In an attempt to redefine the laws to make abortion illegal, the legislative assembly of North Dakota has passed the stunningly ill-conceived House Bill 1572, which defines a person as "includes any organism with the
genome of homo sapiens.Obviously, the conservative goal with this is to push the law towards declaring a fetus as a human with full ( Read more... )

Hey, LJ! Been a while, huh ( Read more... )

You may have seen people up in arms about the fact that Obama has asked conservative Evangelical mega-pastor Rick Warren to give the invocation at the inauguration. Large swaths of the left have expressed outrage that Obama has "betrayed" them by inviting a preacher who is anti gay-rights. Even very intelligent and respectable people like Rachel ( Read more... )

Found over at the excellent games site, Offworld, here's a holiday message of celebration and good cheer from the cast of Fallout 3:

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This is why I love modders. This right here.

If you're anything like me or cocotopia, you might want to free up a few days before reading about this new Flash game.

If you remember the wonderful time-sink that is Fantastic Contraption, you'll recognize the heart of the still-in-beta game, Incredibots: build strange little devices, then set them loose on a playground of engineering dares ( Read more... )

Tonight, Sci-Fi's will be premiering a new realty-/game-show called Cha$e and - stupid punctuation-as-letter-use aside - it seems like it could be some cheesy fun ( Read more... )

Turns out that Bush and the neoconservatives were right: religious extremists bearing ill will towards our government are a threat to the nation. After Obama's election, there's been a sharp spike in communication about how he's the Enemy and talking about his death - from extreme fundamentalist cells hidden across the United States, all too close ( Read more... )

From TIME magazine, an excellent article on what Obama's sweeping win means for a new America:Obama's decision to expend so much effort on a field organization was quietly revolutionary and a perfect fit for the larger political philosophy that he described when I spoke with him a few weeks ago. Obama insisted that while creating a new energy ( Read more... )

As amusing as FakeSarahPalin has been on Twitter, I was more impressed with their explanation that, for the good of bipartisanship and in the spirit of Obama's speech, FakeSarahPalin was shutting down for good.

First of all, if you haven't voted yet, go do that!

When you've voted, come back and check this fascinating little web-gizmo on the New York Times site - type in a word that describes how you're feeling, and then select which candidate you voted for (or "neither"). Then take a look at the reported moods of other supporters of McCain, Obama, or ( Read more... )