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Scientology
I haven’t really gone after Scientologists here yet, so I better get started. Luckily, they recently supplied us all with some ammunition. Start at 2:40 OK, since I spent tens of seconds at a...
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The Men Who Stare At Goats
Here is my review: OK, the thing with making a journalistic book into a movie is that usually you need to construct some kind of narrative around it that was never in the original story. Plus, it...
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Antivaxers Get Litigious
So if anyone’s reading this on the actual website and not through a reader, you might have noticed that I have a few of these ‘widget’ things on the right side here. The first one is for a campaign by...
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Reporter Fired For Believing in Objective Reality
A reporter for the Atlanta Progressive News was fired recently for a surprising reason: “At a very fundamental, core level, Springston did not share our vision for a news publication with a progressive...
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Books that influenced me the most
I picked up on this blog meme from Ed Brayton at Dispatches From the Culture Wars, and so I’m gonna go ahead and join in as well. Here are some books I’d call influential in no particular order. *...
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Collateral Murder
So there’s this site called WikiLeaks. It’s a good way for people to anonymously leak documents which some people might not want you to see. A typical example would be a former Scientologist keeping...
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Carl Paladino’s ideas are intriguing to me, and I wish to subscribe to his...
WNYMedia got themselves a nice scoop about local developer/gubernatorial candidate/Batman villain Carl Paladino. It’s actually kind of a WikiLeaks-ish story about his e-mail. Someone’s private e-mail...
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Anwar al-Awlaki
UPDATE: The Department of Justice is now considering filing charges against al-Awlaki. Anwar al-Awlaki is an American citizen thought to be living in Yemen who makes videos praising al Qaeda. He’s...
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WikiLeaks Publishes Tens of Thousands of Documents Detailing the Harrowing...
(WASHINGTON, DC) The whistleblower group WikiLeaks released to three major newspapers this weekend tens of thousands of leaked internal documents which detail the first few days of Lindsay Lohan’s...
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Krystof on the Cost of the War in Afghanistan
Nicholas Krystoff of the NY Times has a great article on the cost of the US’ longest war / military occupation. It plays on an angle that is, if you ask me, kind of missing the point; but it appeals...
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WikiLeaks v. Pentagon
So it’s been a week since WikiLeaks published the leaked internal US military documents which detail some aspects of the occupation of Afghanistan which the administration would rather notemphasize....
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Alex Jones is a Lying Piece of Shit
There’s an embedded link to the full comic, but this story adds another participant in the extended game of Telephone that is our public discourse on scientific issues. And that person is a...
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The Taliban is on the Side of the Anti-”Ground Zero Mosque” Protesters
One of my first posts on this blog when I started it about a year ago quoted the Washington Independent on the issue of pre-emptive detention: “We appreciate that the United States has security...
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WikiLeaks v. State Department
There’s been another major WikiLeaks data dump. The previous ones which made the news here in America focused on the wars inAfghanistan and Iraq. But this one shifts focus from the Pentagon to the...
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Jeremy Marks
Jeremy Marks is a Los Angeles high school special education student who’s been caught up in the criminal justice system. Originally he was offered to plead guilty on charges which would land him 7...
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Alexander Zaitchik Interview
Here is an interview with Alexander Zaitchik. He is the author of the book Common Nonsense: Glenn Beck and the Triumph of Ignorance. He’s also written for The eXile, New Republic, The Nation, Wired,...
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The National Weather Service Will Genocide Us All
This is a good case study in how the legit press works as opposed to ideological fanatics with websites who pretend to be journalists and how the average news consumer can tell the difference. A few...
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