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Monday Open Thread; March 12 is World Day Against Cyber Censorship
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 03/12/2018 - 5:00amMonday Open Thread; March 12 is World Day Against Cyber Censorship

March 12 is the 71st day of the year, there are 294 days left
Today is also Sweetmorn, Chaos 71, 3184 YOLD for all you Discordians out there
Monday Open Thread; November 6 is Malaria Day in the Americas
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 11/06/2017 - 5:00am
November 6 is the 310th day of the year, there are 55 days left
Today's number is 6
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6 is the sum of its proper divisors (1, 2, & 3), which makes it a perfect number. It is the smallest perfect number,
Sunday Open Thread: September 24th is National Punctuation Day !!
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Sun, 09/24/2017 - 5:00am
World History this day
0622 -- Muhammad and his followers completed their Hijra from Mecca to Medina
1674 -- The second Tantrik Coronation of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, an early Indian nationalist
1932 -- Gandhi and Dr. B. R. Ambedkar agreed to the Poona Pact
1948 -- The Honda Motor Company was founded
Occupy Trump - Badgers and Hogwarts Houses ( renamed from Response to a Critique)
Submitted by Gerrit on Mon, 03/14/2016 - 8:35amJohn Lennon said that life is what happens to us while we're busy making other plans. We're having a primary where the coronation got interrupted by an insurgent. That was unexpected, but it quickly became clear that the insurgency could grow into a Democratic schism. One side is corporatist, neo-con, and neo-liberal. The other side is progressive, democratic socialist, and peaceful. "All we are saying is give peace a chance."
On the other side of the American divide, their ideological madness is splitting the GOP into a racist, corporatist, and global side and a racist, christian-dominionist side. The leader of the christianist side is, ironically, Drumpf, with the yet more dangerous Cruz at his heels. Cruz is a traditional racist, a lawyerly blower of dog whistles. Drumpf,on the other hand, is a Freudian carnival of ego gone amok. As the Democratic sides separated into a catholic and protestant side, Drumpf's drumbeat of racist incitement overwhelmed not only the GOP primary race, but the entire 2016 election. The bitter harvest of ancient hate and a decade of racist incitement against one of the most accomplished of all American presidents is in. Now. In real time. Spring may be in the air, but in the American psyche, it's fall and the bitter harvest is in. Drumpf's race-baiting is now the defining feature of the 2016 election. Life happens while we are busy making primary plans. So, what does all of this mean for Bernie?