I was having a political discussion with a friend of mine who is a very, very good person, and cares deeply about his family, friends, and this nation. We were talking about the race-, sex-, and class-based schisms that currently divide the nation. I contended that the only way to get past this stuff is …

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When Amanda Marcotte posted semi-approvingly of John McCain’s daughter Meghan McCain a few days ago, I figured it was just some kind of random aberration: I wish there was a way to do an intervention on Meghan McCain. If you’re guessing, yes, she’s the daughter of John and Cindy McCain and, as a grown woman, …

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At this bus stop in the blogosphere, I’m Queen Cunt of Fuck Mountain, and I’m mean for a reason. This made me swoon!! And yes, I know this post by Melissa McEwan is several years old, but I hadn’t seen it until recently (h/t Coturnix). It also addresses an important and timely point, given all …

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Female Science Professor has another very interesting post up today, this one concerning a discussion among Scientists at a dinner party: One of the Scientists asked the others the following question: If you could make a pact with the Devil and become supersonically, cosmically famous — of the order of magnitude of Isaac Newton or …

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I don’t really have the patience for exegesis of this kind of cockamamie narishkeit, but certain “framers”–non-scientists who seem to spend a lot of fucking time telling scientists how to act to “further the scientific agenda”–have apparently been popping big fucking woodies over the response of non-insane bloggers to the “Expelled” kerfuffle, wherein ridiculous demented …

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DDay posted something really, really interesting over at Digby’s blog a few days ago that made me stop and say, “Holy fuck!!” PhysioProf has definitely been hard on Obama about some of his “not liberal” and “bipartisanship” rhetoric. Those of us with a non-insane wackadoodle perception of reality are, needless to say, just a little …

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PhysioProf is not real up on the controversy surrounding the movie Expelled, but apparently it is some absurd piece of right-wing Jeebus-freak dreck about how the theory of evolution SUXX0RS!!!11! and how horrible “evolutionists” are suppressing the BEST SCHOLARS EVAH!!!!11!11 from the “Intelligent Design” community (which as far as I can tell is just a …

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Dowd’s editorial in the Times today was her usual unintelligible gibberish rooted in wacked out psychodrama from her 8th grade classroom. It was supposed to be about Obama’s BEST SPEECH EVAH!! (Yeah, it was a decent speech. I was more impressed by the fact that Obama sacked the fuck up and stayed loyal to his …

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These continued Fed interest rate cuts are bailouts of the greedy superrich using money stolen from the pockets of ordinary Americans. You know who was on CNBC Squawk Box this morning practically begging the Fed for another rate cut, talking about how “good it would be for the economy”? Motherfucking Hovnanian! You think what’s good …

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Ars Technica reported the results of a Government Accountability Office (Congress’s investigative arm) on the Federal Communications Commission (the executive agency statutorily required to enforce the communications laws and administrative rules) that details severe deficiencies in enforcement: The Government and Accountability Office (GAO) has concluded that the Federal Communications Commission does nothing with about four …

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