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LATEST ARTICLES ( 1995 )

• Squeakiest Pip-squeak

  

  The only thing that has prevented this regime, pere et fils, from being more thoroughly squashed has been the support of major power China on the northern... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• RIP, a Couple of Very Successful Women from the Last Century

  

  Two very different women: Annette Funicello, left, of Disney and beach blanket movies, died today 4/8/'13 ; Maggie Thatcher, right, first and so far only... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Bernie, Telling Truth to Power - CONSERVATIVE Power

  

  The 'YOU' in this caption is conservatives. This underlines and highlights the massive, epic conservative fail, the reason that the core conservative message,... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Referring to Conservatives, Who Have Consistently Failed Economic Policies

  

  "The first downturn was brought on by private greed and public negligence. This one’s been brought on by public insanity fueled by private interests. Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• The Right Wing Culture War on Unions is Also Part of the Culture War on Women

  

  Unless or until the GOP changes, and they are apparently incapable of change, brag about their intransigence to change, they will lose more and greater numbers... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• GOP = Hypocrisy: They Eventually Abandon Their 'principled Conservative...

  

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  Posted on 03 April 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• So........we're NOT the World Then, Quite So Much?

  

  Another excellent science lesson from 'I fucking love science' on FB. Very cool infographic from National Geographic - how many species have been identified, an... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• April Fool Was Yesterday; We Need More Investment in Tech and Higher Ed Today.

  

  Cruising my favorite facebook source, "I fucking love science, I found this. Amazing. So now we have 'can you hear me now' for cell phones, and 'can you see me... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• About Gay Marriage......and You Thought We Had Complicated Gender Issues!

  

  The single celled protozoan Tetrahymena thermophila has an astonishing SEVEN sexes. Imagine how complicated dating must be! Biologists are now unraveling the... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Amazing! Talk About REALLY Smart Policing!

  

  Predicting future crimes and taking action to stop them is a common plot line in sci-fi movies. But could it become reality? A recent study by neuroscientists a... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Up with Kids, Invest More in Their Education, Invest in US! THIS is Why!

  

  A 19-year-old has developed an ocean cleanup array that could remove 7,250,000 tons of plastic from the world's oceans. More info: http://bit. Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Why Does the Right Go into Denial Every Time They Encounter Facts That They Don'...

  

  Media matters just keeps catching Fox News in their screw-ups. The conservative capacity for denying objective reality is truly astonishing -- and sad, very,... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• My April Fool Post from MN Political Roundtable

  This is the second of the two posts I've written for the occasion - enjoy, as well. This post, as noted by my co-blogger MN Central, is closer to reality than... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• I Wrote Two April Fool Posts:

  This one, I wrote for the MN Progressive Project, where it has been posted all day today. Enjoy. More ‘Fairness’ to Rapists? The Young Rapist Protection Act by... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Poking Fun at Right Wing Logic

  

  Before getting righteously annoyed after seeing this posted to facebook, I looked up the author of the tweet below; he's a Minnesota performer, and this is... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Every Day is April Fool's at Fox News

  

  From Media Matters, catching Fox News making fools of themselves and their viewers on global warming, which is a polite term for blatant dishonesty: The chart o... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Easter, the Gun-huggers Fallacy, and Tony Cornish

  cross-posted from the MN Progressive Project: Back on the 20th of March, the Big E wrote here about the assertion by Tony Cornish on Jesus and violence, with... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Easter? Ishtar? Earlier?

  

  Origins of the name "Easter": The name "Easter" originated with the names of an ancient Goddess and God. The Venerable Bede, (672-735 CE. Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Happy Holiday of Your Chosen Faith (or No Faith)

  

  Here's the thing; neither Easter rabbits nor Easter eggs are Christian symbols. But the right wing nuts are shrieking about an imaginary attack on Easter. Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• More Ways the Right Gets Facts Wrong; This is NOT Correct. Bill-O's Books Are Al...

  

  It's not bad enough that the right wing nuts like this guy get their facts wrong, they try to profit from lying to people who want to be deceived. Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY