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December 2, 2011“Even the Catholic Church of the Middle Ages was tolerant by modern standards. Part of the reason for this was that in the past no government had the power to keep its citizens under constant…
“Even the Catholic Church of the Middle Ages was tolerant by modern standards. Part of the reason for this was that in the past no government had the power to keep its citizens under constant…
If you thought bankers were assholes, you were wrong! Banksters are far, far worse. From Reuters: Major global banks are exacerbating the fight against global warming by supplying power utilities and mining firms with ample…
Another thin-skinned GOP asshole caught being an asshole — Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback got his panties in a bind when a high school student Tweeted that the good governor, “#heblowsalot:†Emma Sullivan, 18, was hauled…
COP17 — the latest UN climate summit opens on Monday in Durban, South Africa, and what’s the action status to combat the way-greatest, quickly-coming threat to humanity? “They’re on the edge of a mess,” one…
The zealous approach to law enforcement in this age of protest and terror has created a strange and dangerous notion that a shitload of stuff is bad, when in reality, bad is self-perpetrating. Last night,…
Ralph Waldo Emerson, America’s greatest philosopher, visited Thoreau in jail. Emerson asked: “Henry, why are you here?” Thoreau replied: “Why are you not here?” — In protest of the Mexican War, 1846 In those crackdowns…
Paying any amount of attention to just the last 24 hours would give any normal person a near-heart attack at the wholesale foolishness. Right now, the US is the midst of two sex scandals —…
Being sick is a total bitch — and I say that in a nice way for all you female dogs out there. My youngest daughter came down out of the mountains a week or so…
“The issue is not whether the Iraqi people will greet U.S. soldiers as their liberators, but what will they do six months after that. I find it naive and disingenuous to claim that you can…
“To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe, in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past. “To suggest we are on the edge of…