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 October 26th, 2008 at 8:00 am Video highlights: PRIORITIES Tax cut for 95% of working Americans End tax breaks for “outsourcers” Reduce health care costs Energy independence Better education FUNDING Stop $10 billion waste in Iraq Bailout oversight Bush/McCain tax cuts for top 2% expire Close [...]
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 [...]
Article by John on October 3rd, 2008 at 12:20 pm Is it just me or has anyone else noticed that there is a pattern with Congress passing legislation that the American people do not want and know is not in their interest? First they kick it around a little and then have a vote or two that fails to pass the proposed bill. Then they tweak the bill a little while some of the [...]
Article by missy on August 8th, 2008 at 12:12 pm 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 [...]
Article by John on August 7th, 2008 at 6:20 pm Over 100 billion rolled “Marijuana: It’s Time for a Conversation,” is a co-production of the Marijuana Education Project of the ACLU of Washington and the national ACLU Drug Law Reform Project. You can watch the 30 minute video here. Back in 1971 when I was in high school, I did an oral presentation in my history class regarding the legalization of marijuana. My [...]
Article by Omahkohkiaayo ipoyi on July 20th, 2008 at 6:22 pm Review of Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go To Work by Paul Babiak and Robert Hare – Regan Books, N.Y. 2006 A Review by Omahkohkiaayo i’poyi I cannot recommend enough, to enough people, the book “Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work by Paul Babiak and Robert Hare. These authors, both highly qualified on the subject of psychopathy, walk us through, and so [...] | Local TV Connect with Facebook |
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