Pat Robertson got slammed on Free Republic when he blamed Haiti’s earthquakes on evil voodoo. Turns out though, he’s not the only one who thinks that! So does this clown: [Read more…]
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Pat Robertson got slammed on Free Republic when he blamed Haiti’s earthquakes on evil voodoo. Turns out though, he’s not the only one who thinks that! So does this clown: [Read more…]
Really nice, pretty much sums up the whole social conservative position on women and guns, and in more than one way:
Salon — A man in Florida shoots a man he finds having sex with his wife, killing him. A woman in Florida shoots the wall to scare off an abusive husband, harming nobody. Guess which one was acquitted? Guess which one was convicted? …
But you don’t have to guess, do you? I bet you can even guess which shooter was white and which was black.
I’ll leave it to Ed Brayton and friends to parse the decision. All I know is I think it’s the only possible right one and it was unanimous: [Read more…]
Conservatives know they’re supposed to keep their real views on abortion and rape quiet, they’ve been told point blank to not say the word rape at all, and last election two candidates that should have sailed to election in the Senate lost because they could not keep their mouth shut about conservative pseudoscience and rape. But they’re still at it: [Read more…]
Interesting article about atheism in Tunisia, excerpt below. As best I can tell it’s not an automatic death sentence like it is in many Islamic countries. But it’s frowned upon to some degree, I guess not that different from the US in some ways: [Read more…]
Edward Snowden, the 29 year-old former employee of NSA contractor Booz Allen Hamilton, majority owned by the creepy Carlyle Group, surfaced in Hong Kong last night. In an exclusive interview with a local paper he says he’s staying put: [Read more…]
In Wellsville things are great. Better than great, they’re selling a bunch of super rich stuff. I wish I lived there, in that America, or at least on the outskirts where I could visit once in a while, to taste basic financial security for a weekend. But I live in the other America, where you can also spend money! In fact you can rent all kinds of necessities and pay many times what they would cost if you could just afford to buy them. First a peek at how the well off are doing: [Read more…]
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How did these amazing gullies on the Red Planet form? Go below the fold for the intriguing answer: [Read more…]