Probably my favorite ad on TV right now – I think it’s even better than the much-vaunted Old Spice campaign.
Archive | July 31, 2010
Israel playing with a fire it expects the U.S. to put out
American neocons openly express the hope that any Iranian response to the Israeli attack would trigger full-scale U.S. war against Iran.
What's a nice little gringa like me doing at a protest like this? A white middle-class suburbanite's manifesto
by Pollyanna Sunshine I have been thinking about this question a lot the past couple of days, due to the reactions I’ve been getting from family members and old friends and colleagues who are not quite sure why I’m suddenly getting worked up enough about SB 1070 to take to the streets–even though they all […]
Saturday Video Roundup: the Bovine Boogie
Just because. Happy Saturday.
The best class I have ever taken: HIST143, the History of Fascism and Nazism
In the spring of 1994, I was a junior studying electrical engineering at Penn State. I had two general education credits left if I was going to graduate in four years, but I figured that it was time to try and sign up for HIST143, The History of Fascism and Nazism, taught by Jackson J. […]
The Shrinking Middle
The Financial Times weekend edition has a good magazine section that generally doesn’t make it into the US edition. Which is too bad, because US readers will miss Ed Luce’s very good piece today on the long term decline of America’s middle class. The FT has probably done the best job of any newspaper in […]
The kid's all right
Like everyone else, I have mixed feelings about the Clintons. The ambition, the self-absorption, the whole lot. I suppose if Hilary were president, things wouldn’t be that different from what they are now, although we would undoubtedly be stuck with the odious Mark Penn. But in one very important respect they shine: Chelsea. She’s a […]
S&R Honors
Click here to learn more about past honorees...- The Rest is Noise (6)—Descent into the Maelstrom
- I hate handguns, but I have still considered owning one
- Redneck jokes are racist
- Largest study of peer-reviewed literature to date finds overwhelming climate disruption consensus (UPDATED)
- Boehner: Oh, so now you’re angry?
- 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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satanicpanic: I've thought about this myself. Other than needin…
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Otherwise: 1. this whole collapse of order stuff is nonsense.…
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Otherwise: yes, technically you're correct. bigotry would ha…
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Samuel Smith: Even if I agree with every point you make, we're n…
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Frank Balsinger: We might disagree on some of the not-so-fine point…
