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Category: Politics
I liked Obama's State of the Union Address, and I liked the fact that a lot of other people seemed to like it. He made strong and positive statements about energy. Imagine what we could accomplish ... A future where we're in control of our...
Posted by Greg Laden at 1:43 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Republicans
We know that the right wing revels in stupidity; Willful stupidity and well practiced stupidity are thought to be the way elitist anti-populous tax-the-middle-class Republicans capture support from the masses. Seems to work rather well. But increasingly this trope of (ig)noble ignorance is being supplemented...
Posted by Greg Laden at 3:05 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Climate
This is a bit long but you will benefit from watching all of it. It gets extra hot at 31:30. I love the look on that woman's face at 31:38 and again at 31:47. LOL. This particular member of congress, Don Young from Alaska, needs...
Posted by Greg Laden at 1:47 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Election 2012
I've known very few real Iowans. I know people who live there now but are from the Twin Cities, but I've only met a handful of native Iowans. One of them is a dear friend, most are only vague acquaintances. Six of them were landlubbing...
Posted by Greg Laden at 9:42 PM • 33 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Republicans
The twain shall never meet. Below the fold. Not work safe. Do not be drinking coffee. Sex with demons!...
Posted by Greg Laden at 6:02 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Earth Science
I woke up this morning and the world was slightly different than it was the night before. Well, it probably always is a little different each day, but there are certain times when you notice this. I'm not talking about the bits of siding, roofing,...
Posted by Greg Laden at 10:59 AM • 30 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Anthropology
Behaviors are not caused by genes. There is not a gene that causes you to be good, or to be bad, or to be smart, or good at accounting, or to like bananas. There are, however, drives. "Drives" is a nicely vague term that we...
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:13 AM • 35 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Poe warning
Richard Tokumei has written a book that is so bad he is ashamed to put his own name on it. "Richard Tokumei" is the pen name of a 'writer/editor in Southern California [with] degrees in Humanities and Phychology from the University of California Berkeley" and...
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:39 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
Proposal to all candidates: Denounce the new October 21st EOW date or step aside from politics.
Posted by Greg Laden at 4:19 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: LIAR!!!!
As documented by Dana Milbank, Tim Pawlenty has been telling us that he will be the one who "looks the American people in they eye and tells them the truth" and furthermore that Barak Obama can't do to that.
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:21 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
