It's official - Global Warming scientists are human and can be misquoted  
Perspective on the black-hat hacking of the emails

As many of you will be aware, a large number of emails from ...More...

9 comments | 0 kudos | 88 views | posted Nov 22, 2009 at 12:49 AM

How much independent thinking before you're no longer in the political party?  
Note: I think that, in the last few years, I've only deleted one or two comments. No matter how much someone trolls, I've let their comments stand, because I believe that attempting to stifle opinion...More...

2 comments | 1 kudo | 50 views | posted Nov 20, 2009 at 12:00 AM

Contrary to right-wing wishful thinking, Dems aren't afraid of Sarah Palin  
Typical right-wing response to facts: shout them down, or censor them. My post was deleted by an ignoramus who couldn't handle the truth... (As the post is deleted, this is an attempt to capture all...More...

23 comments | 2 kudos | 150 views | posted Nov 19, 2009 at 2:33 PM

Miss California: Role-model for young Christian girls...?  
Oops...

It's a given. Whenever someone claims "holier than t...More...

19 comments | 0 kudos | 139 views | posted Nov 9, 2009 at 11:06 PM

"Our soldiers are volunteers, so they have no right to complain if..."  
I've seen this a few times in recent days. When people complain about soldiers who die in combat, there's always someone who chimes in with "there's no draft, they're all volunteers, they knew what t...More...

6 comments | 7 kudos | 125 views | posted Sep 8, 2009 at 1:06 AM

"If I had been in (insert crime situation), I would have (insert heroic action)"  
Seems you can't be on the internet, sharing stories from the news, without someone chiming in with such a comment.

Blogger: "Four kids surrounded a jogger and beat them up."

Commenter: "If I wer...More...

6 comments | 1 kudo | 100 views | posted Sep 5, 2009 at 2:22 PM

The misinformation of American politics  
One of the most annoying parts of debating politics is the constant misinformation against which one must vie. It is extremely difficult to convince someone to be rational, when they believe in kooky...More...

23 comments | 2 kudos | 168 views | posted Sep 4, 2009 at 2:11 AM

Someone claims that fascism is socialism...?  
As usual, the right-wingers are displaying their love of freedom of speech, posting inflammatory blogs and refusing to accept any dissenting comments...

The [url=http://www.rense.com/...More...

6 comments | 1 kudo | 98 views | posted Aug 29, 2009 at 3:22 PM

Birthers: Disproportionately among white Southerners  
An analysis I posted on the forums. Something that is very interesting, I think. Even allowing for margins of error and rounding errors, it appears that AT LEAST 60% (and likely closer to 70 to 75%)...More...

28 comments | 0 kudos | 203 views | posted Aug 23, 2009 at 5:56 AM

A question for all the mothers out there (Birther fallacy)  
Would any of you, while nine months pregnant and about to give birth, consider taking a slow-flying plane (say, 400 miles per hour) to travel halfway around the world (say, 12,500 miles)?

Keep in m...More...

6 comments | 0 kudos | 105 views | posted Aug 15, 2009 at 3:46 PM