I should be spending my evening thinking about just what in the hell I’m going to do at tomorrow’s Shadow Art Fair, but I can’t stop reading about last night’s horrific events in Colorado. Predictably, a lot of people, like our friend Roger Ebert, are taking the opportunity to argue that more meaningful gun control […]
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Tying to make sense of last night’s mass murder in Colorado
Posted in Other, Shadow Art Fair Also tagged AceRock, Amok, Batman, Christians under attack, Colorado, Gabrielle Giffords, gun control, gun violence, How The Mind Works, killing, Louie Gohmert, Malay, Marilyn Manson, mass murder, mental illness, National Institutes of Mental Health, Papua New Guinea, Roger Ebert, Steven Pinker 17 Comments
Republicans, Religion and the Triumph of Unreason
I hate to keep flogging a dead horse, especially as I think 99% of you already agree with me on this, but I just have to share this article in the UK Independent by Johann Hari. It’s absolutely brilliant. Here’s how it begins: Something strange has happened in America in the nine months since Barack […]
Posted in Ideas, Media, Politics Also tagged 7-11, Bill Maher, Birthers, death panels, Detroit News, fear mongering, George Bush, health insurance, healthcare, healthcare reform, Johann Hari, John McCain, Kenya, lies, madness, Obama, Obama's birth certificate, racism, Republican, Sarah Palin, shifting national demographics, take action, the collapse of the Republican party, UK Independent, unreason 16 Comments