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Mayors Menino and Bloomberg, of Boston and New York, will field a half minute ad during the Big Game coming up in a few days in which they will call for stricter federal gun control laws. The New York Times reports: The two mayors are longtime allies on gun control and founders of a group [...]
Archive for January, 2012
…and on the 7th day, God Rocked
January 31st, 2012 
Greg Laden For various reasons not interesting enough to relate, I’m reminded of a film a friend of a friend made a few years ago. I reviewed it then, and thought it would be fun to repost the review here. The film is available on Netflix but not on demand, and you can get it here for [...]
Florida Primary Results: A Pattern Emerges
January 31st, 2012 Greg Laden First the results: New Gingrich Did Not Lose by As Much As You Might have Guessed He Might. By the numbers, as estimated by various news agencies: ROMN: 47 GING: 32 SANT: 13 PAUL: 07 OTHR: 01 That’s a mighty strong showing for “Other” … it will be interesting to look into that. Here’s the [...]
Stop Giving Money to Susah G. Komen for the Cure, and tell everyone else you know to do the same.
January 31st, 2012 Greg Laden Komen collects donations and uses the money to help with cancer. In the past, huge chunks of money were donated to Planned Parenthood to help pay for breast exams and other breast cancer related services at Planned Parenthood facilities. Then, Republican Cliff Stearns, a Congressional representative from Florida, launched an inquirey against Planned Parenthood. This [...]
Atheist Billboard Coverage
January 31st, 2012 Greg Laden Not wanting to assume that if you read The X Blog that you also read all of the other fine blogs at FTB.com, I want to point out Stephanie Zvan’s coverage of the coverage of the recently erected Minnesota Atheist and American Atheist billboards: Press Coverage on the MN Atheists Billboards I don’t think we’re [...]
Women for Santorum
January 30th, 2012 Greg Laden Ladies, don’t worry your purdy lil’ heads ’bout nothin’. Hat tip: JEL
#occupy update
January 30th, 2012 Greg Laden Things have gone south in Oakland On Saturday, Occupy Oakland re-entered the national spotlight during a day-long effort to take over an empty building and transform it into a social center. Oakland police thwarted the efforts, arresting more than 400 people in the process, primarily during a mass nighttime arrest outside a downtown YMCA. That [...]
Post SOTU weekly address
January 30th, 2012 Greg Laden It’s about process. Or, more accurately, it’s about Republican obstructionism.
Facing irrelevancy at the national level, Michel Bachmann makes important sounding statement of no substance
January 30th, 2012 Greg Laden On meet the press, no less: “I reserve the right to endorse someone but at this point I have not made a decision about endorsing any one of the candidates,” she said. “We are still in the process and I really truly do, Bob, want to be a unifying person in this party.” Uh huh. [...]
The Topsy Turvy World of the Republican Primary Process. And a dancing otter.
January 29th, 2012 Greg Laden After a surprising showing in South Carolina, New Gingrich pulled way ahead of Mitt Romney, in pre-Florida Primary polling. But that sudden increase in numbers quickly eased off and Gingrich and Romney remained very close for a few days, with Romney a few points ahead. Over the last 36 hours, Romney has put significant distance [...]
Posted in Election 2012, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum 
Tags: Florida Primary, Gingrich, Romney 
6 Comments »Can pubic lice enhance the sexual experience?
January 28th, 2012 Greg Laden I’m sure it can … IF you are the lice. Otherwise, not so sure. At Science Online 2012, Butt Girl covered this topic and in so doing did not beat around the bush. The audience ate it up. She cunningly had us wrapped around her finger. As it were. Anyway, she’s written a bit bout [...]
“What Does Scripture Really Say About Tebow’s Public Prayers?”
January 27th, 2012 Greg Laden Every Day Christian Julie wrote a long blog post about how everybody’s got to leave Tim Tebow alone. Below, my personal reaction to her post…
Recovery and Growth
January 27th, 2012 Greg Laden This from NPR today: The United States economy continued to expand modestly toward the end of 2011. The Commerce Department says it grew at an annual rate of 2.8 percent in the fourth quarter and 1.7 in all of 2011. This means that the economy has expanded for the last two years, after a 3.5 [...]
Menstruation and Evolution on Skeptically Speaking
January 27th, 2012 Greg Laden This week, we’re talking about what may be the most stigmatized facet of human reproduction. We’re joined by Dr. Kate Clancy, anthropology professor and science blogger, to learn about the physiology and function of menstruation, and the history of how it’s been considered in medicine and myth. And on the podcast, biologist P.Z. Myers of [...]
Finally, a serious proposal for a Pony Based Economy
January 26th, 2012 Greg Laden This. Is. Serious. Seriously.
Teen Drives Bus To Safety … But …
January 26th, 2012 Greg Laden Interesting story with a subtle message embedded within. See if you can find it: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Hat tip Bora
College Diminishes Faith
January 26th, 2012 Greg Laden Therefore we should stop giving money to them. And now, a word from the next president of the United States:
Posted in Church-State, Election 2012, Rick Santorum Tags: Church State Separation, Education, Election 2012, rick santorum 30 Comments »New Rules in Ice Hockey
January 25th, 2012 Greg Laden I know that she does not want me to help her. Our friendship is based on paying attention to each other, so I know that being helped is not something she likes. If I do what I want to do, she’ll get mad and break both my arms, or at least, look at me very [...]
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