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So in the latest PPP poll they asked who was more responsible for Bin Laden's death, Mitt or Barack? Of Republicans 15% said Mitt and 47% said they were not sure. That is 62% of Republicans that seem to be living in an alternate reality. Wow. Just wow.

Another legend has passed. Slippery Jim diGriz was one of my favorite characters. My local library had a few Stainless Steel Rat novels that I must have checked out a half a dozen times each. He will be missed.

Inept terrorism, but terrorism all the same.

So I've been single for about a year and have been dating for around 4 months. I guess I spent too much time on a therapist's couch because actually using the skills I picked up there scare women off. See, the problem is that I communicate. I actually tell a woman what I want. I have the...

So it looks like I'm getting a divorce. My wife told me yesterday that she no longer wants to be married. After 8 years and a child she 'discovered' that we have nothing in common. Nice, eh? So I'm looking for a place. I have already stopped direct deposit on my paycheck and will be...

So here is the situation: My father-in-law went into the hospital last night. My wife took of early this morning to visit him and most likely will not be back until late afternoon. And she took the car seat so I am stuck at home until she gets back. Last night she brewed the last of the...

I found a fun new series for you epic fantasy fans out there. The Kingkiller Chronichles by Patrick Rothfuss. It starts with The Name of the Wind. It is the life story of a hero as he tells it to a biographer. His style is easy to read and very engaging and the plot, while a touch formulaic...

So my friend who no longer has a uterus can get those rights even though there is no way she can bear her own children? This logic can also be used to either give additional benefits to people that bear their own children or removing benefits from those that adopt.

Look at what I found! Every Slammers story! No more buying compilations that have four stories you already have in 4 other books to get the one you haven't read. Woot!

What is it about evolution that gives so many religious individuals fits? Almost any science disputes what is mentioned in the Bible, so why single out evolution for such treatment? Is it because evolution demonstrates that we are not super special?

I got involved in a tread over in Politics and the discussion turned towards power and how it is attained and kept. Personally, I think that power ultimately comes down to violence in some way or another. I was called totalitarian for saying that. I tend to agree from a purely objective...

So here is the problem. There is nothing out there that whets my appetite on first glance. I've got a $30 B&N card from Christmas and I don't want to spend it on garbage. I got all the books I wanted to read that came out over the holidays, so they are out. I'm tempted to save it until April...

Michael Mukasey, the next Attorney General, compared the BushCo torture memo to the Holocaust. He talked about the photos taken when rescuing the victims in the concentration camps as a way to document the brutality and barbarism, "They didn't do that so we could duplicate what we oppose."...

Report: White House Ruins Terrorist Intel White House Denies It Prematurely Released Al Qaeda Video, Hurting Intelligence-Gathering [B] Rest of story So an intelligence gathering method gets burned so that BushCo. can continue its fear mongering. How many times do they get to sacrifice...

Just read this fascinating article on altruism in Dictyostelium discoideum. It demonstrates how altruism can give a genetic advantage on even a tiny scale. Kinda pokes a few more holes in the whole "evolution means we would all be selfish twits" line of 'reasoning'.

I have always identified myself as a conservative and since the Republican party is the 'conservative' party I was a member for quite a few years. But the more I saw the actions of the party defying what I consider conservative, I had to leave the party...Or the party left me. I think and...

A different thread got me thinking of this and I am interested on other peoples thoughts on this matter. The idea unitary executive basically states that in pursuing national security, the President is the law. That he can suspend and/or ignore various legal niceties because the need for...

So I have been reading a bit on belief and one thing that keeps popping up it the books (and I am noticing here in E&M more than anywhere else) is that one of the major down falls of a tolerant society is the acceptance of the intolerant. I'm finding that I don't know whether or not to agree...

I just finished reading American Fascists by Chris Hedges and he had something to say about the whole ID thing that made some pretty good sense to me. This paragraph is in a chapter about Ken Hamm's new $24 toy. American Fascists pg. 115 He makes a pretty good case for keeping an eye on...

Hello everyone, just thought I would introduce myself. I am 33, married with a 17 month old daughter (Isabella and my love for early punk music is the reason for the screen name) and live in North Carolina. I am a recent atheist. I was raised Christian, around the age of 17 I read the Bible...