Taking a HARD look at the Business of Politics

I wonder who paid payola to whom to get the FDA to give a preliminary thumbs up to cloned animals such as beef and goat, entering the food supply. The most disturbing part of this story is “For food that does come from clones, the Food and Drug Administration is unlikely to require labels, officials […]

Net Neutrality advocates still have work to do, since there’s a 24 month limit on the Net Neutrality provision in the AT&T Merger conditions that Whitacre just put forward as his compromise, but this is HUGE. First, by making this compromise in order to get the merger approved, Whitacre is directly contradicting his earlier statement […]

The New York Times today had an article entitled Costs of a Crisis- Diabetics Confront a Tangle of Workplace Laws which really had me thinking about a lot of seemingly unrelated things that have come into the news lately and to my attention in other ways. A few of those things-

NYC Mayor Bloomberg’s new law […]

This Bitchslapper wishes everyone the best the Season has to offer– Great food, great visiting, and great presents from Santa!

All you have to do is take a QUICK GLANCE at this CENSORED New York Times article and you’ll know that Dubya and his hatchet men are at it again. And the subject is, as usual, the Middle East.
More statements on this at News.com, the Huffington Post, and Gizmosis.
And also, at /. — my favorite […]

In a victory for free speech, federal prosecutors withdrew a subpoena against the ACLU, a subpoena that would, if allowed, have successfully buried all copies of a leaked government document currently in the hands of the ACLU and its attorneys. According to an article in the NY Times, “The subpoena was unusual in that it […]

According to an article in LiveScience, the Bush Administration is clamping down on scientists at the US Geological Survey “who study everything from caribou mating to global warming, subjecting them to controls on research that might go against official policy . . . New rules require screening of all facts and interpretations by agency scientists. […]

If you think we should jump on this particular bandwagon you need to know two things–
First is that EVERY terrorist involved in 9/11 was carrying a legitimate form of ID.
Second is what the RealID REALLY MEANS.
If we don’t head shit like this off before it gets a toehold, our Bill of Rights is just so […]

It’s probably no surprise to many than I’m an atheist. If it IS a surprise, that would indicate either that you don’t know me, or that I’ve been biting my tongue for some unknown, probably perverse, reason.
Since I AM an atheist, I become extremely annoyed, not to mention outright antagonised, by the obvious fact […]

Over 500 citizens from 6 states, in addition to the Country Stars of Nashville, turned out for the FCC town meeting in Nashville, where the speakers were overwhelmingly in favor of stopping any further changes in Media Consolidation rules. Though stars like Naomi Judd and George Jones took the spotlight, this was by no means […]