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Re: Republicans Hand Democrats a Wedge Issue to Counter Abortion
02/09/12 9:35 pm
I can't remember if I tweeted you this link but it's to an article by a Professor of Moral Theology at the Jesuit Marquette University. I h...Re: Republicans Hand Democrats a Wedge Issue to Counter Abortion
02/09/12 8:26 pm
The six Republican Senators who sponsored the contraception mandate consist of two women who now have Stockholm Syndrome, a man who was driv...Re: The Tea Party is Only as ‘Dead’ as Conservatism
02/08/12 11:14 am
The essence of culture war is a marching-backwards. Glenn Beck made "Leave it to Beaver" noises because his target audience is cognitively s...Re: Morning Awful: Catholic Birth Control Contention
02/08/12 10:51 am
Notice how a lot of so-called liberal Catholic MEN, like E J Dionne and Chris Matthews, are making this all about religious freedom. Bullpuc...Re: The Tea Party is Only as ‘Dead’ as Conservatism
02/08/12 10:46 am
I was six years old and in parochial school when John Kennedy ran for President. I remember my parents and family being pleased when he won,...Re: Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc “Cancer” in Occupy (but not in Anonymous)
02/08/12 2:15 am
You've seen them before at the 2009 G-20 meeting and the Battle of Seattle in 1999.Re: Morning Awful: Regressive South Carolina
02/07/12 3:17 pm
It takes an advanced degree in cognitive dissonance to deny these laws have any object other than making it harder for minorities & the ...Re: Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc “Cancer” in Occupy (but not in Anonymous)
02/07/12 7:07 am
I checked out on OWS months ago so I never heard of Black Bloc. Wow. Good to know.Re: Most Precise Bombing Campaign Ever
02/06/12 8:43 am
Applause for a simply-stated version of my own mind.
Category Archives: climate change
Saudi Oil Minister Still Denying Peak Oil
The Saudi Arabian Minister of Oil and Natural Resources, Ali al-Naimi, gave a speech Tuesday (.PDF) that apparently turned decades of climate denial on their head: Greenhouse gas emissions and global warming are among humanity’s most pressing concerns. Societal expectations on … Continue reading
Kochs Fund Wrong Climate Study
For their next trick, the Kochs accidentally fund peak oil studies that determine petroleum is not, in fact, an infinite resource. Oopsie: Muller’s team appears to have confirmed the basic tenets of climate science. Back in March, Muller told the House Science … Continue reading
“There’s Always a Way” – Grant Morrison Vs. Nihilism, And The Stories We Tell Ourselves
By Magic Love Hose “If you want to change minds, you have to tell a better story.” – Matt Osborne About a week or so ago, Dylan Ratigan had comic book author Grant Morrison on and conducted an interview with … Continue reading
Morning Awful: SpongeBob Politicized
Remember when James Dobson said that Tinky Winky was secretly encouraging kids to be gay? Well, now FOX Noise says that SpongeBob is a devious plot to make your kids believe in climate change. Media Matters has the full story.
Food Insecurity
Hitler’s Panzers turned south in late 1942, away from Moscow, in order to roll up the Ukrainian breadbasket. Few retrospectives of Nazi Germany take account of food insecurity in a growing German nation back then, decades before the Green Revolution … Continue reading
On Last Stands and Lost Causes
Slowly but surely, the urgency of the moment is becoming clear. The “new” Republican Party is prepared to sink to any low necessary to enact as much of its agenda as possible. With nearly one thousand abortion bills in the … Continue reading
Saturday Afternoon TV: Jared Diamond on Why Societies Collapse
This epic TED talk was filmed in 2003 and develops many of the themes Diamond included in his book Collapse. Pay special attention to his discussion of cultural values as impediments to a civilization’s survival — and the role of … Continue reading
Mars Needs Mark Beard Of Minnesota
Never mind that “elephant” field discovery peaked in the 1970s. Never mind if we are past peak oil or coal. Jeebus will take care of everything: (MN state representative Mike) Beard believes that “God is not capricious. He’s given us … Continue reading
Your Time Is Now
In the northern neighborhoods of Tehran the other night, cries of “death to the dictator” and “death to Khamenei.” Video after the jump…
Morning Awful: Record Low Sea Ice
The melt season is getting longer every year, and the ice limit keeps getting further from shore. Human activity is changing the ecology of an ocean before our eyes — but it doesn’t matter because Al Gore is fat, or … Continue reading
Wages Of Denial
The Economist reports: Between 1998 and 2010 there was a correlation of over 90% between changes in oil and wine prices. This encouraged the two economists to build an economic model to explain swings in the prices of crude oil … Continue reading
