Archives for April, 2009
I personally put Al Franken in the Senate
Posted by Greg Laden on April 23, 2009 Al Franken is about to be seated as the Junior Senator from Minnesota after a long and costly battle between loser Norm Coleman and Senator Franken. Al won the election by just a few hundred votes, and three of those votes are mine.
Save the planet. Eat a chicken. Or a head of lettuce.
Posted by Greg Laden on April 23, 2009 Please read these over and get back to us in the comments section. The Startling Effects of Going Vegetarian for Just One Day 13 Breathtaking Effects of Cutting Back on Meat
Recommendation: Stop using Adobe Acrobat Reader
Posted by Greg Laden on April 23, 2009 With all the Internet attacks that exploit Adobe Acrobat Reader people should switch to using an alternative PDF reader, a security expert said at the RSA security conference on Tuesday. Of the targeted attacks so far this year, more than 47 percent of them exploit holes in Acrobat Reader while six vulnerabilities have been discovered…
Carbon Dioxide Totally Harmless????
Posted by Greg Laden on April 23, 2009 Educator alert: The best example of the Naturalistic Fallacy EVAH!!!! The money quote is…. “Carbon Dioxide is Natural. It is not harmful. It is part of earth’s life cycle. And yet we are being told we have to reduce this natural substance, and reduce the american standard of living, to create an arbitrary reduction in…
Bachmann Takes Down Obama Over Atheistic Statements
Posted by Greg Laden on April 23, 2009 … he went to a foreign country. … he said “we are not a Christian Country.” … he had religious icons covered up on the stage where he gave a speech (which has been absolutely standard practice for years). … what would President Abraham Lincoln Do? …. all American Citizens should be required to pray.…
Texans have a chance to repent
Posted by Greg Laden on April 23, 2009 Next time I get down on you slack-jawed yokels in Texas, which could be any time, I don’t want to hear any flack. No excuses. You can take my critique in the gut and live with it OR you can tell me to stuff it. But the latter is only an option if you get…
Dave Mabus in my Email Box
Posted by Greg Laden on April 23, 2009 I just received a very threatening email from Dave Mabus. Dave is a christian who is rabidly anti atheist. As a person he is about as pleasant as a bad rash and as an intellect he makes a walnut look smart. Very few people send me truly threatening emails and get away with it for…
Be a Quitter
Posted by Greg Laden on April 23, 2009 It is not easy to quit smoking. It is not easy to be blogger. My friend DuWayne is trying to do both at once. I’m a soon to be ex-smoker. My name is DuWayne Brayton and I have been smoking for about sixteen years now. I’ve had enough – though embarrassingly, it has taken the…
Opposite Marriage is now a Thing.
Posted by Greg Laden on April 22, 2009 Opposite Marriage … as a term … is now in the Urban Dictionary.
Blorgo-Spherics
Posted by Greg Laden on April 22, 2009 DO NOT CLICK HERE until you have put your crash helmet on, because the stoopid is going to whack you upside the head so bad your eyeballs are going to spin like a top. And if that was not enough stoopid for you, Jason has more. The horror, the horror …… Linux in Exile has…
Freddie Mac’s David Kellermann Found Hanged in Basement
Posted by Greg Laden on April 22, 2009 Kellermann was the head of the troubled Freddie Mac financial institution. He had apparently hanged himself. A few news agencies are reporting it. Some details here.
Norm Coleman: Against Democracy
Posted by Greg Laden on April 22, 2009 Norm Coleman has requested a more “leisurely” (as the Star Tribune calls it) schedule for his recount appeal. What is more leisurely? The Coleman team would like oral arguments to begin no sooner than mid-May, and easily later than that. source Clearly, the hypothesis that Norm Coleman is simply playing a delaying game stands, still,…
Nature Carnival Deadlines
Posted by Greg Laden on April 22, 2009 Upcoming nature web carnival deadlines are nicely summarized here. Please attend to these requests for your nature posts.
Major Company Coddles Stockholders, Screws Employees
Posted by Greg Laden on April 22, 2009 This is why unions are important and all corporations are inherently evil.
Earth Day!
Posted by Greg Laden on April 22, 2009 I remember my first Earth Day, which was also The first Earth Day. There was a big lead up to it. Our teachers had us make poster size drawings appropriate for Earth Day. I have no recollection of what I did. But, I do remember putting an air quality measuring device in my back yard…
Guilty Planet Blog
Posted by Greg Laden on April 22, 2009 Jennifer Jacquet of Shifting Baselines has a new blog, called Guilty Planet. Go and have a look, and welcome the new blog to the blogosphere!
Erase Michele Bachmann
Posted by Greg Laden on April 22, 2009 … or was that Replace Michele Bachmann…. Anyway, the Replace Michele Bachmann Web Carnival is scheduled for the end of the present week, Friday or Saturday. Please get your posts in! Here is the handy dandy submission form. Thank you very much.
How I learned to stop worrying and love the city. Three times.
Posted by Greg Laden on April 22, 2009 This is a sister post to: The Black Forest Inn: Anarchists 2, Scientists 1 Lizzie had said in her email, “Let’s meet at the Black Forest Inn. I think you told me you’d never been there. It’s a place you might like.” How nice of Lizzie to suggest a new place for me to enjoy.…
Universal Gay Marriage is only a matter of time.
Posted by Greg Laden on April 21, 2009 Pretty soon Miss California will have the country she wishes to live in. Or at least, thinks she lives in. Maine is starting debate on a Same Sex marriage bill. Prospects look excellent for gay marriage in New York, according to recent polls. It is only a matter of time before some high federal court…
GLBT Hate Crime Bill In The Works
Posted by Greg Laden on April 21, 2009 Legislation to add sexual orientation and gender identity to the list of categories covered under federal hate crime law will be taken up Wednesday by the House Judiciary It is expected the bill will be marked up and be sent to the full House for a vote, possibly before the end of the month. The…
South Africa Elections
Posted by Greg Laden on April 21, 2009 South Africans are preparing to go to the polls in what is expected to be the most competitive general election since the end of apartheid in 1994. Some 20,000 polling stations are due to open at 0500 GMT for the more than 23 million registered voters. The ruling African National Congress (ANC) is expected to…
Progress in Burundi
Posted by Greg Laden on April 21, 2009 African Union troops are physically disarming 21,000 fighters from Burundi’s last active rebel group, the Forces for National Liberation (FNL). It follows a weekend ceremony where FNL leader Agathon Rwasa symbolically surrendered his own weapons to the AU. A grenade attack killed six people but the BBC’s Prime Ndikumagenge says it was not linked to…
This Blogger’s Take on the Miss California Maneno
Posted by Greg Laden on April 21, 2009 I have been up and down like a roller coaster on this one. Well, actually, I haven’t really thought about it at all, but if I did, there would be a roller coaster. Or at least a ferris wheel. Of course, when I first heard the story that Miss California was anti-same sex marriage, I…
Wither The Water, Fox News?
Posted by Greg Laden on April 21, 2009 Monica sent me a link to a Faux News story on global warming, which makes the claim that global warming is not real because ice is expanding, and not contracting, in Antarctica. It also makes the claim that 90 percent of the earth’s ice and 80 percent of the earth’s fresh water is in Antarctica,…
Coleman Appeals Election Ruling to MNSC
Posted by Greg Laden on April 21, 2009 The Star Tribune reports that Norm Coleman has filed an appeal with the Minnesota Supreme Court. He did so late Monday. I believe this is nine days after the lower judicial panel’s decision, which places this appeal just under the deadline. Clearly, Coleman has a strategy in mind that has little to do with the…
Science For the People
Posted by Greg Laden on April 21, 2009 … somewhat ironically named Scientia Pro Publica, is a new Blog Carnival started by science blogger GrrlScientist. I think her objective is to create a general science carnival with reinvigorated interest that will give people fingertip access to current blog posts in any and all of the sciences, and this seems to be working. The…
I know exactly how Obama feels …
Posted by Greg Laden on April 20, 2009 President Mobotu Sese Seku, Kuku Kibombi, dictator of Zaire and arch typical fascist leader, once shoved a book in my hand, sort of like how Hugo Chavez shoved a book in Obama’s hand. Republicans did not mock me as they are now mocking Obama, mainly because I was not President of the United States of…
Impeach Judge Jay Bybee
Posted by Greg Laden on April 20, 2009 In one of the more nauseating passages, [of the recently released torture memos] Jay Bybee, then an assistant attorney general and now a federal judge, wrote admiringly about a contraption for waterboarding that would lurch a prisoner upright if he stopped breathing while water was poured over his face. He praised the Central Intelligence Agency…
There WILL be DOJ torture investigations …
Posted by Greg Laden on April 20, 2009 You can bank on it, I think. Eric Holder has apparently been moving in that direction, and JD officials were a bit put off on hearing Rahn Emanuel’s comments to the contrary. Holder may name an outside counsel to investigate torture. This is coming from Newsweek via Rachel Maddow.
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