Taking a HARD look at the Business of Politics

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

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. […]

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 […]

I would JUST DEARLY LOVE to find a “centrist blog” wherein the principal NEVER MENTIONS RELIGION.
Forlorn hope.

A Washington Post article by Laurie David, entitled “Science a la Joe Camel” reports how the producers of “An Inconvenient Truth”, a documentary film about global warming, wished to make the documentary available FREE to classrooms, and offered the National Science Teachers Association 50,000 dvd copies of the film. The NSTA declined on the basis […]

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’d been feeling “funny” about Murtha ever since it was posited that he might become the majority leader…. and I didn’t know WHY I was feeling that way.
Until last night, when it hit me out of the blue: he reminds me all too much of “Bo” Gritz….

Michael Bywater’s essay entitled “We’re all Big Babies” really ties a lot of my speculation of the last ten years together in a new way. I’m one of those bizarre people who threw out my TV set years ago, so I’m somewhat more immune to Marketing Messages than the average person, and in fact often […]

Pasadena Weekly has a good article about the recent leaked ABC memo, and, to some degree, debunks the spin put on the issue by Corporations who have participated in the redlining of radio station affiliates who carry Air America Radio, a liberal talk radio show that, on a regular basis, lampoons a lot of […]