Random RecitalsLet me get this straight. You're typing on a keyboard made from oil and refined metals, watching the letters come up on a light-emitting screen, in order to use a few grams of silicon etched finer than the eye can see with hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of tiny quantum-mechanical devices, in order to send a message that will travel via optical cables (and possibly satellite links), to be read by thousands of people across the whole world, all of whom could reply within a few hours, and you are actually saying, I mean really actually truly making the claim, that *science has no special relation to observed reality*?!? I give up. Lively LinksLinks change randomly each time the cache is refreshed. |
Article by John on March 30th, 2010 at 11:22 am As Rob says, “Think Big”. You can read the whole article with detailed explanations here: Put all unemployed workers and their families on medicare. End Unemployment. Give ten million unemployed people jobs. Military Re-do End drug laws that involve victimless crimes. End the marijuana laws Throw out the USA’s participation in the WTO, the WB, NAFTA, CAFTA Throw out Corporate Personhood Open up or [...]
Article by John on December 16th, 2009 at 8:17 am Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Obama gets Nobel Peace prize, turns around and escalates an unnecessary occupation of Afghanistan. Now Bernanke is Time Magazine’s Person of the Year after caving to Wall Street investment banks and AIG by bailing them [...]
Article by missy on October 21st, 2009 at 8:32 am and have been out of commission since Friday. Only benefit was I got through most of Jon Krakauer’s Where Men Win Glory: a wonderful, horrible read about Pat Tillman’s decision to leave the NFL for the Army Rangers after 9/11, and all that BushCo did to use him and abuse his family after his friendly fire death in Afghanistan. Truly, it is to read [...]
Article by missy on September 4th, 2009 at 11:10 am thank any of the other “official” stories that have been coming out about the disappearance of that Russian freighter a few weeks ago. If you haven’t been following the story, here’s the background: WHO: The Arctic Sea and its crew of 15 WHAT: On July 24, the Maltese-flagged Arctic Sea radioed that it had been boarded by gunmen posing as law enforcement officers off [...]
Article by John on June 17th, 2009 at 2:46 pm Image via Wikipedia Below are the Democrats who stood against Obama’s expanding war the day their votes mattered (See where your Representative stood here): Tammy Baldwin, Michael Capuano, John Conyers, Lloyd Doggett, Donna Edwards, Keith Ellison, Sam Farr, Bob Filner, Alan Grayson, Raul Grijalva, Michael Honda, Marcy Kaptur, Dennis Kucinich, Barbara Lee, Zoe Lofgren, Eric Massa, Jim McGovern, Michael Michaud, Donald Payne, [...]
Article by John on June 16th, 2009 at 10:37 pm
Article by John on June 4th, 2009 at 5:09 pm First we have this, President Obama speaking in Cairo: And then we have this reality from David Swanson: A New Beginning: If Only By David Swanson President Barack Obama’s speech in Cairo probably did a world of good. It was packed with truth telling and noble sentiments. But imagine how much more good would be done if all [...] | Local TV Connect with Facebook |
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