September 15, 2009
These are pretty mainstream voices.
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September 15, 2009
This is a bit long but very much worth the watch. Rachel and Jonathan Alter discuss the racialized rhetoric, the Republican strategy, and the political pattern that the current wave of unhinged and uncooth behavior is part of.
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September 15, 2009
What does UnitedHealthcare CEO Stephen Hemsley have to lose if Congress passes real healthcare reform this year? Well, for starters, his nearly three quarters of a billion dollars in unexercised stock options might lose a few pennies on the dollar.
What does Isabella, a four year-old girl in…
September 15, 2009
In an interview with NBC's Brian Williams, former Democratic President Jimmy Carter attributed much of the conservative opposition that President Obama is receiving to the issue of race.
"I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based…
September 15, 2009
But when Conservatives for Patients Rights, an anti-health care organization, made a commercial designed to scare Americans into opposing heath care reform, they lied to various Canadians and tricked them into making the Canadian system look bad. The same organization did the same thing earlier…
September 15, 2009
Just reported in PLoS ONE is a new dinosaur.
Spinophorosaurus nigerensis
Here are the salient facts:
Species name: Spinophorosaurus nigerensis
Who found it: Scientists with the State Museum of Natural History Braunschweig, Germany, and the Paldes Project (led by the Paleontological Museum of…
September 15, 2009
Dusty Trice will tell you ...
Dusty's commentary and additional sordid details can be found HERE. Not for the kids, it gets kinda steamy.
September 15, 2009
Premiering October 6th, the two-hour drama will coincide with the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of his seminal work On the Origin of the Species.
In 1858 Charles Darwin received a letter from naturalist Alfred Wallace, explaining his own theory of evolution. This was…
September 15, 2009
If you were in the Twin Cities last Saturday and wanted to do something political, you had two choices. Tool over to St. Cloud and visit Michele Bachmann's Town Hall meeting, which she rudely scheduled on the same day as a visit to Minneapolis by President Obama. Or, you could go to see President…
September 15, 2009
... than it was. Because it's got these dohickeys on the bottom now that will make it easier for you, dear reader, and I do love you all, to tweet, stumbleon, digg, whatever, the posts that you like. So please do that!!!!
I thank the Scinceblogs Dot Com overlords for this wonderful gift.
September 15, 2009
Rebuke. v. Call on the carpet: censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup"
The house rebuked Wilson. It was almost a party line vote, but not…
September 15, 2009
The film is a powerful "docudrama" set in the year 2055, after global warming has done massive damage to humanity. Oscar-nominated actor Pete Postlethwaite stars as a historian who "looks back" on real footage from 2008 to try to answer the question, "why didn't we stop climate change while we had…
September 15, 2009
Culture Dish has been sterile for a while, but now it's back in the swing of things! Rebecca Skloot indicates that she'll be blogging the later phases of the publication of her book.
I can't wait to read this book. Years ago, I found out about Henrietta Lacks and I thought it was one of the…
September 15, 2009
There is no racism in America. People are not excluded from jobs or not allowed admission to a school because of the color of the skin. The whole racism thing is over, solved, kaput, no longer an issue. You'all can go home now. Especially if you live in Texas and/or are concerned with Social…
September 15, 2009
Most Americans are seriously pissed at Joe Wilson's "YOU LIE" blather.
Sixty-eight percent of Americans interviewed in the Sept. 11-13 USA Today/Gallup poll say they oppose what Wilson did, while 21% say they support it.
Over half of those asked claimed to follow the story somewhat to very…
September 15, 2009
Can we be done with questioning if there is racism, done with respecting the religion, done with worshiping the firearms, and can we start calling out the ignorance?
On 9.12.2009, we went to Washington DC to document the Tea Party protests against, well, a lot of things, including health…
September 14, 2009
You all know who Kanye West is. Personally, I had never heard of the man until yesterday afternoon. But then, until yesterday afternoon I thought MTV was a cable television network that played music videos, so what do I know. But never mind that. We're not here to talk about me. We're here to…
September 14, 2009
We even gave him the wave.
Hat tip: MCP
September 14, 2009
26 years ago, more or less, I was a graduate student and beginning a teaching career, but short of cash. I remember an opportunity arose for me to make some money programming. I thought, "OK, I can make some money in this computer biz, and use that to cover doing what I really want to do,…
September 14, 2009
We've got to impeach this moron.
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The reason we have such a moron as governor seems to be that the Minnesota "Democratic Party" is organized in such a way that we usually end up pitting two Democrats against one…
September 14, 2009
One of the senior planners of the attacks on the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania a few years back is reported killed by US special operations troops in a raid that happened earlier today in Somalia.
Here's a link to a story with some detail, but obviously not caught up yet.
September 14, 2009
A better version could be found here: Eve Of Destruction (Stereo)
September 14, 2009
YOU LIE!!!!
Once again, Republicans have been caught at their own game. You all know there was a big shindig in DC on September 12th to protest the blackness of our president, the liberalosity of our congress, the intelligence of the new policies such as Cash for Clunkers and Saving the Economy'…
September 14, 2009
It has been said that civility is an excellent conversation stopper. And it can be, because demanding civility has been a way to control or limit the voice of alterity or the unprivileged. When it comes to Joe Wilson's now-infamous shouted remark at the joint session, the question arises as to…
September 14, 2009
Someone lied. A zillion times.
September 13, 2009
No problem. They can be taken care of by animal loving atheists.
We are a group of dedicated animal lovers, and atheists. Each Eternal Earth-Bound Pet representative is a confirmed atheist, and as such will still be here on Earth after you've received your reward. Our network of animal…
September 13, 2009
This week, Allison Vivas of Pink Visual received a fax from Newt Gingrich's American Solutions for Winning the Future (ASWF) group, informing her that she's been chosen for a 2009 Entrepreneur of the Year award by his Business Defense and Advisory Council
Pink Visual is aparently a porn superstore…
September 13, 2009
... Or so I'm told.
Chris Holmlund says of "Creation" in an email:
"The film was chosen to open the Toronto Film Festival and has its British premiere on Sunday. It has been sold in almost every territory around the world, from Australia to Scandinavia. However, US distributors have resolutely…
September 13, 2009
Norman Borlaug, of the University of Minnesota, DuPont and the Rockefeller Foundation has died in Texas at the age of 95. You may well owe your life to Borlaug.
Prof Borlaug won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for agricultural innovation and the development of high-yield crops.
The Green…
