Our "Cookies for Kerry" bake sale to raise money for John Kerry's presidential campaign* went pretty well ( Read more... )

What: Bake sale for Kerry ( Read more... )

What: Bake sale to support John Kerry's Campaign ( Read more... )

Well, there's no Department of Climatology, yet. However, it looks scientists have a framework for all the things that can be done to help prevent global climate change - from reducing energy consumption to carbon sequestering. Nuclear fusion is sexy, but it's still 50 years away from commercial viability ( Read more... )

Cheney said, "Reagan proved deficits don't matter." (From "The Price of Loyalty" pg. 291)

( I think he meant that politically. Here's the quote with context. )

( Which 80's band are you? )

More crazy Republican antics... Now, a bill has been introduced "To allow Congress to reverse the judgments of the United States Supreme Court."Does anyone know if congress can do this just through a bill? It looks like they are trying to invoke Article 3 Section 2 of the Constitution ( Read more... )

Salon has re-broken the story on how the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans fabricated intelligence on WMD to mislead the nation into going to war in Iraq. I wonder if the rest of the media will finally pick up this story ( Read more... )

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I should stop reading the news. It just upsets me. Why can't the Republicans just leave gays alone? Why do they have to ask for amendments to the constitution to cannonize the discrimination?

Sorry. I know I'm ranting, but it just angers me at a visceral level. They try to make all sorts of good sounding reasons for why it's not bigotry, but it is