Archive for July, 2006
Who have the Jews killed lately?
For the record, I don’t care that Mel Gibson is an anti-semitic jerk when he’s drunk, blaming Jews for all war (literally). He’s apologized for his outburst. And that’s fine by me. Forgive and forget.
It’s his Passion of the Christ that I have a problem with. It’s still out there, and it still [...]
Should Bush be Impeached?
Live Vote: Should Bush be impeached? - Politics - MSNBC.com
Not a scientific poll, but we can at least conclude that among people who read MSNBC.com and choose to respond (and who may or may not know how to delete their cookie to vote more than once), some 87% of 286,000 votes say Bush should be [...]
Unaging your Memory
Drug triggers body’s mechanism to reverse aging effect on memory process
I forgot what I was going to write. Oh, yeah. I think I could use this right about now.
‘Nova’ asteroid could rock your world in ‘36
New York Daily News - Entertainment - ‘Nova’ asteroid could rock your world in ‘36
So here’s what I don’t understand. When the asteroid passes close to us, we’ll be able to determine if it’ll hit us less than a decade later. The chances are low, but not insignificant.
So why don’t we start planning a [...]
Police spies chosen to lead war protest
OAKLAND / Police spies chosen to lead war protest
I don’t know what the Oakland police thought they were doing. It’s bad enough they felt the need to infiltrate groups who were protesting the war. But getting themselves elected to leadership positions in the protest organization is just dumb. If the protests turned violent, the protestors [...]
Update on the End of the World as They Know It
Whew! We can all relax. It turns out the bible found in an Irish peat bog that was supposedly turned to the psalm warning of the consequences of destroying the name of Israel was all a big mistake. It was in fact turned to a different psalm, the one with the Vale of Tears. The [...]
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Wired News: Funding a Global-Warming Skeptic
Besides such "experts" who are bought and paid for, there are also indications that the media’s bend-over-backwards neutrality (but the Global Warming debate has two sides!) is more a function of sponsorship, industry pressure, and outright laziness (remember the VNR scandal from the spring?) than any attempt at fairness.
The fact [...]
CNN or CBN?
Media Matters - CNN or CBN? Phillips asks apocalypse authors: "[A]re we living in the last days?"
With Kyra Phillips’s discussion of the Apocalypse and the Middle East conflict with Christian authors Jerry Jenkins and Joel C. Rosenberg — who share the view that the Rapture is nigh — CNN has, for the second time in [...]
Monopoly Money
Consider Newt Gingrich’s cheers of “World War III” over Israeli actions against Hizbollah and Lebanon as an attempted blowing of the Shofar. He’s not the first, and certainly not the last to try. And his rhetoric is more likely centered on short-term political goals. But the trend is worth exploring.
Consider the war in Iraq, and [...]
Alleged Ghraib-like torture by US sheriffs
The Raw Story | Video shows Ghraib-like torture by sheriffs lead to man’s death, say groups, family
No video in the actual article, not that I’d want to watch.