[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 »
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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 »
What George Orwell Can Teach Us About OWS and Police Brutality – Atlantic Mobile
Michele Bachmann’s Politics Conflict With Basic Christian Values She Claims To Embrace
From Michael Gershon’s blog at The Washington Post online… Michele Bachmann is a candidate of whopping internal contradictions. Earlier this month, I heard the Minnesota congresswoman give her Christian testimony at a church service in Osceola, Iowa. She told the story of her father leaving her mother, of the economic struggles her family faced, … Continue reading »
Poll: Tell us what kind of posts you like
Let your voice be heard: make couple selections in the poll below and tell us what kind of posts you like and would like to see more of on this blog,. If you don’t see a category that describes what you want to see here, use the space provided to enter your own personal response… … Continue reading »
Zimbabwe man says prostitute turned into a donkey; he’s “in love”
A Zimbabwe man has told a court that the prostitute he hired turned into a donkey overnight, and now he is “seriously in love.” Sunday Moyo, 28, was caught having sex with a donkey early Sunday morning, according to the New Zimbabwe news website. While appearing in court on bestiality charges, he told the magistrate a … Continue reading »
The New Libya’s First Mistake: Killing Qaddafi (Slate.com)
Quoting Christopher Hitchens… Surrendering to a feeling of deep impotence and slight absurdity, I borrowed an iPad on Thursday afternoon and used it to send my first-ever message by this means. It was addressed to one of those distinguished Frenchmen who have been at the fore in pressing the outside world to remove Muammar Qaddafi … Continue reading »
Michele Bachmann’s Misstatements Starting to Catch Up With Her (LA Times)
Reporting from Perry, Iowa— Michele Bachmann was laying out a tough immigration policy recently when she veered off script to make a point that she said underscored the national security implications of a porous border. “Fifty-nine thousand this year came across the border, as was said in the introduction, from Yemen, from Syria. These are … Continue reading »
Bachmann campaign didn’t know of staff departures
MSNBC.com reports: The five New Hampshire staffers, who quit Friday had not — as of Saturday morning — been in touch with the campaign to resign in a formal fashion,the Bachmann campaign tells NBC News. Of the campaign’s former New Hampshire Director Jeff Chidester, campaign spokewoman Alice Stewart told NBC, “He talked to the media … Continue reading »
T-Mobile Customer ‘Shaken’ by $200,000 Bill (in single month!)
A T-Mobile customer in Florida was “shaking and crying” when she received a phone bill of more than $200,000 last month, largely because her younger brother didn’t turn off data roaming during a vacation in Canada. Celina Aarons has a T-Mobile family plan she shares with her five younger siblings, and usually pays around $175 … Continue reading »
