“I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: ‘O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.’ And God granted it.”
- Voltaire

...Oh yes, he did.

I was, admittedly, more than a little skeptical about Obama at first. But over the past few months I've watched him run an outstanding campaign. Over the same period I observed the McCain campaign's growing tendency towards exclusion: air quotes, alienating minorities, alienating the young, the bit about "real" America. The Obama campaign stood, in ( Read more... )

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I don't claim to understand why.

"It's not surprising that it took me so long to discover the extent of my miseducation, because the last thing an elite education will teach you is its own inadequacy. As two dozen years at Yale and Columbia have shown me, elite colleges relentlessly encourage their students to flatter themselves for being there, and for what being there can do for ( Read more... )

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Classic.

Can't... Stop... Playing... With... Universe Sandbox... Gah.

It IS even better than the Discovery Channel.

As the 2008 presidential election draws closer, Democrat Barack Obama has reportedly been working tirelessly with his top political strategists to perfect his looking-off-into-the-future pose, which many believe is vital to the success of the Illinois senator's campaign. . . "The senator spends six hours a day gazing resolutely off into the ( Read more... )

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Clinton and Obama believe that basic civil rights should be determined on a state-by-state basis. This brings to mind a certain 19th century issue that the Democratic Party tried to frame as a "states' rights" question...

In other news, here's intelligent design in action.

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