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Ed Brayton is a journalist, commentator and speaker. He is the co-founder and president of Michigan Citizens for Science and co-founder of The Panda's Thumb. He has written for such publications as The Bard, Skeptic and Reports of the National Center for Science Education, spoken in front of many organizations and conferences, and appeared on nationally syndicated radio shows and on C-SPAN. Ed is also a Fellow with the Center for Independent Media and the host of Declaring Independence, a one hour weekly political talk show on WPRR in Grand Rapids, Michigan.(static)
Ed Brayton also blogs at Positive Liberty and The Panda's Thumb
January 31, 2010
A friend turned me on to a comedian I'd never heard of, Jamie Kilstein, doing this absolutely inspired rant about anti-gay bigots. This is great stuff, it just builds and builds until you're laughing hysterically by the end. I definitely...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:23 AM • 11 Comments •
Okay, here's a corollary to yesterday's post about the worst movies you've ever seen. How about a movie that lots of other people think is bad but you like -- secretly. A movie you're slightly embarrassed that you stop and...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:16 AM • 207 Comments •
Ted Haggard's wife appeared on the Today show this week and declared her husband 100% homosexuality-free. "Our sexuality is conditioned, and we can be conditioned in any number of ways," she told Meredith Vieira. "Ted was dealing with certain compulsions...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:09 AM • 25 Comments •
Here's a rather amusing exchange they had in the hearings being held by the Texas Board of (Mis-)Education over their social studies standards. They've been debating which historical figures to leave in and which ones to leave out, with the...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:02 AM • 13 Comments •
January 30, 2010
I had a conversation with a friend today and she asked me what I thought were the worst movies I've ever seen. And I could only think of one movie at the time. I should preface this by saying that...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:23 AM • 292 Comments •
From a Republican state rep named Alfred Baldasaro from New Hampshire who thinks gays should not be allowed to adopt children: "I wanted to make sure everyone understood here, that this legislature sold the rights of $10,000 per kid under...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:16 AM • 10 Comments •
The Brad Blog has a couple of nasty emails sent to the Military Religious Freedom Foundation in the wake of the controversy over Bible verses on military scopes. The emails were given to him by Frank Schaeffer, son of religious...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:09 AM • 24 Comments •
I love this headline on Orac's post. I was disappointed to find out he wasn't talking about the Mike Adams who teaches in North Carolina and is a conservative columnist -- to whom this would also apply quite regularly --...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:02 AM • 1 Comments •
January 29, 2010
James Hanley stumbled on this far right fringe site that claims that there are tunnels dug under the Bering Straits, through which Russia is prepared to launch an assault and take over the United States. You know you're in for...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:30 AM • 94 Comments •
I didn't watch the state of the union address because, quite frankly, I'm tired of watching stump speeches and that's all the SOTU is and has been for as long as I can remember. I'm sure President Obama gave a...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:23 AM • 75 Comments •
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