Blog Roll, Interesting Blogs
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Favorite Blogs/Websites
- A Bayesian Take on Julian Assange - Nate Silver in 538 (h/t: mr goodbar): Psychologists and behavioral economists have conducted a lot of experiments along these lines, testing our ability to t...10 hours ago
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- 22 Dead In Series Of Pakistan Drone Attacks - US drone attacks in Pakistan's tribal region have increased under the presidency of Barack Obama, often occurring several times every week. But the US now...
13 hours ago - Julian Assange 1st Presser After Release On Bail - RT | 17 December 2010 - The founder of the whistleblowing website Wikileaks released on bail by a British court says he will continue his work. An appeal...13 hours ago
- U.S. Threatens "War on Terror" Allies Over CIA Kidnapping and Torture Programs - As revelations of U.S. government coercive "diplomacy" continue flowing from the whistleblowing web site WikiLeaks, much to the consternation of official W...5 days ago
- Zappadan Comix: Smokestack Lightning - UPDATE: Captain Beefheart , Dead at Age 69 To be continued...Meanwhile, I think it was in The Real Frank Zappa Book where Zappa described Captain ...
13 hours ago - Arts & Letters Daily (17 Dec 2010) - What makes music sad? Most people jump to "minor key" as the answer. But singer and lyrics can mean more than we realize... more1 day ago
- CHAN AKYA : : The value of a nuclear Iran - A nuclear-capable Iran may be exactly what is required to destabilize the Wahhabi establishment, reduce support for extreme groups such as al-Qaeda - and u...20 hours ago
- End of the year rant - Here we are only days until the new year. Looking back on all the crap this year has brought up is quite overwhelming. So many things I could try to tou...7 hours ago
- It’s All in Your Point of View - From the *Associated Press*: ARLINGTON, Va. — He may be leader of the free world, but when he takes his dog for a walk, President Barack Obama says he be...8 hours ago
- Fundamental change - Bryan over at Why Now reminds us that today is the 107th anniversary of the 1st manned flight at Kitty Hawk. My grandmother was born when the nearest city...45 minutes ago
- Late Night Navel-gazing - If wingnuts are mad at Mexico for operating drones and want to do something about it, does this mean that they hate the Mexico for their freedom? American ...33 minutes ago
- Miss TSA Pinup Girl! (NSFW, sorta....) - Given the new "security" screening procedures at airports, I suppose this was rather inevitable. I suppose I could make a really crude remark about bo...
3 days ago - The Obama Renaissance - By James Kwak President Obama is enjoying something of a political resurgence, at least among the commentariat. Ezra Klein points out that his approval rat...13 hours ago
- RIP Bruce McDonald, Progressive Blogger - Just heard the devastating news about the recent untimely passing of Bruce McDonald of Canuck Attitude. Brucie was a mensch, pure and simple. The fact that...1 week ago
- Sarah Palin Flunks Once Again In Her Advice on Dealing with BP Disaster - *By MARC McDONALD* Recall back in May when the BP oil disaster was raging? On May 31, Sarah Palin drew chuckles when she tweeted advice to Louisiana Gov. B...23 hours ago
- Why, exactly, is it... - ... that the modern conservative pseudo-intellectual's solution to every small problem seems to involve genocide? I guess some people see Generals Buck Tu...3 weeks ago
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- Oh, Dear God - I hope that everyone enjoyed the irony of a tiny gaggle of angry Christians launching their out-and-proud campaign against the secular assault to whitewash ...2 weeks ago
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- The CIA secretly agreed to pay $5million to shield the architects of its waterboarding program - Psychologists Jim Mitchell and Bruce Jessen are well-known to have invented the brutal interrogation programme, now classed in the US as torture.1 day ago
- Our Weekly Podcast - We had problems with Skype and had to record this in four different segments, but we persisted! I'm grateful for the free programs I use to put this to...
17 hours ago - Recent acquisitions - Modern Library's 1959 edition of Lady Chatterly's Lover is a steal at $10. This 1969 trade paperback edition of A Farewell to Arms can be yours for only ...
1 year ago - Working My Way to 100 Books - I really want to read 1o0 books in 2010 for some reason. Right now I’m only on my 83rd book. Can I read 17 more books in 14 days? We’ll see. I certainly do...1 day ago
- Virtual Vigil Light for Tomorrow's Senate DREAM Act Vote - [image: VIRTUAL VIGIL for the DREAM Act! Change your profile pics to ... on Twitpic] A vigil light for the DREAM Act... The Senate will vote tomorrow on t...8 hours ago
- Guest Hosting 'Malloy Show' Tonight! (Friday) - Secrets and lies. Secrets and lies. Virtually every problem our nation (and world) now faces, seem to stem from secrets and lies. We'll be discussing that ...7 hours ago
- Friedrich A. von Hayek as a Possible Originator of the Full (as Opposed to Hawtrey's Limited) Fama... - Maynard writes: >The History of Macroeconomics: Fiscal Policy, Fama's Fallacy, and Say's Law Yet Once Again: Try Friedrich Hayek. >>Hayek came to Cambridge i...9 months ago
- On Julian Assange and the Tax Cuts - (By *American Zen*'s Mike Flannigan, on loan from Ari.) *"We were better off at 28 percent under Reagan than we’ve been since. And we are going to be at ...7 hours ago
- CORPORATISM WATCH: A LOOK BACK AT GM, A LOOK FORWARD ATFORECLOSURE FRAUD - “I have to teach this Obama something about capitalism” — Hugo Chávez. This was in the wake of the government takeover of GM, chronicled very well right he...15 hours ago
- LA Port Traffic in November: Exports Increase - Notes: *this data is not seasonally adjusted.* LA area ports handle about 40% of the nation's container port traffic. The following graph shows the loaded ...
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- "Bethink Yourselves!": An Ancient Voice Raised Against Modern Evil - More than a century ago, an aging man, staring his own death in the face, spoke the truth of our times: Again war. Again sufferings, necessary to nobody,...6 hours ago
- Just When You Think It Could Be Worse - You find out just how much worse. I wasn't anticipating three layers of comp roofing over the wood shingles, rat bastards hid a layer with a trim board. ...
3 days ago - Heads They Win, Tails We Lose - Fred Kaplan writes that the situation in Afghanistan is worse than ever. We're in a position of having to depend on an unstable nation (Pakistan) with a p...12 hours ago
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- Film at 11: Delusional Obama Fans post at Big Orange - Here's a beaut that made the Rec List. Remember, this is a *disillusioned*Obama Fan: I didn't want to believe it. I didn't want to believe this transform...57 minutes ago
- Open Thread - Mr. Bean's Christmas morning. PS. RIP Captain Beefheart, passing away during Zappadan, too. Open thread below....2 hours ago
- Jejune for the Misbegotten - [image: going_vague3] David Brooks has a new column in the New York Times today. You can read it here. Or, if you'd rather not chug Mr. Brooks' 1,000th ide...
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- Recap - Week of 12/13/10 - Jon offers some lovely commemorative plates of the London riots and talks to 9/11 responders about the Senate's filibuster on the Zadroga bill.23 hours ago
- America Deperately Needs Real Leadership! - This man was an extraordinary leader! Friends, America has become a lost cause. Part of the reason is that it has no real leadership. It is being led by a ...6 hours ago
- Pasting and pooting and whizzing all the day - [image: Frank And Beans] Get over to The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing and educate yourselves, if you've got any guts. '...Just walked away and left it squ...
4 hours ago - Bush v. Gore Plus Ten - The ten year anniversary came and went last week with little, if any, media attention. The minority of Americans with a functional memory vividly recall De...13 hours ago
- Write-Offs: 12.17.10 - $$$ Insider Trading Probe Casts Shadows Over 2011 [Reuters] $$$ Madoff Trustee Makes If Halfway With $7.2 Billion Deal [Bloomberg] $$$ Interior shots of No...8 hours ago
- Ooh, Listen To The Fifteen-Year-Old. This Is "I Can Die In Peace" Material. - This should cheer up a few of my friends and sphincter some of my adversaries. (YouTube link if embedded video above is truncated in your browser.) h/t L...6 days ago
- WikiLeaks Cables: Pfizer Targeted Nigerian Attorney General to Undermine Suit over Fatal Drug Tests - Diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks show the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer hired investigators to find evidence of corruption against the Nigerian attorn...17 hours ago
- Black Magpie Theory - I am over at Black Magpie Theory today *Laissez-les Manger Le Gâteau* [image: Share/Save/Bookmark]
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- Tales From The Crypt - Tax Cuts and Bond Markets Edition - Markets screeched in horror at the mere mention of conservative ideas like tax cuts, a GOP "free market" and glibertarian favorite stump speech talking po...5 days ago
- MsPhD of Young Female Scientist Stops Blogging - The goodbye post is here, stop by and drop a note of thanks. I've certainly enjoyed reading her perspectives over the past several years and I know many...11 hours ago
- Blog break - Lookout over Lyttelton from the briddle path I have a chest infection at the moment and take some rest. There are. lots of projects going on in the house ...
3 weeks ago - UN Lifts Key Restrictions From Iraq - NEW YORK - The United Nations Security Council has lifted restrictions prohibiting Iraq from pursuing a civilian nuclear program, in a step to help restore...1 day ago
- The Chechen War - From WikiLeaks, this cable from 2006 examines the War in Chechnya. Grozny is the capital city of Chechnya. It is worth keeping in mind that "grozny" is an...1 week ago
- No Chains On Me - I'm a latecomer to music, which makes all the old music a treasure trove I can dip into without having those emotional strings which mean so much for mos...5 hours ago
- Personal Income by States - Q3 2010 - The BEA released personal income for states. Growth was only 0.7% for Q3 2010. PCE, or personal consumption expenditures had a price index increase of 0....2 hours ago
- Douglas Holtz-Eakin Falls Into Lunatic Pandering - Once upon a time Douglas Holtz-Eakin was a reasonable professional economist, if of a conservative bent and clearly associated with the Republican Party. H...13 hours ago
- Let’s Talk about Stress - We’ve been under stress of late. Lots of stress. Unfortunate, but it’s true for most of us, isn’t it? If it isn’t money, then it’s employment or the lack t...1 year ago
- More Cheney Get Out of Jail Free Costs: Mitchell and Jessen’s $5 Million Indemnity Agreement - The AP has a story on Mitchell and Jessen’s torture defense. The lead of the story describes how CIA protected the torturers both by paying all of their de...19 hours ago
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- The 2010 Tax Cut Giveaway To The Rich-Leave No Oligarch Behind - The Washington propaganda machine continues to spew out its message that Americans need to be afraid of the economic tsunami that will come wash upon our s...2 days ago
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- "Bobby's Berms." - * I want to start this post by giving a shout out to *GQ Magazine* for featuring the last surviving member of the original three Wailers in this latest iss...
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- Robochess a chess playing bot - Robochess is the name of this chess playing robot. This robot was created by a 17 year old Iranian Student, Ebrahim Jahandar. The robot can play chess agai...7 months ago
- Birther Lakin's Big Day - It was a day of ups and downs for Lieutenant Colonel Terrence Lakin, a day in which he got what he asked for only to find that he didn't really want it, ...9 hours ago
- The Real Republican Agenda - Why is stupidity so firmly entrenched in the Republican mindset? Like their claim that tax cuts for the wealthy will create jobs, for instance. Or that looti...1 week ago
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- Veterans for Peace Take Opposition to the Endless Wars to the White House Gates - 131 Arrested at Veteran-led Civil Resistance Against Wars Dec. 16 The organizers wrote about their action, but corporate media hacks largely ignored it. He...4 hours ago
- Goldman Sachs: Payday Again! - Eliot Spitzer understands Goldman Sachs as well as anyone except perhaps a GS insider. Not only does Goldman Sachs have incredible paydays, with egregious ...15 hours ago
- New Study Finds Almonds May Help Fight Heart Disease, Type II Diabetes - [image: Blanched almonds.]Image via Wikipedia Grant Lawrence--Bodhi Thunder Eating Almonds, like nearly all tree nuts, have been found to be highly benef...50 minutes ago
- Allison DuBois is Bullshit - Yeah, I noticed that there was a spike in traffic related to medium-performance artist Allison Dubois, who is a yeasty, curdled discharge. Most of the sear...1 day ago
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- Alot of those 6,000 earmarks are coming from the hypocrite party - Now seriously, I don't have a beef with the earmark. Some earmarks are actually good for the states. But the GOP has decided with the help of the teabagge...10 hours ago
- A SUPREME COUP - This is not judicial activism, it's judicial radicalism – a black-robed political coup over America's historic democratic ideals. Five men have just overth...10 months ago
- The Blair-Hitchens event in Toronto - *The Hitchens Watch Shura recently convened and has now declared a hudna against that infidel Peter Hitchens. Our Qassams shall not fire at that Zionist en...1 day ago
- Hubble Supernova Bubble Resembles Holiday Ornament - Get larger image formats A delicate sphere of gas, photographed by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, floats serenely in the depths of space. The pristine sh...3 days ago
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- Photo a day - John 3:16 - [image: IMG_0237]Jeebus I get tired of this stuff. It’s not enough that almost everyone I know is Christian. It’s not enough that there is a church on ev...3 days ago
- Shooting Everything, Including Herself in the Foot - From Taylor Marsh at THE HUFFINGTON POST: At the end of a defensive post about Sarah Palin’s hunting fiasco taped on her TLC show [Sarah Palin's Alaska], t...6 hours ago
- Of knees and blood diamonds - No post today; the spinster knee must spend some time burning in the icy purgatorial fires of an MRI tube, the nearest one of which with an available appoi...17 hours ago
- RIP Captain Beefheart - 69 years young, Don Glen Vliet up and dies right in the middle of Zappadan. How about that?
8 hours ago - Video of the week -- scarfing the prophet - In the face of such bullying, blasphemy is no longer merely a right -- it is a duty.2 days ago
- injaynesworld we are visited by "Ghosts From Christmas Past..." - . This week I received a solicitation for discount prepaid cremation services and an offer for a three-week free membership for a senior online dating serv...
2 days ago - Mexico Quake Studies Uncover Surprises for California - New technologies developed by NASA and other agencies are revealing surprising insights into a major earthquake that rocked parts of the American Southwe...1 day ago
- …Til It’s Gone - (Cross-posted at Balloon Juice) This is a follow up to John Cole’s Thug Nation observation. He’s right, of course: we’ve allowed our fears, and the cynical...2 days ago
- Yeah....I Know. - My hiatus sucks for me too, little muffins. There are so many, many things I want to tell you about -- illegal immigrants, shoes, blogging and your career,...1 year ago
- Bullied to Death- Seth Walsh's last words. - Seth was just a little boy in 8th grade, who wanted to live his life out in the open. Tehachapi is a beautiful place, up in the mountains east of Bakersfield...15 hours ago
- The Problem Is that Most Democrats are Liberal Instead of Progressive - Robert Reich Why Democrats Move to the Center, and Republicans Don't Democratic presidents so much more easily intimidated by the "move to the center" rhet...1 month ago
- Jay Alan of the California Office of Emergency Services Tries to Speak Metaphorically, and Fails - Kelly Zito: >Blustery storms heading to Northern California: the federal weather agency is holding regular briefings with state and local authorities to pl...6 hours ago
- Tasha Alexander's 'Dangerous to Know': A Book Giveaway for After the Holidays! - - Gentle Readers: Yes, you read correctly. I will be giving away Tasha Alexander's latest novel of suspense, *Dangerous to Know.* Lady Emily Hargre...
2 hours ago - A Regency Christmas: Decorating 19th Century London With Holly - “Heigh ho! sing heigh ho! unto the green holly: Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly: Then, heigh ho, the holly! This life is most jolly.” -...17 hours ago
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- The Opinuary Column - SONG FOR JOHN BOEHNER* From Gail Collins Boehner is opposed to extending unemployment benefits for the jobless, and he wants to kill off the law that gu...1 day ago
- AMERICA: Y UR PEEPS B SO DUM? - If you hang out much with thinking people, conversation eventually turns to the serious political and cultural questions of our times. Much of the world, inc...1 week ago
- Observations of a Teenage Drama Queen - My latest tender nothings at Black Magpie Theory-1 week ago
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- Israel Protests Against Middle East Peace Proposals (August 2001) - The next month the peace proposals faded, killed, in the chaos of the 9/11 psyop. Remember the fake video shown on 9/11 and for days afterward that was cla...2 days ago
- Christopher Bollyn, Monfils Conspiracy on TJ Radio! - Truth Jihad Radio Sat. 12/18/10, 5-7 pm Central, American Freedom Radio (archived here.) Call-in number: (402) 237-2525 or post your questions to my Facebo...
13 hours ago - Behavioural law and economics symposium - A very strong article here (by Claire Hill, law professor at University of Minnesota) focusing on two principles: how people see the world, and how they va...1 day ago
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- Word lens - Competing with Culturomics for meme room today is Word Lens, which has a great YouTube ad: According to Sam Grobart at the NYT Gadgetwise blog ("Una App lo...6 hours ago
- Yes. - The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c March to Keep Fear Alive Related posts:Creeping Reasonableness Jeebus Parody, Meet Self-Parody Related post...4 hours ago
- some news from the financial fiasco: - The Republicans' move puzzled some observers. "The four Republicans appointed to the commission investigating the root causes of the financial crisis plan t...2 days ago
- Federal Prosecutors Have Little to Fear for Gross Misconduct - Eric Holder Why were lawyers in the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) willing to pursue political prosecutions against Don Siegelman, Paul Minor, and other ...
1 day ago - Library News Land - I am going on vacation right before X-mas like I always do so that I can run around getting the shopping done and get the house ready for company. I suppo...1 day ago
- Hope and Change......or still Hoping for Change? - In a series of debates on Lawfare, Jack Goldsmith engages The New Republic's David Cole. My recommended reading for the week. *In late January 2009, the c...9 hours ago
- Carolina Burn Notice (A Flash Fiction Story) - (Author's note: Once again trying the Flash Fiction stuff working out of the "Icarus' Flight to Perfection" blog. Went over the word limit, so sue me! No ...
1 day ago - Moving, Driving, Poetry - There have been a lot of changes lately in this telescope tourist’s life. Two big changes dwarf the others, and gave rise to lots of little fractal-like ch...1 month ago
- BKR JUDGE: DISCOVERY IS KEY TO SPEED - Written by Cathy Moran, Esq More lawyering for faster confirmation of Chapter 13 cases was the advice. The newest judge on our bench called on a room full ...12 hours ago
- Being Useless - BBC stated in his comment on my post of yesterday, "You should learn how to sew, it's more useful than writing." I considered answering him in a follow u...
3 hours ago - Order of Service - Welcoming Address We would like to welcome you all here today to celebrate a very special year in the world of finance. Reading from the Gospel Accordin...18 hours ago
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- Salted Nut Brickle - less than a stick of butter quite a lot of sugar salt in a shaker powdered cinnamon blanched almonds...1 hour ago
- Mutton for Christmas? - A few Christmases ago I posted something about ostrich for Christmas which received quite a few ‘hits.’ My aunt always prepared goose for the celebration b...10 hours ago
- Australian government silent as US lobs death threats at Aussie citizens (J. Assange) - Julian Assange: Australia`s Gov`t Silent on Death Threats Against Citizens, Attacks Only One Messenger WIKILEAKS deserves protection, not threats and attac...1 day ago
- Labile - Did you catch Leslie Stahl's interview with John Boehner last Sunday night on 60 Minutes? Most news shows picked it up, The Sniffle Heard Round The World. ...
1 day ago - A Cat's Eye View - Baxter here. Yes, I know. I've been Gone a Long Time. Not MY idea, let me tell You. My Humans have been in the Dumps for the past three weeks what with th...
3 weeks ago - Christmas Traditions - I'm heading out to KGB right this very minute for a free reading of selections from Best Lesbian Erotica 2011 For several years, December has been Best Le...
1 day ago - Honduras coup, day 341 - Radio Globo has a lot of interference, doubtless not accidental. Felix Molina complains about being sent a message of a kind that he’s not supposed to read...1 hour ago
- Politics When the Media Shrugs - Driftglass makes an excellent observation: What happened this week was that the GOP finally dropped its last fig-leaf and with it, any pretense of a cons...16 hours ago
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- Happy Zappadan Day 13 - We have more interviews today, I’m not sure how well known these ones are. I think that they are newly republished, and they are kinda fascinating. I knew ...4 hours ago
- The Christmas Wish That Almost Wasn't: How We Pulled Together to Pull Off A Christmas Miracle - My frustration level has been through the roof with the recent turn of political events, as you are all aware. Sometimes it makes me wonder if we have lo...
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- Guest Post: Extreme Inequality Helped Cause Both the Great Depression and the Current Economic Crisis - Let's take an honest look at the facts, and leave labels (and the fear of touching third rail) behind.5 hours ago
- Thursday Goodness: What's in your soapdish? - A friend of mine on FB shared this picture and link: Cleaner Science at Etsy.com Would you like the Hib virus or the glowing Legionella to rub on your ha...
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- NASA Scientists Theorize Final Growth Spurt for Planets - [image: NASA Scientists Theorize Final Growth Spurt for Planets] A team of NASA-funded researchers has unveiled a new theory that contends planets gained th...
2 days ago - This Week in Books 12/17/10 - Books......... this week! It was another big week for e-books and e-book readers, so let's get started. First up is my former colleague Sarah LaPolla, who ...16 hours ago
- Saving Monsignor Ryan - *[image: In god we trust]Refuting the myths of neoconservative Roman Catholic economics.* In October 1936, Roman Catholic priest and professor of moral t...10 hours ago
- Assange “Free,” When Will There Be Protests Here Like The Ones In Europe? - Tune in today at 1 PM – 2 PM to the News Dissector Radio Show: Special Guests: David Neiwert, managing editor of the blog, CrooksandLiars.com, and author, ...20 hours ago
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- Steadfast Daughters in a Quivering World ~ Part 6: Soul-Binding - [Note: this series is dedicated to Quivering Daughtersby the former-Quiverfull moms at No Longer Quivering.] by Daisy My name is Daisy. I am a good person…...18 hours ago
- Image - Bank Failures by State as of Sept. 2010 - See Bank Failue for text post of banks that have failed since the depression recession officially began in December 2007.
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- The series finale of NOW on PBS - NOW on PBS goes off the air with not just a look back at our most memorable moments, but a mission to leverage these eight years of investigation and insig...7 months ago
- States Moving Ahead With High-Speed-Rail Projects - Wisconsin and Ohio have declined federal funding, to the benefit of California, Florida and other states, which will share that money. California is set to...2 hours ago
- The Smithsonian’s New Culture War - David Cole A still from David Wojnarowicz's *Fire in My Belly* On November 29, a conservative website posted an 11-second clip of ants crawling over a...1 day ago
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- Still Not Glen Beck... - Victim In Fatal Car Accident Tragically Not Glenn Beck You know who else is really pissed off....."Beck". Not this Beck, "Beck".*.I'm a loser baby, so wh...3 months ago
- Interminable no-win war is hell for president - Pursuing something resembling victory in Afghanistan, President Obama is setting himself up to be whipsawed politically in 2012, courting the same disaster...23 hours ago
- Daly Does the K Street Shuffle, Elmo at the White House and More in Capital Eye Opener: December 17 - Your daily dose of news and tidbits from the world of money in politics:15 hours ago
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- About That First Amendment Thing We Used To Have..... - Hoping to spark the country's silent majority into action, 131 antiwar protesters got themselves arrested Thursday, in one of the larger acts of civil di...23 hours ago
- The Real Fighters - I don't have the words to express my admiration respect and thanks for all those arrested in front of the White House protesting the war in Afghanistan. No...7 hours ago
- America's Path to Permanent War - No critic of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could have brighter conservative credentials. He (Andrew J. Bacevich) is a blunt-talking Midwesterner, a West P...
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- Imaginary evidence never stopped them before, why should it now? - This is a remarkable bit of news about the magical Ark Encounter in Kentucky. You know that feasibility study, the one written by Ken Ham's good buddy an...8 hours ago
- My Needs - The fact that no one in a bureaucracy cares about “my needs” is not an “issue” to be “realized”. It is a fundamental fact about all bureaucracies–academic ...5 hours ago
- Noah's Ark must have been REALLY big. - I just got back from a trip to Washington D.C. I was mostly working but did get a chance to see a few things. I spent a few hours in the Smithsonian Mus...
2 months ago - Tired - Long drive, next day a marathon shopping trip and the revelation that the overtly political major is hated as is the political junkie mother. That would be...2 days ago
- Is Blackwater (aka Xe) still the GOP SS? - Few companies have a greater reputation for corruption and misconduct, from overbilling to murder, than Blackwater Corporation, who renamed themselves Xe i...9 hours ago
- DATA POINTS IN THE FLOW OF HISTORY - The news flow of the last several weeks has centered around several very big issues: American structural budget deficits and the new tax agreement being ha...1 hour ago
- It's Always Something! - Stuck duck in center of lake quickly frozen over after the winter storm and temperature drop. He couldn't get any purchase on the smooth ice- flapping...
2 days ago - STUDY CONFIRMS THAT FOX NEWS MAKES YOU STUPID - *UPDATES BELOW* *Well that's like saying water is wet, but it's good to see it confirmed by actual polls where devoted FAUX NOOZ fans have been asked ques...
1 day ago - Project Censored Announces The Fair Sharing of the Common Heritage Award - The Fair Sharing of the Common Heritage Award Nominations are being accepted for the Fair Sharing of the Common Heritage Award. These submissions can be pu...6 days ago
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- Ignorance Isn't Bliss - Hieronymus Bosch, Ship of Fools 1. *I feel like following up* on the last assertion I made in my previous post--namely, that keeping the public in the da...
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- I’m Telling You, It WILL Happen. Get Ready For It - Americans are a peculiar lot. A lot of the same Americans who were witness to the sudden, speedy unraveling of the Soviet Union have either engaged in, or ...3 hours ago
- Of Health Care and Insurance - Earlier this week, Thom Hartman had somebody named Joseph from World Nut Daily on his radio program. I think it might have been Joseph Farah, who seems to ...6 hours ago
- Winter Solstice Greetings - At this The Season of The Winter Solstice may Reason prevail. The doctrines of the men who control organized religion are but myth and superstition that har...2 days ago
- I Enjoy a Good Obit - Here are some interesting excerpts from Blake Edwards': A lifelong depressive, Mr. Edwards told The New York Times in 2001 that at one point his depression...5 hours ago
- The New Tax Deal: Reaganomics Redux - More than thirty years ago, Ronald Reagan came to Washington intent on reducing taxes on the wealthy and shrinking every aspect of government except defe...1 day ago
- By: Morgan_Le_Fay - and here we go; now the whole thread will be derailed with scriptural quotes and banter about religious belief. Good job....have you all figured out that r...4 months ago
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- RIP Don Van Vliet (a.k.a. Captain Beefheart) - Words can’t begin to express how very, very sad I am right now. Don Van Vliet was one of the most inventive, influential and amazing musicians in the hi...8 hours ago
- It’s Easier For A Needle To Get Through The Eye Of A Camel Or Something Like That - Jordan Sekulow, The Washington Post Moral To Cut Taxes Jesus would cut taxes for the rich. Here is the proof: A. Without tax cuts, the rich can’t afford ch...11 hours ago
- Rush Limbaugh on Armed Services Radio or Wikileaks Access for the Air Force? - How does Rush get a monopoly on Armed Services radio broadcast to our service people, spewing the most grotesque lies and outrageous conservative propagand...2 days ago
- Getting to Assange through Manning - A new DOJ theory to prosecute the whistle-blowing site would pose a severe threat to journalists everywhere1 day ago
- Thoughtfetti - Someone asked me how I was doing, yesterday. I answered "Up and down - I feel like a yo-yo". That about sums it up. ~~~~~ It's not that I don't like the ho...9 minutes ago
- CLASS WARFARE, SLAVES TO THE WEALTHY, BY GEORGE CARLIN - *Well, everyone has now seen how badly this "Bush Tax Cuts" debate has gone so far...there was no debate. The Republicans said ...massage my shoulder will ...1 week ago
- Bowling Ball Grotto - JPhoto The postage sized lawn set along the quietly narrow city street with cars parked half cocked upon its aged cement chipped sidewalk, nestled two blo...
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- Dignity - Diogenes once famously searched for an honest man. Remember that parable as this story unfolds. We're all aware, possibly too aware, of the phrase "death wit...2 days ago
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- @pres_bartlet has quite the twitter feed going this evening - re: *working on christmas*....since those lazy, spoiled gop senators are complaining about being the possibility of being "forced" to work over the christm...1 hour ago
- Want To See A Celtic Tiger In Reverse? - Have a look at this Jeff Danziger cartoon, and then look at this image again: *Image credit: Danziger cartoon cropped and processed by Cujo359* It's the pu...
3 days ago - No deficit may be ok for Medicaid, prisons, welfare. - Whether South Carolina will pay for Medicaid programs for the state's poor and elderly after March was left in unknown by the state's financial oversight b...3 days ago
- Health Insurance Is NOT The Same As Auto Insurance - I’m getting really tired of explaining to people why the health insurance mandate is different from state auto insurance mandates. I keep hearing that argu...10 hours ago
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