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Envoronment
November 22, 2009
Mike the Mad Biologist
Why Should Democratic Voters Be Party Strategists... ...because that's your job.
Greg Laden's Blog
Let the War on Christmas Begin. Atheist style. This week is Thanksgiving in the United States. This means that over the coming weekend many Americans will be putting up Christmas decorations in and outside their houses. Many children will be putting finishing touches on their letters to Santa. The shopping malls will start...
Dispatches from the Culture Wars
Conservative Originalism and Interracial Marriage An interesting conversation has begun on American Creation, where my friend Jon Rowe blogs along with several others from every side of the question of religion and the founding fathers (including frequent Dispatches commenter King of Ireland). The discussion is...
Dispatches from the Culture Wars
The Kirk Cameron Action Kit FunnyOrDie has an amusing video in response to Kirk Cameron's crusade to hand out 50,000 copies of The Origin of Species with a creationist introduction. Video below the fold....
Dispatches from the Culture Wars
Right Wing Rap: Just Stop. Please. Yet another right wing rapper has shown up on the scene at the tea parties. His name is Hi Caliber and he sucks as bad as all the previous ones. "Patriotic people throw your hands in the air, and wave...
Dispatches from the Culture Wars
Missouri Republicans Call For Violent Revolution And they're quite proud of doing so, announcing it on their blog. The Lafayette County, MO Republicans have put up a billboard calling for revolution. And the banner on the billboard says "PREPARE FOR WAR--LIVE FREE OR DIE!" Here's the...
Deltoid
On those stolen CRU emails Global Warming deniers are tryingto make a big deal about some emails stolen from CRU.
November 21, 2009
Mike the Mad Biologist
Don't Know Much About Palintology Of course Palinists can imagine Sarah Palin talking about economics with the Chinese government.
Dispatches from the Culture Wars
Cert Denied in Religious Graduation Speech Case The Supreme Court has denied cert in the case of McComb v. Crehan, the 2006 case where a valedictorian had her microphone cut off by the school during her speech at a graduation ceremony because she began to talk about...
Dispatches from the Culture Wars
Cops: Break the Law, Change Departments The Charleston Gazette of West Virginia documents a whole bunch of police officers breaking the law over and over again and just changing to a new department. The chief example is a cop named Matthew Leavitt, who was finally sentenced...
Dispatches from the Culture Wars
Oh Ye Of Little Faith This will show you just how strong the faith is for many Catholics. An Italian man has invented a hands-free holy water dispenser for Catholic churches because congregants were afraid of dipping their hands in the holy water urns: Clever...
Dispatches from the Culture Wars
Hilarious Onion Article About 8 people emailed me a link to this article from the Onion: Area Man Passionate Defender Of What He Imagines Constitution To Be. If you haven't seen it, it's worth a read. It's just barely a parody. Spurred by...
Greg Laden's Blog
Global Warming Alarmist Conspiracy Emails Hacked!!!11!! The Anthropocentric Global Warming Denialist Community is collectively creaming in its collective jeans over the release of zillions of emails that definitively prove that the whole global warming conspiracy thing was made up. Real Climate has the story:...
November 20, 2009
Built on Facts
Leaked Climate Change Documents Around ScienceBlogs, people who don't accept global warming as a real phenomena tend to get called denialists. In the interests of full disclosure, I should admit that I'm not a denialist but rather a global warming defeatist. Doesn't matter how...
Mike the Mad Biologist
The Republican Establishment Is Absolutely Nuts "Prepare for war?" So says a Republican county party committee.
The Primate Diaries
Friday Rant: Atheists Need To Be Brighter Now that the Darwin Reclamation Project collage has been posted, I can confess that I have a few problems with the recent atheist action that sought to counter the dunderhead Ray Comfort and his Creationist propaganda ministry. I'm not sure...
Respectful Insolence
"Obama's fixin' death panels for your mama": The USPSTF recommendations for mammography used as a political weapon Nooooo! Not one of the seemingly rational ones too!
Mike the Mad Biologist
Misinterpreting the Solution to the Manure Crisis and the Global Warming Problem... ...and how Levitt and Dubner fail to see that the Manure problem was not 'solved', only turned into a new problem that will also require wrenching change.
Dispatches from the Culture Wars
52% of Republicans Think Obama Not Really Elected Just when you think things can't get any more loopy on the right, a new poll has found that a majority of Republicans actually believe that Obama is not the real president because ACORN stole the election for him. TPM...
Dispatches from the Culture Wars
USCIRF Blasts Defamation of Religion Resolutions The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom issued a strongly worded policy document (PDF) blasting the various defamation of religion resolutions that have been passed by the United Nations over the last few years. It begins: Although these resolutions purport...
Dispatches from the Culture Wars
Dumbass Quote of the Day From Sen. Jeff Sessions, promising to filibuster Obama's judicial nominees after screaming bloody murder at the horrible injustice of filibuster nominations by Democrats: I cannot and will not allow the easy confirmation of an individual who seeks a lifetime appointment...
Dispatches from the Culture Wars
Another School Mangles the First Amendment Here's yet another example of a school administration completely missing the point of the First Amendment and violating the free speech rights of students because they don't understand either the free speech clause or the establishment clause. A student in...
Dispatches from the Culture Wars
Gingrich Warns GOP Even Newt Gingrich is recognizing the danger of purging the Republican party of all but the most hardcore right-wing candidates running for office. In an interview with Politico, he says: "If we get into a cycle where there are tea...
Dynamics of Cats
Taxing the Hidden Economy Income tax for elves, and VAT on dwarfs.
November 19, 2009
The Questionable Authority
Did Doug Hoffman Just Cross the Line Separating "Dirty Politics" and "Defamation"? Doug Hoffman recently posted a new fundraising letter on his blog. Now, I know some of you might be wondering why the guy is trying to raise money for an election that already happened. It's simple, really. He wants...
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As the 2009 hurricane season picks up speed after a remarkably mild beginning, we look to the ScienceBlogs archives for the science behind the storms.
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