Daily Archives: January 31, 2012

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For Susan G. Komen, Breast Cancer Screening is Secondary to Anti-Choice Politics

The Susan G. Komen foundation has ended its partnership with Planned Parenthood after being subject to intense pressure from right-wing, anti-choice activist groups. Previously, SGK provided grants to Planned Parenthood, so that low-income women could have free breast cancer screenings at Planned Parenthood facilities. Continue reading

QOTD: What is the Worst Project You’ve Ever Worked On?

When I was a teenager, I worked for my grandfather. It was a sort of torture for us both. One year, he had to send out some catalogs and the manufacturers he worked with sent him some literature to include in the catalog. Some of the pages weren’t well made, so he decided that those little plastic reinforcements needed to be put on the little holes in the pages. This meant they needed to be put on all three holes on every single page in every single catalog. I am not sure how many of those little plastic reinforcements I had to put on, but I know that they ordered a case of those plastic rings of death and I used them all. It went on for more than a month. Continue reading

Which is the Nastiest Dunk of the Week (So Far)?

Last night, Super-ginger and NBA star, Blake Griffin, did something no one should be able to do, nor should they do. It was so sick that you actually feel badly for the guy (Kendrick Perkins) whose name will now only be associated with Griffin trying to make the basketball part of Perkins’ anatomy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOpGJI2Njrg

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