If you've been paying attention to the news lately, you've heard the EPA's latest warnings about the purported dangers of mercury consumption in fish. Could this be the first blow of a one-two punch?
From the BBC: Good news for spammers, the smart filtering software used to catch spam can be beaten. With a...
Bunnie Diehl recounts seeing someone engaged in an "evil" smear campaign against the Bush at a recent party in Washington, DC. Apparenty, the trick has worked just fine...
Clarked seemed to tell the 9/11 committee that he should not be suspected of any partisan motivations or loyalties because he was a Republican. But is that what the record really shows? Pull the thread and watch the sweater unravel...
The Sunday Herald: WHAT do you give someone who’s been proved innocent after spending the best part of their life...
Was Hitler a leftist or rightist? Today we look at a leftist argument that Hitler's alleged leftist tendencies are nothing more than a conservative myth. What we find instead is a stunning display of bad logic, nonstandard definitions, omitted data, and ad homen arguments about rightists.
At one [Al-Anon] meeting, we had to share something about a higher power. And I said that as a Jew,...
What changed the press coverage of Howard Dean? Who wants to dominate AM talk radio now? A
New York Times article profiling Al Franken provides a fascinating peek at how the message you hear is being crafted behind the scenes.
Ananova: A group of Swedish teachers are in trouble after they were filmed by pupils going off with prostitutes while...
I occasionally spend some time in a deliberate effort to see the world through the "other" (leftist) point of view....
The story of US internment of Japanese families is one I was taught in school. But, once again, I'm learning that I wasn't told the whole story. Lately, this has been a familliar feeling.
The French government pursues foreign policy with goals and techniques which would be wholly unacceptable to most US citizens. Gabrielle says US critics who characterize French opposition to the US as moral have no idea what they're talking about...
Racism is inevitable, but, like crime, disease, and poverty, that doesn't make it desirable. A few comments from a white racist provide fertile ground for clarifying why I'm opposed to racism in all it's forms.
James Loewen reveals some damning information about Democratic President Woodrow Wilson's foreign anti-democratic foreign policies, stuff they probably didn't teach you in school...
Apparently, thanks to a kind link from
John Ray,
Random Observations has attracted a
bit of criticism; and that's not necessarily a bad thing...
Colorado Senate hearings produce appalling evidence of professors harrassing conservative students. But what goes down in the Senate itself is no less jaw-dropping...
This is definitely ancient news, but thanks to a link from John Ray I stumbled across the Sokal Hoax. Besides...
Note: Since I wrote this, I've been corrected: Kerry only offered to pay for tuition at public university levels, not...
There's been much discussion among conservatives (how sad that it should be limited thusly) about Kerry's recent dissembling. And indeed,...
In which France teams up with China to do to Taiwan what al Qaeda did to Spain.
This isn't the sort of thing I normally wade into; I'm not a big fan of petty partisan politics. But...
So how do the Spanish bomblasts play in the Democratic Underground? Once, again, we get a chance to do a little study of applied psychology. One can only hope that DU is some kind of elaborate Republican hoax; if these commenters represent any significant subset of the Democratic faithful, our country is in deep, deep trouble.
The Guardian: North African pirates abducted and enslaved more than 1 million Europeans between 1530 and 1780 in a series...
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.- Scott Adams, Creator...
Reuters: A shadowy group is threatening to blow up sections of track in France's SNCF state railway network if it...
Saturday, I went hiking with a group of friends by the bluffs of the Missouri River. As we were walking...