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An unusally lethal, widespread and long-lasting red tide has been identified from northern Pinellas to northern Lee County on the Florida coast. Diver Mike Miller struggles to convey the horror he has seen on the ocean floor. He struggles because there are only so many ways you can say dead. “I’m talking zero things are alive out there,” Miller said. “The only way to describe it is a nuclear bomb.” Miller and other alarmed divers say they have documented a…
The Flying Spaghetti Monster made it into the Wikipedia, nice! The Flying Spaghetti Monster is the deity of a religion, known as Flying Spaghetti Monsterism, started on the Internet by Bobby Henderson as a parody of the decision by the Kansas State Board of Education to allow intelligent design to be taught in science classes alongside evolution. Henderson submitted an open letter to the Kansas Board of Education demanding that the Flying Spaghetti Monster be given equal time in classrooms…
Some people want to argue with me about the effects of this administration on this country. I say words are cheap, propaganda is more effective than it should be, and I judge by actions and evidence. What we are seeing is not a Republican agenda, but a wholesale reorganization of what America is all about. A must-read is Howard Zinn’s article in the Guardian, “It is not only Iraq that is occupied. America is too.” I wake up thinking: the…
It’s such a familiar narrative now, and it’s almost comforting to me to see more and more people testifying to it – to know that what I observed and experienced is pretty much the same from congregation to congregation, and not just a matter of my own family or community in the Jehovah’s Witnesses: the fantasies of a paradise earth devoid of all but other Jehovah’s Witnesses, the fatalism toward the coming apocalypse and the lack of engagement in the…
“Not that I have anything against lawyers. Looking around the room, I’d guess that a year ago, about half of you were down in Florida.†Dick Cheney, Nov 2001, to The Federalist Society “You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.” George W. Bush, speech at a Washington dinner, 3/2001 “I am the federal government. I am not a federal employee. I am a constitutional officer. My job…