Archive for November, 2006

Get Thee Behind Me, Paul*

The spoiled infant wail­ing from the Einsatzgruppen-​​​​ÜberKristians is going into over­drive mode, as Pam dis­cov­ered to be the case with the Traditional Values Coalition. Their chair­man, Lou Sheldon, is in a foam­ing frenzy about things that are … well, bet­ter to show than tell. He titles his arti­cle thusly: Pro-​​​​Homosexual Democrats To Push Anti-​​​​Christian ‘Hate Crime’ Legislation […]

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There’s a Simpler Way

Via a three-​​​​step chain that began with Pharyngula, I came across the news of a pos­si­ble lung can­cer vac­cine. Researchers in America have dis­cov­ered that vac­ci­nat­ing mice with embry­onic stem cells pre­vented lung can­cer in those ani­mals… On the face of it this might seem like a good idea, and I sup­pose it is. I mean, lung can­cer is bru­tal. Any […]

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Brownie!

Cassini has taken images of a hur­ri­cane near Saturn’s south­ern pole. Fox News has already launched a satel­lite in antic­i­pa­tion of get­ting not-​​​​at-​​​​all-​​​​racist video of black Saturnians loot­ing while white ones merely find provisions.

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A Window to a Mind Like a Door: Open and Wholly-​​Hinged

It’s not every day that one has the oppor­tu­nity to get a sneak peek at an unau­tho­rized auto­bi­og­ra­phy, so when I was given the chance to do so a few weeks ago I decided to act. I’m very glad I did. Destined for Destiny, the tome in ques­tion, pur­ports to have been writ­ten by none other than George W. Bush, with some […]

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Chaos Reigns as Dire Predictions All Prove True

WASHINGTON — President George Bush urged the nation to calm today in the wake of the com­plete chaos and social break­down which took place a mere two days after the Democratic takeover of con­gress. “I want to assure the American peo­ple that their lead­er­ship is still intact, and that we’re already tak­ing mea­sures to quell the […]

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Time For Hard Truths

The gid­di­ness will pass; while I’ve been feel­ing like it’s 1992 all over again, there are some hard real­i­ties that must be faced now by our newly-​​​​minted oppo­si­tion con­gress. The ques­tion is whether they’re up to it or not. We’ve got six years of con­cen­trated evil to over­come, sav­age beat­ings to our nation per­pe­trated by selfish, […]

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Deep Breath…

Okay. Okay. So now Rummy’s been fired. Let me just write that again, because it feels so fuck­ing good. Donald Rumsfeld has been fired. Ohh, man, this is bet­ter than cyber. Way bet­ter. Okay, back to the con­tin­u­ing good news. Allen is the only Republican doggedly hang­ing on to his job — Virginia is still unde­cided in the […]

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Religious Filth Loses

No national com­ment just yet, though I have to say I’m happy about the house deci­sion. “Mandate”, indeed. However, I’m even more sat­is­fied about the loss suf­fered by the right-​​​​wing fanat­i­cal filth. As of 7:30 this morn­ing, Proposition 107 is defeated. It only lost out by 30K votes or so, but in Arizona — astound­ingly — there […]

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Voting

My hope for today is that we’ll act with wis­dom, and not do any­thing we may be ashamed of.

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Shame on Us

Honor is some­thing that’s hard to define in some respects; it seems to be cul­tural, at least to an extent. Wikipedia has an inter­est­ing arti­cle on the topic, one that seems to cover archaic notions as well as more mod­ern ones, jux­ta­pos­ing the con­cepts to show how things have changed — and how, some might […]

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