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• Planck - the Mission, Not the Exercise, This is Awesome

  

  from facebook's I fucking love science: Analysis of data from the European Space Agency’s Planck mission has found out some pretty cool new things about our... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Surrogacy, Religious Fanatics, and Liberty

  

  IVF, from sciencemag.org cross posted from MN Political Roundtable: The Minnesota Family Council apparently hates infertile couples who seek help in starting... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• There is Superstition and There is Reason; We Need the Latter, We Should Oppose...

  

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  Posted on 22 March 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• World Water Day 2013

  

  We have a problem with global warming / climate change, and increasing drought. Drought causes famine, drought conditions causes larger areas to become arid, an... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Whores and Vampires

  

  Crass, lacking in empathy and compassion; factually deficient; media vampires and whores who make their living off of deceiving people, and exploiting tragedy... Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• CPAC 2013 and the Continuation of White Supremacy Deeply Embeded in Conservatives

  We have seen chronic terrible excuses made for slavery and white supremacy by the right, from claims that black Americans were better off under slavery because... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Its AUTONOMY, Stupid

  Autonomy means to have independence, and control, over one's body and one's actions and choices.Cross posted from MN Progressive Project: It’s the Autonomy,... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Happy First Day of Spring

  

  Not that you could tell looking out any window in Minnesota, but happy first day of spring from the Penigma blog. From dictionary.com, and appropriate word of... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Any Doubt the GOP Supports a Pro-rape Culture?

  

  This is the work of anti-choice anti-abortion conservatives who have given rapists the right to force women to carry a pregnancy to term, and then force them... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• From a Dying Iraq Vet : Dear Bush and Cheney, You Damned War Criminals

  

  From MoveOn.org, via Truthdig: Tomas Young A Message to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney From a Dying Veteran To: George W. Bush and Dick Cheney From: Tomas... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• GOP = Hypocrisy, Tea Party = LOSERS, Epic FAIL

  

  And even with a script and a teleprompter, she's an ignorant popsie and a failure who keeps getting fired from the jobs she doesn't just quit part way through. Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Bush and Cheney LIED, a Lot of People Died -- and We're All Paying for Their...

  

  The neo-con right is trying to claim we invaded Iraq to liberate them. That is just a new lie piled on top of the old lies. We invaded Iraq because then... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Ah, Conservatives, the Facts Are Not Their Friends: Katherine Kersten - Bunkum...

  Hysterical apocalyptic fear mongering, and propose solutions which create the worst possible outcomes. Facts are not the friends of conservatives. Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Just Because

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  Posted on 19 March 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• We Need to Stop People Using Expanded Capacity Magazines

  

  Jared Loughner was stopped, by a woman more than 60 years old, when he had to change magazines in the mass shooting in Tucson AZ that injured Congresswoman Gabb... Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Popes and Snopes

  Thanks to our commenter JOB for calling my attention to a hoax, an urban legend, an error. Snopes discovered that a quotation attributed to the new Pope... Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• What Does It Mean to Be Irish?

  

  St. Patrick was not native born Irish; he was Scottish. Actually, there were several people who contributed to the legends and traditions of 'St. Patrick'. Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Ah the Popsie Displays Both Her Stupidity and Her Paranoia Yet Again

  

  With every additional crazy, stupid comment, Palin moves herself to an even greater distance from ever being elected to any serious office ever again. When Fox... Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Wings, Legs.........how Many?

  

  From the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science, more information on this here Research published yesterday suggests that the earliest birds had... Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• GodSpeak and Common Sense

  Samual Clemens, popularly known as Mark Twain, was, as nearly everyone is aware, an American writer, philosopher, and hero to many on the political right and... Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY