http://www.liberalavenger.com Sun, 11 May 2008 18:27:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Mom! Not in front of the guys! Mother’s Day is now well underway (in fact, it’s over already if you live in Asia), so it’s too late to send flowers. You’re just a terrible child. But I found something that might make you feel a bit better today. It’s a touching message ... http://www.liberalavenger.com/2008/05/11/you-screwed-up-mothers-day-again-didnt-you/ Here’s why. http://www.liberalavenger.com/2008/05/09/ever-wonder-why-a-salad-costs-more-than-a-big-mac/ A couple of weeks ago, the New York Times ran a story about the political favors McCain has been doing for a big contributor named Donald Diamond. Now we learn that he’s also been performing similar services to another big contributor, Steven Betts. Also, it turns out that McCain has been ... http://www.liberalavenger.com/2008/05/09/more-mccain-corruption/ A touching story of friendship. http://www.liberalavenger.com/2008/05/09/students-cross-dress-to-support-transgendered-classmate/ I wouldn’t illustrate this story with a film clip that compares Hillary Clinton to Hitler, but this one was too funny to resist Now, it’s really over. Obama is well ahead in pledged delegates, and now leads in the superdelegate count as well. Sources inside the Obama camp say that he ... http://www.liberalavenger.com/2008/05/09/clinton-is-well-and-truly-done/ Dana’s got a little problem with ‘Pot and Kettle Syndrome’ On May 2 the news broke that Marc Dann, Ohio’s Democratic attorney general, admitted to an extramarital affair. On May 3, frequent Liberal Avenger Dana Pico accused Pandagon’s Amanda Marcotte and Pam Spaulding of having a double standard, since they’d failed ... http://www.liberalavenger.com/2008/05/09/i-didnt-expect-to-be-proved-right-so-quickly/ According to this article, thieves in San Francisco stole $10 worth of brass valves, which resulted in the release of 3,500 gallons of toxic waste into San Pablo Bay. The article also lists several other examples of thieves stealing trifling amounts of metal to be sold as scrap for a few ... http://www.liberalavenger.com/2008/05/08/10-theft-causes-250000-cleanup/ Ancient whale fossils show signs of decompression sickness. But modern whales have not problem diving to the bottom of the ocean and coming back up. Know why? Favorable mutations were preserved through a process known as natural selection, that’s why. http://www.liberalavenger.com/2008/05/08/evolution-proved-yet-again-ancient-whales-edition/ …that Hillary Clinton needs to shut up and go home? Seriously, she’s got no hope of winning the nomination and she’s spending millions to discredit the person who’s going to be the party’s standard-bearer in November. If she cares at all about issues like getting out of Iraq, the right ... http://www.liberalavenger.com/2008/05/08/is-it-sexist-to-say/ Maria Merziotis, after her 3rd place finish at last year’s science fair 17 year-old Maria Merziotis won Canada’s national science fair by inventing a new method of identifying and treating flu infections: It’s not the long-sought cure for the common cold but a 17-year-old Ottawa high school student won a national science ... http://www.liberalavenger.com/2008/05/08/canada-vs-united-states/