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• A Botanical and Historical Friday Fun Day

  

  Yesterday was the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima; Sunday will mark the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki. Read more

  Posted on 07 August 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Of Love and Lawn Mowers: Conservatives Don't Get Consent and Consciousness

  Conservatives say stupid things they think are clever. The more extreme the Tea Bagger politics, usually the dumber and less insightful the comment. Facts are... Read more

  Posted on 07 August 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Food for Thought (Right-Wing Terrorism)

  A quote of a from the New York Times, based on statistics provided by the US Military Academy's Combating Terrorism Center. Despite public anxiety about... Read more

  Posted on 04 August 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Achievers of New Lows in Hypocrisy = GOP

  

  past wisdom "I don't want to see religious bigotry in any form. It would disturb me if there was a wedding between the religious fundamentalists and the... Read more

  Posted on 04 August 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Conservative Boogeymen and Bad Conservative Government

  The deeply indebted MN GOP is trying to play their wedge politics on the state's dime, in contrast to legitimate non-wedge-issue investigations, in calling for... Read more

  Posted on 03 August 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

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  past wisdom "I don't want to see religious bigotry in any form. It would disturb me if there was a wedding between the religious fundamentalists and the... Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Putting a Double Helping of Dumb in Fee Dumb

  

  past wisdom "I don't want to see religious bigotry in any form. It would disturb me if there was a wedding between the religious fundamentalists and the... Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Friday Fun Day

  

  Let's start with a newish video from clever satirical animator Mark Fiore and then move on to the fringe right craziest thing I've heard this week -- the claim... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Gun Free Zones.......are NOT the Problem; GUNS ARE THE PROBLEM

  

  If more guns made us more safe, we would not have the gun violence problem as a nation that is unique to us, in contrast to other advanced nations. Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Right Wing Religious Propagandists Slime the Boy Scouts of America

  

  Ban pedophiles, not gays. Gays are not automatically pedophiles or sex predators. Conservatives know, or should reasonably be expected to know this, but prefer... Read more

  Posted on 29 July 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Not. One. More.

  

  PENIGMA RULES 1. We are here for discussion and debate. Citing factual sources is encouraged, and critical reasoning is prized here. Spam comments will be... Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Pissing Matches with Bullets

  

  image from bookwormroom.com Our problem with gun violence is that the people who defend unfettered access to, and carrying around, guns in this country, across... Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Failed Policy, Failed Logic, Failed Ideology

  

  PENIGMA RULES 1. We are here for discussion and debate. Citing factual sources is encouraged, and critical reasoning is prized here. Spam comments will be... Read more

  Posted on 26 July 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Ending the Week with Good News

  

  PENIGMA RULES 1. We are here for discussion and debate. Citing factual sources is encouraged, and critical reasoning is prized here. Spam comments will be... Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Update on the Louisiana Theater Shooting

  

  This may turn out to be another instance of right wing domestic terrorism. The shooter was a toxic teabagger. From WHNT 19 news: He has a profile created by... Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Right Wing Flag Propganda 8: Old Glory at Half Mast, and Chattanooga,...

  

  The Flag is a symbol of the entire country, but as the WaPo, Politifact.com and Snopes all noted, the right wing nuts tried - again - to use it as a mechanism... Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• More Gun Violence, Another Shooting of Multiple Victims

  As we are in the sentencing phase of the trial of the Movie Theater shooting 3 years ago this week, we have another shooting in a theater in Lafayette,... Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• "Bignorance": Seattle Does NOT Give Preference to Or Force Compliance with Shari...

  

  I am appalled at the ignorance of the right that combines with deep, passionate hatred - bignorance is my new term for it, big, bigoted ignorance. Behold the... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Right Wing Hatred of Muslims Is Hypocritical Bigotry

  

  ban Islam bigotry symbol Conservatives are the quintessential hatriots, ignorant bigots, and most of all, HYPOCRITES, and never more so than when they have an... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Donald Trump Takes Communion?

  

  Wonkette reported on Donald Trump trying to impress the bigots and puritans in Iowa this week with his Jeeeeeeezus sincerity. And as the Wonkette noted in... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY