W T FJeezy creezy! I am all for freedom of speech, and passionately so, but sometimes there are people who need to be smacked upside the head with their bullhorns and locked inside their soapboxes ( Read more... )

This excerpt contains a poignant sentence about the past (and present) use of the term "conservative". Personal freedom used to live on the right end of the political spectrum...

(Slate writer referencing a documentary)Two years ago, Zeitgeist Films released Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater, a documentary produced and narrated by C.C. ( Read more... )

What if turned out that Trig, Sarah Palin's downs-afflicted baby, was actually Bristol's baby, and that Bristol and her boyfriend didn't want to keep it but didn't have a choice because of Alaska's parental consent laws? And that Sarah Palin forced her daughter to go ahead and give birth to a baby who was prenatally diagnosed with down syndrome? ( Read more... )

(Under a map showing the trajectory of hurricane Ike)

The storyResidents along part of the Texas Gulf Coast were starting to leave Wednesday morning as Hurricane Ike began to pick up steam in the Gulf of Mexico ( Read more... )

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I stole this from LaurenMD, who gives the back story for it ( Read more... )

Calif. says green cars need more noise pollutionSACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Electric and hybrid vehicles may be better for the environment, but the California Legislature says they're bad for the blind ( Read more... )

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Scientists say they are a step closer to developing materials that could render people and objects invisible. Researchers have demonstrated for the first time they were able to cloak three-dimensional objects using artificially engineered materials that redirect light around the objects ( Read more... )

I'm sure by now, you've heard about the Unitarian Church shooting in Knoxville: An unemployed and angry 58-yr-old man on government aid walked into a children's production of Annie at the local Unitarian church and opened fire on the 200-person audience. Two people were killed, 8 wounded ( Read more... )

When Access Hollywood talks about the aggression of the paparazzi, I really want to kick the announcer in the balls twice- once for being a hypocrite, and a second time for being the only non-infomercial on any of my four channels right now.