Plunderbund

Jill has a post up discussing a report from the President’s Council on Bioethics that basically warns about the dangers of biomedical innovation.
In short, the group argues that biomedical innovations are an affront to “human dignity” and should no be pursued.
Innovations like drugs that enhance cognition, genetic manipulation therapies that could extend life, and “therapeutic […]

On April 24, 1925 a Grand Jury indicted John T. Scopes for violating a law (The Butler Act) passed one month earlier by the Tennessee Legislature that made it illegal to teach evolution in science classes in any of the state’s public schools and colleges.
The indictment claimed that Scopes:
“did unlawfully and willfully teach in public […]

We’ve assumed certain people wouldn’t vote for Obama just because he’s black but, until today, I hadn’t seen any good polling numbers to support that theory.
The proof comes in the form a new Newsweek poll that employs something called a “Racial Resentment Index” (RRI) that attempts to calculate the racial bias the respondents.
According to the […]

Getting lectured by Ralph King on class is akin to getting lectured on civil rights by David Duke. It’s funny - I don’t care who you are. Wittle Walphie’s ears were hurt because big bad Eric used some awful naughty words in one of his wecent posts.
Let’s remember that Ralph resides […]

Is Barack Obama Muslim?
Hit the link for the answer.

There. I said it. Don’t look for me to apologize for it either. It won’t happen. I think she just crossed my threshold of whether or not I’d support her in anything ever again. I don’t want her as VP. I don’t want her as a Senator. I […]

So McCain “released” his medical records today.
In case you haven’t been following this, “released” means that he let a couple of reporters review 1,173 pages of medical records for 3 hours. No copies. No pictures. Just notes.
Fucked up, right?
I figured CNN would send crack medical reporter Sanjay Gupta, and I was right.
I […]

I don’t think it can be said much better than this:
You know where I’m going, for you know where she went. Hillary Clinton complained again this week that sexism has been a major dynamic in her unsuccessful bid for political dominance. She is quoted by the Washington Post’s Lois Romano decrying the “sexist” treatment she […]

This one made me laugh. Very interesting comment left on this post by Tim Russo. It is a very unique argument that I had not heard before so it struck me as something we all might want to talk about. Here is the comment:
i think hillary is too butch and therefore people […]

It’s amazing to me that anyone would give Rick Santorum a stage on which to scream his hate-filled, homophobic message- but that’s exactly what the Philadelphia Inquirer has done.
His latest “article” is about, of course, gay marriage.
He starts off by pointing out that he was called “Bigot! Hate-monger! Homophobe!” back in 2003 when he warned […]

These are the Dems who voted for Mecklenborg’s mean-spirited, anti-immigrant, English-Only bill that passed today 54-42:
Dan Dodd (91)
John Domenick (95)
Jay P. Goyal (73)
Matt Lundy (57)
John Otterman (45)
Tom Heydinger (58)
Note: Heydinger was just sworn in yesterday- taking over for Matt Barrett.
Not a great first day, Tom. Not at all.
I guess we can write […]

The Ohio House just passed Mecklenborg’s mean-spirited, anti-immigrant, English-Only bill 54-42.
Which means at least 2 Dems voted FOR it.
Fucking idiots.

Mecklenborg’s mean-spirited, anti-immigrant, English-Only bill (H. B. No. 477) is on the House Calendar for today.
The debate should be pretty interesting. You can watch it at ohiochannel.org.
I’ll update this post if anything interesting comes out of it.
UPDATE:
Mecklenborg starts the discussion declaring “this is not an english-only bill.” Instead, he claims, this bill only […]

It could be related to Israel. It could be related to misinformation. Or it could be related to skin color. It most likely is all three. I think the primary reason why Florida Jews (and all Floridians, really) aren’t warmed up to Obama is because he hasn’t been allowed to campaign […]