While the Republican Party is closing its ranks and entrenching itself in their ideology, the White Power movement wants you to ‘come see the lighter side’ of racism.
Archive | April, 2009
Author Orson Scott Card: Gays not "acceptable, equal citizens"; "I will act to destroy that government and bring it down"
Orson Scott Card is a barking fascist asshat. Let me illustrate. I always marveled at how some of my friends worshiped the writing of Orson Scott Card. Maybe, I thought, it’s because we’re North Carolinians and he’s from Greensboro. From my perspective he was nothing special, at best, and has in the last couple of […]
NYT Public Editor dances around 'Brutal Truth' of torture
Clark Hoyt’s New York Times public editor column on Monday, “Telling the Brutal Truth,” brings the ongoing “debate” over whether waterboarding is torture to brave new heights of absurdity.
The profound effects of redefining success—Review: Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
It sits at the core of the American Dream: the idea that, through pluck and hard work, anyone can succeed. Horatio Alger called that kind of person the “self-made man.” And according to Malcom Gladwell, it’s all a bunch of malarkey. In his latest book, Outliers: The Story of Success, Gladwell explodes the myth of the […]
Chemistry: FAIL
I’m good with “carbon neutral.” No problems with “no greenhouse gases were emitted in the production of this product.” But there’s a small problem with the following image (taken by my wife at a local natural grocer). I’ll give you a hint – the chemical formula for sucrose, aka sugar, is C12H22O11:
Specter and looming political identity crises
Senator Arlen Specter’s announcement yesterday that he was defecting to the Democratic Party surprised a lot of people—but not me. His move was a loooooooong time coming. Specter ran into trouble with Conservatives in his own party way back in 1987 when he joined Democrats in defeating Ronald Regan’s nomination of Robert Bork to the […]
What's it Wednesday
by Dawn Farmer I saw a couple of different things in this week’s image…
Bicycle woes
by Terry Hargrove We recently had the Cruel Weekend here in Connecticut. The Cruel Weekend is a meteorological phenomenon that occurs every March, when the temperature flirts with 60 and everybody gets out and walks or jogs or washes the car. The forecast for tomorrow is rain and snow, but the Cruel Weekend has put […]
Seven names
by Dawn Farmer On 9 September 1944 seven people penned their names to a sheet of paper in hopes of being remembered. Sixty years later builders working near the site of Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp discovered this precious message in a bottle. We know the names of the evil ones, but for today we know seven […]
Israel and New Zealand learn a lesson the hard way
They should have built fences between themselves and Mexico when they had the chance.
Tournament of Rock: Gogol Bordello vs. Epsilon-Zero
UPDATE: Epsilon-Zero fans, you better step up to the plate, because as of the moment (Tuesday morning, 8am) your band is getting poleaxed by Gogol Bordello, 89%-11%. Voting closes Thursday night, and it would be nice to see one of my favorite darkpop bands at least make a run at it between now and then. […]
Evolve
Kevin Kelly has published a 13,000 word essay on evolution at The Technium. It is engaging, interesting and well worth your time to read. He makes two assertions; one evolving from the other. First, he says that evolution is directional, towards complexity and becoming optimal. Evolution is then “ordained-becoming”. His second assertion is much less […]
Nota Bene #63
Hot links from recent days: “I breastfeed my dad” … Station’s merger with Fox costs Denver its Cinco de Mayo parade … Damn those Mayans and their calendar! … Jeff Huber on sticker shock and awe … Imagine, if you will, an all-female society that reproduces by cloning … David Broder on Obama’s first 100 […]
S&R Honors
Click here to learn more about past honorees...- I-5 bridge collapse: reflecting on our crumbling infrastructure
- Pope Francis says atheists can go to heaven: Sweet Jesus! The College of Cardinals done elected a hippie
- Magic Hat vs. West Sixth brewhaha: will MH win the battle that costs them the war?
- WordsDay: Postmodernist Xerism at it most discontentedly hopeful…
- How to stop journalists: Say they might be criminals
- Mystery Unraveled: How a white, moderate, married, churchgoing, middle-class, middle-aged woman could vote for Obama
- An open letter to Burt Rutan, regarding his WSJ commentary on human-caused climate disruption
- Meet the men of Match.com: Really, guys, are you serious?
- Climate scientists still besieged
- Pelosi on Bush: “He’s not worth impeaching”
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populartechnology: You are seriously comparing the mathematical error…
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Brian Angliss: Their methodology is imperfect. They admit it. I…
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I-5 bridge collapse: reflecting on our crumbling infrastructure | Scholars and Rogues: […] Wufnik from last November, post-Sandy: …
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