Link Me Up, Scotty - People are Stupid (But Also Awesome) Edition

Wednesday, January 28, 2015
I have a dear friend who is undergoing treatment for cancer. When she was called for Federal Jury Duty, she asked for a waiver and provided a letter from her oncologist to verify the situation. The Feds are apparently dumber than a box of hammers.
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Parents who shun vaccines tend to cluster, boosting children's risk. This one's dumbassery is especially egregious, since it puts other little kids' health in jeopardy because these stupid motherfuckers think the greatest medical achievement in the history of the world is actually a vast conspiracy to line the pockets of Big Pharma and secretly give their special little snowflakes autism. Or something.
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And from that bastion of honest and true reporting, The Onion takes a stab at those self-same parents by proclaiming "I don't vaccinate my child because it's my right to decide what eliminated diseases come roaring back."  Written in irony, but painfully, horrifyingly true.
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This is actually the opposite of stupid: MIT researchers have found that when it comes to "general intelligence," women are where it's at if you want a high rate of collective intelligence in a group. Not because women are inherently smarter than men, but because women statistically have higher social sensitivity. Color me surprised.
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Turns out that the Big Tobacco and the Koch brothers' involvement in the creation and maintenance of the Tea Party (i.e., Americans for Prosperity, Freedomworks and more) is far deeper than previously admitted. Grass roots movement my liberal white ass. H/T Steve
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Some thoughts on "getting over" the death of a loved one. The short answer: You never will, because as long as you still love the person you lost, you will grieve for them. Love and grief are conjoined.
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Video of the Week: A. Maceo New Tech High School in Dallas, TX decided to do a one-shot video of the student body and one of their teachers dancing to "Uptown Funk." This makes my heart sing. Stay in school, kids. H/T Emily


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