John Yoo says something appallingly stupid
John Yoo says President Obama is too afraid of the politics of Guantanamo Bay to capture and interrogate terrorists. The former Gorge W. Bush administration lawyer, Yoo wrote the infamous torture...
View ArticleYou Can Fool Some of the People, GOP
But you can't fool me. Drilling for new oil will not lower gas pump prices. Not now, not in the long term. Not ever. It's a ruse. But you had a vote yesterday and passed a bill to fleece the...
View ArticleContinuing Discussion with a Gaddafi Supporter
This is a continuation of an email discussion I have been having with a Gaddafi supporter that considers himself an anti-imperialist and a socialist. My first dairy in this thread was Tuesday. I am...
View ArticleThe Inoculation Project 5/6/11: DNA Modeling!
Scroll down for this week's project. On tap this week: DNA Modeling! Reminder: Look for "The Inoculation Project" every Friday afternoon! The Inoculation Project: Math & Science in Red State...
View ArticleThe Case for a Progressive Party: How to End the State-Corporate Complex
"Politics is the shadow cast by big business over society." John Dewey. "We do not have a two-party system anymore, we have one Business party with two factions." Noam Chomsky. Consider this a...
View ArticleLabor Demonstrator Block Road, Don't go to Jail
This article out of Newfoundland, Canada caught my attention: Black Duck Cove shrimp processing workers have vowed to continue to block Route 430 every day until fisheries minister Clyde Jackman stops...
View ArticleYou can now die of old age
Today, May 6, the new feature film Forks Over Knives premiers in New York City and Los Angeles. The film examines the profound claim that most, if not all, of the degenerative diseases that afflict...
View ArticleFOX, WSJ are not American
Not sure if people realize this, but Fox and WSJ are not owned by a real American. They are owned by an Australian who supposedly was naturalized only so he could acquire TV stations in the US. There...
View ArticleLive Nude Pagans!
Skyclad. Clad only by the sky (or, as would be said in the South, "buck nekkid") - referring to nudity in spiritual ceremonies, chiefly (though not exclusively) among Pagan/Wiccan groups. The term is...
View ArticleRising Cancer Rates Find Hospitals Ill-Equipped, Patients Share Beds in Kashmir
With cancer rates on the rise in Kashmir, patients and hospital staff alike complain of the lack of resources available to treat them. Meanwhile, health experts here recommend reducing tobacco use and...
View ArticleAnonymous and our respectable enemies
I woke up the other day to a dozen or so queries from reporters about allegations that the Anonymous collective is responsible for the theft of more than a hundred million user accounts and their...
View ArticleGreece Nears Breaking Point
European finance ministers secretly met in Luxembourg this week on fears that Greece is reaching a breaking point ... ... amid swirling rumors that Greece wants to leave the Euro.
View ArticleI WANT TO KNOW
I want to know which Democratic Senators were talking to Joe Barton. The despicable unconstitutional liar that is trying to start a religious crusade against non-Christians in America. Yesterday, Joe...
View ArticleYou want to spur domestic oil production?
This is a short diary because the answer to the title is simple and would work without a doubt. You can get rid of all the oil subsidies that our Republican friends refuse to take away from their...
View ArticleNo Pets!
Sometimes, I wonder if people ever trust others to do their jobs? When you have a service animal with you, that thought becomes dominant to the point where you almost forget why you even came to the...
View Article"Everything's a Conspiracy" - PA Wingnut Governor Rigging the Game for Gas...
Not taking any credit for this; it's via the blog Young Philly Politics. Since I haven't seen this picked up on by anyone I'm posting here. Basically, the Governor of PA is so deeply in the pocket of...
View ArticleNYT Columnist Pooh Poohs His Own Story
While many journalists, scholars and activists have done serious writing about the theocratic Christian Reconstructionist movement and its influence on the development of the Religious Right -- others...
View ArticleRedistricting/GIS
I'm curious if anybody else has actual GIS (Geographic Information Systems) experience? One of the things that have been bugging me is that all the plans that are being worked on by DKE/SSP'ers are...
View ArticleAbortion access roadblocks - anything goes
Even anti-choice South Dakota legislators were shocked by some of the bills introduced this year. The infamous "kill an abortion doctor" bill which did not legalize murdering abortion providers, but...
View ArticleProtest Andrew Breitbart, right-wing attack on labor and academic freedom
Two outstanding Missouri labor educators - Judy Ancel and Don Giljum - have been part of a coordinated right-wing assault. The known purveyor of chop-shop videos, Andrew Breitbart, is now using the...
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