This is exciting stuff! The odds of life existing elsewhere in the universe have always been high, but the discovery of such a close, Earth-like planet increases our odds of actually discovering life somewhere beyond Earth. Just think, now that we’ve broken the barrier to finding planets like this, all we need to do is [...]
Here’s a great article from the new Rolling Stone, by Mark Taibbi. It’s a great article that exposes some of the more hypocritical aspects of the Tea Party “movement” (aka: same Republican shit, different bow). A hall full of elderly white people in Medicare-paid scooters, railing against government spending and imagining themselves revolutionaries as they [...]
A poetic response to the Koran burning / Ground Zero mosque, non-issues… Priceless… Right now, the pages swell with moisture, the fibers separate and the chapters turn into pulpy masses. Bacteria bloom and their colonies expand; fungi flourish and their hyphae infiltrate and convert cellulose into spores. The ink runs as nematodes writhe over the [...]
“It Gets Better” is a spectacular project started by Dan Savage, media pundit and journalist, in response to the tragic suicide of a bullied teen named Billy Lucas. It’s message to LGBT teens is something to be shared with everyone you know, gay or straight, and especially if you know someone being bullied and harassed [...]
What have we come to as a country when a major political party has the balls to lie directly to our faces. When a major political party can repeat, over and over, a meme that screams in the face of rationality. The fact is, tax cuts increase the national debt. Plain and simple. No spin. [...]
It’s nice that it’s so much easier to get the facts in 2010 than it was in 1994 when these clowns tried this the first time with the “Contract with America”. Unfortunately, Regressives with continue to ignore the facts and continue trying to keep this country from bettering itself. FactChecking ‘The Pledge’ | FactCheck.org
49% of American adults don’t know how long it takes for the Earth to go around the Sun? That’s embarrassing on a spectacular level. Stagnant scientific education imperils U.S. economic leadership, says a report by leading business and science figures.
Do Republican’s really fall for this s#!t? I’m honestly curious. People don’t really take this “Pledge To America” seriously, do they? Well, it’s a “pledge” to THEIR America. I want no part of it. I say thanks, but no thanks. I’ll stick with progress.
We can expect headlines like this in the US if people keep ignoring science and listen to kooks like Jenny McCarthy. No vaccination equals child casualties, and if your child gets my child sick because they’re not vaccinated, expect a lawsuit…