Happy Evolution Sunday
Today, from 600 pulpits around the nation, people are going to be hearing what might be the best-kept secret of the evolution/creationism debate: God and Darwin don't have to be enemies.
View ArticleAftermath of a Racist Mascot
For the last twenty years, the University of Illinois’ athletic symbol, Chief Illiniwek, has been under siege. A week and a half ago, the siege finally broke with an official announcement from the...
View Article"Drink 'Til You're Irish"
About our campus's other drink-green-beer-until-you-puke Binge Holiday.
View ArticleOn Israel and American Public Opinion
Just a brief diary about the Gallup poll information released today on what Americans think of Israel and the Palestinians.
View ArticleThe Real Gonzales Damage: gwb43.com
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House said Friday it believes embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales can survive the uproar over the firing of eight federal prosecutors, a day after his one-time...
View ArticleNixon's Jew Counter -- Where is he now?
Just a quick note on something from Media Matters, citing the Nation. Seems Tricky Dick was convinced that the Bureau of Labor Statistics was cooking the books to make his economy look more sour than...
View ArticleI/P Meta: How to Be a Schmuck
Part of the problem in the current metadiscussion about Israel and Palestine on DKos is that it's missing a key point. That point is: what Hunter is really asking, as are many of the posters in the...
View ArticlePoll: Should Kossacks advertise on hate sites?
Suppose a Kossack knowingly accepts free front-page advertising on a hate site -- one bearing not only her own posts but also those of, say, David Irving, Ernst Zündel, Lyndon LaRouche, Edgar Steele...
View ArticleWhen Dr. Pangloss Shoots Himself
Some thoughts on a tenor named Jerry Hadley, who is now on life-support.
View ArticleChecking in with those Cuddly Boys of Hamas
So it's been a few months since the Happy Peace-Loving Peace-Lovers of Hamas took over Gaza in a violent coup. So it's a good time to ask, how are they doing, now that the Palestinians have had a...
View ArticleOf Ahmadinejad and Holocaust Denial (updated)
Just a quick note about Holocaust denial in reference to the NYC appearance of one of the world's most famous Holocaust deniers, Mahmoud Gonadigonad. (Did I spell that right?) I've seen some comments,...
View ArticleAhmadinejad and Holocaust Denial: a Follow-Up
A follow-up, now that Ahmadinejad has demonstrated at Columbia, that, yes, he's still spouting Holocaust denial. He pulled a number of things from the standard-issue Holocaust denier trick-bag that I...
View ArticleUK Rejects Academic Boycott of Israel
A note about the boycott-Israel movement's latest setback, this one in the UK. Nothing too earth-shattering, unless you like I/P stuff.
View ArticleGallup: George Bush More Hated Than Nixon
A quick look at the other number, the Gallup disapproval rating, in historical context.
View ArticleGeorge Bush: Most Hated in Gallup History
So the new Gallup poll results are out, and George Bush has a new record: the highest disapproval rating ever scored in the entire history of Gallup polling. Disapproval of Bush breaks record President...
View ArticleADL Slaps Down Ben Stein's "Darwin = Holocaust" claim
Want your head to explode? Here's how, in two easy steps. Go to your local theater complex and buy a ticket to any movie except "Expelled: No Intelligent Audience." Go into the theater playing...
View ArticleWho killed "Expelled"?
It was going to be the Religious Right's answer to Michael Moore. It was going to be a blockbuster that blew open a whole new front in the culture wars, and not so incidentally made the producers a...
View ArticleUniting The House Divided: Don't Gloat
Just a brief note on the day Obama clinches the nomination. Barack Obama announced his run for the Presidency from the steps of the Old State Capital Building in Springfield, Illinois. It was in the...
View Article"Cabals," Jews, and the Obama-Monkey T-Shirt
Yes, I'm going to get out that one-noted harmonica again, and I'm going to play the one note on it, just because some things bear repeating occasionally. Suppose that the bastards who sell that "Obama...
View ArticleHanukkah thoughts on Rick Warren
Well, everyone else has put in their two cents, so I might as well dive in too. I figure that, given that I'm neither gay nor Christian, I am supremely unqualified to address the topic, which is of...
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