Acne
Acne constantly whines about how, like… his life and everything really sucks and stuff. Usually a middle class teenager with an allowance, unlimited access to a computer and WAY too much time on his hands. Acne’s vague existential arguments about the meaningless of life and emptiness of existence are culled from the lyrics of the […]
Bush’s Iraq adventure has killed more than 4,000 American and British soldiers, and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. It has displaced millions, and left the Iraqi economy and Iraqi society in a shambles. It will wind up costing the American economy more than $1 trillion in direct cost, opportunity cost, interest on debt, and long […]
Concerns about environmental damage are undermining support for McCain’s plans to expand offshore drilling
A recent poll indicated that while a slight majority of Americans want more areas to be opened for oil drilling, around 3/4 of Americans think that we should focus our efforts on investing in new energy technology, rather than on expansion of […]
Obama’s speech in Berlin drew raves from the people of Europe. You can read the transcript here, or watch it for yourself:
Josh Marshall gives some analysis, but I think the messages of change, unity, and multilateralism speak for themselves.
Of course, not everyone was impressed. While Obama was building bridges across the Atlantic, McCain visited a […]
Frequent commenter Bedrocktruth made a video clip that’s gone viral on YouTube, and we’re featuring it here for your viewing pleasure.
(cross posted at appletree)
The Russian newspaper Izvestia reported today that Russia may respond to Bush’s Eastern European missile defense system by deploying nuclear bombers in Cuba.
The US responded with a statement by General Norton Schwartz, Air Force chief of staff nominee. Schwartz stated that such a deployment would be “something that crosses a threshold, crosses a red line […]
Welcome to Bush’s America
Attorney General Michael Mukasey has asked congress to declare war. Not against a sovereign state, but against an organization made up of loosely-affiliated cells. And his purpose in asking for this declaration is to allow the government to detain “enemy combatants”, without evidence and without charge, for the duration of the “war”. […]
From the BBC:
Iraq and the US have called for an agreement on a “general time horizon” for the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, the White House has announced. The call comes after a video conference between President George W Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki.
The two governments are currently negotiating an agreement to […]
In the video clip above, Gen. Wesley Clark (ret), makes a rather obvious point: neither John McCain nor Barack Obama has had experience as an executive, so voters should look instead to the candidates’ judgement. But look at the way Bob Schieffer tries to twist his words into a condemnation of McCain’s military service. In […]
Not long ago, I linked a story about bacteria evolving in laboratory conditions over the course of tens of thousands of generations. There’s no reasonable conclusion to draw from this result, other than, “The scientists were right all along! Species really do evolve!”
So naturally, the folks at Ignorantopedia came to a different conclusion:
Clearly, Lenski’s bacteria […]