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Category: Culture

  • Flickr – Happy New Year’s

    The Flickr blog highlights some great New Year’s photos.

  • Because I Don’t Know Enough About Geek Culture

    So go and find out more about Geek Culture. It does include me all in there technology/debate/Star Wars. Geek is really just another term for someone who is overly enthused about a certain subject area.

  • Democrats May Drop Medicare Expansion

    Well ok then to quote Marco who sums it up better that I ever could. Democrats (in power): We want to pass this bill that makes a lot of sense. It would help a lot of people and it’s supported by the majority of the population. Republicans: No. You need to compromise. Democrats: OK. Well, […]

  • Calling Something Factual, Doesn’t Make It Magically Factual

    Specifically, this is another time in which I call out Republicans for their lack of attention to basic logic and understanding of facts. I received an email tonight from the RNC regarding Obama, Congress and the organization ACORN. In this email the GOP makes the claim that “It seems the Obama Administration has plans to […]

  • My response to Glen Beck’s silly “We surround them”

    Glen Beck not too long ago did a silly little thing in which he posted a list of 9 statements and said that if you believe in them to send in a picture for him to do display them or something. This is my response to the list. America is good. Right a country is […]

  • Science and Politics, Like Oil and Water

    One of my personal biggest pet peeves with regards to the current political system in America, and for that matter a large and vast number of society is how few people actually use evidence to back up their position. Rather than presenting facts we are presented with ad homein attacks, personal stories and told what […]

  • One isn’t Many and Many isn’t All

    One of the arguments that I hear for why people express an -ism belief (racism, sexism, ageism, etc), is that they had this experience with this one person and you know that must be how everyone of that particular group is. I love this kind of reasoning it’s so illogical it’s almost funny and yet […]

  • Your Rules Aren’t My Rules

    Here is the problem that I see with a lot of the evangelical right. They seem to think that their rules are all of sudden my rules. Here’s a hint, they aren’t. A great example is this ad for a rentor. The ad includes such wonderful rules as the main lights in the apartment are […]

  • Does a Law Matter If No One Follows It?

    I read an interesting article about the Republic Windows & Doors factory shut down in the New York Times. The interesting part of the article was when the author talked about how the federal law designed to force companies to notify employers 60 days in advance of any mass layoffs essentially was practically never followed […]

  • You Should Educate Yourself and Vote, or maybe not

    I was thinking about this little thing we have coming up in the US, that well is dominating everything. The Presidential election and at first I was going to urge that you should educate yourself and then go and vote on Nov. 4, and also point you to a place to go in case you […]