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    We'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

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    rejected, for all the wrong reasons

    In a moment of historic drama in the Capitol and on Wall Street, the House of Representatives voted on Monday to reject a $700 billion rescue of the financial industry.

    The vote against the measure was 228 to 205. Supporters vowed to try to bring the rescue package up for consideration against as soon as possible.

    Stock markets plunged sharply at midday as [...]



    Palinology

    David Michael Green publishes another near perfect post about Palinology:

    Whoa and Woe: Living In Sarah Palin’s America (collapsible content, click to show/hide)

    I can’t tell you how despondent I’ve grown in the last weeks.

    Is there really no hope for this country, after all? It now appears so.

    In January of 2003, John Le Carre wrote that, “America has entered one [...]



    prideful dumbshittery

    Krugman hits the Neanderthal on the head:

    …[K]now-nothingism — the insistence that there are simple, brute-force, instant-gratification answers to every problem, and that there’s something effeminate and weak about anyone who suggests otherwise — has become the core of Republican policy and political strategy. The party’s de facto slogan has become: “Real men don’t think things through.” … Remember how the Iraq war [...]



    Sociometrics

    lthough I am a native Washingtonian, Seattle born, I knew nothing about Vancouver until I came here in 1992. It did not take long for me to appreciate why some people–including native Vancouverites–refer to Vancouver as “Couve Holler” or “Vantucky”. In the apparent establishment, such as it is, the same names, associations, backgrounds and networks kept coming up over and over. And in [...]



    don’t shuffle and slouch toward the center -

    Use your left hook to knock those Republican fuckers out.

    The FISA debate is going on this morning (voting tomorrow – CALL YOUR SENATORS NOW OR EXPLAIN TO YOUR KIDS AND GRANDKIDS WHY YOU DIDN’T).

    Running parallel to the FISA debate is the progressive renting of garments over should we or shouldn’t we be pounding Obama for his shift to the center.

    David [...]



    More on Time’s Joe Klein…

    …and his apparently willful inability to get it right on FISA legislation and the Dems : After being called to task last week for writing a dangerously misinformed column on changes to the nation’s spying laws, Klein concedes that he might have made a mistake when he said a House bill would “require the surveillance of every foreign-terrorist target’s calls to be approved by [...]



    Mike Gravel Alternative CNN Dem Debate Nov 15th

    Mike had some technical difficulties in the beginning of this so you should move the slider to around the 28 minute mark to watch this. Mike Gravel provides great commentary as the debate progresses. If you are going to bother to watch these diarrhea of the mouth displays, this is a much better way. You may have to wait quite some time for the [...]

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