This is where I would play Parliament of Funk Flashlight from youtube, but I can find a recording worth a damn. Shake your bones.
What I Learned About California Today
It seems that my prescription was right- let it burn, but my understanding of why is completely wrong and I have no clue what I am talking about. I honestly don’t know how, given what you all have written in the comments, anything can be done with that mess until you redo the Constitution. This …
Cowards
Impressive, even by Senate standards: In a widely expected move, the Senate has voted overwhelmingly to block the $80 million President Obama requested to shut down the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The roll call here. The margin was 90-6. Yesterday, Senate Democratic leaders announced that they wouldn’t hand over the money needed to …
Shat on and spat on and raped and abused
This turns my stomach and sounds even worse than what went on with the Catholic Church here: A fiercely debated, long-delayed investigation into Ireland’s Roman Catholic-run institutions says priests and nuns terrorized thousands of boys and girls in workhouse-style schools for decades _ and government inspectors failed to stop the chronic beatings, rapes and humiliation. …
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Comics Imitate Life
As I mentioned once, my life as a scientist more or less started when I read a book by a woman who built a marine research lab, now Mote Marine Lab in Florida, with her own hands in the 1950s. Among other general awesomeness, Dr. Clark personally dragged 14-foot sharks to a big shark pen …
The Silly Party
It just doesn’t stop: Members of the Republican National Committee appear to have reached a compromise that would let GOP leaders avoid a possible dispute over a controversial resolution that calls on Democrats to re-name their party the “Democrat Socialist party.” Steele has come out against the resolution, calling it “not an appropriate way to …
Let It Burn
Sorry California, but the rest of us are tired of your BS: A smattering of California voters on Tuesday soundly rejected five ballot measures designed to keep the state solvent through the rest of the year. The results dealt a severe setback to the state’s fragile fiscal structure and to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the …