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So I’m a punkass now. Believe me, I’m as surprised as you are.
To celebrate, I thought I’d pop some champagne and share with you what I learned from PZ Myers today: Christian fundamentalists in America are being persecuted.
Ken Ham’s creation museum hasn’t even opened its doors yet, and things are already getting ugly [...]

When I took journalism classes, I was always told to put the key stuff on top and the throw away stuff at the bottom. Technically, that’s just what the author of this article on a “modesty fashion show” did; however, in my opinion the most revealing detail slipped in at the bottom. (emphasis mine)

Pregnancy [...]

Whew. I can sleep easier about the DoD putting on their NSA floppy ears and sniffing around my privates now that Dick Cheney has defended its legitimacy.
Though the Pentagon is forbidden by law from conducting espionage, the veep says their particular brand of financial and telecom “research” has been part of its portfolio for [...]

Scientists have created chickens that lay eggs containing proteins that go in anti-cancer treatments.
The Roslin Institute, near Edinburgh, says it has produced five generations of birds that can produce useful levels of life-saving proteins in egg whites.
The work could lead to a range of drugs that are cheaper and easier to make.

About.com has never been my go-to source for anything, but only because it’s kind of bland and usually not terribly helpful. The flipside of that, though, is that it’s never struck me as too terribly hurtful, either. And if it wasn’t chockfull o’ detail, at least the authors managed to convey the idea [...]

When all other logic fails, most conservatives fall back on one last trope to defend US aggression in the Middle East: we’ve got to protect Israel from all the big, bad Islamofascists. Opposition to the war in Iraq has been equated with anti-Semitism by the Right, and no small number of liberals have had [...]

Advertising is as American as apple pie made from the blood of infidels. We are the land of product placement. Our biggest sporting event of the year is equally known for its commercials. And, by God, we’ve got Man Laws.
So it makes sense that the president, facing staunch opposition in and out [...]

Concerned Women for America reminds us that there’s less than 10 days before the worlds largest anti-abortion demonstration- plenty of time to get your ass to DC! This year’s theme: “Oh, won’t somebody please think of the stem cells!”
“Thou Shalt Protect the Equal Right to Life of Each Innocent Human in Existence at [...]

He’s baaaaack…

In case being anti-choice, pro-fraud, anti-environment, pro-Big Oil, anti-education, pro-AIDS, anti-fiscal responsibility, and pro-suffering wasn’t pragmatically centrist enough for you, America’s shining beacon of integrity, John McCain, is publicly backing the oh-so-popular troop increase:
“I believe that together these moves will give the Iraqis and Americans the best chance of success,” said McCain, R-Ariz., a [...]

Not that you’d know it from most online US news sources (The Post excluded), but it appears the US engaged in an act of war with Iran:
US forces accompanied by military helicopters on Thursday stormed the Iranian consulate in the Kurdish city of Arbil, arresting five Iranian employees, a Kurdish security source said. In addition [...]

It must be difficult to be a famous woman. If you don’t have children, you’re an old maid with shriveled ovaries who has forsaken your godly purpose. If you have children and don’t talk about them, you’re a cold parent who puts her career ahead of her offspring. If you’re like Nancy [...]