Jason Morrison
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Googler on the Search Quality Team and a bit of a geek.
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Ugh.
The ACLU, in a friend-of-the-court brief in the Stephens case, underscored the concerns that Ginsburg raised in Hobby Lobby. The implications of a ruling in the funeral homes’ favor would be “staggering,” it declared. “People hold sincere religious beliefs about a wide variety of things, including racial and religious segregation and the role of women in society. … If religious motivation exempted businesses from anti-discrimination laws, our government would be powerless to enforce those laws.”
Among other things, “business owners could refuse service to people of color, on the ground that their religious beliefs forbid racial integration. Employers could refuse to hire women or pay them less than men, because their religious beliefs require women to remain at home. And educational institutions receiving federal benefits could impose religiously motivated racial segregation policies on their students. All civil rights laws would be vulnerable to such claims where the discrimination was motivated by religion.”
Hobby Lobby, Ginsburg warned, was “a decision of startling breadth.” How broad is just now becoming clear.
The ACLU, in a friend-of-the-court brief in the Stephens case, underscored the concerns that Ginsburg raised in Hobby Lobby. The implications of a ruling in the funeral homes’ favor would be “staggering,” it declared. “People hold sincere religious beliefs about a wide variety of things, including racial and religious segregation and the role of women in society. … If religious motivation exempted businesses from anti-discrimination laws, our government would be powerless to enforce those laws.”
Among other things, “business owners could refuse service to people of color, on the ground that their religious beliefs forbid racial integration. Employers could refuse to hire women or pay them less than men, because their religious beliefs require women to remain at home. And educational institutions receiving federal benefits could impose religiously motivated racial segregation policies on their students. All civil rights laws would be vulnerable to such claims where the discrimination was motivated by religion.”
Hobby Lobby, Ginsburg warned, was “a decision of startling breadth.” How broad is just now becoming clear.
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Letter of Resignation from the Palo Alto Planning and Transportation Commission:
https://medium.com/@katevershovdowning/letter-of-resignation-from-the-palo-alto-planning-and-transportation-commission-f7b6facd94f5
https://medium.com/@katevershovdowning/letter-of-resignation-from-the-palo-alto-planning-and-transportation-commission-f7b6facd94f5
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NBC's app has the Chromecast button disabled, so this is how we watched the Olympics last night before the kids' bed time.
Great job NBC!
Great job NBC!
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Really insightful answer to a pretty deep question. Bill Murray:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8w8njfGgls&t=30m
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8w8njfGgls&t=30m
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totally digging this for a squillion reasons...
Eleanor Lutz' story about the creation process is pretty neat too 😄
http://tabletopwhale.com/2014/12/16/how-to-build-a-human.html
#scienceinfographic
Eleanor Lutz' story about the creation process is pretty neat too 😄
http://tabletopwhale.com/2014/12/16/how-to-build-a-human.html
#scienceinfographic
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Changing Finn's diaper last night when I got a lesson in infrastructure.
Finn: "They take it on the garbage truck."
Me: "Take what, buddy?"
Finn: "They take it on the garbage truck."
Me: "Take what?"
Finn: "They take it on the garbage truck. Poops... Diapers. They take it on the garbage truck."
Me: "Oh okay, that's right. We put it in the trash, and then take the trash out , and then the garbage truck takes it to the landfill."
Finn: "Then they take it on the bus."
Me: "What? No buddy, it doesn't go on the bus."
Finn: "Then they take it on the airplane."
Me: "No, it stays in the landfill. No one wants to ride on a plane full of poopy diapers. Trust me on that one."
Finn: "They take it on the garbage truck."
Me: "Take what, buddy?"
Finn: "They take it on the garbage truck."
Me: "Take what?"
Finn: "They take it on the garbage truck. Poops... Diapers. They take it on the garbage truck."
Me: "Oh okay, that's right. We put it in the trash, and then take the trash out , and then the garbage truck takes it to the landfill."
Finn: "Then they take it on the bus."
Me: "What? No buddy, it doesn't go on the bus."
Finn: "Then they take it on the airplane."
Me: "No, it stays in the landfill. No one wants to ride on a plane full of poopy diapers. Trust me on that one."
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