Taking a HARD look at the Business of Politics

Allyn Gibson posts some interesting thoughts regarding Pete Stark’s “coming out of the closet” with his “nontheism”.
I’ve been an atheist (or nontheist - the latest term for “I don’t believe in God”) ever since I can remember - I don’t now nor have I ever had any need for that sort of dogma in my […]

Have a look here at the latest post by Weasel Times and Intelligencer:
“On Monday, the Tennessee Center for Policy Research published a press release revealing that Al Gore’s mansion in Belle Meade uses more electricity in a month than the average family uses in a year. And I keep coming back to that. Belle Meade.
Belle […]

The historical basis for DST goes back to WWII. I suppose at that point it may have made sense (in the same way that blackout fabric over windows made sense).
It decidedly does NOT make sense now. It has not made any KIND of sense in the last 40 years of my life. […]

Will the unintended consequences of Nixon’s change in the farm subsidy structures ever go away? We feed it to cattle, resulting in more methane in manure and a more acidic meat, which is ripe for e coli growth and other potential diseases. We feed it to chickens, resulting in eggs with higher levels of […]

Hats are being thrown in the ring right and left, the money scramble is on, and the 2008 Presidential Campaign has begun. It’s a wide open field, and, since there is no incumbent president or vice president running, the number of candidates on both sides of the fence is, at this time, staggering. A recent […]

and cuts off the purse strings NOW. I cannot believe that King Bush is going to go against the will of the people, most of his OWN PARTY, and his military advisors to send another 20k+ troop into Iraq!
Insanity. Sheerest insanity. I guess King Bush wants to live on in history any […]

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 […]

he’s not a big enough, honest enough man to admit he’s wrong. And he IS wrong - about a lot of things, but first and foremost about the middle east. He’s wrong. He needs to admit he’s wrong, get us the HELL out of there, and let them do their worst to […]

I dunno…. I THOUGHT I was. But then I read this post on Donklephant - and now I’m not only pretty sure I’m NOT, I’m also…. queasy….
Ewww. Here’s where it gets ugly. Okay, I’m NOT a “conservative” or a “Republican”, self-evident I suppose. Then again, I’m certainly not a “liberal” […]

Us technoweenies have known all along that this possibility has existed, and now John “Hannibal” Stokes of Ars Technica shows you how. With the merging of computer technology and voting machines, any reasonably talented hacker can steal an election. And I’m one of the lucky ones who lives in a state where paper backup records […]