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December 06, 2014
Overnight Open Thread (6 Dec 2014)
Not a shocker. Rolling Stone has not retracted its UVA rape story.
Also not a shocker. Defense bill is littered with nonsense.
One provision pushes forward a National Women's History Museum in Washington, DC - long advocated by Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-Manhattan).
In all, more than a quarter of the 1,648-page defense bill is dedicated to federal land-use projects, angering some conservatives upset that a critical defense bill is slathered with pork projects.
Manly Test
So morons, how manly are you? Take the test and find out.
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100 Years Of Beauty
So what's your favorite decade?
The New Normal
Oh I'm sure it won't just be whooping cough that becomes the new normal in disease outbreaks. Big whooping cough outbreaks could become the 'new normal'.
Related: The measles outbreak coming near you.
Measles is making a terrifying comeback in the U.S., with some 600 cases reported this year, more than in any year in the past two decades. There are two reasons: ,the ease of international travel, and an increasing number of people refusing vaccinations, usually on behalf of their children.
Uh uh. Ease of international travel? Is that a new code being put in use now?
Modern Art
They don't do art like they used to. NSFW!!!! Usher charges iPhone in woman's vagina at the Art Basel in Miami.
The woman wanted to show how humans have become dependent on technology and she felt a super-charged vagina would help make her point.
Animal Fails Compilation
Dating Options
This is getting ridiculous. Online dating sites are adding many more options just to confuse the shit out of you even more. Sapiosexual seeks same: a new lexicon enters the dating mainstream. Squiggly didn't make the cut. Yet.
"One young woman defined herself as 'squiggly,' " he says. "And there was silence and everyone was saying, 'What exactly is that?' And then she said, 'Well, I feel like that's what I am in terms of my gender and sexuality. I'm squiggly.'
Irony Alert
Now this is funny. All these protesters are enabling cops to get lots 'o overtime cash.
"If the protesters want to pay me so I can make sure all my Christmas bills are paid, that's fine with me," said another.
Cat Video
Tonight's ONT brought to you by cats who have claimed the Christmas Tree:
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