“not a proper subject of inquiry”

. . . this appears to be an accusation of private, alleged consensual conduct between adults – a subject matter which is not a proper subject of inquiry by the media or the public. No individual, whether a private citizen, a candidate for public office or a public official, should be questioned about his or [...]

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Just a reminder

   

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What PZ said

Times eleventy.  Fair weather atheists and sunshine skeptics I am so fed up with skeptics who look down on atheists because they apply critical thinking to religion. I don’t give a damn about your tradition. I call it institutionalized intellectual cowardice. This rationale was a roundabout excuse to tiptoe around the hulking monster of gullibility and [...]

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In Memoriam

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next.” ~ Gilda Radner My [...]

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Protecting the brand

Thanks to Gidget Commando over at RQ’s place  for this.  Charles Pierce:  The Brutal Truth about Penn State There’s nothing that can happen to the university, or to the people sunk up to their eyeballs in this incredible moral quagmire, that’s worse than what happened to the children who got raped at Penn State. Good Lord, [...]

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Feeling the tug of hope

“It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here. And the people under the sky were also very much the same–everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just like this, people ignorant of one another’s existence, held apart [...]

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Disrupters and Provocateurs

Got this in my email today from a reader in response to my post below about the violence at the Occupy Oakland general strike. (Emphasis mine) Dear Media: you missed this information regarding Oakland Some important facts that you will not find in the mainstream (corporate) media today which (completely co-incidentally I’m sure) will be [...]

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Dammit

Fucking idiots. A protest that shut down the Port of Oakland to show the broadening reach of the Occupy Wall Street movement ended in violence when police in riot gear arrested dozens of protesters overnight who broke into a vacant building, shattered downtown windows, sprayed graffiti and set blazes along the way. Really?  Really???  Fuck, [...]

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Maybe this just shows my vast ignorance of global economics

Question from a caller to Make It Plain yesterday afternoon: “If the WHOLE WORLD, you know, all the people and the cities and the countries, is in debt, where is all the money?” You know, that’s not a half-bad question. Of course, the caller expressed the belief that there exists only a finite amount of [...]

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Nine

Congress Critters voted today on House Resolution 13 which passed with 396 ayes and 9 nays. Reaffirming “In God We Trust” as the official motto of the United States and supporting and encouraging the public display of the national motto in all public buildings, public schools, and other government institutions. 8 Democrats and 1 Republican, Justin Amash (R-MI), voted [...]

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