Mar 15, 2019
It’s…Artifact Friday! Featuring “get out and vote” pins for Proposition 7, also known as the Texas Equal Rights Amendment, supported by women statewide in an effort to bring them equality.
Spoiler: it passed in 1972!
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It’s…Artifact Friday! Featuring “get out and vote” pins for Proposition 7, also known as the Texas Equal Rights Amendment, supported by women statewide in an effort to bring them equality.
Spoiler: it passed in 1972!
Considerable evidence has accumulated that shifting clocks back-and-forth twice each year has significant economic costs.
Since California voters mandated daylight saving time (DST) in 1949, considerable evidence has accumulated that shifting clocks back-and- forth twice each year has significant economic costs. Because the human body's circadian rhythms get a jolt regardless of the direction of the time change, people are less productive at work for a day or two afterward. Much more seriously, the risks of heart attacks and automobile accidents spike. Pedestrians are more likely to be hit in the days following the return to standard time as drivers adjust to commuting home in the dark. Despite myriad studies of DST's effects, no evidence whatsoever has been found that moving clocks forward in the spring saves energy, which was President Nixon's justification for getting Congress to adopt DST nationwide in the early 1970s.
North Pole: Santa Claus Puts Medical Marijuana On “Nice” List
North Pole: Santa Claus Puts Medical Marijuana On “Nice” List
Christmas is rapidly approaching, and there’s one thing Santa Claus wants you to know; He supports medical marijuana in the tiny community of North Pole, Alaska. As recreational consumers queued up to purchase their first official sack of state-sanctioned pot in Valdez, a kindly old bearded gentleman in a big red suit has stepped up the defense of medical marijuana for those patients at the North…
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For those of you that don’t live here, this is the email I received about the new propositions. If you do live here then please vote no on Prop 7. This one line could change a lot of people’s lives, and not necessarily for the better like Noah thinks.
Wittgenstein's Tractatus
Proposition 7:
"Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen."
"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."