Archives for June 10, 2009
Let our mayor have more friends (and Sven)!
Posted by Greg Laden on June 10, 2009 Minneapolis Mayor RT Rybak, who by the way is a very effective and popular mayor, has reached the official facebook limit of 5,000 friends. And the funny thing is, these really are his friends! In the sense that RT actually uses his facebook account to interact with people. One of our local meteorologists (Sven) has…
WISE Mission Assembled and Preparing for Launch
Posted by Greg Laden on June 10, 2009 The Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has been all snapped together and stuff and is ready to be launched into outer space from Vandenberg in November. This will be a major eye in the sky for cosmology, since it will be able to see things that heretofore only space insects could see…. Details in…
Does “No” always mean “No”?
Posted by Greg Laden on June 10, 2009 a) Yes b) No c) If “b” is true, then “a” might be true d) Almost Diamonds e) Pick d! Pick d!
Free speech
Posted by Greg Laden on June 10, 2009 Perhaps we have a society in which free speech is worshiped. But we should also worship, or at the very least nurture, expect, and insist on, responsible speech. Note: The following is from FOX News.
The end of chiropractory
Posted by Greg Laden on June 10, 2009 My understanding is that most people who go to chiropractors get either nothing, somewhat injured, severely injured, or even (now and then) chiropracted to death. Of course, the same could be said of doctors or health care systems in general: Many people do not walk out of the hospital alive. But, it is also my…
Republicans get all icky about … oh crap, just listen to the latest Michele Bachamann thing.
Posted by Greg Laden on June 10, 2009 I put this below the fold because Sean Hannity is obscene.
Stephen Tyrone Johns
Posted by Greg Laden on June 10, 2009 Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
Is Tiller’s Killer’s Right Wing Christianity Relevant?
Posted by Greg Laden on June 10, 2009 There is an interesting piece in Religion Dispatches pointing out that when the Muslim American killer of an army recruiter was being profiled in the press, his religion was identified as a key potentially motivating factor, but Scott Roeder’s religious connections are not being touched on to nearly the same degree in the discourse regarding…
White Supremacist Shoots Guard in Holocaust Museum (Update: Charged)
Posted by Greg Laden on June 10, 2009 MORE UPDATES: The guard, Officer Stephen Tyrone Johns, shot earlier today by right winger von Brunn has died. The 89 year old gunman, James Wenneker von Brunn 88, of the Eastern Shore of Maryland, shot one person, who is in grave condition in hospital. The gunman was himself shot by one or more guards and…
Minnesota’s Own Planetarium
Posted by Greg Laden on June 10, 2009 Some time ago there began an effort to build a state of the art Planetarium and Space Discovery Center in Minnesota, most likely in Minneapolis. These plans have been set back by the usual forces, but are nonetheless moving ahead. (It certainly is a good thing John McCain did not win the election, or all…
Conservative World Congress of Families –> Amsterdam
Posted by Greg Laden on June 10, 2009 Presumably they are going for the drugs and prostitution. Up to 4,000 social conservatives are expected to descend upon liberal Amsterdam, Netherlands, on August 10-12 for the biennial World Congress of Families, a meeting that brings together scholars, academics, policy makers, elected officials, and activists for four days of speeches, lectures, and networking. The Netherlands…
The latest attack by Michel Bachmann
Posted by Greg Laden on June 10, 2009 See the other video and more at Dump Bachmann.
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Don’t Do the Right Thing
Posted by Greg Laden on June 10, 2009 Bad news, but it could be worse. But he needs to be fiercer. Sooner. Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Hat Tip: Survival of the Feminist
Mars Recon Orbiter Restarts Mission
Posted by Greg Laden on June 10, 2009 The mission was temporarily interrupted when the computer inexplicably rebooted. Perhaps they should have used Linux on the embedded Power PC hardware, rather than the proprietary system they did use. From a NASA press release: PASADENA, Calif. — NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is examining Mars again with its scientific instruments after successfully transitioning out of…
Talk Radio + Anti Transgender Remarks = Pulled Ads
Posted by Greg Laden on June 10, 2009 During a May 28 show, one of the three hosts on KRXQ’s “Rob, Arnie & Dawn” show said he would hit his son with his shoe if he put on high heels. Another said he would tell a boy he was “a little idiot” if he asked to wear a dress. Officials with Bank of…
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