Condolences and warm thoughts to the family of Prentice Meador, who left this life just short of his 70th Thanksgiving. The religious among us just lost a wonderful communicator and deeply committed role model. I do believe that there is hope for the victory of the good guys over the freak show currently representing Christianity in this country ( Read more... )

Yoinked from pr0ject -- also NOTE: there have been two official responses to this article that I've appended below, watch the posting on ProPublica for more updates.

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by Michael Grabell @ ProPublica - November 13, 2008 10:00 am EST ( Read more... )

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The Slate used to be my favorite source for fun, snarky commentary from the narcissistic liberal intelligentsia, now I can't decide which featured article I want to avoid more.


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... Zimbabwe. And I don't think it's untoward of me to wish that some of you more capable gun-toting people were in fact there to set shit straight.

• With a runoff election approaching, Mugabe's goons have displaced tens of thousands of opposition party families from their homes, arrested thousands, and tortured and killed thousands more in ( Read more... )

Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann was elected President of the 63rd session of the United Nations General Assembly. Somebody tell me this is a sick fucking joke.

In retrospect you'd think they should have known better. The population of Southern California doesn't exactly have a reputation for being level-headed economy-minded pillars of stability. The ferocity of resistance that certain elements would organize on such short notice, however, couldn't have been foreseen by anyone ( Read more... )

Three years after the piece of human filth resigned his post as supreme leader of Kosovo and surrendered to the Hague to stand trial for crimes against humanity, the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia has seen fit to acquit Ramush Haradinaj of all charges. I suppose this may have been a foregone conclusion considering the relationships ( Read more... )

Kathy Lee is returning to morning TV. There is no god.

Employee's suit: Company used waterboarding to motivate workers.

A supervisor at a motivational coaching business in Provo is accused of waterboarding an employee in front of his sales team to demonstrate that they should work as hard on sales as the employee had worked to breathe.

Holy shit this isn't even a joke. Wow.