Newsflash: Hering Lacks Reasoning, Capacity to Write Editorials

He’s managed to do it again. This time, in regards to a recent bill signed by the Governor designed to fight increasing obesity among children.
First, the bill according to Hering:
…the bill calls on schools to require students through the eighth grade to have gym classes, at least 150 hours a week for elementary schools [...]

Energy & Sustainability

Setup
With the upcoming oil supply crisis, there has been a lot of news, discussion, and old-fashioned bloviating about what humans should use for energy sources once oil is no longer viable.
Most of the discussion that I’ve seen has focused on several major technologies – electricity, ethanol, vegetable oil, solar power, etc. I like most [...]

PZ Myers Can Kiss My Ass

I like militant atheists, at least most of the time; I’m of the opinion that atheism as a belief system (and it is one) gets dumped on in the public square in this country.
I used to like atheist and science blogger PZ Myers, who is a very sharp fellow, and not one to back down [...]

International Philosophy Or My Two Favorite Things Combined (Thanks to the British)

Yes, I realize posting has been light. Friends are down, etc. etc.
Also, I love this bit. Thanks to Luke for sending it along.

Pharmacists Sue State Because State Tells Them To Do Their Damn Job

*Apologies in advance for the poor copyediting and generally rambling nature of this post.
Yes, this is about emergency contraception:
Pharmacists have sued Washington state over a new regulation that requires the sale of emergency contraception, also known as the “morning-after pill.”
In a lawsuit filed in federal court here, a pharmacy owner and two pharmacists say the [...]

Oscar, the Grim Reaper Who Licks Himself

I don’t really know what to say about this….it’s really creepy, yet it makes a strange sort of sense:
“He’s a cat with an uncanny instinct for death,” said David Dosa, assistant professor at the Brown University School of Medicine and a geriatric specialist. “He attends deaths. He’s pretty insistent on it.”
In the two years since [...]

Having Your Cake and Stuffing Your Face With It Too

I hate the slogan “support the troops.” I think it’s meaningless tripe designed to stifle criticism and debate, and that it has no logical, moral, or philosophical basis whatsoever. And that it really fucks with how we relate to those human beings that are actually serving in the military, especially in Iraq.
A couple [...]

Les Media

If there’s one thing you understand about the political press, make it be this:
Here are the real rules:
(1) Liberals have the power of reason and justice on their side.
(2) That’s an unfair advantage.
(3) Therefore the game should have handicaps to make it more competitive. One of these handicaps is holding liberals to unfair, unattainable standards. [...]

Cat, the Internet, and the Dominant Power Paradigm

This is, ironically, the first post to mention cats on this blog, yet it has nothing to do with the cats I live with. Go figure.
So the cats-with-captions meme has made it to Time magazine. The author of the column is sure and enthusiast, but he says something completely out of place and [...]

Population Density

Ran across this comment, which I will excerpt:
Princeton University is located in Mercer county which has a population of 350,761 (2000) and a land area of 229 square miles. This works out to be 1,532 people per square mile. This is somewhat above the average for all of New Jersey of 1,174 people per square [...]

Ward Churchill

The day after September 11, 2001, University of Colorado Professor and Chair of the Ethnic Studies Department Ward Churchill wrote an essay entitled “Some People Push Back: On the Justice of Roosting Chickens.” In the essay, Churchill explored the reasons for the attack on the World Trade Center, and made the claim that some [...]

Rocket Science

I saw this movie the first time it came out, way back in 1998. You know, when it was called Rushmore.

…comment based on the trailer. I suppose it’s possible that the trailer is just making the movie look like Rushmore, and that somebody thinks that’s a good idea.
I hate [...]

Sharing

I’m experimenting with adding a little box to the upper-right hand corner of the page. In the box are the five most recent posts I’ve read using Google Reader that I’ve decided to share. I’m doing this because these are things I’m sort of interested in blogging about but not interested enough to [...]

A Digital Future

Swiped from BoingBoing, a long series of blog posts from 2017:
The US should do what the Japanese do: track every foreigner’s mobile. If he does anything freaky, jump on him.
“But Mr. Feldspar, suppose this international criminal doesn’t carry a mobile?” demanded representative Chuck Kingston (R-Alabama). It would have been rude to point out the obvious. [...]

Read A Book….Please

This has been making the rounds, and I’ve decided to throw it up here….while I like most of this video, there are a few parts that I either don’t get or don’t agree with.
Anyway, watch it…and please leave a comment with your reaction.