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A group called “Project Prevention” is in the news for its tactic of offering $300 payments to “drug addicts” to submit to sterilization or long-term birth control because . . . um, it’s not clear except, you know, “those people” obviously ought to be sterilized. According to the woman who dreamed up this charming scheme, [...]

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The Wall Street Journal and Jonathan Adler are all het up about the unprecedented, nefarious tactic suddenly invented by liberals: secondary boycotts. WSJ waxes teary-eyed over all those poor corporations missing out on some tiny fraction of potential profits simply because they’re funding anti-democratic legislation, reactionary politicians, environmental disaster, slaveringly vicious fascist radio freaks, or [...]

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So there’s been a lot of back-and-forth shot trading between the Romney and Obama camps lately. Some of it is hilarious. (“Romney strapped a dog to a car!” “Well Obama ate one!” “Romney’s grandfather was a polygamist!” “Well so was Obama’s father!“) The right wing seems to think these parallels are especially embarrassing to Obama. [...]

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So, Ted Nugent is shooting off his crazed mouth again, this time explicitly advocating beheading members of Congress and declaring President Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to be “criminals” and that they must be dealt with like an invading coyote, by shooting. He followed up by stating that if [...]

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Yes, I’m alive! Just haven’t had the time or energy to update anything since I can’t remember when. And Kevin Raybould has a real job, and Tom has a new job and a new house. So thanks for hanging in there. I don’t have anything important to say. This story caught my eye today, though, [...]

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I picked up Penn Jillette’s new book God, No!, yesterday, and am already most of the way through it. It’s pitched as an atheist’s version of the “Ten Commandments”. (This apparently was prompted by an exchange Penn had with Glenn Beck that resulted in Penn dashing off his own version of the Ten Commandments and [...]

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The onward march of progress: Gallup reports today that overall US public approval of interracial marriage stands at an all-time high of 85% – up from 4% barely 50 years ago. What’s really striking is the almost linear trendline: Predictably, it slows during Republican administrations, and jumped dramatically during the Clinton years, but overall that’s [...]

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Okay, so I commented once previously on the Washington Post‘s editorial standards, vis a’ vis whiney upper-class white guys and their entitlement to attention. The occasion was that a guy in one of the most affluent sections of Washington, DC  (in the Northwest quadrant) got his tires slashed. The Post did 20 column inches on [...]

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Paul Krugman has a good column up, noting that this year’s crop of GOP candidates is even crazier than usual – all of them, with the exception of doomed atavistic sane Republican John Huntsman, are creationist, anti-choice, and climate-change denialists. All of them, that is, make medical and scientific decisions on the basis of religion, [...]

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Running true to a very tedious and familiar form, some nutcase makes waves to prove how Christian he is by proving how crazy he is: Brothers and Sisters , I have been seriously considering forming a ( Christian ) grassroots type of organization to be named “The Christian National Registry of Atheists” or something similar [...]

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