According to Lord Oxburgh, chairman of the independent panel asked to investigate the "ClimateGate" emails, We found absolutely no evidence of any impropriety whatsoeverI wish I had a camera to register my complete lack of surprise. Really, it's something to behold. I think it registers close to zero on the Kelvin scale of surprise ( Read more... )

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Well, Mike Huckabee has made an ass of himselfWhile his equation of incest and homosexuality are drawing a lot of focus, I thought I would just concentrate on how his statements show his mind is unable or unwilling to function in a logical capacity ( Read more... )

Mohamedou Salahi is the 34th Guantanamo detainee whose imprisonment has been judged illegal by the federal courts.

Despite being suspected of helping three of the 9/11 hijackers reach Afghanistan for training, he is being let go. Why? Because too much of the evidence we have against him was obtained through torture ( Read more... )

Remember how Reagan claimed he brought down The Iron Curtain? He claimed that by bringing The Soviet Union into the arms race, he bankrupted them and led to their collapse. Personally, I think Reagan was full of shit. I've been to The Soviet Union, and I saw first hand how stupid their economic policies were. It wasn't Reagan; they did it to ( Read more... )

I feel like I've checked the clock three times in three hours, and each time it's still 9:30. I remember an ex-girlfriend who believed this kind of personal sense of time allowed her to drive across town in under five minutes. Not to diss Wiccans, but she felt it was one of her powers. "Luck is probability taken personally." - Chip Denman. Remember ( Read more... )

A man in Tennessee seems to have slammed his SUV into another car and run it off the road on account of an Obama bumper sticker. And in case you're tempted to make some sweeping generalizing statement about Republicans, be advised that your comments will be returned in force. Air Force, to be exact ( Read more... )

So health care passes ... I'm interested to see if opponents such as John Boehner will be held to the ridiculous and outlandish predictions of doom that were uttered? Now we get to see if they will come to pass. I, for one, am prepared to apologize if those predictions prove true. I am, however, confident that they won'tWhen you blow up a threat ( Read more... )

The kind of thank you I gave to Sarah Palin a while back goes out to the Tea Party protesters who shouted racial slurs today ( Read more... )

How to make it clear? How to understand that we make the same mistakes, for the same reasons? That knowing history is not the same thing as learning from it? If that were enough, all one would have to do is say, "The attacks of 9/11 are this century's Pearl Harbor. Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, and Bagram are this century's Japanese interment camps ( Read more... )

Louisiana, Texas and South Dakota have been told to teach alternatives to the scientific consensus on global warming. Or at least, that's how The New Scientist puts it. While I can understand their caution and their worry, once you get down to the wording of the new legislation, it becomes a different story ( Read more... )