground motion begins near the source and then expands outward like a the waves from a pebble dropped in a pond. The circular wavefronts are distorted by the simple map projection used in the animation. The initial waves travel at about 8km/s, the larger amplitude waves that follow are moving at about 2.5km/s.</p>
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<p>The amazing EarthScope array has been dubbed the upside-down telescope for its view into the dynamics of interior Earth.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>This sound is terrifying even a year later. It's the voice of Japan's 9.0 temblor and its aftershocks. <a target="_blank" href="http://www.eas.gatech.edu/people/Zhigang_Peng">Zhigang Peng</a> at Georgia Tech&rsquo;s School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences converted the quake's seismic waves into sped-up audio files that we can hear.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>The clip above was&nbsp;taken near the coastline of Japan between the nuclear reactor at Fukushima Daiichi and Tokyo. The initial blast is the 9.0 mainshock. Following that you can hear aftershocks, popping sounds, as the earth's plates slip into new positions.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>Here's&nbsp;Peng's recording of the 2011 Japanese earthquake taken from seismic measurements thousands of miles away in California. The quake created subtle movements deep in the San Andreas Fault known as distant triggering.</p>
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<p>You can hear the initial noise, which sounds like thunder and corresponds with the Japanese mainshock. Afterwards a continuous high-pitch sound, like rain turning on and off, reflects continuing tremor activity at the fault, as heard from afar in California.</p>
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<p><a target="_blank" href="http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/06/obama-challenges-republicans-on-iran/?hp">From Barack Obama,</a> on the casual bellicosity toward Iran that's overtaken the Republican Party:</p>
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<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/obama-and-the-cult-of-college-why-rick-santorum-had-a-point-20120307">Rick Perlstein writes today</a> that Rick Santorum was right when he said "Not all folks are gifted in the same way. Some people have incredible gifts with their hands ... and want to work out there making things":</p>
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<p>Santorum&rsquo;s claim that Obama wants everyone to go to college to become Marxist deconstructionists was wrong. In fact, it was so wrong that it didn't even survive Fox News, where, presented with evidence that Obama, like him, favored all kinds of educational opportunities, including but not limited to college, Santorum replied, sheepishly, "Maybe I was reading some things" that gave him the wrong impression, and "if it was an error, then I agree with the president."</p>
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<p>But wait. Stick to your guns, Rick! The thing is, you exposed a poetic truth: While Obama might not push college education <em>exclusively</em>, like most Democrats he <em>does</em> oversell it, and <em>does</em> shortchange the alternatives. And millions of young Americans pay the price.</p>
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<p>...."The administration has done a good job of talking about, and even funding, career training for high-school graduates," says education expert Dana Goldstein of the New America Foundation. "What they will not do very much is talk about or fund career training for teens, even though there is good evidence that if you don't offer career and technical training via the public schools, you may lose people forever." A democracy of the heart that acknowledges there are simply some <img align="right" style="border: 1px solid black; margin: 20px 20px 15px 30px;" class="image image-_original" alt="" src="http://www.motherjones.com/files/images/Blog_High_School.jpg">people who will never step into an academic classroom post-high school, and that this is alright, seems a bridge-to-the-twentieth-century too far for our schooling-mad politicians these days.</p>
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<p>None of this is an accident, of course. American high schools used to be big suppliers of vocational education. But in the 70s and 80s, the practice of "tracking" &mdash; placing the smart kids in chemistry classes and the not-so-smart kids in shop classes &mdash; came under withering assault. There was pretty good reason for it, too, since tracking really did have some pernicious effects. <a target="_blank" href="http://challengebychoice.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/the-history-of-tracking.pdf">Tom Loveless glosses some of the arguments of the critics here,</a> including that in Jeanne Oakes&rsquo;s influential 1985 book, <em>Keeping Track</em>:</p>
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<p>This is not a game....If some of these folks think we should launch a war, let them say so, and explain to the American people.</p>
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<p>On a related note, <a target="_blank" href="http://prospect.org/article/when-do-reporters-start-calling-mitt-romney-liar">Paul Waldman has a question:</a> "When Do Reporters Start Calling Mitt Romney a Liar?" It's a poser, all right. Romney has repeatedly said that Obama doesn't support sanctions against Iran; that Obama refuses to leave military options open; and that Obama hasn't clearly said that it's unacceptable for Iran to have a nuclear weapon. This isn't a matter of exaggeration or interpretation. These are exactly the things Obama <em>has</em> done. Romney is just flat-out lying.</p>
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<p>They pointed out that poor, non-English speaking, and minority youngsters were disproportionately assigned to low tracks and wealthier, white students to high tracks&mdash;and concluded that this was not a coincidence. Oakes's book helped ignite a firestorm of anti-tracking activity. Tracking was blamed for unfairly categorizing students, stigmatizing struggling learners, and consigning them to a fate over which neither they nor their parents had control. The indictment spread from scholarly journals to the popular press. A 1988 article in <em>Better Homes and Gardens</em> asked, "Is Your Child Being Tracked for Failure?" In 1989, <em>Psychology Today</em> ran "Tracked to Fail" and <em>U.S News and World Report</em> published "The Label That Sticks." Although the anti-tracking movement&rsquo;s left-leaning political base conflicted with that of the movement for rigorous academic standards, parental choice, and other grassroots proposals that gained popularity in the late 1980s, it managed to hitch its wagon to growing public demand for excellence in the public schools.</p>
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<p>On the other hand, Obama has also made it clear that he thinks war is a last resort, not a first. Romney could truthfully say that about him. But as Obama says, if that's his position, maybe he ought to step up to the plate and let everyone know.</p>
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<p>The detracking movement did a lot to undermine vocational education, and people like Bill Gates and others have since been influential boosters of the idea that everyone should go to college. But I'm with Dana and the Ricks: not everyone either can or wants to go to college. We never needed to destroy the village in order to save it, and there are ways of addressing the ills of tracking without losing its benefits at the same time. American high schools ought to be as good at turning out plumbers as they are at turning out future English majors.</p>
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<p><em>This <a target="_blank" href="http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175512/tomgram%3A_eyal_press%2C_chilling_dissent_on_wall_street/">story</a> first appeared on the </em><a target="_blank" href="http://www.tomdispatch.com/">TomDispatch</a><em> website.</em></p>
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<p>What's worse: to be persecuted and indicted for trying to expose an act of wrongdoing&mdash;or to be ignored for doing so?</p>
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<p>Whistleblowers have been under intense scrutiny in Washington lately, at least when it comes to the national security state. In recent years, the Obama administration has <a target="_blank" href="http://www.tomdispatch.com/archive/175500/peter_van_buren_silent_state">set a record</a> by accusing no fewer than six government employees, who allegedly leaked classified information to reporters, of violating the Espionage Act, a draconian law dating back to 1917. Yet when it comes to workers who have risked their careers to expose misconduct in the corporate and financial arena, a different pattern has long prevailed. Here, the problem hasn't been an excess of attention from government officials eager to chill dissent, but a dearth of attention that has often left whistleblowers feeling no less isolated and discouraged.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.tomdispatch.com" target="_blank"><span class="inline inline-left"><img width="100" height="33" class="image image-preview" title="" alt="" src="http://motherjones.com/files/images/tdispatch-notch.jpg"></span></a>Consider the case of Leyla Wydler, a broker who, back in 2003, sent a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) about her former employer, the Stanford Financial Group. A year earlier, it had fired her for refusing to sell certificates of deposit that she rightly suspected were being misleadingly advertised to investors. The company, Wydler warned in her letter, "is the subject of a lingering corporate fraud scandal perpetrated as a 'massive Ponzi scheme' that will destroy the life savings of many, damage the reputation of all associated parties, ridicule securities and banking authorities, and shame the United States of America."</p>
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<p>It was a letter that should have woken the dead and, as it happened, couldn't have been more on target. Wydler didn't stop with the SEC either. She also sent copies to the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), the trade group responsible for enforcing regulations throughout the industry, as well as various newspapers, including the<em> Wall Street Journal </em>and the<em> Washington Post</em>. No one responded. No one at all.</p>
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<p><em>Are the United States and Iran on a collision course over the Middle Eastern country's controversial nuclear program? We'll be posting </em><a target="_blank" href="http://motherjones.com/category/secondary-tags/iran-war-watch"><em>the latest news on</em></a><em> Iran-war fever&mdash;the intel, the media frenzy, the rhetoric.</em></p>
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<p>The following will sound a lot like a scene from <a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqhnIZ2kd54"><em>Kung Fu Panda</em></a>. It happened during the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/05/us-usa-israel-obama-idUSTRE8230EM20120305">high-profile meeting</a> between President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Monday.</p>
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<p>Bloomberg's <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/#!/jferziger">Jonathan Ferziger</a> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-05/netanyahu-gives-obama-purim-scroll-on-ancient-persian-plot-during-meeting.html">has the story</a>:</p>
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<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave President Barack Obama a Purim Megillah scroll, which tells the story of how Jews prevailed over a plot to kill them in ancient Persia, which is present-day Iran.</p>
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<p>Netanyahu gave Obama the gift...during a White House meeting, two days before the Jewish holiday of Purim begins.</p>
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<p>For members of Congress, the thrill is gone.</p>
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<p>They don&rsquo;t make national policy anymore. They can&rsquo;t earmark money for communities back home. The public hates them. And perks little and big, from private jet travel to a little free nosh now and then, have been locked down by ethics rules.</p>
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<p>In case you're not familiar with the details of said Hebrew scroll: The Megillah, commonly known as the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.beingjewish.com/yomtov/purim/esther_intro.html">Book of Esther</a>, is the part of the Hebrew Bible that tells the story of how a hard-partying Persian king was convinced by an evil adviser that it'd be fun to decimate the Jewish minority population in his dominion. He declares a government holiday in the month of Adar during which his subjects are given carte blanche to murder Jews and steal their property. Long-story-short, the Jews do a fantastic job of defending themselves against the state-sponsored onslaught, and then proceed to commit a <a target="_blank" href="http://jreuter.hubpages.com/hub/The-Book-of-Esther-Its-Canonization-Historicity-and-Relevance">hugely successful counter-slaughter</a>&nbsp;of the Persians. (This bit of Biblical spin has long since found a home in the annals of <a target="_blank" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2010/dec/27/iranian-antisemitism-graves-jewish-saints">fascist and far-right propaganda</a>.)</p>
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<p>I wouldn't have expected this, but I actually do feel a little sorry for them. Just a little, mind you, but still. I'll bet it does kind of suck these days for a lot of people. If you're a true believer, then you love being in the fight regardless of anything else. But if you're someone who actually wants to get things done, there's not much left. Just an endless grind of fundraising and nothing much to make it all worthwhile.</p>
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<p>Flash forward a couple dozen centuries, and the Jews now have something of a home-plate advantage over Persian foes: They are the regional superpower. They have <a target="_blank" href="http://motherjones.com/mojo/2012/03/iran-war-watch-obama-aipac-speech-reactions">backing</a> of the only global superpower. The track record of the Israeli <a target="_blank" href="http://www.cnas.org/blogs/abumuqawama/2010/06/two-thoughts-israel.html">military</a>&mdash;and <a target="_blank" href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-07-04-palestinian-pressure_x.htm">special ops</a> forces&mdash;has achieved a <a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doX2E1vNtY8">Hollywood</a>-<a target="_blank" href="http://www.cracked.com/article_19178_9-absurd-movie-premises-that-actually-happened.html">level</a> of renown. Oh, and one other thing: <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_and_Israel#Stockpile">They have nuclear bombs</a>.<strong><br></strong></p>
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<p>This is also why, within reason, I actually support earmarks. Members of Congress <em>should</em> be important people in their districts. They <em>should</em> be able to get things done for their constituents. They <em>should</em> have some say&nbsp;&mdash; based on their ideology and their local knowledge&nbsp;&mdash; over what kinds of projects get built and which ones don't. That's what they were elected for. If their constituents don't like the way they handle this, they can vote 'em out.</p>
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<p>Earmarks should be transparent, and they should be limited. But they shouldn't have been banned. They're part of the job, and they're part of the culture of dealmaking that helps get things done. There's really nothing wrong with them in limited quantities.</p>
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<p><img align="right" style="border: 1px solid black; margin: 8px 20px 15px 30px;" class="image image-_original" alt="" src="http://www.motherjones.com/files/images/Blog_HSR_California.jpg">Regular readers know that I'm not a fan of the proposed LA-San Francisco high-speed rail project, and as the projected costs have ballooned I've become even less of a fan. But lord almighty, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-bullet-vision-20120308,0,3644887,full.story">stuff like this could change my mind:</a></p>
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<p>The fast trains connecting Los Angeles and San Francisco would create new communities of high-density apartments and small homes around stations, reducing the suburbanization of California, rail advocates say. That new lifestyle would mean fewer cars and less gasoline consumption, lowering California's contribution to global warming.</p>
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<p>....Opponents, most of whom are political conservatives, regard the ambitious project as a classic government overreach that will require taxpayer subsidies. <strong>But they also see something more sinister: an agenda to push people into European or Asian models of dense cities, tight apartments and reliance on state-provided transportation.</strong></p>
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<p>...."It is a real movement in California of controlling the masses, controlling land use, deciding where people should live," said Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Tulare). "I oppose that absolutely, because it is a form of left-wing social engineering."</p>
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<p>...."It has nothing to do with transportation. This is entirely social policy," said Rep. Tom McClintock (R-Granite Bay). "It is all about the far left's fever dream to get mother Earth back to a pristine condition by elbowing us into these dense urban cores."</p>
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<p>So who spilled the beans, anyway? Now the whole world knows that we lefties are drooling over the prospect of taking away everyone's homes and engineering a forced march into modern-day high-rise concentration camps where the cable companies don't offer Fox News. All the better to control you with, my sweeties.</p>
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<p>Yeesh. But that's the mindset we're up against. Not <em>we're giving people <u>more</u> lifestyle choices</em> but <em>your lifestyle choice is inherently insulting to the one I prefer</em>. And sweet reason will do little to change this. As Matt Yglesias, one of our most vocal proponents of denser lifestyles, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2012/03/08/the_elusive_quest_for_solutions.html">says,</a> "A lot of the time there's genuinely no substitute for changing people's minds."</p>
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<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2012/03/07/santorum_2016.html">Can this possibly be for real?</a></p>
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<p>A true-sounding aside from Alex Pareene: "Rick Santorum is the 2016 GOP nomination frontrunner." It's true because the runner-up of the last Republican primary always starts off with an advantage. McCain 2008. Dole 1996. Bush 1988. Reagan 1976. Romney looked like the candidate most likely to break the trend, but no longer.</p>
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<p>Maybe! This is why I sort-of-but-not-really-but-then-again-maybe-seriously want Rick Santorum to win the nomination this year. The only hope for the future of the Republican Party is to finally nominate the conservative of their dreams and then go down to an epic, ego-shattering defeat. It would, perhaps, pound some sense into them and finally give the party's moderates the backbone they need to wrest control away from the Limbaugh/Fox/Dobson/Norquist brigade. But if they nominate Romney and lose? Then, once again, it will be because they denied the one true faith. And that could, I suppose, make Santorum the frontrunner for 2016. Buckle up.</p>
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<p>Katherine Mangu-Ward thinks people are freaking out way too much over Google's plan to aggregate personal information about its users <a target="_blank" href="http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/03/take-my-privacy-please-a-defense-of-google/254159/">across all its platforms:</a></p>
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<p>As it happens, we know how much people value their privacy: They'll sell information about every prescription they fill at CVS &mdash; or every pint of Haagen Dazs at Safeway &mdash; in exchange for a steady infusion of $1 coupons. They'll hand <img align="right" style="border: 1px solid black; margin: 20px 20px 15px 30px;" class="image image-_original" alt="" src="http://www.motherjones.com/files/images/blog_surveillance_0.jpg">off information about the timing of their daily commute in exchange for a couple of minutes saved at a toll booth every day. They'll let Amazon track their diaper and book purchases because they would rather not re-enter their credit card number every time they want to buy something.</p>
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<p>This is totally true. I happen to think that most people don't take this seriously enough, but who cares what I think? If you're willing to sell information about your buying habits to the highest bidder, there's no reason I should be able to stop you. She's also right about this:</p>
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<p>But if you're more skeeved than pleased, consider letting your brain overpower your gut here. This is a fact you cannot change: All the free stuff on the Internet is possible because you slap your eyeballs on some ads from time to time. If Google and other retailers can't scrape and sort your data to offer a few well targeted ads, there are two other viable choices: 1) Less of the free stuff you like. Like this blog. It might stop being free. For instance. 2) More ads in the throw-spaghetti-at-the-wall-and-see-what-sticks school. Think: those annoying dancing silhouette gals selling cheap mortgages.</p>
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<p>In fact, because of the fundamental failure of the online advertising model, more and more of the web is inaccessible all the time. Archives are unavailable, news sites are behind paywalls, etc. That's a pain in the ass for someone like me.</p>
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<p>So, yeah, maybe some targeted ads are a small price to pay for all this stuff being collected. And if targeted ads were the only thing to be worried about, I wouldn't be worried. But I don't think you need to have a very active imagination to figure out that both the public and private sectors can eventually do a whole lot more with this stuff than learn what brand of ice cream you like. Just as they can use it to offer you services, they can also use it to deny you services. They can use it to discriminate in subtle ways that are putatively based on data mining, not race/sex/ethnicity. They can use it to make decisions about who should and shouldn't be allowed to fly on airplanes. They can sell it to marketers <a target="_blank" href="http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/02/why-i-dont-want-target-know-quite-so-much-about-me">somewhat less scrupulous</a> than Procter &amp;&nbsp;Gamble. They can subpoena it in divorce cases. They can make it a part of massive NSA-run surveillance programs.</p>
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<p>It's not the targeted ads I mind. It's everything that comes <em>after</em> targeted ads that I mind. I'd suggest that the rest of us ought to mind it a little more too.</p>
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<p>In his <em>New York Times</em> dispatches from across the Middle East, Anthony Shadid&mdash;a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner&mdash;cuts a swashbuckling figure. In the last year alone, he braved tear gas and live fire in <a target="_blank" href="http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/01/whats-happening-egypt-explained">Egypt</a>, was <a target="_blank" href="http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/02/whats-happening-libya-explained">kidnapped by Qaddafi's thugs in Libya</a>, and <a target="_blank" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/magazine/syrias-sons-of-no-one.html?_r=1&amp;pagewanted=all">secretly traversed Syria's killing fields</a> by motorcycle. <em>House of Stone</em> casts the correspondent in a softer light, recalling his 2007 return to his ancestral village in southern Lebanon to rebuild his great-grandfather's abandoned home&mdash;and perhaps piece together his own wayward life in the process. At once outsider and native son, Shadid elegantly reflects on the violent splintering of the once-vibrant Levant and its uphill struggle to reclaim its dwindling notions of regional identity.</p>
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<p>The latest issue of the <em>Journal of Psychiatric Research</em> includes a scathing critique of a 2009 study it published linking abortion to a variety of mental health problems. Via the <em>New York Times</em> blog <a href="http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/05/study-linking-abortion-and-mental-health-problems-is-called-false/"><em>Motherlode</em></a>, the article states that the data the authors of the study relied on doesn't actually support their "assertions that abortions led to psychopathology."</p>
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<p>That <a target="_blank" href="https://motherjones.com/files/coleman_et_al._jpr.pdf">2009 study</a> linked conditions like panic disorder, panic attacks, PTSD, agoraphobia, bipolar disorder, mania, major depression, and alcohol and drug abuse to women who have had abortions. The paper, from lead author Priscilla Coleman of Bowling Green State University, has been <a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2008/11/28/nat-4617/">touted by anti-abortion groups</a> and deployed to support <a href="http://www.guttmacher.org/statecenter/spibs/spib_OAL.pdf">state laws</a> requiring doctors to warn women of potential health problems before they can have an abortion in places like <a href="http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/02/south-dakota-abortion-crisis-pregnancy-center-bill">South Dakota</a>.</p>
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<p><strong>Delaware:</strong> By an 8 to 4 vote, the Wilmington, Delaware, city council <a target="_blank" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/02/wilmington-city-council-sperm-egg-personhood_n_1316924.html%20">recognized the personhood of semen</a> because "each 'egg person' and each 'sperm person' should be deemed equal in the eyes of the government."</p>
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<p>But the results just don't hold up, <a href="https://motherjones.com/files/j.jpsychires.2012.01.019.pdf" target="_blank">according to a critique</a> from Julia Steinberg, an assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of California-San Francisco, and Lawrence Finer, the director of domestic research with the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive rights group. For one thing, they report, the paper failed to factor in whether the women included in the study had exhibited those mental health problems <em>before</em> having an abortion. Steinberg and Finer reevaluated the data Coleman and her colleagues relied on and found that the conclusions in the paper were not supported by the data. "These deficiencies are fundamental analytical errors that were incorrectly presented in the original paper," they write, "&hellip; not a scholarly difference of opinion."</p>
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<p>This is <a target="_blank" href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/mitt-romneys-advice-for-obamacare-look-at-romney">yesterday's news,</a> but I just now got around to reading Mitt Romney's <em>USA&nbsp;Today</em> op-ed from 2009 in which he criticized the way healthcare reform was being designed and recommended that Obama look instead to <a target="_blank" href="http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20090730/column30_st.art.htm">Romney's healthcare reform in Massachusetts:</a></p>
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<p>With more than 1,300 health insurance companies, a federal government insurance company isn&rsquo;t necessary. It would inevitably lead to massive taxpayer subsidies, to lobbyist-inspired coverage mandates [etc.]....Our experience also demonstrates that getting every citizen insured doesn&rsquo;t have to break the bank. First, we established incentives for those who were uninsured to buy insurance. Using tax penalties, as we did, or tax credits, as others have proposed, encourages &ldquo;free riders&rdquo; to take responsibility for themselves rather than pass their medical costs on to others.</p>
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<p>So Romney's advice is to (a) avoid mandates and instead (b) use tax penalties to encourage the uninsured to buy insurance. And he's specifically recommending this as a model for national legislation.</p>
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<p>But this is, of course, exactly what PPACA does. If you don't have insurance, you have to pay a tax penalty. That's how the mandate is enforced. And it's what Romney recommended Obama do.</p>
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<p>At this point I guess it doesn't matter. Everyone knows perfectly well that Romney shepherded through a healthcare reform bill in Massachusetts that included a mandate, and everyone knows that he used to point to it as a model for the whole country. And either you care about this, or else you've already decided to shrug your shoulders and just accept Romney's obfuscations on the subject. Still, it's pretty remarkable that he's getting away with it. As recently as two years ago, he thought that a mandate enforced by a tax penalty was aces. Today he thinks it's the gravest threat to the country since Pearl Harbor. Go figure.</p>
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<p>So how are those Iranian oil sanctions going? Stuart Staniford took a crack at figuring it out yesterday, but luckily for me I got busy with other stuff and didn't link to his post. "Luckily" because he's now spent several hours obsessing even more over Iranian production data and has what he thinks is a more reliable look at how much oil Iran is producing. The chart is below. <a target="_blank" href="http://earlywarn.blogspot.com/2012/03/better-iranian-oil-production-chart.html">Stuart's conclusion:</a></p>
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<p>My interpretation of the [data] is that Iran used to be able to produce about 4mbd of oil. They voluntarily reduced production following the 2001 recession (in line with the behavior of other OPEC nations at the time). However, while the reduction at the end of 2008 may also have been voluntary, the fact that they've made no increase in production in 2011 &mdash; the opposite in fact &mdash; suggests they've lost the capacity to produce (or at least export) that much oil. I assume this is due to western sanctions.</p>
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<p>Whether the sanctions are "working" depends on whether you think we ought to be pressuring Iran over its nuclear program. But that's certainly what the Obama administration wants to do, and judged on their own terms it looks like the sanctions are working. If Iran really has been forced to reduce production by 400,000 bbd, that comes to about $40 million per day, or $14 billion per year. Depending on how you count, that amounts to about 2-3% of GDP.</p>
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<p><strong>UPDATE:</strong> But even if oil production is down, isn't that more than made up for by higher prices caused by the sanctions in the first place? Maybe. It depends on how much oil Iran sells on the spot market and how much is tied up in long-term contracts. I don't if anyone really knows that, and I don't know what the terms of Iran's long-term contracts are anyway. So this is, admittedly, a bit of a crapshoot. Either way, though, Iran certainly seems to be selling less than they could if the sanctions didn't exist.</p>
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<p>Are you a slut? It's a question that, to be perfectly honest, we would have felt more than a little uncomfortable asking as recently as a few weeks ago.&nbsp;For one, there's the word itself&mdash;as misogynistic an insult as you could conjure. And there wasn't much of a peg, what with the rest of the world focused on more pressing issues, like Israel's threats of conflict with Iran, and jokes about Mitt Romney's dog (<a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/03/05/147982460/new-yorker-cover-puts-new-twist-on-old-romney-shaggy-dog-story" target="_blank">this</a> is a particularly good one).</p>
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<p>But then conservative icon Rush Limbaugh&mdash;<a href="http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/rush-limbaughs-dominican-stag-party" target="_blank">who was once caught trying to bring 29 100 mg Viagra pills with him to the Dominican Republic</a>&mdash;spent three days ripping into Georgetown&nbsp;law student Sandra Fluke (rhymes with "look"), calling her a "slut" and a "prostitute" for testifying before Congress about birth control, and suggesting that he'd like her to send him a sex tape. The #iamnotaslut Twitter campaign went viral; Limbaugh began losing sponsors (20, at last count). And now we can't seem to talk about anything else <em>but</em> "sluts." Seriously, just <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeedpolitics/chart-the-great-slut-spike-of-2012" target="_blank">take a look at this chart</a> from&nbsp;BuzzFeed.</p>
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<p><b>Virginia:</b> As the state Senate debated <a target="_blank" href="http://motherjones.com/mojo/2012/03/why-virginias-new-mandatory-ultrasound-law-still-sucks">requiring transvaginal ultrasounds</a> for women seeking abortions, Sen. Janet Howell proposed mandating rectal exams and cardiac stress tests for men seeking erectile dysfunction meds. Her amendment failed by just two votes.</p>
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<p><strong>Georgia:</strong>&nbsp;Responding to a Georgia<b> </b>house bill banning abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, Rep. Yasmin Neal wrote a bill <span>outlawing most vasectomies because they leave "<a target="_blank" href="http://www1.legis.ga.gov/legis/2011_12/versions/hb1116_LC_21_1703_a_2.htm%20">thousands of children&hellip;deprived of birth.</a>"</span></p>
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<div class="sidebar-small-right"><em><strong>Does Limbaugh think <a href="http://motherjones.com/mojo/2012/03/rush-limbaugh-does-not-understand-how-birth-control-works" target="_blank">birth control pills work like Viagra?</a>&nbsp;Plus: <a href="http://motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/calculator-birth-control-expensive-really-cost" target="_blank">our handy calculator</a> shows how much you'll spend on birth control over a lifetime.</strong></em></div>
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<p>The national conversation about sluts of 2012 hasn't really given us much clarity&mdash;but it has given a variety of commentators a platform from which to disseminate their definition of "slut." Which, it turns out, is really, <em>really</em> broad. Fluke&mdash;who noted in her testimony about contraception access that she has a friend who uses the pill out of medical necessity&mdash;has been maligned for oversharing about her sex life, which she didn't even discuss on the Hill. One Georgetown law school classmate of Fluke's <a href="http://motherjones.com/mojo/2012/03/limbaugh-not-only-conservative-who-fails-understand-how-birth-control-works" target="_self">quoted in the <em>National&nbsp;Review</em></a> put it worst: "When did Georgetown Law start admitting Kardashians?"</p>
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<p><strong><span>Ohio: </span></strong><span>A bill introduced by state Sen. Nina Turner would compel men to get psychological screenings before getting prescriptions for impotence meds. </span><span>"</span>We must advocate for the traditional family," Turner <a target="_blank" href="http://www.progressohio.org/blog/2012/03/senator-turner-introduces-legislation-to-protect-mens-health.html">said</a>, "and ensure that all men using PDE-5 inhibitors are healthy, stable, and educated about their options&mdash;including celibacy as a viable life choice.<span>"</span></p>
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<p>So back to that question:&nbsp;Are you a slut? It's a head-scratcher, so we've put together this handy flowchart to help you out:</p>
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<p><strong>Illinois</strong><strong>:</strong> State <span>Rep. Kelly Cassidy proposed requiring men seeking Viagra to watch a video showing <a target="_blank" href="http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/03/02/lawmaker-men-who-want-viagra-should-have-to-watch-graphic-side-effects-video/">the treatment for persistent erections</a>, an occasional side effect of the little blue pill. As she explained, "</span>It's not a pretty procedure to watch."</p>
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<p><strong>Oklahoma:</strong> When a zygote-personhood bill came before the state Senate, Sen. Constance Johnson penned an amendment<strong> </strong>declaring that <a target="_blank" href="http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/02/08/421018/oklahoma-democrat-adds-every-sperm-is-sacred-amendment-to-personhood-bill/">ejaculating anywhere outside a woman's vagina</a> constitutes "an action against an unborn child." Bonus:&nbsp;Johnson <a href="http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=sb1433%20" target="_blank">also suggested</a> that any man who impregnates a woman without her permission should pay a $25,000 fine, support the child until age 21, and get a vasectomy, "in the spirit of shared responsibility." <span>In response to the same bill, state Sen. Jim Wilson <a href="http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=336&amp;articleid=20120207_16_A5_OKLAHO862914&amp;r=7811" target="_blank">proposed</a> an amendment requiring the father of an unborn child to be financially responsible for its mother's health care, housing, transportation, and nourishment during pregnancy.</span><strong><br></strong></p>
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<p><strong>Texas:&nbsp;</strong>Contesting a bill mandating sonograms before abortions, Rep. Harold Dutton unsuccessfully offered<span style="font-style: italic;"> </span>three amendments in a row. The first would have required the state to pay the college tuition of children born to women who decide against an abortion after seeing a required ultrasound image. The second would have subsidized the children's health care costs until age 18. When that failed, he lowered the age to 6. <a href="http://www.texastribune.org/texas-legislature/2011-abortion-sonogram-bill/democrats-attack-abortion-sonogram-bill/" target="_blank">That didn't fly, either</a>.<strong><br></strong></p>
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<p><img align="right" style="margin: 8px 30px 15px 40px;" class="image image-_original" alt="" src="http://www.motherjones.com/files/images/blog_rent_too_damn_high.jpg">I see that the hounds have been let loose on Amazon today. Matt Yglesias has a new eBook out, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Rent-Too-Damn-High-ebook/dp/B0078XGJXO/ref=cm_cr_pr_pb_i"><em>The Rent is Too Damn High</em>,</a> and according to the chart accompanying the Amazon page it's already garnered 24 one-star reviews. Not bad! This reviewer explains what's up:</p>
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<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.metacritic.com/tv/game-change/season-1"><em><strong>Game Change</strong></em><strong><br></strong></a><strong>HBO Films<br>
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<p>If you purchase this book, you'll be putting money in the pocked of a ghoul who revels in the deaths of people he disagrees with politically. Of course, if this is your intention, you're no better than he.</p>
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<p>A few days ago Matt tweeted something nasty about Andrew Breitbart after his death, so now Breitbart's fans &mdash; who obviously haven't read the book and don't care about it &mdash; are surging into Amazon to take their revenge. Isn't the internet wonderful?</p>
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<p>I haven't read the book myself because I'm swamped with other stuff, so I can't say anything in particular about it. However, I'm familiar with Matt's general argument that the high price of city living is an obvious sign that there's high demand for housing in cities, which means that we ought to loosen up zoning and construction regulations and allow more housing to be built. Since cities are engines of economic growth, and bigger cities are even bigger engines, this would be good for everyone. If you want to read his full argument, which I imagine is pretty cogent, it will only set you back $3.99 thanks to the marvel of the Kindle eBook publishing model.</p>
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115 minutes</strong></p>
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<p>At its core,<em> Game Change </em>is a Gothic fable in the most classic and traditional sense: A well-intentioned (<a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/category/steve-schmidt/" target="_blank">political</a>) scientist sets out to perform a feat of <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2008/11/05/back-from-the-dead.html" target="_blank">tremendous galvanism</a>. In his pursuit of this <a href="http://douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/11/dreams-of-a-mccain-presidency/" target="_blank">big dream</a>, he inadvertently creates a monster&mdash;one he comes to disown. In a flash, the <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=2Zc3AAAAYAAJ&amp;q=daemon#v=onepage&amp;q=the%20beauty%20of%20the%20dream%20vanished%2C%20and%20breathless%20horror%20and%20disgust%20filled%20my%20heart&amp;f=false" target="_blank">beauty of the dream vanishes, and breathless horror and disgust fills the creator's heart</a>. But too late! The monster is unleashed on the world, leaving a trail of chaos, defeat, and bewilderment in its wake. The scientist later <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/31335.html" target="_blank">confesses</a> at length his confounding regret.</p>
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<p>But none of this matters at Amazon itself. Their review section is merely a place to piss on your political enemies. I suppose that's nothing new, but this is certainly a starker example than usual. Caveat lector.</p>
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<p>In this version, campaign strategist Steve Schmidt is Dr. Victor Frankenstein, John McCain is the corporation that he works for, all of America is the unsuspecting village people, and Sarah Palin is [<a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeZftK2kO6U">cue the music</a>....] the <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein#Name_origins">Adam</a> of Schmidt's labors.</p>
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<p><em>Game Change</em>, which premieres on HBO on Saturday March 10 at 9 p.m. EST to a flurry of Beltway <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0312/73591.html" target="_blank">anticipation</a>, zeros in on the more depressing chapters of the 2008 presidential campaign, namely the <a href="http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/09/joe-mcginniss-sarah-palin-the-rogue" target="_blank">former governor of Alaska and mayor of Wasilla</a>. In adapting the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/11/books/11book.html" target="_blank">bestseller</a> by <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/#!/jheil">John Heilemann</a> and <a target="_blank" href="http://thepage.time.com/">Mark Halperin</a>, the filmmakers jettison much of the 2010 book's inside scoopage&mdash;on the Obama camp, Rudy Giuliani, the Clintons, John Edwards <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=T2Mp9EEd3ncC&amp;q=john+edwards#v=snippet&amp;q=john%20edwards%20affair&amp;f=false" target="_blank">messin' 'round</a>&mdash;to focus exclusively on the fumbling, dysfunctional McCain campaign.</p>
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<p>And thus enters "game-changer" Palin&mdash;in top hockey-momming form&mdash;with her poise and social-conservative street cred. McCain gets a bump in the polls, the Republican base gets a <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/28/barack-obama-democratic-c_n_122224.html" target="_blank">much-needed</a> shot of energy.</p>
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jQuery('.articlebody').linkify({ use: 'name1,name2' });
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jQuery('.articlebody').linkify({ use: ['name1','name2'] });
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// Explicitly use all plugins:
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jQuery('.articlebody').linkify('*');
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jQuery('.articlebody').linkify({ use: '*' });
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jQuery('.articlebody').linkify({ use: ['*'] });
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// Use no plugins:
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jQuery('.articlebody').linkify('');
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jQuery('.articlebody').linkify({ use: '' });
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jQuery('.articlebody').linkify({ use: [] });
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jQuery('.articlebody').linkify({ use: [''] });
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// Perfmorm actions on all newly created links:
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jQuery('.articlebody').linkify( function (links){ links.addClass('linkified'); } );
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jQuery('.articlebody').linkify({ handleLinks: function (links){ links.addClass('linkified'); } });
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*/
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(function($){
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||||
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var noProtocolUrl = /(^|["'(\s]|<)(www\..+?\..+?)((?:[:?]|\.+)?(?:\s|$)|>|[)"',])/g,
|
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httpOrMailtoUrl = /(^|["'(\s]|<)((?:(?:https?|ftp):\/\/|mailto:).+?)((?:[:?]|\.+)?(?:\s|$)|>|[)"',])/g,
|
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linkifier = function ( html ) {
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||||
return html
|
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.replace( noProtocolUrl, '$1<a href="<``>://$2">$2</a>$3' ) // NOTE: we escape `"http` as `"<``>` to make sure `httpOrMailtoUrl` below doesn't find it as a false-positive
|
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.replace( httpOrMailtoUrl, '$1<a href="$2">$2</a>$3' )
|
||||
.replace( /"<``>/g, '"http' ); // reinsert `"http`
|
||||
},
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
linkify = $.fn.linkify = function ( cfg ) {
|
||||
if ( !$.isPlainObject( cfg ) )
|
||||
{
|
||||
cfg = {
|
||||
use: (typeof cfg == 'string') ? cfg : undefined,
|
||||
handleLinks: $.isFunction(cfg) ? cfg : arguments[1]
|
||||
};
|
||||
}
|
||||
var use = cfg.use,
|
||||
allPlugins = linkify.plugins || {},
|
||||
plugins = [linkifier],
|
||||
tmpCont,
|
||||
newLinks = [],
|
||||
callback = cfg.handleLinks;
|
||||
if ( use == undefined || use == '*' ) // use === undefined || use === null
|
||||
{
|
||||
for ( var name in allPlugins )
|
||||
{
|
||||
plugins.push( allPlugins[name] );
|
||||
}
|
||||
}
|
||||
else
|
||||
{
|
||||
use = $.isArray( use ) ? use : $.trim(use).split( / *, */ );
|
||||
var plugin,
|
||||
name;
|
||||
for ( var i=0, l=use.length; i<l; i++ )
|
||||
{
|
||||
name = use[i];
|
||||
plugin = allPlugins[name];
|
||||
if ( plugin )
|
||||
{
|
||||
plugins.push( plugin );
|
||||
}
|
||||
}
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
this.each(function () {
|
||||
var childNodes = this.childNodes,
|
||||
i = childNodes.length;
|
||||
while ( i-- )
|
||||
{
|
||||
var n = childNodes[i];
|
||||
if ( n.nodeType == 3 )
|
||||
{
|
||||
var html = n.nodeValue;
|
||||
if ( html.length>1 && /\S/.test(html) )
|
||||
{
|
||||
var htmlChanged,
|
||||
preHtml;
|
||||
tmpCont = tmpCont || $('<div/>')[0];
|
||||
tmpCont.innerHTML = '';
|
||||
tmpCont.appendChild( n.cloneNode(false) );
|
||||
var tmpContNodes = tmpCont.childNodes;
|
||||
|
||||
for (var j=0, plugin; (plugin = plugins[j]); j++)
|
||||
{
|
||||
var k = tmpContNodes.length,
|
||||
tmpNode;
|
||||
while ( k-- )
|
||||
{
|
||||
tmpNode = tmpContNodes[k];
|
||||
if ( tmpNode.nodeType == 3 )
|
||||
{
|
||||
html = tmpNode.nodeValue;
|
||||
if ( html.length>1 && /\S/.test(html) )
|
||||
{
|
||||
preHtml = html;
|
||||
html = html
|
||||
.replace( /&/g, '&' )
|
||||
.replace( /</g, '<' )
|
||||
.replace( />/g, '>' );
|
||||
html = $.isFunction( plugin ) ?
|
||||
plugin( html ):
|
||||
html.replace( plugin.re, plugin.tmpl );
|
||||
htmlChanged = htmlChanged || preHtml!=html;
|
||||
preHtml!=html && $(tmpNode).after(html).remove();
|
||||
}
|
||||
}
|
||||
}
|
||||
}
|
||||
html = tmpCont.innerHTML;
|
||||
if ( callback )
|
||||
{
|
||||
html = $('<div/>').html(html);
|
||||
//newLinks.push.apply( newLinks, html.find('a').toArray() );
|
||||
newLinks = newLinks.concat( html.find('a').toArray().reverse() );
|
||||
html = html.contents();
|
||||
}
|
||||
htmlChanged && $(n).after(html).remove();
|
||||
}
|
||||
}
|
||||
else if ( n.nodeType == 1 && !/^(a|button|textarea|code|pre)$/i.test(n.tagName) )
|
||||
{
|
||||
arguments.callee.call( n );
|
||||
}
|
||||
};
|
||||
});
|
||||
callback && callback( $(newLinks.reverse()) );
|
||||
return this;
|
||||
};
|
||||
|
||||
linkify.plugins = {
|
||||
// default mailto: plugin
|
||||
mailto: {
|
||||
re: /(^|["'(\s]|<)([^"'(\s&]+?@.+\.[a-z]{2,7})(([:?]|\.+)?(\s|$)|>|[)"',])/gi,
|
||||
tmpl: '$1<a href="mailto:$2">$2</a>$3'
|
||||
}
|
||||
};
|
||||
|
||||
})(jQuery);
|
||||
|
|
@ -4105,6 +4105,7 @@
|
|||
}
|
||||
return true;
|
||||
});
|
||||
$('.NB-feed-story-content', $story).linkify();
|
||||
})($story, story, image_count);
|
||||
}
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
|
@ -4120,7 +4121,7 @@
|
|||
},
|
||||
|
||||
make_story_content: function(story_content) {
|
||||
var $story_content = $('<div>').html(story_content).autolink();
|
||||
var $story_content = $('<div>').html(story_content);
|
||||
return $story_content;
|
||||
},
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
17
media/js/vendor/jquery.newsblur.js
vendored
17
media/js/vendor/jquery.newsblur.js
vendored
|
|
@ -32,23 +32,6 @@ NEWSBLUR.log = function(msg) {
|
|||
|
||||
$.fn.extend({
|
||||
|
||||
autolink: function() {
|
||||
return this.each(function(){
|
||||
var $desc = $(this);
|
||||
$desc.textNodes().each(function(){
|
||||
var text = $(this);
|
||||
if(text && text.parent() && text.parent()[0] && text.parent()[0].nodeName != 'A') {
|
||||
if (this.data.indexOf('http') != -1) {
|
||||
text.replaceWith(this.data.replace(URL_REGEX, function($0, $1) {
|
||||
console.log(["Replacing text link", $0]);
|
||||
return '<a href="' + $0 +'">' + $0 + '</a>';
|
||||
}));
|
||||
}
|
||||
}
|
||||
});
|
||||
});
|
||||
},
|
||||
|
||||
textNodes: function() {
|
||||
var ret = [];
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
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