Archives for April 20, 2010
Fox News Edits Out Jon Stewart Beating Bill O’Reilly?
Posted by Greg Laden on April 20, 2010 Pope-linked Cover-up of Catholic Church Sex Scandal Gets Worse
Posted by Greg Laden on April 20, 2010 A FORMER vicar-general in the archdiocese of Munich has claimed that he was pressurised last month into taking the blame for a mistake made 30 years ago by the then Archbishop of Munich, Joseph Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict), concerning the case of a paedophile priest. Fr Gerhard Gruber has now said he did so only…
Unconnected interesting items.
Posted by Greg Laden on April 20, 2010 Nearly Extinct Tree gets new lease, Elephants invade South America, Python on Wall Street.
Evolution Texas Style
Posted by Greg Laden on April 20, 2010 H/T: Cara
A nice gesture for open source
Posted by Greg Laden on April 20, 2010 There will be a Linux based iPad equivalent (I hesitate to say clone for obvious reasons), and it will have touch-technology on the ‘screen.” Mostly, it will have this technology because when people started touching their computers … that way … Linux developers fashioned software so it could be done in Linux too. But, nonetheless,…
Stop extremist takeover of textbooks
Posted by Greg Laden on April 20, 2010 Dear Texas Board of Education, I have substantial concerns that the social studies standards proposed by the Texas State Board of Education are not in the best interest of students and are not based on the recommendations of respected academics in the field. These standards place our children in a predicament. The board should reassess…
Aieeeee!! No Volcano Monitoring!!!! Aieeeee!!!!
Posted by Greg Laden on April 20, 2010 Lest we forget:
Mitch McConnell You Lie!!!!!
Posted by Greg Laden on April 20, 2010 GOP Leader Lies About Bank Reform Bill on CNN… Party line vote does not equal partisan, if one party predetermines a nay vote on ever single freakin’ bill. Moron. And so on. Anyway, enjoy the ranting.
Tony Perkinstsz: You leave our Religumunt alone!?!?!
Posted by Greg Laden on April 20, 2010 Religious right to judge: “Shut Up.”
James Randi on Psychic Fraud
Posted by Greg Laden on April 20, 2010 Regulation of Private Gun Ownership in the US …
Posted by Greg Laden on April 20, 2010 … often involves partisans flailing about with statistics they don’t necessarily understand. Lets look instead at two individual cases.
New Math
Posted by Greg Laden on April 20, 2010 Just another stupid youtube video …
Guru Dead
Posted by Greg Laden on April 20, 2010 Keith Elam (July 17, 1966 – April 19, 2010[1]), better known by his stage name Guru, was an American rapper and member of the hip-hop duo Gang Starr. Born in the Boston neighborhood of Roxbury,[2]. The name Guru is a backronym that stands for Gifted Unlimited Rhymes Universal and the less often used God is…
Rembering Columbine
Posted by Greg Laden on April 20, 2010 On April 20th, 1999, at the Columbine High School in Colorado, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, shot to death 12 students, one teacher, and themselves. Twenty-one others were wounded by them, and additional individuals were wounded while escaping the massacre. Columbine . They also injured 21 other students directly, and three people were injured while…
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