Flaming Small-Minded Stupidity:
The anticipation of reading is almost always wonderful, but the actual reading is often frustrating. You can spend hours enjoying the wonderful indecision of the bookstore before you walk away with the comforting weight of a new release hardcover...
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Posted on April 7, 2008 1:23 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
PZ Myers got expelled from the line to see the movie Expelled tonight, apparently for the crime of actually being PZ Myers. That's definitely ironic, and possibly hypocritical. His family and his guest were allowed to go in and...
Posted on March 21, 2008 2:19 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I'm not Zuska, but I suddenly find that I've got an almost uncontrollable urge to puke on someone's shoes. There's a new breaking story out about Hillary Clinton, junior senator from New York, and Democratic Presidential candidate. It's so...
Posted on March 20, 2008 11:23 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Bush Administration has once again managed to reach new levels of self-parody. This time, the subject is stem cell research, and they've taken a position on funding new research that incorporates the classic Catch-22 problem. Sadly, though, the Catch-22 lacks anything that bears the faintest resemblance to humor when it's used to block funding for potentially lifesaving research.
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Posted on January 11, 2008 9:45 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Apparently, the Virginia Republican Party has been getting nostalgic for the good old days at the end of the Cold War. You remember those days, right? Ronald Reagan was saying things like, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" and...
Posted on November 29, 2007 12:15 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Several days ago, Senator (and longshot Presidential candidate) Christopher Dodd (D-CT) made some news by promising to do whatever he could to block any legislation that would retroactively grant immunity to telecommunications companies that cooperated with President Bush's warrentless...
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Posted on October 24, 2007 2:04 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Here are a few numbers from the latest Reuters-Zogby poll. See if you can find the one that's not like the others: Rated President Bush's performance as excellent or good: 25% Rated Congress' performance as excellent or good: 11%...
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Posted on October 22, 2007 8:53 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Google news is currently featuring a comment by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) on the House of Representatives' failed attempt to override President Bush's veto of the SCHIP expansion. The comment reads in part: "I remain committed to working with...
Posted on October 20, 2007 11:53 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
(He didn't do it on purpose, of course.) According to Bill-O, the world would be a scary, scary, scary place if Edwards is elected president: Remember, no coerced interrogation, civilian lawyers in courts for captured overseas terrorists, no branding...
Posted on October 12, 2007 1:19 PM • 2 Comments •
As you are undoubtedly aware, this year's Nobel Peace Prize is being split between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Al Gore, in recognition of "their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change,...
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Posted on October 12, 2007 12:20 PM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
One of the alleged facts that President Bush loves to point at when he's trying to justify his veto of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP) expansion is that the new bill would have allowed New York to...
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Posted on October 8, 2007 11:24 AM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
These kids don't have pencils and paper. If that doesn't make you mad, I don't know what would. Pencils and bloody paper. What the hell are we doing as a nation when we've got public school teachers who have to rely on the generosity of strangers to get pencils and paper for their students. What does that say about us. The White House has an annual budget of $300 million. The legislative branch spends $3,700 million of our dollars on itself every year. But teachers have to write proposals and hope that individual Americans will be generous enough to help them make sure that their students have pencils and paper???
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Posted on October 4, 2007 1:19 PM • 2 Comments •
Several Democrats in the House of Representatives unveiled a revolutionary plan today that would radically change the way we are paying for the war in Iraq. Their shocking plan has been strongly condemned by Republicans around the country, and...
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Posted on October 2, 2007 9:24 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Gotta love it. The Senate today took a break from being paralyzed by Republican "No Up-Or-Down-Vote For You" obstructionists. They had to. You see, it's important for people to understand that the Senate isn't going to stand still when...
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Posted on September 20, 2007 5:43 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Once again, John "Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran" McCain went and said something stupid at a campaign stop. And, once again, he got caught on video doing it. This time, he went just slightly overboard in his criticism...
Posted on September 17, 2007 10:34 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Mike Dunford is a graduate student in the Department of Zoology at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, where he studies evolution. He's also a contributer to The Pandas Thumb. As is the case with everyone else here, his opinions are his own, and do not necessarily represent those of any organization he is affiliated with. 
