Category Archives: Politics

UK bans Muslim protest group

Theresa May, the British Home Secretary, has banned a Muslim group named Muslims Against Crusades, which was planning to protest Armistice Day and burn poppies. Perhaps for them there’s a symbolic tie-in between the poppy fields of Northern France and … Continue reading

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Colbert Occupies Wall Street!

Stephen Colbert infiltrates Occupy Wall Street dressed up as Che Guevara. Freaking hilarious interview, too.

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Age brings wisdom

Certainly in Clint Eastwood’s case: I’d listen to him if I was you. Rumour has it he owns the most powerful handgun in the world.

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The Pledge

The Obama Administration has released their official response to petitions asking for the removal of the phrase “under God” from the Pledge of Allegiance and “In God We Trust” from the currency. Nothing here is going to surprise anybody. Sometimes … Continue reading

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Cain’s Perfect Conservative

Over at Daily Kos, contributer bernardpliers resurrects a truly insane column from Herman Cain back in 2010 titled The Perfect Conservative. Who is the perfect conservative, you might ask? Is it Herman Cain? In his own mind, probably, but Cain … Continue reading

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Bolshoi Simulations

This is a visualization of the Bolshoi Simulation, an attempt to chart the evolution of the large-scale structures in the universe using the data from the cosmic background radiation. (“Bolshoi” means “great” or “grand” in Russian.) From i09: The Bolshoi … Continue reading

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Find me a liberal American President who’d do and say that. Slow train comin’?

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Perry Poisons Everything

Upon visiting the Heritage USA gift shop, P.J. O’Rourke was introduced to the horror of Christian Rap. He quipped, “I was witnessing a miracle, I was sure, or auditing one anyway: Here was something that sounded worse than genuine rap.” … Continue reading

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Beautiful Scenery, from Above and Below

Patryk Kizny, Robert Paluch and Fabian Weber put together a timelapse view of the Swiss Alps titled Altissimo. It is utterly gorgeous. However, the music detracts a bit – European tastes just seem different from mine. Scott Bailey felt the … Continue reading

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Faith Based Economics

From USA Today, a story of a new Baylor Religion Survey: About one in five Americans combine a view of God as actively engaged in daily workings of the world with an economic conservative view that opposes government regulation and … Continue reading

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