As you’ve all no doubt heard by now, the State of Michigan ended up taking in quite a bit more in tax revenue this year than was previously estimated. As a result, the State is expected to carry a surplus of $429 million into the fiscal 2012 budget year. And, now it looks as though […]
Posted in Michigan, Observations, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2012 Michigan budget, budget cuts, domestic partner benefits, gay demonization, graduated income tax, higher education, homophobic, Jeff Irwin, Mike Cox, Pete Hoekstra, Rick Snyder, Sean Morrison, stem cell research |
By Mark | November 11, 2010
A few days ago, I was jumping around the web, reading the news, when a comment that someone had left after an article caught my attention. A woman had asked what the Republican endgame was. She wanted to know where, if we stopped resisting and allowed them to lead us, the Republicans would take us. […]
Posted in Corporate Crime, energy, Environment, Politics | Also tagged American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Geophysical Union, anti-science, BP, carbon dioxide, CO2, corporate, Corporate Crime, corporate takeover of politics, global climate change, Global Warming, global warming denial, greenhouse gas, gulf coast, Henry Waxman, House Energy and Commerce Committee, incandescent light bulbs, Joe Barton, John Boehner, John Shimkus, LED light bulbs, military spending, National Institutes of Health, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Science Foundation, Noah, oil spill, Pledge to America, research funding, Science, the flood, Tony Hayward, traditional values |
By Mark | October 24, 2010
It’s good to be reminded on occasion that there are sane, responsible Republicans… We were in the car last night, on our way to have dinner with friends in Detroit, when we caught an NPR report on how the upcoming elections are likely to affect climate change legislation, and I was really struck by how […]
Posted in Environment, Politics | Also tagged Bob Inglis, BP, cap-and-trade, Climate Change, Global Warming, global warming denial, Jim Demint, Juan WIlliams, Koch brothers, NPR, republican primary, sane Republicans, Sarah Palin, South Carolina, tea party, Tea Partyfication, the collapse of the Republican party, the future of journalism, Trey Gowdy |
By Mark | September 26, 2010
Over the last week or two, we’ve been having some fun here at the expense of Christine O’Donnell, the Tea Party-supported Republican candidate for Senate in Delaware. We joked around about her puritanical views on masturbation, and we shared some laughs over her confession to having “dabbled” in witchcraft. Oh, and then there was that […]
Posted in Other, Politics, Science | Also tagged anti-science, Bill Maher, Christine O'Donnell, creationism, Delaware, evolution, mice with human brains, Politically Incorrect, sarcasm, stupid Americans, tea party, Tea Partyfication, witchcraft |
It took about 25 years, but reality finally caught up to the right. In 1987, I was in the audience for a debate on global warming held in Washington, DC. Reagan was our President at the time, and it was my first exposure to the subject. I’m cannot recall who was on the panel. Al […]
