So…this guy Paul is considered a likely presidential candidate? The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,The Daily Show on Facebook Does he really think educated students at Howard University are completely unaware of the Southern strategy, that the racist Southern Democrats switched parties as soon as it was clear …
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Apr 10 2013
Joe Barton has data!
The Rethuglican from Texas wants us all to appreciate the diversity of causes behind climate change. It might be natural, it might be human-caused, and it might just be magic. I would point out that if you’re a believer in in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood is an example of …
Apr 08 2013
Virginia is for lovers…of similar skin tone and opposite sex who don’t touch each other’s genitals with anything other than their own
The worst attorney general in the world has to be Virginia’s Ken Cuccinelli, who has been on a crusade to promote a far right conservative social agenda. The Washington Post wrote that Cuccinelli has been ”the most overtly partisan Attorney General in Virginia history” and ”has waged war on Obamacare, harassed climate-change scientists, sanctioned discrimination …
Apr 08 2013
Margaret Thatcher is dead
She has died of a stroke. The nicest thing I can say is that she would probably have been flattered to know I felt exactly the same way on hearing that news, as when I heard that Ronald Reagan had died.
Apr 04 2013
A note to my friends, family, colleagues and readers of color
Joan Walsh doesn’t speak for me. I mean, I get her. I get the fear, the desire not to be lumped in with those bad other people who do the bad things. I get the desire to continue to enjoy the privilege of not having to think about my race day to day. I’ve been …
Apr 04 2013
Solidarity with atheists of Bangladesh
There is an Atheist Association of Bangladesh, which is amazing. The government of Bangladesh is cracking down: atheists are being arrested, and most horribly, Islamist mobs are rioting and murdering atheists (warning: very bloody images at that link). Some atheist blogs are participating in a blackout in protest. Taslima Nasrin has just published a statement …
Apr 04 2013
Free Amina!
The place to go for information on Amina, the Tunisian activist who dared to say that her body was her own, is Maryam Namazie’s blog. She has a fantastic roundup of the European protests. I’m also happy to see that secular humanists are finding common cause with women’s rights: The IEHU has also issued a …
Apr 03 2013
Hey, North Carolina, have you forgotten how it went last time you rejected the US government?
Nobody wants a second American Civil War, so why are Republicans in North Carolina repudiating the Constitution? Here’s the law they’re trying to pass. SECTION 1. The North Carolina General Assembly asserts that the Constitution of the United States of America does not prohibit states or their subsidiaries from making laws respecting an establishment of …
Apr 03 2013
Both wrong, both right
Uh-oh. Sam Harris and Glenn Greenwald are clashing. They both make good points and some very bad points. Here’s where I agree fully with Harris. There has been a strange and nasty backlash against atheism lately, and it’s largely driven by ignorance and bias. There was a simply awful article in Salon, accusing atheists of …
Apr 02 2013
A way to strike against denial of abortion rights in Kentucky
PatrickG posted this deep in the Lounge, where only the bravest, thickest-skinned hordelings venture. So I’m amplifying his signal. my partner is relentless. She keeps saying things like “you always talk about this site and how they’re so supportive of abortion rights, HIT THEM UP!”. And by hit you up, I mean it’s Abortion Access Bowl-a-Thon time! …
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