[Christopher Hitchens was and is one of my favorite writers of all time... I stand in awe of his courage as a thinker; his intolerance for hypocrisy; his willingness to challenge long-standing assumptions; his commitment to truth, logic, intellect; and perhaps most of all, his ability and unrelenting determination to speak truth to power. -- Jonathan … Continue reading »
Posted in December 2011 …
Ten Conservatives Vs. Newt: With Friends Like These…
Conservative opinion writers are competing in something of an arms race to see who can describe Newt Gingrich, whom most of them despise, in the most apocalyptic terms. Here’s a list, from The New Yorker, of ten of the most over-the-top takedowns from the right of the former Speaker of the House and current Republican … Continue reading »
A Question To Ask The ‘Anti-Regulation’ Folks…
Here’s an interesting hypothetical scenario to posit toward folks who claim that regulations are evil, bad for business, job-killing, useless… and whose demise should be a national priority: Ask the regulation-hater to imagine him- or herself on the 20th floor of a building, standing before two elevators. The elevator on the left was built using parts … Continue reading »
Sandusky lawyer inadvertently touts gay sex line
A lawyer for a former Penn State assistant football coach accused of molesting boys said Tuesday he didn’t mean to refer to a gay sex phone line when he said anyone who believes university officials thought his client raped a 10-year-old boy and did little about it should call 1-800-REALITY. The phrase is one attorney … Continue reading »
Finally, A Rich American Destroys The Fiction That Rich People Create The Jobs
In the war of rhetoric that has developed in Washington as both sides blame each other for our economic mess, one argument has been repeated so often that many people now regard it as fact: ‘Rich people create the jobs.’ Specifically, entrepreneurs and investors, when incented by low taxes, build companies and create millions of … Continue reading »
Picture of the Day: The UnFacebook World?
Artist Ian Wojtowicz created this map by mashing together two existing portrayals of the world, NASA’s The Earth at Night and Facebook’s Friendship Map. By “subtracting” the Facebook map (blacked out areas) from the NASA map, Wojtowicz reveals the parts of the world that are lit up at night but are not linked in to the global social network of … Continue reading »
Why Is China Building These Gigantic Structures In the Middle of the Desert?
This is crazy. New photos have appeared in Google Maps showing unidentified titanic structures in the middle of the Chinese desert. The first one is an intricate network of what appears to be huge metallic stripes. Is this a military experiment? Some unidentified agency, company or person has been ordering hundreds of photographs of this … Continue reading »
Funny Finnish bunny thinks he’s a chicken
Otto would make the perfect chicken, except for a few hiccups. Hatching eggs, scratching around the coop and roosting on a beam with the rest of the hens are great habits for chickens, but rather unusual for an eight month old male rabbit. The confused bunny came as a free gift to Ville Kuusinen’s home, … Continue reading »
