Archive | June, 2011

Burma's ethnic insurgencies erupt in a chain reaction

Burma’s three ethnic insurgencies are on full boil, but at a time when support from former benefactors Thailand and China has grown tepid.

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Supreme Court ruling on video games only an assault on bad parenting

by Tom Shortell The Supreme Court ruled Monday it’s unconstitutional to ban the sale of violent video games to children, striking a severe blow to lazy parents across the nation. In a 7-2 decision that cast aside typical alliances of the court, the court ruled that video games as a medium are protected under the […]

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Most speakers at the 6th International Conference on Climate Change misidentified as scientists

The sixth International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC), a large gathering of human-caused climate disruption deniers that is sponsored by the Heartland Institute, opens tomorrow morning. The frontpage for the conference website makes a number of misleading or false statements, but one phrase that caught my eye was “The scientists speaking at this conference…” This […]

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"The gretest challenje facing the United Stayts" – by comedian Lee Camp

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Bachmannitis, and other diseases afflicting America (by Paul Szep)

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As Taliban tactics grow more sophisticated, why does it still use suicide bombers?

If the Taliban wishes to be taken more seriously, it needs to outgrow suicide bombing.

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Aliens and the Imagination

What is an alien? Someone not of my own species? Of my own country (cue political flatulence)? Of my own neighborhood? How about of my own planet? How have governments used UFOs? All of these were subject to lively (but short) series of talks this evening at the British Library, where tonight’s talks focused on […]

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Of Wikipedia, revisionism, serial killers, The Duke and Michelle Bachmann: the past is the present, the future is the present, and the present is fucked

In case you missed it, America’s newest official candidate for the presidency, Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, kicked off her campaign in her hometown of Waterloo, IA yesterday by confusing John Wayne with John Wayne Gacy. Honest mistake. Anybody could have made it. I mean, it’s still odd. I know first-hand how attuned Iowans can be […]

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The tree shall swallow the cross

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Without unions America would be red, white, & blow!

By Lee Camp Follow me at Twitter.com/LeeCamp

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looking for signs of life

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Bachmann leans to the right (by Paul Szep)

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Saturday Video Roundup: 'Singing' in silence …

Oh, I wish I could “sing” this well …

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For divorced men everywhere: a small, flowery statement

I don’t often do confessional. Yeah, a lot of what I’m going through finds its way into my posts in symbolic fashion, perhaps, but I haven’t done much in the way of personal narrative about my life, even though I have encouraged other writers here to do just that. But maybe this little bit is […]

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The other Congressional Club (by Paul Szep)

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