I’d hire a gay guy if I thought he was a good worker. But if he comes into work in a tutu… he’s not producing what I want in my office. If a guy has a particular predilection and keeps it to himself, that’s fine. But if he wants to use my business as a platform for his lifestyle, why should I have to subsidize that? And that’s what these anti-discrimination laws do.Cornel Rasor, chair of the Idaho Republican Party’s resolutions committee. In the last year and a half, six Idaho cities have passed ordinances banning workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation; Idaho Republicans aren’t happy with this, and so party officials have passed a non-binding resolution calling on the state’s Republicans to do everything they can to invalidate said ordinances. source
A vaccine against a cervical cancer virus has cut infections in teen girls by half, according to a study released Wednesday.
The study confirms research done before the HPV vaccine came on the market in 2006. But this is the first evidence of how well it works now that it is in general use.
“These are striking results and I think they should be a wake-up call that we need to increase vaccination rates,” said Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The study is unlikely to have a drastic impact on the debate surrounding the HPV vaccine, and could even embolden those opposed to the second/third shots recommended by doctors, given that a relatively small percentage of participants in the study had actually received all three doses.
Ranking up there with the Space Jam website and the HBO corporate website is this Washington Post effort from 1997, an in-depth feature on cults. Why’s it still online? Here’s a note at the bottom of the piece: “None of the articles from The Post archives has been changed; nor has any material been updated. Some of the information published many years ago may no longer be valid today. The articles and photos in the illustrated chronology are meant to be representative, not inclusive, of trends.” Speaking of cults, know what else is still online despite the fact that nobody’s around to pay the hosting bills? That’s right, Heaven’s Gate.
But in an age which is, perhaps, more shaped and informed by political identity than any other in our history, having a word in our banner that is so associated with a political party is no longer a very astute business decision. The same could be said if, for the last 24-plus years, we had been the Fauquier Times-Republican.A small paper in Virginia, the Fauquier Times-Democrat, has changed its name by dropping the “Democrat,” because things are so divisive in today’s climate that people can’t handle a newspaper having the word Democrat in its name. In protest, we’re going to start calling ourselves ShortFormLaRoucheBlog.
The FBI has admitted it sometimes uses aerial surveillance drones over US soil, and suggested further political debate and legislation to govern their domestic use may be necessary.
Speaking in a hearing mainly about telephone data collection, the bureau’s director, Robert Mueller, said it used drones to aid its investigations in a “very, very minimal way, very seldom”.
However, the potential for growing drone use either in the US, or involving US citizens abroad, is an increasingly charged issue in Congress, and the FBI acknowleged there may need to be legal restrictions placed on their use to protect privacy.
Looks like the privacy debate probably isn’t going away anytime in the near future, particularly when agencies like the FBI are admitting to the use of drone technology in domestic situations before they’ve even finalized their privacy guidelines for said programs.
mystoremyprice asks: Love the layout. Looks great on a 3.5" screen. Great job team. Is the shorformblog a template that one can import into tumblr or not available? If yes where can I find it? I would early like to use it to sell products posted on tumblr.
» SFB says: It’s custom-made and sort of a hallmark of our look and feel, so we keep it to ourselves. (Though the mobile template is a modified version of the old Tumblr mobile template, and is a bit outdated as a result. We’re working on that.) Sorry about that. — Ernie @ SFB
He’s not going to like the way this looks, I guarantee it: George Zimmer, the founder and spokesman for Men’s Wearhouse, has been fired by his own company. Zimmer was found despondent, but wearing a dashing suit. No sweatpants for this guy’s unemployment. (ht Gawker)
Here it is. Secretary Jack Lew’s official signature as it will appear on U.S. currency starting this fall - @USTreasury
John McAfee explains how to uninstall McAfee Antivirus, reminding you throughout the process that an eccentric millionaire who is a total heathen originally created the software, and that total heathen has nothing to do with the product anymore and hasn’t for 15 years. (Note: NSFW, features drug use, sexual content, and heavy profanity.)
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I’d need a clause somewhere in the contract that says if BuzzFeed fires me for saying or writing something controversial or offensive on BuzzFeed or on Twitter or elsewhere, there will have to be some kind of severance payment. I have a demonstrated ability to really piss powerful people off, and I would need some kind of assurance that BuzzFeed has my back, 120 percent.Michael Hastings, in an email to Buzzfeed about going to work for the publication, an email surfaced by Ben Smith in his tribute to his employee. Read the whole thing. It’s powerful.
British people have lately witnessed a tragedy, and we lived through it together, when right in the streets of London a British army serviceman was brutally murdered outside his barracks. Is it these people that the Europeans want to supply arms? What happens next with those weapons? Who will control in which hands they end up? They could possibly (end up) in Europe.Russian President Vladimir Putin • Defending his opposition to supplying the Syrian opposition with weapons, even as Russia honors contracts with the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, during a two-day G8 meeting at a resort in Northern Ireland this week. Putin described Russia’s transactions as “legal contracts” with the “legal government” of Syria, and the Russian President remains the Syrian government’s most prominent/powerful ally. source
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