And Speaking Of Weapons Of Mass Destruction …
Laurence O’Donnell offers a vital history lesson on the United States’ use of napalm: Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy H/t The Raw Story…
2013
Good and Bad People
There’s a Steven Weinberg quote that my atheist friends like to trot out (and I’m likely equally guilty of sharing). With or without it you would have good people doing…
Chileans for Free Education
The movement that erupted in chile in 2011 has maintained its strength into the 2013 academic year, and now the student leaders hold some decisive cards. In the last few…
The nit-pickers always can find something
In high school we parodied For Whom the Bell Tolls relentlessly: “Que va, what a cafeteria lunch that is.” “Truly, it is a cafeteria lunch.” “That is a cafeteria lunch…
Religious Rituals: Killing of chickens and turkeys
An ultra-Orthodox man performs a Jewish ritual called Kaparot in the Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem on Sept. 10. In the ancient custom of Kaparot, still performed by some Jews…
NHS fails low incomes–and Canadians
Unfortunately the following note to readers from today’s release of the third and final set of data from the National Household Survey by Statistics Canada speaks for itself: Note to…
Japan’s Fukushima radiation crisis: a Good News/Bad News story
Fukushima’s crippled Reactor 4, which contains 1,500 precariously-perched, radioactive fuel rods Addiction experts say the first step toward recovery is recognizing you have a problem. In that sense, perhaps we’re…
A mountain rescued
Filed under: art Tagged: mountain, Popsicolor, procreate app
George Zimmerman and Shellie Zimmerman
Uncanny resemblance. Especially eyes and the stare. They deserve each other.
Hilzoy Speak, You Listen
While still ardent in her conviction to make her cold turkey retirement from blogging a permanent one, beloved ObWi ex-pat Hilzoy sends us this all-too brief dispatch (courtesy Donkeylicious) on…
Hilzoy Speak, You Listen
While still ardent in her conviction to make her cold turkey retirement from blogging a permanent one, beloved ObWi ex-pat Hilzoy sends us this all-too brief dispatch (courtesy Donkeylicious) on…
Policy Changes Bring Cleaner Solvents to Market
Industrial cleaning solvents aren’t something most people think about on a daily basis, at least I hardly do. Interestingly enough some policy changes have forced companies to change how they…
Marois builds bigotry best!
Quebec Premier Pauline Marois is using us all. She is using the ingrained bigotry of Quebec to turn Quebecers against fellow Canadians. She is using the liberal multiculturalism of Canada…
Dear awesome people of Québec, please scrap your secular charter
Or at least the parts of it that tell people what they can and cannot wear to work. And any other bits of blatant nativism/racism that may have escaped the…
Ten Chemical Weapons Attacks Washington Doesn’t Want You to Talk About
In Oceania and throughout the West, there are things citizens are not supposed to remember. After all, if we don’t remember them, did they really happen? Click here for a…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, September 11, 2013: See the seven most extreme state laws proposed this year: Why lawyers will love…
Privilege In A Nutshell (Or, There You Go Again, Richard Dawkins)
Srsly, WTF? In a recent interview with the Times magazine, Richard Dawkins attempted to defend what he called “mild pedophilia,” which, he says, he personally experienced as a young child…
Privilege In A Nutshell (Or, There You Go Again, Richard Dawkins)
Srsly, WTF? In a recent interview with the Times magazine, Richard Dawkins attempted to defend what he called “mild pedophilia,” which, he says, he personally experienced as a young child…
On The Quebec Values Charter
First, a statement from CIJA ( The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs): There is no justification for the government’s proposed legislation. The government is rehashing old, out of context…
Double Dare Ya
Apparently, instead of taking his position as leader of Ontario’s Progressive Conservative Party seriously by articulating responsible policy, young Tim prefers to engage in children’s games: Tory leader Tim Hudak…