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Balloon Juice: “Exodus International” Exeunts
Progress, however belated and/or grudging. Per NYMag:An organization whose name is synonymous with the “ex-gay” movement, Exodus International, will soon cease to be, after its president apologized for trying to convert gays and lesbians thro...
Dateline: 2013-06-19 11:45pm -07:00T (132 words)
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Balloon Juice: Open Thread: Dogwhistles for Global Tools!
Shamelessly filched from loyal commentor Schroedinger’s Cat, to encourage everyone to click over and find out how “The Die Is Caste“:NYT is now outsourcing their vacuous analysis on the Opinion Pages to op-ed contributors from Bangalore...
Dateline: 2013-06-19 8:00pm -07:00T (388 words)
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Balloon Juice: More waiting games
Ohio is still debating Medicaid expansion. Kasich backs the expansion under his new “compassionate conservative†persona, but the Ohio Tea Party really only has one issue, and it’s opposition to Obamacare. It didn’t help that Ohio Republican lea...
Dateline: 2013-06-19 6:45pm -07:00T (502 words)
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Balloon Juice: RIP, James Gandolfini
Speaking of HBO series, James Gandolfini, who was simply amazing as Tony Soprano, has died of a heart attack in Italy at the age of 51.Every time I listened to him breathe, I wondered if he had sleep apnea.Big loss....
Dateline: 2013-06-19 5:30pm -07:00T (40 words)
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Balloon Juice: We may need a Plan B without Section 5
We’re waiting to learn the fate of the Voting Rights Act. Here is an excellent propublica rundown of the history of the Act and an explanation of how the law works:Section 5 requires nine mostly Southern states — Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississi...
Dateline: 2013-06-19 5:30pm -07:00T (641 words)
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Balloon Juice: Italy v Japan Open Thread
Which blue team will win: the Azurri or Blue Samurai é’...
Dateline: 2013-06-19 4:15pm -07:00T (11 words)
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Balloon Juice: Wednesday Evening Open Thread: “Get Over It”
“I think the society that we live in today, it’s sad that if we go to the movies, or to the airport, or even to the mall that we have to worry about our safety,” McCord said. “So I would rather someone track my telephone messages a...
Dateline: 2013-06-19 4:15pm -07:00T (436 words)
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Balloon Juice: I Wanna Do Bad Things To You
All day long, while I was working, all I could think about was making dinner and sitting down for another episode of True Blood. I love it when I get hooked on a show with a bunch of seasons aired and I can just stream them over the mac mini from comcast...
Dateline: 2013-06-19 4:15pm -07:00T (60 words)
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Balloon Juice: Mid afternoon open thread
Not much going on around here. The weather isn’t currently trying to kill us.PFC Manning’s Court-Martial is in recess till next week.HPV infections in girls have fallen by half since the introduction of the Gardasil vaccine.The US is about t...
Dateline: 2013-06-19 12:30pm -07:00T (84 words)
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Balloon Juice: Nothing to See Here, Move Along Now
An unwise man once said:As to those of you poo-pooing this and saying “how is this any different than a helicopter,†in five to ten years when unmanned drones are flying all over your neighborhood surveilling and storing info at random, you can think ...
Dateline: 2013-06-19 12:30pm -07:00T (340 words)
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Balloon Juice: Brazil v Mexico Open Thread
Can El Tri stop their bleeding? Can Os Canarinhos keep marching?This space reserved for your ad....
Dateline: 2013-06-19 12:30pm -07:00T (16 words)
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Balloon Juice: Barack the Non-Explorer
Here’s how things could have been in the Obama Presidency. Instead, division and dissension:Mr. Obama’s near-complete absence from more than 25 percent of the states, from which he is politically estranged, is no surprise, in that it reflects rou...
Dateline: 2013-06-19 8:45am -07:00T (132 words)
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Balloon Juice: A re-introduction and a peace offering
While I’d like to think my internet persona is such that, once experienced, it can never be forgotten, I’m willing to entertain the idea that this is not in fact true.So with that in mind, and recognizing it’s been probably just about a ...
Dateline: 2013-06-19 7:30am -07:00T (232 words)
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Balloon Juice: As It Ever Has Been
Perfection: [...][F]rom 1993 to early 2011, F.B.I. agents fatally shot about 70 “subjects†and wounded about 80 others — and every one of those episodes was deemed justified, according to interviews and internal F.B.I. records obtained by The New Yo...
Dateline: 2013-06-19 6:15am -07:00T (112 words)
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Balloon Juice: Michael Hastings, RIP
I read of Hastings’ death and pulled down my copy of The Operators: The Wild & Terrifying Inside Story of America’s War in Afghanistan. Fortuitously, it’s just coming out in paperback, if you still need a copy. Here are the first and n...
Dateline: 2013-06-19 1:45am -07:00T (446 words)
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