It’s been so long since I’ve done one of these:
Archy discusses the flypaper strategy.
BBWW lists some interesting things paid for by our tax money in the name of airport security.
Amy has a post supportive of the thimerosal/autism scaremongers. Skeptico and Orac are required reading on this subject.
Earnhardt the messiah.
New member Dodecahedron has a very succinct […]

Israel and its friends are to blame
It’s sad but true: When our government had to chose between all the folks using Amtrak and Israel’s military ambitions, it chose to spend your tax dollars on a foreign power (who some believe possess the sixth most powerful military in the world). Amtrak needed $1.8 billion this year […]

Just cause I feel like it:
Critics say the church hushes up this story — it involves an evil demiurge who, 75 million years ago, blew up 178 billion souls with hydrogen bombs planted in Earth’s volcanoes, trapped them on “electrical strips,” brainwashed them and packaged them into clusters that now cling to every human being […]

Salon has the start of four part series on Scientology online today. Not bad, but nothing that interesting. Hopefully the series can make up some of the credibility lost in the recent thimerosal/autism fiasco.

Court: Some Ten Commandments Displays OK
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court struggled in a pair of 5-4 rulings Monday to define how much blending of church and state is constitutionally permissible, allowing the Ten Commandments to be displayed outside the Texas state capitol but not inside Kentucky courthouses.
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But framed copies in two Kentucky courthouses went too […]

Emperor - Inno a Satana
Arcturus - Collapse Generation
Frantic Bleep - Mausolos
Pain of Salvation - Song for the Innocent
Frantic Bleep - Curtainraiser
Darkane - Parasites of the Unexplained
Nevermore - Who Decides
In Flames - In Search For I
Isis - False Light
Mastodon - Joseph Merrick

As if I wasn’t irritated enough (de-facing the grocery store for inventory will do that to you), I find that Karl Rove (of all people!) made some vile and ridiculous remarks yesterday. I’m past being surprised, but I had the same response Heliologue had to the White House’s defense of the speech. Maybe Rove was […]

As Matt has announced, we’re working on a Montana progressive community and it has a test site. As mentioned, we’re looking for problems you can find and a name. So, go check it out.

So I was looking at an advertising section in the Daily Inter Lake today, and I came across a peculiar ad: The Montana Vortex. What is it? The ad had a better description, but here’s what the site says:
Owner Ali Hauser invites you to experience the mysterious phenomena at the Vortex. People lean, hanging weights […]

Canada’s medical gulag
How dare Mr. Jacob compare Canada’s health care system to a gulag! It’s outrageous! To compare the Canadian government and doctors with the Soviets is just despicable. Jacob is simply a piece of waste that must be scraped off the sidewalk and eliminated!