The next time someone tells you a smaller government is better than a bigger one, you can direct them to the July 2013 issue of Scientific American, which includes an article about the town of West Texas where a fertilizer plant exploded damaging 150 buildings and killing 15 people. The company was storing 1300x the amount of ammonium nitrate to ( Read more... )

http://www.salon.com/2011/12/18/limbaugh_rejects_teachings_of_jesus/Read more... )

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/08/18/kseniya_ryzhova_and_tatyana_firova_russian_athletes_kiss_on_winners_podium.htmlRead more... )

http://www.salon.com/2013/03/18/boehners_debt_confession_reveals_gops_intentions/

You know, I always suspected…

In the category of the more things change, the more things stay the same, I’ve been reading the “Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the America,” and conservative tactics to stop liberals falls into this paradigm. U. B. Phillips didn’t invent the idea of the benevolent slave master and the happy, obedient slave, but he made it the standard position in ( Read more... )

I’ve been reading “The Oxford Handbook of Southern Politics.” It’s quite an eye opener. It might actually help to understand the South’s influence on the rest of the nation by thinking of the pre-WWII South as a developing nation. They had pro-business policies (low wages, low regulation) to attract businesses from the North. (The invention of air ( Read more... )