God, the Universe, & Everything Else

Wonderfully-named British journalist and TV host Magnus Magnusson here grapples with expansive issues of Life, The Universe, and Everything, drawing on the considerations of several leading scientific thinkers of the 1980s to help figure things out regarding our existential reality.

Now, 30 years later…. we have Sarah Palin ridiculing one of the [...]

Scare Tactics of the Religious Right

Is it any wonder that there’s so much ridiculous hate polluting the web in these final days leading up to next week’s election?

And the reason for their panic?

Update: Another wonderful TPM “Day in 100 Seconds” montage…

Update2: A “risky” prediction? More like a “stupid” one, I’d say.

An Open Letter to Liblogs

I’ve always liked to think that that the Liberal Party is a “big tent” and that its unofficial online aggregator reflects that same diversity of opinion.
But there are limits to this notion.
For some inexplicable reason, you’ve decided to protect, tolerate and effectively sustain an anonymous individual that has been waging a determined campaign [...]

Prop8 Crapola

Here’s an appealing advertisement running for the “Yes” side of Prop8 in California that invokes the teachings of Jesus Christ to condemn the supposed “intolerance” of those who reject the idea of outlawing SSM:

It’s a fairly convoluted argument that unsurprisingly involves some quite bizarre, rather circular logic to make its point [...]

Maddow Interviews Obama

A good discussion about the economy, free markets, bi-partisan politics, government regulation, accountability, national security, and the war in Afghanistan, etc. from an interview in Sarasota, FL today.

On the other hand…there’s this:

“There have been many underestimated persons who’ve been elected to office [...]

“A Clash of Civilizations”

A rather incredulous Bernard-Henri Lévy describes the partition of opinion in the US presidential election.

Maybe it’s me, but there’s something vaguely reassuring to be drawn from BHL’s wry observations about what he perceives as a deep undercurrent that’s steadily moving towards the left and his amusing view of the Bush [...]

The Day in 100 Seconds

More of the political zeitgeist…

Who knew that In the absence of a functioning press corps, Rick Sanchez (good grief, of all people!) would turn into one of the most entertaining and provocative hosts on cable TV? As for Mike Goldfarb… truly astounding douchebaggery!

“A Massive Pit of Sex”

Sounds like fun, doesn’t it? In any case, here’s our own home-grown evangelical wingnut “Dr.” Charles McVety expressing some manufactured outrage over the activities of a group attempting to revive the “Summer of Love” experience from the late 60s for the benefit of nostalgic baby-boomers and others who just want to recreate in an [...]

Signed. Sealed. Delivered.

Wonkette editor Ken Layne unloads a blistering attack on pretty much everything in a piece that poses a rather salient question:
“Who Wants to Be President of HELL?”

Notwithstanding all the faithful talk of “hope” and “change” surely it’s an inquiry that has to have occurred to just about everyone.
If you’re [...]

Yawn

Oh look, Steven Harper has shuffled his cabinet. Could we care less?
Hey, way to go Conservative voters in Saanich and the Islands! You now have a Minister of State for Sport. How thrilling. Oh, and I just love Chuck Strahl’s new title: Minister of Northern Development and Federal Interlocutor for Métis and Non-Status Indians. Bet [...]