Everyone’s favorite super cool scientist, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, had what I found to be an interesting exchange with GM’s former chairman, Bob Lutz, on Bill Maher’s program a couple of days ago. The ball got rolling when Lutz, who, as you’ll recall, was quoted in 2004 as saying that global warming was “a total crock […]
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By Mark | February 20, 2012
I heard a comedian by the name of John Fugelsang do a pretty brilliant bit the other day on the incredible disconnect between the teachings of Jesus and the actions of those who invoke his name in the pursuit of political power. It’s nothing we haven’t discussed here before, but I enjoyed Fugelsang’s perspective, given […]
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It’s been requested that I move this bit of craziness up to the front page, from the comments section of a recent thread, where it was left by a reader in Ypsi Township calling himself EOS. He didn’t indicate it in his comment, but the first two paragraphs were lifted verbatim from an Israeli news […]
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By Mark | February 3, 2010
The folks at the Daily Kos just commissioned a poll of 2,000 self-identifying Republicans by independent polling firm Research 2000. I think you’ll find the results enlightening. Here’s a sample: • Over a third of Republicans believe the birth control pill is abortion (which explains why nearly a third of them want contraceptive use outlawed). […]
By Mark | November 4, 2009
Remember Carrie Prejean, the Ms. USA contestant who became a favorite of the religious right by stating, during the televised “beauty” competition, that she couldn’t accept same sex marriage because of her Christian faith and family values? Well, it looks as though a graphic sex tape of the fake-breasted Ms. Prejean has just surfaced…. In […]
