This would have all happened much sooner if Hillary were president: The Senate just voted 63-33 to break the filibuster on the DADT repeal bill. Late Update: Just so we’re clear. This is not the passage of the actual DADT repeal bill. This is the vote that allows a straight majority vote, which will likely …
Readership Capture
If Jesus ran for president
I realize I should just accept that Generalisimo Jeebus Galt — who wants to starve the poor, punish retailers who don’t celebrate his birthday loudly enough, invade random countries, and hate teh gay — has nothing in common with the hippie Jesus described in the New Testament. But I still find this kind of thing …
The Bronx is beautiful
This may be my favorite song about the beauty of this nation, but it’s hard to find on YouTube. What’s going on chez vous?
SEC Championship Open Thread
I should have made you pay me to do this.
Open Thread: Candles in the Darkness
So I missed wishing everybody a Happy first night of Chanukah, but commentor J. at J-Two-O gives me a chance to rectify my oversight… __ __ As an animist, and a progressive, I believe in celebrating every possible festival of lights. The Neopagan calendar’s four cross-quarter festivals are Imbolc (candles), Beltane (bonfires), Lammas (hearthfires) and …
Readership capture writ large
I thought I’d do the reader blogs early today, before anyone dips into their Four Loko stockpile. Dolphin Kazoo wonders if the Greeks will become Godless communists like the Cubans. Emily Hauser reports back from the Holy Lands. Cheryl Rofer says meet the arsenic boss, same as the phosphorous boss. Libby Spencer is angry that …
Arsenic and outer space old lakes
Suck on this, carbon-based life forms: At its conference today, NASA scientist Felisa Wolfe-Simon will announce that NASA has found a bacteria whose DNA is completely alien to what we know today. Instead of using phosphorus, the bacteria uses arsenic. All life on Earth is made of six components: carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and …
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