That Ted Rall, he’s such a kidder. Oh. Wait. It appears he’s not, and we’re really in that retroactive legalization period. From the NYT, last week: Moving to tamp down Democratic calls for an investigation of the administration’s domestic eavesdropping program, Republicans on the Senate Intelligence Committee said Tuesday that they had reached agreement with the White House on proposed… Read more →
Category: Head-Explodes
You Have GOT To Be Kidding Me!
Gallup: More Than Half of Americans Reject Evolution, Back Bible A Gallup report released today reveals that more than half of all Americans, rejecting evolution theory and scientific evidence, agree with the statement, “God created man exactly how Bible describes it.” Another 31% says that man did evolve, but “God guided.” Only 12% back evolution and say “God had no… Read more →
An idiot child with a gun
And you wonder why the rest of the world is both terrified of you and condescending to you? Damn. Read more →
Don’t bring your anti-science baloney around here…
…or we’ll shoot your ass off! OK, maybe that’s not quite what they’re saying, but the news is out that the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, repository of all kinds of cool science, is protected by a bank of guns that can shoot 66 rounds a second over a radius of a mile! The guns, which the lab unveiled to much… Read more →
Karma, Earl-stylee
Remember last week when Myers, over at Pharyngula, posted about the news that a Bush admin flunky was telling NASA not to refer to the Big Bang, unless they stickered it with “only a theory, ID possible”? His post included this bit: Deutsch is 24 years old, having just graduated with a bachelor’s degree in journalism a few years ago.… Read more →
Is there **ANYBODY** surprised by this?
Seriously. Anybody? Lewis “Scooter” Libby testified that leak was authorized – Wikinews According to federal prosecutors, Lewis “Scooter” Libby Jr., the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, told a grand jury that his superiors authorized him to disclose to reporters information from the U.S. National Intelligence Estimate. Portions of the report included still-classified information on Iraqi weapons… Read more →
SF Authors Say Smart Things: Stross on S.O.U.
I think I’m at the point now where my digust and hatred of Bush make it literally impossible for me to be objective and rational about anything. Fortunately, there are many sensible people in the world who can apparently sit on the rage and still produce cogent analyses. For example, Charlie Stross posts about the science stuff in the State… Read more →
Last election post today
This post brought to you by Laphroaig and Lagavulin. Well, I’m going to get drunk now and really enjoy this funk. Tomorrow I’ll try to focus on the positive things. There actually are some, but they go hand-in-hand with even scarier scenarios. Read more →
Who We Just Made Our Prime Minister…
This post brought to you by bitter, bitter tears. “Mr. Speaker, the issue of war requires moral leadership. We believe the government should stand by our troops, our friends and our allies and do everything necessary to support them right through to victory.” – Stephen Harper, supporting the American invasion of Iraq, House of Commons, April 1, 2003. “In terms… Read more →
Damn
CBC just called it. Damn. I need liquor now. Read more →
Three completely unrelated citations
So we all know Bush broke the law, and illegally allowed the NSA to spy on American citizens. He says that “the practice is limited to occasions when an individual in the U.S. is communicating with someone overseas who has a known link to Al Qaeda, other terrorist groups or their supporters.” However, the LA Times has a different spin Read more →
Getting away with it
So, I’m still recovering from my scandal screed, but I’ve been giving a lot of thought to the underlying question of why this series of scandal after scandal hasn’t seemed to hurt the Bush administration. My default theory is that something like 51% of Americans are crazy, but maybe there’s actually something deeper going on here. Peter Daou thinks so,… Read more →
Some Bush-hatin’
So, look, I’ve been good about this, right? I’ve gone several weeks without a rant. It’s been a while since I went off on how bad the Bush administration is. I haven’t quoted DeLong‘s Theory that “The Bush administration is not only worse than you imagine even after taking account of the fact that it is worse than you imagine,… Read more →
Around the web
Yes, that’s correct, I am still not mentally prepared to take on all the Bush Administration scandals–I’m following all the stories, but it’s already enough to both wear out my anger and make me want a shower, without trying to synthesize it all. Yuck. So, another post of interesting tidbits follows the jump. Read more →
Happy and Sad current affairs
Talking Points Memo has been tracking the what I hope is the beginning of the end of the Republican dominance, and some of today’s posts are really cheering me up: The recognition has sunk in: The president is unpopular and weak. And it’s every Republican for him or herself. And did I mention, pass the popcorn? On the other hand… Read more →
