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Hobby Lobby and contraception: How conservative evangelicals went from not caring about abortion and birth control to being obsessed with them.
Photo by Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images In its challenge to the “contraception mandate” of the Affordable Care Act, Hobby Lobby claims that certain forms of birth control—Plan B, “ella,” and IUDs—induce abortion and therefore go against the owners’ religious beliefs. The government’s response is that none of these contraceptives ends a pregnancy. Rather, they prevent implantation in the uterine lining. Jamelle Bouie is a Slate staff writer covering politics, policy, and race. More on Slate Plus The rejoinder, from supporters of Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood Specialties, is that this doesn’t matter. There’s no doubt that this belief is sincere. In his book Broken Words: The Abuse of Science and Faith in American Politics, Jonathan Dudley notes that most evangelicals held far more liberal views at the time. By 1982, however, the SBC—along with most American evangelicals—had switched gears entirely.
Build a Website for Your Small Business: 5 DIY Services
Your company's online presence begins and ends with your website. But hiring a designer to dress it up can be expensive--and that's not even including the cost of a custom domain name and website hosting. Fortunately, you have do-it-yourself options. If you need a basic website to house and promote your business, these five services let you design, publish, and host your site for free--or for a small monthly fee--all from the comfort of your browser. These services all feature "What You See Is What You Get" (WYSIWYG) website editors. (The website images shown herein are simply examples created for the purposes of this article.) Moonfruit Moonfruit is a free website host and editor with a plethora of fresh designs and detailed editing options. Getting Started Getting started on Moonfruit is quick and easy--although mastering its site editor takes quite a bit of practice. Building and Editing Your Site Next, you can dive into the webpage editor. Pricing Weebly Qapacity
Is Google Making Us Stupid? - Nicholas Carr
Illustration by Guy Billout "Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave?” So the supercomputer HAL pleads with the implacable astronaut Dave Bowman in a famous and weirdly poignant scene toward the end of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. I can feel it, too. I think I know what’s going on. For me, as for others, the Net is becoming a universal medium, the conduit for most of the information that flows through my eyes and ears and into my mind. I’m not the only one. Bruce Friedman, who blogs regularly about the use of computers in medicine, also has described how the Internet has altered his mental habits. Anecdotes alone don’t prove much. It is clear that users are not reading online in the traditional sense; indeed there are signs that new forms of “reading” are emerging as users “power browse” horizontally through titles, contents pages and abstracts going for quick wins. Reading, explains Wolf, is not an instinctive skill for human beings. Also see:
Tips and Tricks: Making the Most of Google Docs
I’ve been using Google Docs for a couple of years now, for both professional and personal tasks. To be honest, I was hesitant to try it at first. After all, what does Google Docs have that other, more feature-rich office suites don’t have? That simplicity doesn’t mean that it’s limited in functionality, though. Take Advantage of Templates for Quick Document Creation Like any other office suite, Google Docs allows you to use document templates. Create File Redundancy and Backups Google Docs can batch download documents into a ZIP file (via More actions > Export) if you want to make local copies in your hard drive. Over on TheAppGap I wrote a tutorial on how to backup your files and retain the folder structure with a Greasemonkey script and DownloadThemAll. Apart from native Docs files, you can also upload and store other file types into Google Docs. You won’t have to download those files or open another program just to view the contents — they’ll automatically be uploaded in Docs.
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Each Of These Paintings Have A Brilliant Message. #3 Is Clever… But Unfortunately Reality.
Viral Nova | This series of paintings by Poland based artist Pawel Kuczynski helps to remind us that there is more than one way to view the world. Working since 2004 to show us the world behind the world, his ideas make us reconsider what we take for granted. Check them out, and maybe you’ll see things in a new light too. When I look at these paintings, I feel the range of potential emotions. Pawel was born in 1976 in Szczecin. Share this with others and let them know how they’ve affected you. Source: Pawel Kuczynski Via Imgur
