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• Charlie Hebdo

  

  Yesterday, at the magazine Charlie Hebdo (said Sharlee ebb doe as I understand), a number of artists and satarists, were massacred by religious extremists. Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• For You, Huckabee, Jeb Bush, and the Rest of the Losers on the Right

  

  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 05 January 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Fiscal Conservative = Waste Money

  

  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 05 January 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Bad Pennies Award - Penigma Lie of the Year, 2014

  

  It's a tie, with plenty of dirty old bad pennies to spread around! Politifact gives their award for lie of the year to lies, plural, about the Ebola virus,... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Happy New Year to All Our Readers!

  

  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 01 January 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• In the Land of Stop Lights and Strip Malls

  I recently spent some time down in an "ex-urb" of New Orleans, visiting my parents.  The area in which they live is principally white, upper-middle class, and... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• 2014 Good Pennies Award - to Steve Sack, Editorial Cartoonist, for Telling It...

  

  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 29 December 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• The Bad Pennies Award for Senatorial Hypocrisy Goes to Tom Coburn

  

  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 24 December 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Another Bad Pennies Award for 2014: Andrew Tahmooressi, Montel Williams, and...

  

  I'm glad Andrew Tahmooressi is home, but he should never have been permitted to have those guns in the first place that got him arrested in Mexico. Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Happy Festivus

  A belated happy Solstice, Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas, and Happy Kwanza to all of our readers. For a smile as the pressure of last minute preparation for... Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• The Massacre of the Innocents.

  

  Today's lesson comes from Matthew 2:16–18: The Massacre of the Innocents. When [the Magi] had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. Get up,... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Next 2014 Bad Penny Award Goes to the NRA

  

  WW I pennies with bullet holes in them considered 'trench art' The NRA consistently demonstrates their failed level of limited thinking and lack of moral... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Tis the Season ------for the 2014 PENNIES!

  

  For those of our readers who have forgotten (or never knew), the pennies are our two cents worth, good penny or bad penny, for the preceding year in news. Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Friday Again -- Fun Day, Again!

  And what could be more fun than a little Fiore video? and now coming up on two-weeks post-election (or is that too weak?) a little home truth about that dark... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Because ONLY Conservatives Could Be This Kind of Ugy-crazy

  You couldn't make this up if you tried. Conservatives on the religious right give God and religion a bad name. Just a little perspective - the guy was court... Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Smoke and Mirrors, and Gum - Because You Can't Make up Stuff This Stupid from th...

  Numb-nuts Bo Dietle, some 4 minutes in, personifies the idiocy of the radical right and their appalling lack of knowledge of other countries, customs or cuisine. Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Thanks, Properly Expressed

  I've made no secret that I spent 12 years in the US Army and Reserve, with the vast majority of that time in the Reserve (in fact I was active duty only for my... Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Honor Our Veterans

  

  Thank you to all those who served, and to those who served in the armed forces of our allies. Just as no one builds a business entirely on their own, no war... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• And the Wall Came Tumbling DOOOOWWWWWWNNNNNNN!!!!!

  This seemed a worthwhile lead in to a piece on the Berlin wall, since the Biblical account of the fall of Jericho and the archeological version of events seem t... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• It's Time to Put up Or Shut up

  The Republicans won a significant election on Tuesday.  I feel they did so by creating hysteria about things like Ebola, the Affordable Care Act, fracking, the... Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY