I have no words: Are atheists unfit soldiers?. Read the comments section, too: some very interesting points there. Plus links to Why Religious People Are Scared of Atheists and Army Falsely Claims Lowering Standards of Recruitment Has Not Affected Troop Quality.

And this set just made me grin: Isn’t it amazing how Christmas Eve turns everyone’s ( Read more... )

Anyway, yesterday was a fun day. Took the dog out to the beach although not only did I forget my camera, I also forgot her bumper! I am blaming all this on the DST change -- I putzed around in the morning figuring I had plenty of time -- then wound up rushing off to meet my friend as we share a drive over to the beach. Whups. Luckily I ( Read more... )

“This is a classic blue collar recession,” says Heather Boushey, a senior economist at the Center for American Progress. Fully half the jobs that have been lost so far have been in construction and manufacturing. Only 5.1 percent of job losses have been in finance and insurance - the kinds of careers that support the opt-out lifestyle.And again. ( Read more... )

When are we going to throw the bums out in the media??When is a tax cut for 98 percent of taxpayers portrayed as a tax increase? When some of the small handful of people whose taxes will go up happen to control the nation's news media.

In Los Angeles County [...] the median income in 2007 was $53,494. Even in Beverly Hills the median income was only $70,945, at the height of the tech bubble. Yet Roger Simon believes there is a large constituency of "middle class" people who make $250,000 a year. And that's because he and his friends all make at least that much and they think they ( Read more... )

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The ongoing exclusion of war opponents from the Iraq debate If you ever had your doubts about how the media is manipulating us...

Nuclear Power Has No Future in California A sobering assessment, even in hard financial terms and not "just" "treehugging hackery." (To be clear I consider the ecological arguments of prime importance, but for those ( Read more... )

I'll even use non-political examples. Look at how bloodless, noncommittal, and whitewashed all these reports from your standard media outlets are on Lohan's latest stupidity as compared TMZ's actually interviewing the people involved. Only one of the first three even mentioned the police finding Lohan and the other woman in a heated argument, ( Read more... )

Since the Oklahoma City bombing by a white male supremacist.

I haven't spotted any memorials or speechs or whathaveyou by any key public figures...have any of you?

(Yeesh, and tomorrow marks 8 years since Columbine. April doesn't seem to be a good month.)

Well, there's the good news and the bad news ( Read more... )