I’m watching her acceptance speech. I guess ending the divisive politics in Washington isn’t really on her agenda. “A whole new kind of culture war,” CNN says. Great. Just what we need. “Hey, forget about Bush. Look at this crazy lady bitching everyone out. Cool.” It’s so “Commander in Chief.”
She used the Democratic majority leader’s [...]
Gore’s Bold, Unrealistic Plan to Save the Planet - TIME
But doing it in 10 years? If the earlier, personal solutions to global warming — drive a hybrid, put in better insulation — were far too little, Gore’s goal seems far too much. Less than 28% of our power currently comes from carbon-free sources, and the [...]
Walking to my grocery store yesterday I noticed Barack Obama on the cover of the San Francisco Bay Guardian, a local free weekly paper. I normally don’t read the Guardian but thought I would pick it up to read their endorsement of Barack. I was surprised. What a crappy endorsement. They support him for all [...]
I loooove this little clip.
To paraphrase Ron Paul’s response, “Are you an idiot? Why are you asking a presidential candidate such a fucking moronic question. Sounds like a better question for your PR team. Who the fuck cares?” Course Ron Paul’s answer was much better than mine.
And I love his response to the question about [...]
So I don’t know why some people were suprised, but I got an iPhone last Friday. No, I did not wait in line.
I went down to the Apple store at around 3pm on Friday and there was a line around the block. I went back at 9pm and there was no line, but there was [...]
Gawd I love Mark Morford.
The Rev. Ted Haggard has been “cured” of his meth-lovin’ homosexuality, all from three weeks of intensive therapy by way of a gaggle of ministers who, presumably, beat him with garden hoses and removed a large chunk of his soul with God’s own chainsaw all while tattooing his eyeballs with giant [...]
If marijuana were a new discovery rather than a well-known substance carrying cultural and political baggage, it would be hailed as a wonder drug.
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Hopefully the UCSF study will add to the pressure on the U.S. government to rethink its irrational ban on the medicinal use of marijuana — and its destructive attacks on patients and [...]
There are not many things that absolutely everyone can agree on and the appropriate responsibilities of a democratic government is no exception. But I believe one of those responsibilities that we all can agree on is making the machinery of democracy work, in other words supporting the fundamental processes and logistics that allow a democracy [...]
California is on it’s way to becoming the third state to enact Clean Money/Clean Elections campaign finance reform. Prop 89 qualified for the November ballot. I’m excited. It seems everyone is pretty much in agreement that our current method of financing public campaigns gives corporations and those with money a much bigger voice than your [...]
I just wanted to let you all know that God came to me in a vision last night and told me that Jews are no longer His chosen people.
It has been over 2000 years since He last spoke to us, so He said the time had come for some revisions. The “Eternal Deed on [...]
If I send you an email and it’s intercepted by your spam filter, that’s your problem not mine. I’ve had people send me email telling me about how their spam filter blocked my email. Thanks for the info but that’s a problem you need to deal with. There is absolutely nothing I can do about [...]
This should be appended to the definition of ridiculous.
I just signed up for some kind of webinar from Microsoft about Exchange Server. After entering all my information and pressing “Continue” only to have it predictably lose all my information and make me enter it all over again (so 1995), I press continue once [...]
You’d think a cartoon that has gotten so much attention would be a little easier to find on the internet. I guess the protests are working. Anyway, so here one of them, seems there where 12?
Pretty damn offensive, huh? Completely baffling to me. Am I not the only one that looks at the cartoon and [...]
The French Democracy is a short film on the recent riots in France. It was made by Alex Chan, Parisan-born but of Chinese parents, to “to correct what was being said in the media, especially in the United States” about the riots. He used a techinique called machinima–using a video game engine to make his [...]
Move over Ecstasy. In final testing and about 3 years away, PT-141 is a revolutionary new drug that makes you horny, makes you wanna take of your clothes and have sex. It’s is a nasal spray that increases libido by acting directly on the brain in the regions that are activated when you’re horny, not [...]
I ran across this new site called Vizu that’s all about creating polls. It’s very Web 2.0 with a bunch of Ajax submitting, RSS feeds of lots of useful information, and an easy copy/paste iframe to post the poll to your blog. If you sign up it makes anonymous use of your demographic information [...]
Luke forwarded me this article, Michael Schwartz on Immediate Withdrawal which elaborates nicely on the following four reasons why immediate withdrawal from Iraq makes sense.
The U.S. military is already killing more civilian Iraqis than would likely die in any threatened civil war;
The U.S. presence is actually aggravating terrorist (Iraqi-on-Iraqi) violence, not suppressing it;
Much of [...]
I feel it’s wrong for elected officials to accept money or gifts from people. All elections should be 100% publicly funded.
Oil is a finite resource and as it runs out, gas will be $5/gal someday, it’s only a matter of when. The only responsible objective is to find an alternative. I support a gas tax because I’d rather use that money now to help find alternative fuels and clean up the mess we’ve made, rather [...]
The new name for creationism is most ironic, I must say. Am I the only one that sees the irony? Intelligent Design? It’s like they were sick of looking unintelligent so they decided to come up with another name, but the best they could come up with was to just put the word “intelligent” in [...]