Making monkeys of Americans
bobhowe calls my attention to an article in today's New York Times about a survey commissioned by a couple of Pew trusts which finds that "nearly two-thirds of Americans say that creationism should...
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Supernovak
A couple of weeks ago, █████ and I went to a taping of The Daily Show. Before the cameras rolled, Jon Stewart was taking questions from the studio audience and had been riffing on Robert Novak for...
Memo to Rick Santorum
Fuck you, you dissembling fuck. I heard you this morning on Morning Edition just as I was leaving for work, bloviating about how the reason the question of where our species came from is important is...
The elephant in the room
Over breakfast this morning, I was reading the October 18 New Yorker—"The Political Issue." A story by Philip Gourevitch about the first presidental debate, "Reality Check," sucked me in, and I...
Mike Hunt <u>is</u> Aiken
What a weekend █████ and I just had! We arrived back late last night from three days in beautiful Aiken, South...
Make your own Bush speech
Thanks to pould, bringer of all things mischievous, for pointing out the Bush Speechmaker: http://www.lemonbovril.co.uk/bushspeech/ You can hear my own feeble attempt here. Yours will be far more clever than this....