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6 Good Links
2009-08-16 14:44:00 Out of about 500 articles that I have skimmed and/or read since I last posted here, these are the best. This isn’t real content, but spending time with the kids trumps blogging. :/ Is it now a crime to be poor? (Requires NY Times login, which is free, but a pain.) Of course those poor people ... More About: Politics , Links , Good
So it seems the Climate Skeptics aren?t really *Climate* Skeptics.
2009-07-20 01:25:00 Yo yo yo peoplez! Sen. James Inhofe has been claiming he has a list of climatologists that say Global Warming is a scam. It turns out, almost all of the people on the list are not climatologists. Whaaah?!?! A Senator that would lie to us? No way! Oh yes way, just ... More About: Environment , Climate , Skeptics
Defense Department teaches employees that protesters are ?low level terrori
2009-06-28 02:32:00 I try not to just blog about one single article I have read, but this one is too important not to. http://www.contracostatimes.com/politics/ ci_12589887?nclick_check=1 Why would we teach Americans that other Americans who are peacefully protesting against our government are in the same category as Osama Bin Laden? Why are governments so afraid of dissent? But Obama ... More About: Politics , Employees , Protesters , Department , Defense
Was Hitler a patriot?
2009-06-10 18:50:00 Yes he was. I had this argument about fifteen years ago with a friend of mine, and I said Hitler was NOT a patriot, making the incorrect assumption that to be a patriot you had to be a ‘good’ person. Is there any benefit to society if the population is patriotic? It makes people ... More About: Politics , Patriot
Genetics, or a God given talent?
2009-05-19 05:40:00 Let’s say someone is really smart, becomes a physicist and wins the Nobel Prize. Should we commend him or her for their success? If you are an Atheist, you are probably a fan of Science, so you know your intelligence comes from your genes. If you are religious, you feel the physicist ... More About: Philosophy , Talent , Genetics
Jesse Ventura has this knack for saying the most obvious things that most p
2009-05-19 03:59:00 Only Ventura could come up with the question: “If waterboarding isn’t torture, why don’t our police use it on suspects?” His answer on Hasslepuke’s comment that waterboarding is just enhanced interrogation techniques is also priceless. Finally someone was able to shut her up. More About: Politics , Jesse , Things , Obvious
Why do you care about how your children are raised if you believe in free w
2009-04-25 06:19:00 People have told me that the homeless ‘choose to be homeless, they could be working and making money if they wanted to’. Free will. It is the motor oil of the capitalist engine. Those who ‘choose’ to work hard will be rewarded, those who are lazy get their just desserts. Think about how ... More About: Children , Care , Psychology
Kind of old, but important if you never saw it: Christopher Hitchens gets
2009-04-24 15:20:00 This guy originally said waterboarding was not torture. Watch the video and see how a tiny amount of water makes him give up in a matter of seconds… Even CIA agents only last 14 seconds at this, on average. More About: Politics , Christopher Hitchens
?A Classroom Divided? 1968, Jane Elliot decides to try an idea she has had
2008-06-03 05:27:00 I think this is the most powerful video I have every watched. I would write out a synopsis for people who don’t have 55 minutes to watch this, but you need to see it to really see how much these children change, just by their teacher telling them that one group of students is ... More About: Politics , Idea , Elliot , Jane
?Why we know less than ever about the world?
2008-05-28 15:18:00 This is a very informative video from ted.com, which is fast becoming my favorite website. The woman explains why Americans know so little about the rest of the world. It’s not some vast conspiracy - just profits. More About: Politics , World , The World
Wikipedia ranks higher than ?leading German-language encyclopedia?.
2008-05-25 04:44:00 It is ironic that I found this article. Just recently I had posted about my concerns that schools were banning Wikipedia , and a friend of mine commented here stating that he thought Wikipedia was unreliable. He is from German y, that is why finding this NYTimes article is ironic. It turns out that Wikipedia is ... More About: Politics , Fun , Language
The Milgram Experiment
2008-05-20 02:31:00 Image via WikipediaThis story is pretty shocking. The Milgram Experiment was a psychology experiment in 1961, “three months after the start of the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem. Milgram devised the experiments to answer this question: “Could it be that Eichmann and his million accomplices in the Holocaust were just ... More About: Psychology
Youtube changing politics?
2008-05-19 02:35:00 This is a pretty neat video showing McCain’s many hypocrisies. I also found an interesting article on techdirt.com about how Youtube is holding politicians accountable. It’s a good read. Ten years ago, hell five years ago even, if a politician said something that contradicted a statement he had made a year earlier, the public relied ... More About: Politics , Changing
Why do schools ban Wikipedia?
2008-05-12 17:49:00 Wikipedia, in my opinion, is about as important a tool for truth and democracy as anything ever conceived. Some schools have banned, or tried to ban its use. Recently though some schools are working with it, not against it. I wouldn’t try to say that everything on Wikipedia is absolute truth… but ... More About: Schools , Wikipedia
Random news and links.
2008-05-06 05:44:00 Image via Wikipedia Economists say the gas tax repeal only helps big oil. Pay the damn debt off, and get out of Iraq foos! Pictures of Hiroshima. Rare ones. I am reading about WWII now, and finding out that we really did not need to drop those bombs. Japan was talking about surrender. ... More About: News , Politics , Random , Links
Income growth in the US. A chart of sadness.
2008-04-29 14:32:00 This is a chart showing income growth in the US from the 1950s to the 1970s, and then from the 1970s until the present. Not a pretty picture. I don’t think there is much for me to say here, the chart speaks for itself. More About: Politics , Income , Growth , Sadness , Chart
Hunger could be eliminated tomorrow. No joke. So why doesn?t it happen?
2008-04-28 04:44:00 Image via WikipediaAccording to Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System, there are four reasons that food prices are rising, causing riots around the world. Ethanol, poor harvests last year, the price of oil, and increased demand for meat. Fertilizers and pesticides are made from ... More About: Politics , Business , Economy , Joke , Hunger
eBay sellers seize a price gouging opportunity in the plastic baby bottle (
2008-04-27 05:16:00 Image by Chealion via FlickrBPA is a chemical used in polycarbonate (plastic) containers. There is growing evidence that this chemical causes problems in humans. Canada is going to ban the import of these bottles. This was enough to convince me to switch our baby bottles to glass, after finding out our bottles ... More About: Business , Baby , Health , Ebay , Opportunity
Chipin to get Helen Thomas some flowers?
2008-04-24 22:34:00 Tired of the Bush administration claiming waterboarding is not torture? Well one reporter, at least, is asking the tough questions. A guy on reddit.com said everyone should get her some flowers. So another guy went to chipin.com, and set up a donation page so people could donate money to get her flowers, so that ... More About: Politics , Flowers , Thomas , Helen
What group do you think is more anti-war: college educated, high school edu
2008-04-20 03:39:00 Image via WikipediaIn Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbooks Got Wrong” the author exposes a lot of amazing information, but one thing really caught me by surprise more than any of the others. The author, James W. Loewen, explains that during the Vietnam war, polling institutions starting taking demographic information about ... More About: Politics , College , School , High School , Anti-War
Watching Obama vs Hillary is so sad. People don?t want the Truth, they wan
2008-04-17 03:51:00 Image via WikipediaSo sad, so sad. Here is a headline for ya: “Obama praised ethanol plant.” No one talks about this anymore. If you bring it up on any Democratically inclined website, people ignore you. Hillary is a joke, no need to even discuss her. She knew Iraqi kids were dying in the ... More About: Politics , Truth , People , Watching
I challenge anyone to prove to me that our income taxes go ?straight into t
2008-04-08 16:00:00 If you can, I’ll change my banner for a week to say “(insert Internet nickname here) was right, I was wrong, we really are all being screwed!” or something like that. If you notice my banner, you can see I am not a fan of money or bankers. That does not mean ... More About: Politics , Taxes , Income , Challenge , Straight
Could the drying up of Cantarell be the real reason that US politicians are
2008-04-07 02:44:00 Image from WikipediaCantarell is Mexico’s largest oil field, and Mexico is the third largest exporter of oil to the US. Mexico’s oil production will soon drop to where they not only cannot export oil, they have to import it. World oil production cannot cover this, so the US cannot just import oil from ... More About: Politics , Politicians , Reason , Real
Could the real reason all politicians have taken up the ?reliance on foreig
2008-04-07 02:44:00 Image from WikipediaCantarell is Mexico’s largest oil field, and Mexico is the third largest exporter of oil to the US. Mexico’s oil production will soon drop to where they not only cannot export oil, they have to import it. World oil production cannot cover this, so the US cannot just import oil from ... More About: Politics , Politicians , Reason , Real , Reliance
Colbert Environmentalist guest Van Jones actually says that solar power wil
2008-04-02 07:10:00 Van Jones, President of Green For All, drops some controversial statements on the Colbert Report. At least, controversial for the main stream media… Check out the clip. He talks about the high incarceration rate in the US and then says “some people think we have a disposable planet, and disposable people”. He then ... More About: Politics , Fun , Power , Solar Power , Solar
Did you know?
2008-03-27 19:52:00 Did you know… Romania considers banning Genetically Modified corn. More About: By the Way
The high cost of war.
2008-03-27 02:01:00 A lot of people like myself blog or forum or talk about how Bush mislead the country to war, but even those of us knee deep in the political muck forget (sometimes) the real tragedy of it all. When someone still thinks Iraq was not about the oil, tell them about the Iraqi Oil ... More About: Politics , Cost , High
Hear ye! Hear ye! Carbon Trading will now commence!
2008-03-25 02:25:00 Did you hear? “A new business is opening Monday in New York: a carbon trading exchange.” Business es will have to buy the right to pollute. People can trade Carbon futures. And Make Money Off Of Global Warming. My favorite part is: Show article… » Carbon trading futures are a ... More About: Environment , Trading , Hear
?The Halo Effect? Don?t trust your own mind.
2008-03-22 23:38:00 The Halo Effect is when people make assumptions about one person because of one specific trait. The linked article is very eye opening, I suggest reading the full story. If you are pressed for time, read my Quick And Dirty? summary: If you see a person that is attractive and friendly, you assume they ... More About: Mind , Psychology , Trust
Please give me constructive criticism on my writing.
More articles from this author:2008-03-16 02:39:00 In the last year I had 68,000 visitors. I had 19,000 yesterday, with one post “What If I told you that 10 months before 9/11 Saddam…” that was voted to number 8 on reddit.com. Unfortunately few of those people will probably read this post, but maybe a few will come back. To anyone who reads this, ... More About: Writing , Give , Criticism 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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