Glenn Beck’s conservative news aggregation site The Blaze has the story: A physics professor is so fed up with the claims made by “climate change deniers” that he has launched a “$10,000 Global Warming Skeptic Challenge.” The challenge issued by Dr. Christopher Keating, a professor who previously taught at the University of South Dakota and […]
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Republicans Discover the High Price of Tea
Is it fair to say that there’s a civil war between Republicans and Teabaggers going on right now? Because this article makes it sound like a civil war: Establishment-aligned [Republican] groups have already spent some $23 million on independent expenditures propping up favored House and Senate candidates in contentious primaries [against tea party opponents], according […]
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Are Newsletters the New Blogs?
Everyone knows that blogs are dead. (Uh, except for this blog, obviously.) And I’ve been noticing a lot of newsletters popping up lately. I’ve subscribed to a couple newsletters in the last few months—I enjoy Warren Ellis’s newsletter, Orbital Operations, which includes a little bit of self-promotion but also contains a lot of interesting thinking […]
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Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down Utah Gay Marriage Ban
The New York Times brings the news: DENVER — A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that states cannot bar same-sex marriages, overturning Utah’s voter-approved ban against them in a decision that extends a long streak of legal victories for such unions. The ruling by a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for […]
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Expect a Santorum Re-Run in 2016
Rick Santorum is telling anyone who’ll listen that he’s running for president in two years, and that he’s running because conservative politicians aren’t conservative enough on social issues. Right Wing Watch brings your daily dose of Santorum: That’s the problem, is that we have a bunch of people who run the Republican Party from the […]
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Soccer Player Bites Other Soccer Player
It’s such a civilized game. The biter in question is Uruguay’s Luis Suarez. The incident, shown on television replays, showed Suarez apparently bite the shoulder of Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini as the pair clashed in the Italian penalty area. It happened about a minute before Uruguay scored in the 81st. And thank God Twitter now […]
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Rick Perry Admits He “Stepped Right in It” When He Compared Homosexuality to Alcoholism
A few days ago, Rick Perry gave a kinda-sorta apology for comparing being gay with alcoholism. Today, he backpedaled even more: “I got asked about an issue, and instead of saying, ‘You know what, we need to be a really respectful and tolerant country, and get back to talking about, whether you’re gay or straight […]
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Amazon Announced the Fire Phone Today: What Do You Think?
Courtesy: BGR Here’s the announcement: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos showed off the Fire Phone, the first smartphone produced by Amazon. Andrew Cunningham at Ars Technica writes: The phone has a 4.7-inch IPS display with 590 nits maximum brightness and an “HD” resolution, which usually means 720p. This isn’t the biggest or highest-resolution phone there is, […]
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Republicans Say Capture of Benghazi Suspect Is a Clever Ruse to Distract from the Republican Investigation of Benghazi
This morning saw some actual Benghazi news, as opposed to the typical Republican outrage over Benghazi: U.S. Special Operations forces captured one of the suspected ringleaders of the terrorist attacks in Benghazi in a secret raid in Libya over the weekend, the first time one of the accused perpetrators of the 2012 assaults has been […]
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Newsflash: Bears Love Oral Sex
No, not those kinds of bears. I mean the other large, hairy mammals that run around shirtless: This article reports the behaviors of two healthy male bears that were raised together at a sanctuary for brown bears in Kuterevo, Croatia. The authors speculate that the oral sex started as a nursing behavior, and the bears […]
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Wealthy Republicans Want Mitt Romney to Run for President in 2016
So this happened over the weekend: PARK CITY, Utah — Mitt Romney’s ideas summit here was intended to be a passing of the torch to the Republican Party’s would-be saviors, with five potential 2016 presidential candidates jetting in to schmooze with many of the GOP’s biggest donors and present their agendas for the country’s future. […]
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Glenn Beck Says President Obama Is Just About Ready to Put Conservatives in Concentration Camps Any Day Now
Jesus fucking Christ, I wish Obama would just hurry up already. (Via Right Wing Watch.)