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I have been saying this for years. Aside from overthrowing democratically elected leaders, the CIA is also really really really bad at its job. This has always been the case. During the cold war the CIA was never able to find an asset at the higher levels of the Kremlin, meanwhile the Soviets ran a muck with spies in the US. The highest level asset ( Read more... )

A friend of mine sent me a link to the BBC documentary The Trouble with Atheists.

Basically it is a strawman attack on Atheists that rehashes the same points that Ben Stein's Creationist funded movie called Expelled.  both Movies have the same basic points:

-Science and Religion are the the same, so lets split the difference.

-Anyone that tells people ( Read more... )

Its ten years after the Sept 11th attacks.  I have been thoroughly desensitized to the disaster.  Each year I cringe as the attacks are trotted out to justify our madness over the last ten years and to remind us that we are supposed to be scared and servile ( Read more... )

They finally got Osama bin Laden.  I was on my way to class yesterday when our Candian coworker, who was keeping up on his national election, told me.  It took a second to sink in, then skepticism.  A minute or two on the smart phone and the details became clear ( Read more... )

sdfasAAre you confused by the potential government shutdown that we may see next week?  From what I have been seeing on Facebook and the internet people are largely unaware of whats going on and how did we get to this point.

It all started with the Financial Crisis in 2007-2008.  Hopefully most of you are familiar with the crisis that was caused ( Read more... )

I came across this article asking the same question and it really got me thinking.  The only responsible answer is that there are many reasons for this.  Unfortunately some people are taking to the opportunity to wag a racist finger at black people in New Orleans during Katrina.  I want to make a couple of points before I try to catch some zzz ( Read more... )

Does anyone know how to download YouTube videos and mash them in Windows Movie Makers?  I got some teabaggers that I gotta take to town.

Rachael Maddow reports on misinformation contained in the top secret diplomatic cables that were published by Wikileaks.  I thought that all of this went without saying, but it must be remember that the information in the cables are from the point of view of the diplomats who are sending them.  As the journalists, bloggers, and activists continue ( Read more... )

Here is a brief article from NPR that explains why Yeonpyeong might have been targeted by North Korea:

Yeonpyeong: Caught Between Two Koreas

So why did Yeonpyeong island become a target for North Korean artillery shells? A large part of it is location, location, location.

The tiny Yellow Sea island, controlled by South Korea and fortified by a ( Read more... )