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 John on April 18th, 2009 at 10:23 am A torture rack, photographed in the Tower of London – Image via Wikipedia President Obama and Congress: Please investigate, possibly prosecute and most certainly put forth new legislation to prevent any future torture being committed by our government. Do not condone what was done. Walk the talk. Do not put us at much higher risk of repeating these crimes in the future. The [...]
Article by John on February 12th, 2009 at 11:49 am It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know what to do about the banking crisis. But it does take a Congress that is comprised of something more than paid shills for the industries they are supposed to be regulating. President Obama got it right by attempting to put a compensation cap on executive pay for entities taking taxpayer rescue funds. Well according to Cenk Uygur [...]
Article by John on October 19th, 2008 at 9:31 am It is hard to forgive Colin Powell for his misguided UN speech that helped take us to war. But this “straight talk” from Meet the Press is a first step. Powell’s words about McCain were gratuitous at best. Bet Papa Bush is pissed. Powell’s statements about Muslim prejudice, exhibited extensively by many of those associated with the Republican Party and [...]
Article by missy on October 15th, 2008 at 10:05 am I’d very much like to give him a piece of my mind. I was born on Long Island, just a few train stops from Hofstra University. If all you know of Long Island comes from F. Scott Fitzgerald (or Paris Hilton), that strip of expensive real estate may seem like a giant McMansion tract. But when I was born in Garden City in 1965, Long [...]
Article by missy on October 7th, 2008 at 11:00 am if he ever was, McCain has become Richard III, Iago and Macbeth rolled into one. He is the scheming, lame and eternally bitter Richard of Gloucester, needing to kill all goodness around him so as to never face that contrast to his black soul, and needing war, too, as peace gives him nowhere to put his rage: But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks,
Nor made [...]
Article by missy on July 9th, 2008 at 1:09 pm You weren’t using that 4th Amendment, were you? Because Obama and a bunch of other cowardly Dems just sold us out for a little telecom cash and a kited check from the MSM that will bounce somewhere around October 1. Final vote: 69-28. So, a hearty FUCK YOU to Alexander (R-TN), Allard (R-CO), Barrasso (R-WY), Baucus (D-MT), Bayh (D-IN), Bennett (R-UT), Bond (R-MO),
Brownback (R-KS), Bunning (R-KY), [...] | |
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