An optimist might have hoped that the explosion of information technology would lead to a period of truth and enlightenment as the ability to confront lies and distortions increased. Sadly, the ability to proliferate total fiction has outpaced that of the truth. Naturally, we see this displayed [...] 
Everyone knows Sarah Palin's book came out today. Walmart and Amazon are already selling it for 50% off. But wait, there's more! For $8.10 at Amazon, you can buy The Sarah Palin Rogue Coloring & Activity Book. Actually you can't, for while there are ample copies' [...] 
Lindsey Graham is one of the most conservative Republicans in Congress, but that hasn't kept him off the list of GOP officials facing possible Scozzafavacation. Who will run against him remains to be seen, but the executive committee of the Charleston County Republican Party formally censured' [...] 
An anonymous commenter posted the following recently about a Sarah Palin appearance in Wisconsin.
Emerging high on the of list of moderate Republicans facing possible Scozzafavacation is Florida Governor Charlie Crist, who is seeking the Senate seat vacated by Mel Martinez. Last week the Family Research Council PAC and now the Club for Growth announced they are backing [...] 
(Pope Benedict XVI at Auschwitz) Once a Catholic priest, author James Carroll's faith in authority was broken by the Vietnam War. He left the church and began a rigorous study of the history of the relationship between Christianity and Judaism, distinguishing an extraordinary story that' [...] 
At the behest of Rep. Michele Bachmann (Kook-Minn), House Republicans joined the teabagger crowd on the West Front of the Capital yesterday for a hate fest about health care reform. In addition to waiving the usual signs depicting Obama as a clown, monkey, Nazi, etc., the teabaggers [...] 
(Scozzafava) Material has amply proliferated about the leadership vacuum of the Republican Party and its dangerous drift rightward. Conservatives have successfully hijacked the NY CD 23 election. GOP candidate Dede Scozzafava, endorsed by Newt Gingrich, the NRA, and many "traditional" GOP supporters, has suspended her [...] 
(Sophie Scholl) Marc Rothemund's 2005 Sophie Scholl – The Final Days makes good on decades of sentiments for an intelligent and award winning film about White Rose, a small group of students at the University of Munich who opposed the Nazi regime and distributed anti-Nazi' [...] 
Zig Ziglar’s Get Motivated organization is featuring GW Eggplant at an upcoming seminar in Ft. Worth, Texas. Get Motivated produces one of the of the Success for Dummies pep talk rallies using more or less the Anthony Robbins event model. I’m not a fan, but [...] 
Republican John McHugh’s resignation from New York’s CD 23 to become Secretary of the Army has resulted in an upcoming election that provides a preview of coming attractions for the possible bifurcation of the GOP between semi-rationality and unbridled kookville. The race provides the clearest distinction to [...] 
With the latest in space technology, human beings are now in momentum discovering planets outside of their own solar system. Just recently the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher found 32 more planets bringing the total number to over 400 found so far. "We are on" [...] 
(Jesse Kelly) The FEC has released the figures for the FEC reports through last month, and Jesse Kelly, the GOP opponent challenging incumbent Gabrielle Giffords, has surpassed the six figure mark for campaign cash on hand, now having $120,000, a fair chunk of change this early. [...] 
An Espresso Pundit post criticized an AZ Republic article that used the term "teabagger" to refer to the hyperventilating cement heads at the scream fests. Early on as the tea party events started, Fox News and reteaparty.org used the phrase "teabagger." Then the original meaning of [...] 
We can see perhaps clearer than ever that our health care system has been hijacked. The monsters spawned during the Nixon administration as a means of denying medical care are now easy to see as such. The US spends twice as much for half the result. [...] 
(Photo-Dr. Steven Kurtz at a 2003 exhibit. Note the petri dishes.) Everyone of course knows what 911 has come to mean. Fewer know about the events of 511, which refers to 5/11/2004 when Carnegie Mellon University art professor Steve Kurtz reported the death of his wife, [...] Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
Just thought I'd share what others perhaps already know but was new to me. Anyone interested in obtaining a permanent hard copy or electronic pdf version of a blog can go to Blog2Print for an online application that does just that. For $7.95, the entire blog' [...] 
Thomas Friedman's NY Times piece notes that China's decision to aggressively pursue green technology is nothing less than the Sputnik of the 21st Century, and his arguments, given the existing demographic, technological, and economic trends, are quite solid. The key distinction between the Mad Men [...] 
Before one can address something, it must be distinguished. Until identified and defined, it lives in la la land free of inquiry or awareness. Regarding the profit mongering of the health care industry and the fat cat bonuses for Wall Street, the blindness is over. The [...] 
Sparing any lengthy treatment of the Best Buy retail giant (a short piece on their use of the Results Oriented Work Environment (ROWE), I will give kudos to the company today for far surpassing customer expectations. Best Buy uses a lot of the learning [...] 
GOP F-Head Joe Wilson (Scum-SC) beautifully crystallized the degradation of the Republican Party into reality denying hate by screaming "You lie!" to a pre-published Presidential Address to a joint session of Congress when the President of the United States voiced a solid fact.
Eugene Jarecki's 2005 documentary Why We Fight won a Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival for its accurate and thorough exploration of the machinery at work behind America's lust for war. It featured footage of Eisenhower's famous farewell speech at the end of his' [...] 
Over a year ago I posted Your Place or Mine? (4/3/2008) about the open pit Rosemont copper mine that appears to be approaching inevitability. Congressman Grijalva, Congresswoman Giffords, State Rep. Daniel Patterson, Supervisor Ray Carroll, and other elected officials have come out against the mine. Apparently [...] 
A particularly prolific and vocal set of Arizona Republicans have launched their own version of Facebook, calling it Republicanville. I won't dive too deep, but we're talking about the likes of Charles Jensen, founder of Politics on the Rocks, Jeff Vath (aka Tony GOPrano), [...] 
(Gail Wynand) With all due respect, I currently suffer from blogger disgust. Right now I'm not sure if I like my own. While it is clear that highly followed blogs like Drudge on the right and Huffington Post or Daily Kos on the left have some influence,' [...] 
(Yes, the image is Chemistry and the instructor is way better looking.) The students are beginning to arrive on campus and one can feel that sense of excitement. Parents with smiling kids take turns before digital cameras capturing images of the thrill of fresh high school graduates [...] 
History is known for its sense of irony, and the recent kerfuffle regarding health care is no exception, with fascistic forces hurling accusations of fascism towards the Obama administration. Palin Limbaugh Inc. and the GOP goons like to use words like "fascism" or "socialism" as labels hoping [...] 
The hate mongering militias are likely to grow in energy until the inevitable outbursts, a shooting here or there, maybe even of an elected official, or the 21st century version of the Oklahoma City bombing (whatever that is), after which a certain drop in energy occurs, perhaps [...] 
(Photo-Congresswoman Giffords at Tucson Medical Center 8/7/09)
The Arizona Daily Star today features yet another Rob O'Dell article regarding the cloth shenanigans that choke Tucson's downtown and economic development. Readers were shocked (NOT!) to learn that the Fourth Ave. underpass will dramatically exceed (about 50%) all prior cost projections. Even better, officials apparently [...] 
