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Repeal Gravity!
Neil deGrasse Tyson on “cherry-picking” science to support one’s political druthers.Read More
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What’s in a Name?
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The Puppet Master’s Strings
Thanks to Occupy Riverwest via Sam HamillRead More
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Hello, Dolly
A Three-Faced DollRead More
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Protect Children, Not Guns
Here are a couple of excerpts from a breathtaking report on gun deaths among children and teens in the U.S. We owe it to our children to wrap our minds around such facts: Since 1979, America has lost nearly three times as many children and teens to gunfire as the number of U.S. military personnel killed in action during the Vietnam War, and over 23 times the number of U.S. military personnel killed in action in Iraq and Afghanistan (5,013).Read More
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Runaway Spending
(h/t Juan Cole)Read More
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The Authorities…
This captures the uncomfortable feeling I get every time I see Mitt Romney open his puppet mouth. “Do you know Schwarzer?” asked K. “No,” replied the Mayor. “Perhaps you know him, Mizzi? You don’t know him either? No, we don’t know him.” “That’s strange,” said K.; “he’s a son of one of the under-castellans.” “My dear Land-Surveyor,” replied the Mayor, “how on earth should I know all the sons of all the under-castellans?” “Right,” said K.; “then you’ll just have to take my word that he is one.Read More
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Hilarious Tech News
Hot New App From The GOP Modernizes Minority Voter SuppressionRead More
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A Poetry Anthology for Malala Yousafzai: submissions call
Poetry Anthology for Malala Yousafzai Malala Yousafzai, a young Pakistani girl was, on October 9, 2012, shot by a Taliban gunman as she was returning home from school. See article here. Malala is a blogger and education activist who has been speaking out against the unjust treatment of women in her own country.Diane Kistner, editor of FutureCycle Press, has invited Conrad DiDiodato and I to co-edit a poetry anthology honoring the life and values of Malala Yousafzai. All proceeds will go to a cause Malala would wish to support.Read More
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Experimental
Let’s have a little experiment in logic, shall we? The wealthiest 1% of Americans hold 33% of the nation’s wealth. According to Romney, the 1% are “job creators.” With 33% of the nation’s wealth to work with, the 1% should have our economy producing jobs hand over fist. The problem, of course, is that the economy isn’t producing jobs hand over fist. In fact, the economy has been in unsteady decline since the last major moves to put more wealth into the pockets of “job creators”—the Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003.Read More