Friday, July 15, 2011

Rick Perry Wants Us to Hand It Over to God

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And speaking of crazy and the current crop of Republican presidential wannabes, as Justin Elliott notes at Salon today , Rick Perry wants...

Paul Krugman Calls Out the Media for Facilitating Crazy

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In his inimitable way, Paul Krugman calls out the crazy-facilitators in the mainstream media who have shamelessly pandered to made one e...
Thursday, July 14, 2011

Herman Cain, Michael Irvin, and Debates about the Future of African-American Voting Patterns

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South Carolina GOP Debate, May 2011 I had lunch today with two of my high-school classmates.  Well, actually, one of the two was a clas...

Cloyne Report Appears, and Commonweal Blog Discussion Develops

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Pope Benedict with Bishop John Magee of Cloyne   The much-anticipated Cloyne report, the Irish government's report on its findings in...

Peter Finnochiaro at Salon: Global-Warming Denial Concentrated in States Now Burning Up

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The irony to which I pointed yesterday --namely, that the ongoing drought in the southern sector of the U.S. is occurring in states that now...
Wednesday, July 13, 2011

News Coverage of Marcus Bachmann's Ex-Gay Therapy Accelerates

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As Timothy Beauchamp points out at Americablog Gay today, citing Andy Towle at Towleroad, seven cable television shows have now given pro...

Global Warming and the Drought of the Southern U.S.

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I'm glad to see Peter Finnochiaro call the New York Times ' hand re: its recent reporting on the horrific drought from Arizona to...