Overnight: 48 hours to the Barackcalypse
I've been looking for a good excuse to post this on the subject of negative advertising:Mr. Show holds up pretty well for a 10 year old show. Inside, two more Mr. Show bits that are still relevant. In...
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Zero unemployment: A 3-point Back to School Program
We're worried about the potential for massive unemployment, right? Most estimates put it at 8% unemployment next year, with more dire predictions pegging it at up to 15%.The problem of unemployment...
View ArticleOpen access publishing of scientific research (see Conyers bizarre legis. QH)
In Quick Hits, we have this:Conyers sponsoring "bizarre", wasteful legislation (metamars)Thanks for posting this metamars!Lawrence Lessig, of Change Congress, reports: Right now, there's a bizarre...
View ArticleOn Aerodynamics, Or, Space: The Budget Frontier
Forty years ago this week an event occurred that changed the history of mankind forever.An event so monumental that the memory lingers on, even though the venue where the event took place has been,...
View ArticleOn Stimulating The Future, Or, "It's The Ytterbium, Stupid!"
We're diving deep into "geek world" today with a story that combines economic hardball, the periodic table of the elements, and a barely noticed provision of the Defense Authorization Act that seeks to...
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Watch CBS News Videos Onlinecopyright © 2010 Betsy L. Angert. BeThink.orgToday, Americans are engrossed in earthquake coverage. The tremor in Haiti bought unimaginable death and destruction just...
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Why liberals should be condescending
A Sunday Washington Post editorial asks why liberals are so damn condescending. Seriously:Why are liberals so condescending?By Gerard AlexanderSunday, February 7, 2010Every political community...
View ArticleMoving forward towards a science-based, non-discriminatory policy on blood...
Next week, the FDA, which oversees policy relating to donor eligibility to donate blood, will meet to consider revising the ban on men who have sex with men (MSM) giving blood. The ban has been in...
View ArticleBlogswarm: Revise the Ban
Today, OpenLeft is participating in a blogswarm with AMERICABlog, AKAWilliam.com, Bilerico Project, Blabbeando, Change.org, DailyKos, David Badash, Firedoglake-The Seminal, Good As You, Joe Mirabella,...
View Article"Banning Queer Blood"
The following is a letter forwarded to me by Jeff Bennett, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa. Jeff participated in our call to action yesterday and is also an...
View ArticleThe Preamble; Fix it or Nix It?
Transportation Without Petroleum or Biofuelscopyright © 2010 Betsy L. Angert. BeThink.orgAt present, oil saturates the Gulf Stream. An official six-month cessation of permits for new drilling did not...
View ArticleThe inconvenient truth about the "Waiting for Superman" movie
(Cross-posted from Dailykos)"Waiting for Superman" (WfS), the much hyped movie on Education reform, is directed by Davis Guggenheim, who also directed "Inconvenient Truth". Guess who produced it?...
View ArticleThe Last Frontier's Struggle For Our Future: Climate Hero vs Climate Peacock...
"Alaska: The Last Frontier" is so eerily echoing of The Final Frontier. And, as with ever so many episodes of Star Trek: The Final Frontier, The Last Frontier is seeing a struggle that could have...
View ArticleI'd like to take a moment to talk with all my friends around the country who...
Quite frankly, there is not much of a choice here: if you don't vote, you will condemn us to changes in our country that will be hard to live with and harder to overcome in the future.For instance,...
View ArticleRepublicans for Science!
Today's Washington Post features a very important op-ed by NRDC Action Fund board member and former House Science Committee chairman Sherwood Boehlert, a Republican who represented New York's 24th...
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