I proposed this as satire a few years ago for Iraq, might as well use it in Afghanistan. Because it’s cheaper, way less dangerous, and it would probably work as well as whatever we’re supposed to be doing there now. [Read more…]
I proposed this as satire a few years ago for Iraq, might as well use it in Afghanistan. Because it’s cheaper, way less dangerous, and it would probably work as well as whatever we’re supposed to be doing there now. [Read more…]
I sometimes dream that we progressives will enjoy the same fruits our opponents feast so gleefully on. See, for them, consistency and principle is not an issue; you can both declare there is no such thing as a war on women, and bemoan the war on women, with little fear of “Republicans fractured and in disarray” headlines popping up all over.
Now would be the time for a line, “There you go again …” Mitt Romney, reeling from comments about his privileged zero point zero one percent status, again intentionally conflated the hardships his father went through with his own. Even the mainstream media can’t quite swallow this one without making a clarifying point: [Read more…]
Are people starting to “get” global warming. Maybe, at least according to the poll below. Sad to say, this is what passes for ‘good news’ in climate change. [Read more…]
There’s been little in the way of details from the announcement last week of a new company, Planetary Resources, AKA the asteroid miners. There will be a news conference or some type of event this Tuesday in Seattle where the fledgling firm will unveil some of its plans: [Read more…]
The born-again mastermind behind Nixon’s dirty tricks, Charles Colson, has died. He was 80 years old. Colson was serving time for a break-in and burglary of Daniel Ellsberg, one of the many people populating Nixon’s secret enemy’s list (Which Colson helped write), when he came to Jesus and went on to a sort of second life as a spokesperson for the evangelical right: [Read more…]
I’m lucky, my friend Lindsay Beyerstein used to joke I was a made man in the blog world, referring to my role at the Great Orange Satan. One perk is stuff like Netroots Nation costs less out-of-pocket for me. DK usually pitches in a little for contributing editors that can make it. But there’s a whole bunch of deserving local bloggers and activists who would like to go, who the NN staff would love to have, and who would benefit from it, but for whom the cost is prohibitive — being a straight-shooting science-loving conscientious progressive blogger doesn’t pay anywhere near as much as corporate-wingnut sellout.
That’s why NN has set up a program to help 50 people who couldn’t otherwise afford to go. You can apply for a scholarship to attend, or nominate anyone you think deserves consideration for the same.
The strawman attack, a favorite of the lazy, intellectually dishonest idealogue everywhere. Mitt Romney is certainly no exception. Here’s a classic example of it as Romney responds to Obama’s quip about his privileged upbringing: [Read more…]
It was a long week, made longer by the family of nocturnal elephants that seems to have moved in above me, only these few peaceful, precious hours early in the morning are my own these days. I need calm blue ocean. Ahhhh, yes, thank you Mr. Cross. Consider this an open thread.
There was a time when scientists thought polar bears were a simple offshoot of brown bears. But the family tree has been tweaked by DNA analysis to reveal … [Read more…]