Random RecitalsWe've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for awhile, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces. Carl Sagan Lively LinksLinks change randomly each time the cache is refreshed. |
Article by missy on January 6th, 2009 at 3:18 pm Jon leads us to the Electronic Intifada, where even prank calls are tools of resistance: EI: I saw one of the flyers you dropped on Gaza. Israeli officer: Oh yes that’s right … EI: I have some information for you on members of terrorist groups that are in Gaza. Israeli officer: Oh I hope so… EI: We’re on the same side against terrorism [...]
Article by missy on January 6th, 2009 at 11:27 am Bush’s Alfred E. Neuman impersonation is costing dozens of lives daily. Yes, we have only one president at a time, but I would feel a bit better if Obama stood up and said, “The carnage in Gaza is appalling, and I have asked President Bush to do all he can to stop it in his remaining weeks in office.” The European Union remains [...]
Article by John on December 29th, 2008 at 10:42 pm Just read this from Judith Shattuck, the Washington State Coordinator of the Progressive Democrats of America. Nice to be reminded there are many others that see what I see, think what I think and feel what I feel: My note to Pelosi …. Quoting: Pelosi: US must stand strongly with Israel Published: 12.28.08, 03:13 / Israel News …Speaker of the US House of [...]
Article by missy on December 29th, 2008 at 11:47 am That’s what “Hanukkah” means. And for the last eight nights, my husband, son and I, though atheists all, have lit the menorah and remembered the cleansing of the Temple by the Maccabees, which is especially meaningful now given the housecleaning soon to come to our own federal government. Go ahead and throw Chimpy and Pickles out with the bathwater. And Dick. And Condi. [...]
Article by missy on June 10th, 2008 at 1:06 pm I had to run some errands for work this morning, and so caught John Bolton making the case for bombing Iran on Thom Hartmann’s program. But before we get to Bolton’s peculiar madness, the EU has, today, succumbed to Bush & Cheney’s warmongering illogic, demanding that Iran to submit to U.N. Security Council Resolution 1696 requiring Iran to stop all processing of fissile [...]
Article by missy on November 1st, 2007 at 3:32 pm The man needs professional help – he seems to think he’s William Wallace: [T]his concept of stability has — in other words, that foreign policy ought to promote stability as opposed to freedom has led to dangers, and that the only way to solve America’s long-term security needs is to remember that the enemy that we face can only recruit when there’s hopelessness [...]
Article by missy on September 25th, 2007 at 11:26 am Sen. Joseph Lieberman, an independent from Connecticut, said he thought the invitation to Ahmadinejad was a mistake “because he comes literally with blood on his hands.” Yes, Ahmadinejad is a nut. He thinks Israel should disappear. But U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO) thinks we should wipe Mecca and Medina off the map in response to any future terrorist attack on U.S. soil. How [...] | Local TV Connect with Facebook |
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