Text Me? Ping Me? Communications Overload in the Digital Age
My company (and many, many others) uses an app called Slack, which allows you to set up different chat rooms for people who are collaborating on a given project. Or, as is often the case, collaborating on gossip or sharing GIFs of the rapper Pitbull.

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Anti-gay minister in Australia is threatened by chalk rainbow outside her office
A parliament minister in Australia has announced that she feels bullied and attacked… By a rainbow drawn in coloured chalk outside her office. Madeleine Ogilvie, who went against same-sex marriage in the country’s recent vote, was disgusted to …

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Live chat: Jason Jones takes weekly shot at sorting out Sacramento Kings’ fortunes
Sacramento Bee reporters Jason Jones hosts the weekly live chat focusing on the Sacramento Kings and their place in the NBA world beginning at 11 a.m. Monday. If you plan to participate, bring you questions and opinions, and let it rip.

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Beyond Citizens United
Some blame the state of political affairs on the Citizens United decision, but it’s the fault of reformers … by tax-exempt foundations to groups like La Raza and the gay rights movement. According to the Democratic narrative, this happy picture was …

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The Bizarre Lawsuit Demanding Anti-LGBT Discrimination In Indiana

Conservatives are throwing everything at the wall so that they can treat LGBT people as second-class citizens.

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EXCLUSIVE: Weightlifter with terminal brain cancer meets idol Arnold Schwarzenegger in video chat after Reddit campaign
An avid upstate New York weightlifter who is battling terminal brain cancer got a chance to speak with his idol: Arnold Schwarzenegger. Todd McCaffery, 52, fell in love with Arnold movies and “took him on as an idol,” his younger sister Katie wrote in an …

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Road Not Yet Cleared for Christian Law School with Anti-Gay Stance
Paul Tolnai doesn’t like the covenant either. However even though the former president of a Conservative Party of Canada electoral district, and a board member of a BC Liberal is gay, he doesn’t think the covenant should stand in the way of Trinity Western …

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Anti-gay marriage MP claims she is ‘under attack’ from a chalk rainbow
An Australian MP who opposes same-sex marriage has insisted she is being “bullied and intimidated” by “thugs”… because members of her own party chalked a rainbow outside her office. Madeleine Ogilvie sits in the Tasmanian House of Assembly for th …

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Families enjoy county holiday festival
Then, Gabriella got a bit shy when talking to the jolly man himself. After posing with photos with her siblings TJ, 2, and Adrianna, 8 months, it was time for her private chat with Santa. She told him she wanted a Baby Alive doll. Gabriella and her family …

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'Kiss of Love' Couple Brought to City, Cops Begin Questioning
Rahul Pasupalan and Rashmi R Nair were arrested by the cyber crime police in November, in a statewide operation named Operation Big Daddy, on charges of being involved in an online sex racket. The couple, who gained popularity as the organisers of the …

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