Ho-hum. I refuse to listen to the talking heads on the networks discuss this. I just don’t need Blitzer’s opinion on how Cheney and Hastert look in their suits. Sorry.
Also, can I get one of those human-animal hybrids? Is Bush seriously worried that someone will create a mermaid?
Is this a misleading statistic?
In the last […]

Staffers for Burns have been editing his Wikipedia entry.
Wouldn’t want all the information out there for everyone to see, would you?
He’s also apparently in the business of employing people who aren’t concerned with grammatical/typing errors:
Burns has been an[sic] true advocate of the agricultural community. Given the fact that over 64% of Montana is used […]

What the hell is wrong with Alternet?
Homeopathy is a joke. It’s based on the idea that something that gives a person certain symptoms will cure a disease with similar symptoms and that water can remember whatever remedy was in it before being diluted into oblivion.
Completely ridiculous.
(via Skeptico)

Matt and Wulfgar have put up posts answering a questionnaire for Democrats posted over at Rabid Sanity. I thought I might give it a shot as well.
1. What is going right with our country right now? This question is necessary because if we all agree on what is working, we won’t have to reinvent the […]

I have to say, the Barnes & Noble Current Events section is a mess. Have you ever noticed that customers sometimes put books of a certain political viewpoint in front of books with the opposing political viewpoint? Well, there were around seven conservative (-ish, The Case for Israel isn’t conservative, but the point of view […]

This interview has already been trashed quite nicely here, but I have another comment:
Traditionally, evolutionary biologists like Stephen Jay Gould insisted on keeping a separation between hard science and less knowable realms like religion.
He was the evolutionist laureate of the U.S., and everybody got their Darwin from Steve. The trouble was he gave a rather […]

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Why is Firefox’s built-in download manager so damn slow? I don’t mean downloading speeds, I mean opening and closing the actual manager.
I don’t really need a full-featured download manager, so I’ve been using it instead of FlashGot and LeechGet (for example). I’ve decided that was a silly thing to do.

So, yeah. Not good.
Time says they’re not going to focus on Israel at first:
Dealing with Israel—in either sense of that term—is not a priority for Hamas right now, nor will it be for some time to come. Instead, the radical Islamist group that won a landslide victory in Wednesday’s Palestinian Legislative Council election, taking 76 […]

This story has been making the rounds.
The study points to a total lack of reason in political decision-making.
“None of the circuits involved in conscious reasoning were particularly engaged,” Westen said. “Essentially, it appears as if partisans twirl the cognitive kaleidoscope until they get the conclusions they want, and then they get massively reinforced for it, […]