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Links that are fun or interesting but don't necessarily merit an entire blog posting.

May 2008

5/8/2008 Conservatives Happier Than Liberals (view post) - "Individuals with conservative ideologies are happier than liberal-leaners, and new research pinpoints the reason: Conservatives rationalize social and economic inequalities."
5/6/2008 Karl Rove Speaks on Obama (view post) - What the hey, you need the laugh.
5/6/2008 Mass Transit? (view post) - Hay! moar blog-aliciousness from me!
5/1/2008 Scientists shocked to find their names on cliimate-change deniers list (view post) - "Dozens of scientists are demanding that their names be removed from a widely distributed Heartland Institute article entitled '500 Scientists with Documented Doubts of Man-Made Global Warming Scares.' ... DeSmogBlog manager Kevin Grandia emailed 122 of the scientists yesterday afternoon, calling their attention to the list. So far - in less than 24 hours - three dozen of those scientists had responded in outrage, denying that their research supports Avery's conclusions and demanding that their names be removed."

April 2008

4/29/2008 Ronald Jenkees (view post) - Hello Youtubes!
4/27/2008 Gin, Television, and Social Surplus (view post) - "She heard this story and she shook her head and said, 'Where do people find the time?' That was her question. And I just kind of snapped. And I said, 'No one who works in TV gets to ask that question. You know where the time comes from. It comes from the cognitive surplus you've been masking for 50 years.'"
4/24/2008 ASCIIBotics Labs - Mini-Robot-Factory (view post)
4/23/2008 Lynchings in Congo as penis theft panic hits capital (view post) - "Police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink men's penises after a wave of panic and attempted lynchings triggered by the alleged witchcraft."
4/22/2008 Open Letter to a victim of Ben Stein's lying propaganda, by Richard Dawkins (view post)
4/20/2008 Evolution: 24 myths and misconceptions (view post)
4/16/2008 Philadelphia celebrates the Year of Evolution (view post) - I can hear the fundy heads exploding across the nation...
4/6/2008 Walls close in on Phelpses (view post) - "A federal judge in Maryland on Thursday ordered liens on the Westboro Baptist Church building and the Phelps-Chartered Law office."
4/2/2008 Pat Buchanan: A Brief for Whitey (view post) - "This time, the Silent Majority needs to have its convictions, grievances and demands heard." Oh yeah, white people in America have it *tough*.
4/2/2008 You been struck by a smooth criminal (view post) - Dancing walrus?

March 2008

3/31/2008 Sex ed may cut teen birth rate (view post) - "Comprehensive sex education that includes discussion of birth control may help reduce teen pregnancies, while abstinence-only programs seem to fall short, the results of a U.S. survey suggest."
3/30/2008 The Squeeb Generation (view post)
3/29/2008 GWB is no Gene Kelly! (view post) - A letter to the editor from Gene Kelly's widow.
3/29/2008 Mugging Victim Takes Control (view post) - Not what you are expecting.
3/27/2008 Barack Obama speech on the economy at Cooper Union (view post) - Hopefully this will finally shut up all those critics who keep saying that Barack Obama "has no plan", etc. Caution: the speech is 30 minutes long, has lots of big words, and deals with fairly complex economic ideas.
3/21/2008 Pharyngula: EXPELLED! (view post) - PZ Myers gets EXPELLED from a movie theater screening a creationist propaganda movie. But wait, there's more!
3/19/2008 The Subprime Primer (view post) - or: How To Make Millions In Junk Bonds And Leave Investors (And Taxpayers) Holding The Sack
3/18/2008 The Street on Welfare (view post) - "Never do I want to hear again from my conservative friends about how brilliant capitalists are, how much they deserve their seven-figure salaries and how government should keep its hands off the private economy."
3/17/2008 Under and Over in The Shawangunks (view post) - An afternoon stroll in a local nature preserve.
3/8/2008 The Most Epic Troll Evar! (view post) - Sometimes the joke is funniest when it turns out to be on you. Features oodles of LOLCat goodness. Bonus prize if you guess which LOLcat is mine.

February 2008

2/27/2008 SpongeBob Rectal Thermometer (view post) - There is such potential for fun with this one...
2/26/2008 Hillary can unite the country... by dropping out now (view post)
2/23/2008 If Obama Went 0-for-10... (view post) - ...he'd be facing tough questions about continuing the race. Hillary Clinton has lost 11 consecutive primaries, with no real hope to do any better in Ohio or Texas, but nobody has dared to suggest that she should give it up.
2/23/2008 John McCain and the "Clinton Rules" of Journalism (view post) - "While Democratic 'scandals' have been treated as true if any individual element has turned out to be accurate, allegations against Republicans have been deemed false if any individual element turned out to be wrong -- or even questionable."
2/20/2008 It's Official: Worst. President. Ever. (view post) - A poll released today by American Research Group, Inc. puts Bush's overall approval rating at 19%, shattering the previous record of 22% set by Harry Truman in February 1952.
2/20/2008 Woman Can't Referee Boys (view post) - because she can't have authority over males.
2/17/2008 A Solar Grand Plan (view post) - By 2050 solar power could end U.S. dependence on foreign oil and slash greenhouse gas emissions.
2/17/2008 Arizona Showdown (view post) - High-powered firearms, militia maneuvers and racism at the Minuteman Project.
2/15/2008 Court overturns Texas sex toys ban (view post) - This will stimulate the Texas economy, which will moan with pleasure in response.
2/15/2008 Keith Olbermann Special Comment: Mr. Bush, You are a fascist (view post) - "Thus, Mr. Bush, what you and the telecom giants have done isn't unlawful, it's just the kind of perfectly legal, passionately patriotic thing for which you happen to need immunity."
2/14/2008 Carry On Wayward Son (view post) - As performed by a ten year old Japanese girl on an electronic keyboard.
2/13/2008 What's So Great About Evolution? (view post)
2/11/2008 Christian beliefs vs. atheist beliefs (view post)
2/11/2008 Obama vs. the Phobocracy (view post)
2/11/2008 john.he.is (view post) - Wait, what did he say?
2/10/2008 Short Movies Selection: "Overtime", "Fallen Art" and "Tim Tom" (view post)
2/10/2008 Mohammed Image Archive (view post) - Depictions of Mohammed Throughout History: The Mohammed Image Archive is a compendium of images that depict Mohammed (the 7th-century founder of Islam), spanning all historical periods, cultures and genres.
2/10/2008 Lawrence Lessig: 20 minutes or so about why I am 4Barack (view post)
2/8/2008 Coulter endorses Hillary Clinton, at least against John McCain (view post) - Apparently Hillary Clinton is more conservative than John McCain. Who knew?
2/7/2008 10 Myths About Canadian Health Care, Busted (view post)
2/6/2008 Ted Haggard Quits New Life 'Restoration Team' (view post) - Apparently his return to heterosexuality didn't quite take.
2/6/2008 The Million Fag March (view post) - A peaceful "benefit" for Fred Phelps and the WBC.
2/5/2008 NOVA: Intelligent Design on Trial (view post) - Documentary about the trial over intelligent design curriculum in Dover, PA.
2/4/2008 Why I am an abortion doctor (view post)
2/4/2008 Christians: Tips To Doing Battle With Evil Atheists (view post)
2/3/2008 Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes - Presidential Candidates feat. Bowie (view post)
2/2/2008 Karl Rove to join Fox News Channel (view post)

January 2008

1/28/2008 In Endorsing Obama, Kennedy Anoints a Prince and Tells Clintons To Cool It (view post)
1/28/2008 Stimulation II: Tax Cut Boogaloo!! (view post) - Explanation of how Bush wants to stimulate the economy, and all of the minions who fall for it...
1/26/2008 Woman With Tattoo From Homemade Gun Got Sick (view post) - OK, who the damn hell ass gets a tattoo from a guy going door to door?
1/21/2008 Got Bugs? (view post) - Five really nasty bugs.
1/13/2008 Getting the Boot over Impeach Cheney and Bush T-shirts (view post)
1/8/2008 Bill O'Reilly tries to bully Obama staffer, gets snubbed by Obama (view post)
1/3/2008 50 Most Loathsome People in America, 2007 (view post)
1/3/2008 Reason Magazine - Predictions for 2008 (view post) - The un-parodiable state of civil liberties in America
1/2/2008 New report shows how Conservative minority rules by filibuster (view post)
1/2/2008 Looking at America (view post) - NY Times editorial and how the US and the Constitution have been shanghaied.

December 2007

12/31/2007 2008 is the Year of the Potato (view post)
12/31/2007 "People don't always understand his humor" (view post) - GOP hopeful Mike Huckabee on gay marriage: "Unless Moses comes down with two stone tablets from Brokeback Mountain to tell us something different, we need to keep that understanding of (heterosexual) marriage."
12/23/2007 Green Bay police begin fingerprinting at traffic stops (view post)
12/22/2007 Just In Time For The War On Christmas! Atheistic Fundamentalism (view post) - A Frequent Swill O'Biley riff, done in high-class restrained GB Stylee.
12/17/2007 The Four Horsemen of Atheism (view post) - The four leading voices of modern atheism (Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens) sit down for a free-wheeling discussion on a variety of topics.
12/16/2007 How Things Work, by digby (view post) - "A Democratic president, no matter who it is, is going to pay for the Republicans' sins. But it won't be just because the Republicans and Blue Dogs in congress suddenly "realize" they have co-equal power ... the Republicans are going to accuse the Democratic president of everything we know the Bush administration did."
12/12/2007 It's official: Christmas is important (view post)
12/5/2007 Kitty Wigs! (view post) - Hot! Hot! Hot!
12/4/2007 Bill O'Reilly's book, as channeled through Tom Tomorrow (view post) - Tom Tomorrow is one of my favorite cartoonists.
12/4/2007 Bush: Iran still a danger, military option on the table (view post) - President George W. Bush Tuesday said Iran was still a danger and refused to take military options off the table, despite a US intelligence report saying it had halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003.

November 2007

11/30/2007 Ohio e-voting review makes a mockery of "recounts" (view post) - Ohio's Cuyahoga County is holding a "recount" of their November 6 local elections by going back to the memory cards in their Diebold touchscreen voting machines and reprinting all the paper ballots, so that they can tabulate paper copies of the votes in compliance with a law that defines the paper record as the only official record of the vote. How stupid is this idea?
11/28/2007 Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr (view post) - Have a great day!
11/25/2007 YouTube - NWA Day (safe for work) (view post)
11/25/2007 The War In His Mind (view post) - Another Casualty of war...
11/23/2007 Apache! (view post) - 1970s music + pro-Native American video = unintentional humor
11/22/2007 Excursion on the version! 3 Foot Skank! (view post) - An experiment I did with some new software I got.
11/22/2007 Audio (NSFW): Devoted customer upset at Jimmy Dean downsized sausage (view post) - This guy takes his sausage *seriously*. (Not safe for work due to some profanity.)
11/20/2007 Military asks wounded soldiers to return portions of signing bonuses (view post) - The U.S. Military is demanding that thousands of wounded service personnel give back signing bonuses because they are unable to serve out their commitments.
11/20/2007 Former Press Sec. McClellan pens tell-all book about Plame affair (view post) - What a fucking scumbag.
11/20/2007 Turkey that isn't (view post) - Here's a little something to make you thankful for the meal you'll have on Thursday!
11/19/2007 Meatlocker Show 9th November 2008 (view post) - Hay Parents! Dig it, snaps to scare yr kids with! More debauchery, drunkeness and abuse of common household items at the Meatlocker in Montclair, NJ!
11/19/2007 2008 Candidate Calculator (view post) - Which 2008 Presidential candidate agrees with you? Rate each campaign issue with whether you agree or disagree and how important the issue is, and find out which candidate's positions on those issues best matches yours.
11/17/2007 23andMe (view post) - What are you really made of?
11/15/2007 Pretty Bird Woman House (view post) - The Daily Kos has been involved in making folks aware of these ladies and what they're trying to accomplish. I hope we can help spread the word about them as well.
11/14/2007 Chinese sub pops up in middle of U.S. Navy exercise (view post)
11/14/2007 Bunny Jumping (view post) - They actually train rabbits to do this?
11/11/2007 Anti-war vets slam parade ban in Long Beach, CA (view post) - Just another example of the 'freedom' we've all been hearing so much about
11/7/2007 Lagos Calling: Nigerian Skinheads (view post) - A gallery of Nigerian Skinheads and Skinbyrds looking totally sussed, and adding their own unique touches to classic Skinhead fashion.
11/1/2007 Little Sean's War On Hallowe'een (view post) - On the October 31 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes, co-host Sean Hannity claimed that 'Halloween is a "liberal" holiday' and 'is teaching our kids to be "liberals".' Hannity explained that 'we're teaching kids to knock on other people's doors and ask for a handout.' Boy, I wish I could write stuff this funny.
11/1/2007 Strange Bedfellows in Michigan (view post) - David Horowitz' 'Islamofascist Awareness Week' Fail fest featured British National(Nazi) Party leader Nick Griffin as speaker at the Michigan State University Chapter of Young Americans for Freedom(listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center) meeting on 26th Oct.
11/1/2007 Goodbye, Dear Friend (view post) - Washoe passed away Tuesday evening, October 30, at 8:00, after a brief illness. She was the first non-human animal to acquire a human language. She was 42 years old, a long life for a female chimpanzee.

October 2007

10/31/2007 Meatlocker Shutdown Show-28th October 07 (view post) - Something to frighten yr kith and kin on Hallowe'en.
10/31/2007 The Phelps Family Gets a Come Uppance (view post) - Woo Hoo!!!
10/27/2007 Why those who love America are feeling brokenhearted (view post)
10/26/2007 Have We Forgotten the Old Lessons Regarding Violence? (view post) - A society ignorant of the fact that violence is only capable of generating evil will accept the expansion of violence as the ‘logical’ remedy for the failure of violence.
10/26/2007 Should Anyone Join the Military? (view post) - Another Laurence Vance article on the military.
10/24/2007 The 10 Most Terrifyingly Inspirational '80s Songs (view post) - "Don’t Stop Believing" is in many ways the ultimate Journey song...It includes vague references to singing in bars, drinking, cheap perfume, taking your chances, livin' in the city, romance at midnight, a jaded city boy, a lonely small-town girl, and a mysterious train whose destination, one assumes, is rock 'n' roll.
10/22/2007 Destruction of Evidence - Ohio's 2004 Presidential Ballots (view post)
10/21/2007 best of craigslist : To The Stoner Who Works At Cottage Inn Pizza (view post)
10/20/2007 Rowling Says Dumbledore Is Gay (view post) - Wow... I wonder how many parents around the world have suddenly decided that those Harry Potter books aren't so great after all?
10/18/2007 The Government Is Corrupt With The Love of Jesus! (view post) - Facing tough questions from an inquisitive Fox 2 Missouri reporter, county executive Joe Artworth falls back on his faith in Jesus.
10/15/2007 Second Ally To The Right, And Straight On 'Til Morning (view post)
10/11/2007 Ann Coulter: Jews need to be "perfected" (view post) - ...and by "perfected", she means "made into Christians," because Christians are on the "fast track."
10/9/2007 Should a Christian Be A Military Chaplain (view post) - 'If the question was whether a Christian should be a pimp, a prostitute, an abortionist, a drug dealer, a contract killer, a topless dancer, or a bouncer in a strip joint, then the answer would be quite obvious. Adherents of other religions and atheists would also generally select more wholesome occupations. Even Christian parents whose children selected more benign careers like blackjack dealer, swimsuit model, bartender, tobacco farmer, x-rated video store clerk, or Hooters waitress would generally want their children to aspire to something better. But should a Christian be a military chaplain?'
10/8/2007 Portland 'Hammefest' Hammered (view post) - Hammerfest 2k7 was shut down before it even started.
10/8/2007 Krugman - Same Old Party (view post) - Now, as they survey the wreckage of their cause, conservatives may ask themselves: "Well, how did we get here?" They may tell themselves: "This is not my beautiful Right." They may ask themselves: "My God, what have we done?" But their movement is the same as it ever was.
10/8/2007 Who Told You These Things? (view post) - Coming to Grips With Liberalism
10/7/2007 Banned in the PRC!! (view post) - Czech to see if your favourite Websight is BANNED BY THE PRC! My site is, as is ABAHC.
10/5/2007 Shame and Scandal in the Family. Unseemly Doings at Oral Roberts University (view post) - A scandal of biblical proportions is brewing at Oral Roberts University
10/5/2007 "Why do we wear pins? Because our country is under attack!" (view post) - Conservatives slam Obama - for not wearing his American flag lapel pin.
10/5/2007 With Malice Toward Nuns (view post) - In no dark corner of my heart, however, can I understand why the Archdiocese of Los Angeles has decided to begin raising the millions it owes to the victims of predatory priests by kicking some elderly nuns who work with poor people out of their Santa Barbara convent.
10/3/2007 Sam Harris: The Problem with Atheism (view post)

September 2007

9/30/2007 UK government: Creationism out of the classroom (view post) - The UK government has issued new guidelines to teachers: "Creationism and intelligent design are not part of the science National Curriculum programmes of study and should not be taught as science."
9/26/2007 No Childs Left Behind (view post) - Is this moron really the president of the United States?
9/26/2007 Hello angry Christians (view post) - "I'd like to thank all the angry born-again Christians who've been writing to tell me how much they're looking forward to my eternal torment in the flames of Hell. It's nice to know I'm in your prayers."
9/24/2007 Am I dreaming? (view post) - "Are we spending 720 million dollars a day, more than 250 billion dollars a year, on the Iraq war at the same time the President threatens to veto an additional 5 billion a year for children's health insurance?" Plus bonus links.
9/24/2007 Online couple cheated with each other | The Daily Telegraph (view post) - "A married couple who didn't realise they were chatting each other up on the internet are divorcing."
9/23/2007 A Dishonorable Affair (view post) - An unusual case causes some Syrians to reconsider the practice of honor killing.
9/22/2007 Bill O'Reilly surprised "there was no difference" between Harlem restaurant and other New York restaurants (view post) - "I couldn't get over the fact that there was no difference between Sylvia's restaurant and any other restaurant in New York City. I mean, it was exactly the same, even though it's run by blacks, primarily black patronship."
9/22/2007 Pornography and the End of Masculinity (view post) - "If pornography is increasingly cruel and degrading, why is it increasingly commonplace instead of more marginalized? ... this paradox can be resolved by recognizing that one of the assumptions is wrong. Here it is the assumption that the U.S. society routinely rejects cruelty and degradation. In fact the U.S. is a nation that has no serious objection to cruelty and degradation."
9/19/2007 Atheist soldier sues military (view post) - Followup to my post about the atheist soldier whose meeting was disrupted by a superior officer.
9/18/2007 American Fundamentalisms: American Exceptionalism Meets Team Jesus (view post) - An Interview with James Carroll.
9/18/2007 None Dare Call It Genocide (view post) - Lew Rockwell's leading article this week.
9/15/2007 9/11 Truthers need professional help, not publicity (view post) - How big a lunatic do you have to be to watch two giant airliners packed with jet fuel slam into buildings on live TV ... and then think "Well, if you believe that was the cause..."
9/11/2007 Young Muslims begin dangerous fight for the right to abandon faith (view post)
9/9/2007 Letter from VT Mom (view post) - Published a few years ago in a Vermont newspaper: "Many letters have been sent to the Valley News concerning the homosexual menace in Vermont. I am the mother of a gay son and I've taken enough from you good people."
9/8/2007 Virtue (view post) - Tom Tomorrow FTW
9/8/2007 The Greatest Rapper Alive (view post) - 'Titty Full of Beer' may be the Greatest Rap Song Evar! I got the link from Bovverworld.
9/7/2007 Going After Gore (view post) - Al Gore couldn't believe his eyes: as the 2000 election heated up, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other top news outlets kept going after him, with misquotes ("I invented the Internet"), distortions (that he lied about being the inspiration for Love Story), and strangely off-the-mark needling, while pundits such as Maureen Dowd appeared to be charmed by his rival, George W. Bush.
9/7/2007 They Hate Our Freedoms (view post) - This is kinda restating the obvious. Written by an actual conservative.
9/5/2007 Randy Cassingham Is Anti-Christian...Again (view post)
9/4/2007 The Eggcorn Database (view post) - I thought these little malapropisms were pigments of my imagination, but I guess it's a mute point now.
9/4/2007 World's most powerful supercomputer goes online (view post) - And it's not what you think.
9/4/2007 Ethnic Cleansing or "Amnesty" (view post) - I hardly expected sense out of Orson Scott Card, but here it is. I guess we take our common sense where we can get it.
9/3/2007 A slightly Jaundiced View of 'Patriot Day' (view post) - From my friends out on the lonesome Prairies of South Dakota in Renegade Revival. Keep in mind that these guys are just plain old working class types, and one's in the military...
9/3/2007 Republican Culture of Corruption: 2007 So Far (view post) - Does it seem like there's a new Republican scandal in the news every single week? Well, that may be because there is.
9/2/2007 craigslist: So you're about to be invaded by the United States (view post)
9/2/2007 Bush Refuses to Set Timetable for Withdrawal from Crawford (view post) - "President George W. Bush said today that he understands and respects the views of those who are calling for him to cut short his summer vacation, but warned that an immediate withdrawal from Crawford, Texas would 'send a terrible signal to the enemy.'"
9/1/2007 Senator Craig's Innocence (view post) - From Lew Rockwell.com

August 2007

8/30/2007 American Idols (view post) - "How I wish that Christians who are outraged over the removal of a monument of the Ten Commandments from a courthouse would instead concern themselves with their own fealty to the commandments! If they did, these same conservative Christians would realize that they do indeed worship another god – one that they put on an equal footing with, if not above, the God of the Bible."
8/30/2007 Sorry, Mr. President, you're all out of troops. (view post) - But maybe France can help solve the Iraq mess.
8/29/2007 The Doctor is In(sort of) (view post) - A Mark Fiore Animation about the sorry state of health care Post Katrina
8/28/2007 [comic] I no longer fear the Kucinich Revolution. (view post)
8/26/2007 YouTube - Miss Teen USA 2007 - South Carolina answers a question (view post) - Warning: this video may cause your brain to whimper and curl up like a whipped puppy.
8/25/2007 Top 10 Physically Modified People (view post) - Crikey!
8/24/2007 Ted Haggard's back and asking for cash (view post) - After three weeks of intensive "restoration" therapy, Haggard says that he's "completely heterosexual" and he's looking to start another ministry.
8/24/2007 The Swimming Elephants (view post) - The science geek has another animal lesson...
8/23/2007 Parody Motivator Generator (view post) - DIY 'Motivational' Posters. You can even add your own photos.
8/21/2007 YouTube - The Front Fell Off (view post)
8/21/2007 Search Engine Marketeers are the new script kiddies (view post)
8/20/2007 Experts: Artificial Life Likely in 3 to 10 Years (view post)
8/18/2007 How Propaganda Works (view post)
8/17/2007 DARE Programme in Florida May Be Cut (view post) - A 2003 U.S. Government Accountability Office analysis of several DARE studies, concluded the program had 'no statistically significant long-term effect on preventing illicit drug use.'
8/17/2007 Yarr! CouldYe Be A Pirate? (view post) - Vital Pirate Information be here, ya scurvy dog! YARR!
8/16/2007 Is America turning left? (view post) - Probably--but not in the way many foreigners (and some Americans) hope.
8/16/2007 Feds Train Clergy To "Quell Dissent" During Martial Law (view post) - Clergy Response Teams are being trained by the federal government to "quell dissent" and pacify citizens to obey the government in the event of a declaration of martial law.
8/16/2007 Religion beat became a test of faith (view post) - A reporter looks at how the stories he covered affected him and his spiritual journey.
8/15/2007 Iranian Military Unit to Be Labeled 'Terrorist' (view post) - Because how can you have a War on Terror without terrorists?
8/14/2007 Japanese biker fails to notice missing leg (view post)
8/11/2007 Bush war adviser says reinstating the draft is worth a look (view post) - "I think it makes sense to certainly consider it," Army Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute said in an interview with National Public Radio's "All Things Considered."
8/11/2007 Kevin Flynn's Colorado County Courthouse Pictures (view post) - The All Night Images welcomes it's newest contributor and it's newest feature: County Courthouse pictures. A bit o' Americana for you.
8/10/2007 General Strike: 9/11/07 (view post)
8/10/2007 Man has thumbs surgically altered to better use iPhone - UPDATE (view post) - Turns out it was just a satire piece.
8/9/2007 Atheists Mistreated in Iraq (view post) - No, not by radical Muslims but by our own military.
8/8/2007 Vote Rich Whiteman for President (view post) - Who is Rich Whiteman? He is a man of principles. Rich is a real authentic conservative progressive with a centrist platform based on old fashioned values with an eye towards the future. He is an eagle of justice in a town of turkeys. A proven leader ready to empower our country with courageous consistent credentials.
8/7/2007 Patriots Who Love the Troops to Death (view post) - "Most [supporters of the war] seem more interested in saving their own reputations than the American troops they ritualistically invoke to bludgeon the wars' critics and to parade their own self-congratulatory patriotism."
8/6/2007 Congress Approves Expanded Warrantless Wiretaps (view post) - Congress approves expanded warrantless wiretapping. Holy crap this sucks the ink off the Bill of Rights. I'm officially ready to leave the U.S.
8/6/2007 Puppy vs Kitty (YouTube) (view post) - If this doesn't cheer you up, I don't know what will.
8/3/2007 You are Still Destroying America. Partisans, Cultists, That Means You. (view post)
8/2/2007 This did not go as planned (view post)

July 2007

7/31/2007 We Missed Goat Trauma Awareness Month!!! (view post) - Watch out for those petting zoos.
7/31/2007 Look Ma, No Hands (view post) - I'm puffin up the Ego. I managed to make my own Flash Gallery!
7/30/2007 Bizarre Legal Thinking on Evolution and Creationism (view post) - A bizarre legal brief filed by (surprise) a graduate of Liberty University claims that since evolutionism is a religion, teaching of evolution in schools violates the Establishment Clause of the Constitution. COO-COO. COO-COO.
7/28/2007 Flagged Down (view post) - Activists arrested in row over protest flag, allege abuse by Buncombe deputy
7/23/2007 Generation Chickenhawk: With The College Republicans (YouTube) (view post)
7/19/2007 Spy Towers on the US Border (view post)
7/18/2007 Moore's Sicko Analysis (view post)
7/18/2007 Senior Qaeda figure in Iraq a myth: U.S. military (view post) - A senior operative for al Qaeda in Iraq who was caught this month has told his U.S. military interrogators a prominent al Qaeda-led group is just a front and its leader fictitious. Surprised?
7/18/2007 Bull Schadenfreude (view post)
7/18/2007 Neocons on a Cruise (view post) - What Conservatives Say When They Think We Aren't Listening
7/17/2007 Just Another Day In Iraq (view post) - The 'surge' seems to be mostly in the number of casualties...
7/17/2007 When Regulators Become Enablers: Inside Bush's FDA (view post) - Americans need to stop and consider how many consumers will be killed and injured by dangerous drugs by the time George Bush heads back to Texas at the end of his Presidency, as a direct result of his allowing the interests of the pharmaceutical industry to take control of the FDA....
7/17/2007 A Letter From Iraq (view post)
7/16/2007 The Party of Morality and Personal Responsibility (view post) - Another day, another sex scandal...
7/15/2007 White Supremacy and the Jena Six (view post) - Six teenagers (ages 15-17) are facing 80-100 years in prison without parole. It all started because they were trying to integrate a playground in Jena, Louisiana.
7/15/2007 The Worst Cinematic Crap That's Ever Been Made, Part I (view post)
7/14/2007 Who Needs Baskin-Robbins When You Can Have This? (view post) - Mmmm...goat ice cream!
7/14/2007 Reggae Hit the Moon (view post) - Numerous podcasts, all of classic Reggae, Rocksteady and Ska beloved by Traditional and not so traditional Skinheads. This was the original Skinhead music back in 1969.
7/13/2007 A Picture of the GOP on Civil Rights (view post)
7/13/2007 'A dead Iraqi is just another dead Iraqi... You know, so what?' (view post) - I find this heartbreaking and horrifying at the same time.
7/10/2007 I'm Sure You Guys Can Deal With It (view post)
7/8/2007 A Question Of Hell (view post) - One minister questions its existence--and loses his flock.
7/6/2007 Iran ends petrol-only car making (view post) - Faced with a petrol shortage, Iran starts manufacturing cars that run on petrol and gas.
7/6/2007 YouTube - I NEED A HERO (view post)
7/4/2007 Sicko Spurs Audiences Into Action (view post)
7/4/2007 The Net Authority! (view post) - A hoax or real? You decide.
7/1/2007 Blacked Out by the Corporate Media, Impeachment Advances (view post) - "The New York Times, whose front pages and national pages influence the news decisions of editors across the country, has ignored the story completely, as has the Washington Post, which is supposed to be covering Washington—both astonishing examples of corporate media censorship."

June 2007

6/30/2007 Stories from the House Of Straw (view post) - A family tries to go an entire week without buying anything made in China.
6/28/2007 The Lion Whisperer (view post) - Big cats rule, and this guy rules with them.
6/26/2007 What if this were your kid? (view post)
6/21/2007 SHOCKING CATS (view post) - It's not something you watch - it's something you come to grips with.
6/17/2007 Questions Your Pastor Will Hate (view post)
6/9/2007 Racism in Riverdale (view post) - Christian High Schoolers party like it's 1849
6/9/2007 Rice: History will rate Bush well (view post) - Now I know for sure she's flipped her lid.
6/8/2007 Tort Reform Activist Seeks $1M In Punitive Damages (view post) - Judge Robert Bork, who has been a leading advocate of tort reform legislation to prevent frivolous lawsuits, is seeking $1,000,000 in compensatory damages, plus punitive damages, after he slipped and fell at the Yale Club of New York City.
6/6/2007 Bush SG nom says gay sex is hazardous to your health (view post) - Ran across this at Huffington Post...
6/4/2007 Too costly (view post) - Don't like the data our weather sats collect on global warming? Easy solution - de-fund them!! If you're not collecting data, it doesn't exist - right?
6/4/2007 "Don't sell it on eBay." (view post) - --President George Bush, speaking to a group of parents of slain soldiers, after giving them a presidential coin.
6/4/2007 GOP: We need more terror (view post) - "In his first interview as the chairman of the Arkansas Republican Party, Dennis Milligan told a reporter that America needs to be attacked by terrorists so that people will appreciate the work that President Bush has done to protect the country." Jesus H. Christ, what a fucking asshole.
6/3/2007 Minuteman Meltdown (view post) - What?! Mismanagement of funds? By the Right Wing?
6/1/2007 Treated like A Democrat (view post) - FAIR examines how candidates that 'fall outside the "mainstream"' are marginalised by the media.
6/1/2007 It's a sign! (view post) - Ryland's church sign generator site gets a mention in this Slate article.

May 2007

5/29/2007 Cindy Sheehan gives up and goes home (view post) - ...and I can't say that I blame her.
5/26/2007 How To Make A Peepmobile (view post) - The only good Peeps are on wheels.
5/26/2007 Flooding in Kansas (view post)
5/25/2007 Another Christian Science Fair embarrasses itself (view post)
5/24/2007 Living and Dying in Baghdad (view post) - One Day in the World's Most Dangerous City
5/21/2007 More Government Intrusion in our Lives (view post) - I guess the bottom line is that our government is one collective hypocrite.
5/21/2007 Bush Administration Urges Rich Nations to Remove Urgency From Global Warming Threat (view post) - In a draft of the final communique for the June 6-8 summit seen by Reuters, Washington wants references taken out to the urgency of the climate crisis and the need for a U.N. conference in Bali in December to open talks on a new global deal.
5/21/2007 Rudy, America's Victim (view post)
5/20/2007 Food Stamps the $21 question (view post)
5/19/2007 Black Sabbath - War Pigs (view post) - First it was a protest song for Viet Nam.
5/17/2007 Rupert Murdoch: I'm proud to be green (view post) - Rupert Murdoch, boss of News Corp (which owns Fox News, among other things) has decided to make his business green.
5/15/2007 Empire or Republic, by Jacob G. Hornberger (view post)
5/12/2007 YouTube: Pretty Ricky - Late Night Special (view post) - That poor ottoman. It never had a chance.
5/12/2007 Bushies Behaving Badly: A guide to GOP scandals (view post) - Having a hard time keeping track of all 10,000 GOP scandals? Here's a handy refresher.
5/11/2007 Flickr: The Slave Leia Appreciation Society Pool (view post)
5/9/2007 Sushi cakes (view post) - A lady I know from another web community is a baker and she does lovely cake decorations. These are a few of her more fanciful creations: sushi!
5/9/2007 Mooninites, meet the Terrorist Hoax Improvements Act (view post) - So they're making it a crime to do anything that causes a huge and inappropriate overreaction by any government security agency. Brilliant.
5/7/2007 Those fanatical atheists (view post)
5/5/2007 Its not just an abortion ban.... (view post)
5/4/2007 The Gambling Scam on America's Poor (view post)
5/3/2007 Bush's new title: "the Commander Guy" (view post) - What a linguistic midget. I can't believe anyone thinks he represents us well - in an authoritative or even slightly quaint delivery of the English language. He doesn't speak like "us" he speaks like an ignorant dumb-ass.
5/3/2007 LOLTrek (view post) - I HAS TREK PARODY
5/2/2007 Bill O'Rielly vs Father Charles Coughlin-a study of propaganda (view post) - An Indiana University study comparing Bill O'Rielly to Fr. Charles Coughlin.
5/1/2007 Convention ends with Satan and immigrants (view post) - Don Larsen, chairman of legislative District 65 for the Utah County Republican Party, had submitted a resolution warning that Satan's minions want to eliminate national borders and do away with sovereignty.
5/1/2007 Bush Gets Purple Heart Award (view post) - Not sure why he deserves to get this, but some people will give away anything to anyone.

April 2007

4/30/2007 Army to EO Reps: "Discrimination Against Atheists OK" (view post)
4/29/2007 Sellin' the Family Jewels (view post)
4/29/2007 What They Said (view post)
4/27/2007 I don't know if I exactly AGREE with this... (view post) - But then it's an interesting concept just the same.
4/27/2007 Faux News = Hate (view post)
4/27/2007 Mental Floss, Alanis, and Fergie Ferg (view post) - You gotta love Mental Floss. Long live the derision of überhype!
4/27/2007 Yr Tax Dollars at werk (view post)
4/27/2007 Freedom On The March! (view post)
4/26/2007 Gun Crazy! (view post) - Mind you, I'm not particularly pro gun-control, but this cartoon makes some damn good points.
4/25/2007 Jessica Lynch: Pentagon spin doctors made it all up (view post) - "I'm no hero, the people who served with me who died are the real heroes," she said. "The truth of war is not always easy. The truth is always more heroic than the hype."
4/25/2007 Soldier: Army ordered me not to tell truth about Tillman (view post) - The last soldier to see Army Ranger Pat Tillman alive, Spc. Bryan O'Neal, told lawmakers that he was warned by superiors not to divulge -- especially to the Tillman family -- that a fellow soldier killed Tillman.
4/24/2007 Wal-Mart recruits intelligence officers (view post)
4/24/2007 Adam and Steve Comic Book (view post)
4/23/2007 "I Don't Care What the Judge Said!" by Joel Turtel (view post) - Or: How Jury Nullification Can End the Sick War on Drugs
4/18/2007 twittervision (view post) - Twitter is a new blogging system that allows users to make entries by sending text messages from their phones--basically it's stream-of-consciousness blogging. Twittervision shows the latest Twitter posts from around the world, plotted on a map of the globe. It's kind of mesmerizing, in a way.
4/18/2007 Vagina Power vs Penis Power (may be NSFW) (view post)
4/17/2007 Bush fear-mongering reaches a fever pitch in Iraq speech (video) (view post) - Increasingly desperate, and facing broad public opposition, Bush tried his best to stir up fear with repeated references to September 11 and dark visions of "death and destruction... here in America" if U.S. troops were to withdraw.
4/16/2007 As Religious Strife Grows, Europe's Atheists Seize Pulpit (view post) - Religion is re-emerging as an issue because of Europe's growing and restive Muslim populations and a fear that faith is reasserting itself in politics. That is adding up to momentum for a combative brand of atheism.
4/15/2007 Bill Maher - CTRL+ALT+ELITE (view post) - It all begins to make sense now...
4/13/2007 Family of faggot fans fly the flag (view post) - The Doody family from Wolverhampton has been crowned The Faggot Family in a national competition, and to kick off their reign they will launch National Faggot Week.
4/12/2007 Starbucks isn't all they say they are.... (view post)
4/11/2007 American Media & the British-Iranian Standoff: A Re-Examination of the Propaganda Model (view post)
4/11/2007 Charles Has A Licking Problem (view post) - Drew (of Toothpaste For Dinner fame) has a pug named Charles. And Charles has a problem.
4/11/2007 The Purgegate Primer by Matthew Baldwin (view post)
4/11/2007 Pearls Before Breakfast (view post)
4/8/2007 Fox News: Liberal media judges carbon dioxide Guilty Until Proven Innocent (view post)
4/7/2007 Report details how Pentagon linked Saddam and al-Qaida (view post) - A recently declassified report shows how Bush administration officials manipulated and cherry-picked intelligence reports to link al-Qaeda to Iraq.
4/7/2007 Rob Roy Mc Gregor's favourite candy! (view post)
4/6/2007 What If Iran had Invaded Mexico? (view post)
4/6/2007 Army Recruiter Sends Homophobic Emails (view post)
4/4/2007 Internet Access CAPTCHAs (view post)
4/3/2007 The Secret Plan Revealed!!!! (view post)
4/3/2007 Alanis Morissette cover of Black Eyed Peas' "My Humps" (view post) - This one is much better than the Celine Dion one, I promise.
4/2/2007 Rush: 72% of American people are "a bunch of blithering idiots" (view post)

March 2007

3/31/2007 Show at The Meatlocker, Montclair, NJ 30th March 2K7 (view post)
3/31/2007 Michael Jackson wants Vegas robot (view post) - Michael Jackson is in discussions about creating a 50-foot robotic replica of himself to roam the Las Vegas desert, according to reports.
3/31/2007 Judge Cuts Down Bush Forest Rules (view post)
3/28/2007 Peanut Butter, The Atheist's Nightmare! (view post) - Chuck Missler takes the misunderstanding of evolution to a whole new level.
3/24/2007 Dodd, et. al., Introduce Bill To Restore Constitutional Rights (view post)
3/23/2007 Yes, these were REAL Commercials! (view post)
3/22/2007 Heaven's Gate - The Sequel (view post)
3/19/2007 Introducing...the Apple iRack (view post)
3/17/2007 For Teachers, Middle School Is Test of Wills (view post)
3/16/2007 McCain is stumped on HIV (view post) - Presidential hopeful John McCain is stumped when asked by a reporter about sex education policy and whether condoms help prevent the spread of HIV.
3/16/2007 Furor over Baptist's gay-baby article (view post) - NEW YORK — The president of the leading Southern Baptist seminary has incurred sharp attacks from both the left and right by suggesting that a biological basis for homosexuality may be proven, and that prenatal treatment to reverse gay orientation would be biblically justified.
3/15/2007 Bee Colony Collapse Disorder - Where is it Heading? (view post)
3/15/2007 The German Front in the Iraq War (view post)
3/13/2007 Celine Dion + Anastacia - You Shook Me All Night Long (view post)
3/10/2007 What Things look like around my part of the Country (view post)
3/10/2007 Yoga At Home (view post)
3/7/2007 cbs2.com - Suspicious Item Detected In Man's Butt At LAX (view post) - The story is basically inconsequential - it's the headline that kills me.
3/4/2007 Another Reason I'm a Vegetarian (view post)

February 2007

2/26/2007 GodTube.com - Mac vs. PC parody part 4 (view post) - GodTube is like YouTube, only for Christians. Because there can't be anything good without a copy that's just for Christians.
2/26/2007 Jesus' Burial Site Found (view post)
2/24/2007 Out and about in Cuba (view post)
2/22/2007 Conservapedia (view post) - "Conservapedia is a much-needed alternative to Wikipedia, which is increasingly anti-Christian and anti-American."
2/21/2007 Restore Habeas Corpus (view post)
2/21/2007 George Takei is awesome. (view post) - George responds to NBA star Tim Hardaway's statement, "I hate gay people."
2/18/2007 NPR : Is America Too Damn Religious? (view post)
2/14/2007 Here we go again! (view post)
2/14/2007 Random Kitten Generator (view post)
2/11/2007 Oh dear lord! Bees! (view post)
2/10/2007 Target Iran: US able to strike in the spring (view post) - Despite denials, Pentagon plans for possible attack on nuclear sites are well advanced
2/9/2007 Homeland Security Mangles Man's Rectum (view post)
2/8/2007 The "Hoohaa" Monologues (view post)
2/8/2007 Surprise mistrial in Ehren Watada court-martial (view post)
2/6/2007 Rev. Ted Haggard now "completely heterosexual" (view post)

January 2007

1/31/2007 World's Worst Mouse Plague (view post) - Caution: really disgusting video.
1/30/2007 The decisionmaker (view post)
1/28/2007 Jonesing for a new F&L? (view post)
1/27/2007 The Radical Christian Right Is Built on Suburban Despair (view post)
1/27/2007 Untruth and Consequences (view post) - From Washington to FDR to Nixon, presidents have always lied. Here's what makes George W. Bush different.
1/27/2007 Kennedy to Republicans: "What is it about working men and women that you find so offensive?" (view post) - Ted Kennedy blasts Senate Republicans over the proposed minimum wage increase.
1/26/2007 Helping Lara Logan (view post)
1/26/2007 Diebold voting machine key copied from photo at company's own online store (view post) - Apparently all units of this model can be opened with a single key - and Diebold put a photo of the key on their website, allowing security experts to make a working copy.
1/23/2007 Report: Libby Destroyed Evidence Prior To Testifying, Cheney "Deeply Involved" (view post)
1/23/2007 Music Video: Donnie Davies and Evening Service - "The Bible Says" (view post)
1/22/2007 Inside the Monkeysphere (view post)
1/14/2007 Spare Me My Life! (view post)
1/13/2007 Fundies say the darndest things! - Top 100 Quotes (view post)

December 2006

12/29/2006 Farewell to Our Greatest President, Gerald Ford (view post)
12/29/2006 Gerald Goddamned Ford (view post)
12/26/2006 Can This Fruit Be Saved? (view post) - Bananas, as we know them, may soon be extinct.
12/25/2006 Mom offers $250 and a blowjob for a Wii (view post) - Now that's what Christmas is all about: giving.
12/24/2006 Happy Christmas! (view post)
12/24/2006 History, updated (view post)
12/21/2006 Twenty Greatest Inventions by Muslim Scientists (view post)
12/20/2006 I am here to ride biiiikkke!! (view post)
12/18/2006 10 Most Dangerous Play Things of All Time (view post)
12/14/2006 Peering at the peer review. (view post)
12/13/2006 Another Reason I've Never Shopped At Walmart (view post)
12/13/2006 Death Kitty and The Fat Man. (view post)
12/12/2006 A devil food is turning our kids into homosexuals (view post) - "Soy is feminizing, and commonly leads to a decrease in the size of the penis, sexual confusion and homosexuality. That's why most of the medical (not socio-spiritual) blame for today's rise in homosexuality must fall upon the rise in soy formula and other soy products."
12/11/2006 Justice? Naw, Just Us. (view post)
12/7/2006 The Atheist Delusion (view post)
12/6/2006 Churches, Ministers Targeted By Nigerian E-mail Scammers (view post)
12/5/2006 Travels without Charlie (view post)
12/3/2006 Scientist Fights Church Effort to Hide Museum's Pre-Human Fossils (view post)

November 2006

11/29/2006 Traditional (view post) - There's nothin' wrong with an old fashion traditional shunnin'.
11/29/2006 10 Commandments Displayed On Courthouse Stairs (view post)
11/28/2006 War Protestor's Public Suicide in Chicago Went Unnoticed by Media (view post)
11/28/2006 Freepers' heads explode as Muslim Congressman pledges to take oath of office on the Koran instead of Bible (view post)
11/28/2006 YouTube - Sloth Babies (view post) - So cute and slothy!
11/28/2006 Christian Coalition mistakenly elects actual Christian as president (view post) - ORLANDO (AP) -- The president-elect of the Christian Coalition of America has declined the job, saying the organization wouldn't let him expand its agenda beyond opposing abortion and gay marriage.
11/27/2006 Let's give peace a chance (view post)
11/26/2006 NSTA Sells Out To Big Business (view post)
11/26/2006 US Finds that the Iraqi "insurgency" [resistance] May be Self-Supporting (view post)
11/26/2006 Just Increasing Yr Level of Paranoia!(Thank Me Later) (view post)
11/25/2006 Public school teacher tells class: "You belong in hell" (view post)
11/24/2006 Sound Advice, just in time for the Holidays! (view post)
11/22/2006 The Dilbert Blog - Atheists: The New Gays (view post)
11/22/2006 Dave Brown still loves me (view post)
11/22/2006 And yet another reason to hate GWB (view post)
11/21/2006 A different point of view (view post)
11/21/2006 Here's What Class Warfare Looks Like (view post)
11/20/2006 We Have Met The Enemy, And He Is Us (view post)
11/18/2006 Republicans just love the filibuster now (view post) - Remember the right wingers crying because they thought the filibuster was soooo dishonest? Well, Sen. James Inhofe just threatened to filibuster any legislation on Climate Change.
11/17/2006 Class Struggle - American workers have a chance to be heard (view post)
11/15/2006 nono (view post)
11/15/2006 GET OFF MY LAWN, YOU INTERNETS (view post) - Larry King admits on his show that he's never used the internet and never will.
11/15/2006 God now sending subordinates for appearances. (