orion: the naked eye

Book-burning Day in Florida *

2010-09-07T19:08:00.008-05:00

Bebelplatz Square

Florida has been known for some dastardly crazy socio-politics but when it comes to old fashion book-burning, a second look is required. The push to burn the Quaran by this so-called Christian Pastor, Terry Jones, in Florida smacks of the book burning done in what is now known as the Bebelplatz of Berlin where piles of books representing a wide range of authors were burned. The book-burning happened after a law was passed in April, 1933, that targeted Jews as well as political opponents of the Nazi regime, i.e., communists and socialists, or anyone else who thought differently. Those of this group who were civil servants were no longer employed.

The Nazis used scapegoating to diminish humans and take control.

How difference is the actions of Christian Pastor Terry Jones and his Dove World Outreach Center?

On May 10, 1933, the works of Albert Einstein, Franz Kafka, Marcel Proust, Sigmund Freud, Bertolt Brecht, Karl Marx, Emile Zola amongst many others, like Hemingway, were ravaged off the University of Berlin shelves and thrown onto a pile of 20,000 plus books and set to flame in an affront to make anything of a literate value solely sourced from an Aryan ancestry.

There was an overwhelming response against this book-burning by Americans at the time. Ironically, one has to argue that the response to this Florida Pastor and his congregation is bit anti-climatic. How could a group of people get it so wrong? How could so many not be paying attention? LOOK!PAY ATTENTION!! But then, when people don't pay attention and the conditions are of that ferment...involution apparently happens.

Naomi Woolf covers this nicely in her book The End of America. She, the Thomas Paine of the modern era, discusses ten bullet points that rally the take over of Germany by the Nazis...all ten points btw, are heralded here.

What allows this sort of thing to come about? Well, that's the benefit of history...WE get to learn it so that WE don't repeat mistakes.

The other Naomi...Naomi Klein, described a phenomenon that happens in societies when leaders use disasters to take their countries into a wild direction. Germany had it's burning of the Reichtag; the U.S. had it's 9/11. Her book, The Shock Doctrine; the Rise of Disaster Capitalism, describes the mechanism very well (listen to all six parts if you're so inclined to make the journey).

When you get done listening to both Naomi's, current events start to make sense....

As a side note: the biblical Ruth, in the Bible (there was a book named after her), after the death of her husband, had decided to follow her mother-in-law in her migration. Her name was Naomi....

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
Thomas Huxley

* ...of all places.

Sirius,

2010-04-24T10:31:00.012-05:00

I know, is the dog star.

take a left at Orion.

Mars,
rusty

I have seen.

It moves quickly

and retraces its footsteps...

Venus too does this while sprinting,
moving quickly,
alert,

gains the inside track.

Planets

recognizably divulge themselves

because of their brilliance,

adherence to the ecliptic,

and rapid drag.

Stars

for the naked eye

are the true-background

upon which the planets traverse.

Night companions...

The only true constant

Light

that radiates into our nights

and spills into our days.

Large Hadron Collider T-Shirt Demands a Flat Stomach

2010-03-05T08:44:00.001-05:00

Large Hadron Collider T-Shirt Demands a Flat Stomach

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Signing Up For Stop Loss?...

2010-01-09T19:03:00.004-05:00

Army imprisons soldier for singing against stop loss policy, by Dahr Jamail.

How the !*#@ is this a magazine?

2010-01-08T10:08:00.003-05:00

Watch for the huge meatball.

The Event Horizon...

2009-12-30T08:50:00.003-05:00

beyond which we can never see the light from because the space in between us and that is increasing faster than the speed of light...

Sign of The Times?

2009-12-23T12:30:00.001-05:00

Is this the future we're writing for ourselves?...

Still Standing?

2009-11-13T08:48:00.005-05:00

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

Really?... Perhaps the bleached bimbo should take a lesson from the Black Knight...

...and may she float off into the sunset on her fake boobs.

Borna Sammak

2009-10-14T19:37:00.000-05:00

oooooh aaaaaaah I like this guy.

Untitled Video Painting 02 from borna on Vimeo.

The Great Prelude...

2009-10-12T20:18:00.006-05:00

Don't Forget to Breathe

2009-10-12T16:50:00.001-05:00

From the new Stargate Universe...

by Alexi Murdoch

In the quiet of the shadow
In the corner of a room
Darkness moves upon you
Like a cloud across the moon

You're a-wearing all the silence
Of a constant that will turn
Like the windmill left deserted
Or the sun forever burn

So don't forget to breathe
Don't forget to breathe
Your whole life is here
No eleventh hour reprieve
So don't forget to breathe

Keep your head above water
But don't forget to breathe

And all the suffering that you've witnessed
And the hand prints on the wall
They remind you how it's endless
How endlessly you fall

And the answer that you're seeking
For the question that you found
Drives you further to confusion
As you lose your sense of ground

So don't forget to breathe
Don't forget to breathe
Your whole life is here
No eleventh hour reprieve
So don't forget to breathe

Keep your head above water
But don't forget to breathe

Breathe....

Don't forget to breathe
Don't forget to breathe
You know you are here
But you find you want to leave
So don't forget to... breathe

Just breathe
Just breathe
Just breathe...
Just breathe...
Just breathe...

Does the Moon have water?

2009-10-09T06:55:00.001-05:00

Today, NASA crashed two spacecraft, unmanned, into a southern crater on the Moon in an attempt to find out if there is water there...

BBC NEWS Science & Environment US spacecraft crash into the Moon

"a whining sense of entitlement"

2009-09-18T08:11:00.004-05:00

Congressman Kevin Brady's letter is questioning the inadequacy of the Washington D.C. public transit to cart around participants of the 9/12 Show. Having voted against additional funding for the service, he now suffers no qualms spending tax dollars to investigate this inadequacy...ironic...Clawson on Daily Kos sums it up about Republicans with their "whining sense of entitlement."

The Real Truth Behind the Public Option

2009-09-11T09:03:00.001-05:00

Carl Pope and Van Jones

2009-09-10T11:30:00.002-05:00

Thanks to Brave New Foundation.

"I Don't Recall"

2009-09-04T09:53:00.001-05:00

The Gonzales Cantata

$187 Million

2009-09-03T15:13:00.004-05:00

Wondering why our tax dollars are hardly working?

The Real Death Panels

2009-09-03T14:43:00.004-05:00

"The United States remains the only country in the industrialized world where human lives are sacrificed for private profit, a national disgrace that seems on the verge of perpetuation."

Deborah Burger, California Nurse Association

Health Insurance Companies are the real death panels.

"Let them define themselves." Maxine Waters

2009-08-28T14:48:00.001-05:00

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It Is Official!

2009-08-27T13:46:00.006-05:00

According to GOP Congresswoman Lynn Jenkins from the great state of Kansas; Republicans are waiting for the Great White Hope. She latter admits that her choice of words were poor...isn't that an overused excuse, by now?

Personally, I hope that is why they'll continue to wane... like waitng for the second coming predicted perenially since the time of the Apostles. They'll be mocked by people passing them while they stand on street corners with their long unkempt beards, and dressed in outdated fashions. They'll be holding signs that say:

Prepare the Way

for the

Great White Hope!

Raising the Hoop

2009-08-21T07:06:00.005-05:00

Republicans changing the rules, again...

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

Thanks Rachel.

Innocense Doesn't Matter

2009-08-18T13:20:00.005-05:00

"This Court has never held that the Constitution forbids the execution of a convicted defendant who has had a full and fair trial but is later able to convince a habeas court that he is ‘actually’ innocent.”

Justice Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court.

Real Healthcare

2009-07-30T20:31:00.001-05:00

Commentary: Thunderf00t with Ray Comfort

2009-07-25T14:55:00.011-05:00

ragarding a discussion between a pearlist and a creationist:

The actual discussion between Thunderf00t and Ray begins with Part 1. There are a total of nine or so installments but you get to the gist of discourse after watching the first two. Too bad we're still beating this dead horse especially since we were here before with the Scopes-Monkey Trial. Seems like a waste of gas.

And now, reflections from Thunderf00t:

Take a close look at our constitution...

2009-06-25T12:16:00.008-05:00

The bedrock of our legal system...

Maybe I want a soda or some popcorn?

The occasional error of interpretation, of course...generally corrected given time.

Feel the ...revulsion?

thanks jdh

When it rains...it pours.

2009-06-24T14:23:00.021-05:00

Believe me, I would love to talk more about particle physics, cosmology, and consciouness. In doing so, one learns more while explaining it; but the current temptation sprouted legs this morning when, according to Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post, Nikki Haley rid her website of Mark Sanford's photo. Something was in the air.

Sure enough, right on the heels of Senator John Ensign's (R) admission of an ongoing affair and after a loooong string of similar improprieties by various members of the GOP (that we do not need to list because it would take too much space)... South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford (R) just confessed under extreme media pressure that he'd been having an extramarital affair with a woman in South America and that's the reason he vanished without a trace for five days to Argentina:

...and he apparently has the balls to ask for forgiveness. Can you believe that! Left his four boys, fatherless on Father's Day. Party of Family Values?? I don't think so ... next thing, you know, they'll be asking forgiveness for incest and bestiality ... in all actuality, who the f#$% cares.

jeez! spare us!

Accolades and thanks to blogger and podcaster Ragan Fox, for introducing the public to the concept of hypoChristians. Maybe after the Sanford stunt, it'll take off.

Media Wars

2009-06-24T12:08:00.002-05:00

How to sell WAR on the pages of the New York Times...

Twitter...no longer the third rail of the media. In fact, it is used by various media outlets, much to their chagrin, in efforts to co-opt or assimilate the phenomenon .

listening post

In Superposition...

2009-06-04T12:03:00.002-05:00

and in particle heaven.

Generations of Matter

2009-06-04T08:23:00.002-05:00

I'm going to have to carry one of these charts around on a laminated card...never know when I might need it.

particle heaven

2009-05-30T18:58:00.004-05:00

ride the wave

you know yourself

there's no external timetable

Light Embedded

2009-05-28T14:41:00.019-05:00

Earth's dark side
cities seem as galaxies
scattered across a scaffold
void-filled universe

What is said,

...seen
what is done
increasing luxuriance

metaphoric impressions
immeasurably comprehensive

bearing miniscule vast limits

...wrh

Linus Pauling

2009-05-25T20:21:00.001-05:00

Linus Pauling

LHC

2009-05-23T10:34:00.003-05:00

To those who think the Large Hadron Collider will destroy us all with a mini black hole...too late; its been done.

Fairytale

2009-05-21T19:01:00.002-05:00

Alexander Rybak, Eurovision 2009 Winner.

Fehrenbach on Maddow

2009-05-20T08:49:00.002-05:00

The NCNA Party

2009-05-08T11:07:00.005-05:00

The NCNA party, a.k.a the G.O.P., a.k.a. the party of the big inclusive tent ;) a.k.a. the party of Lincoln (140 years ago), or just plain a.k.a. Republicans, are going through their re-branding.

They're not the first to do so... like XE, a.k.a. Blackwater.

...and why wouldn't they want to distance themselves from themselves?

....catchy tune.

Good Time For A...

2009-04-16T18:33:00.000-05:00

European vacations on sale - Apr. 13, 2009

One lump or two?

2009-04-15T14:24:00.017-05:00

A party without a rudder is adrift.
Nothing new.

FOX news,

attempts to portray tax day with a teabag protest.
An attempt that is far off mark.

A lame attempt at intellectualism

equating the great Boston tea party with our current financial f#@k up.

Grass roots? HA! More like Astroturf.
If people are out in droves now

(actually, a dribble)

over the cliff they all will go

their remains donated to science
if only science will have them.

...where were all the teabaggers the past eight years?

... the FOX thinks they were all watching FOX news

and nothing else.

Fish Out Of Water

2009-04-11T09:07:00.008-05:00

..."a documentary that explores the impassioned relationship between homosexuality and the Bible."

...comment by Matt Alber:

Closer to Dark Matter

2009-04-10T09:43:00.009-05:00

Almost daily more is revealed about the nature of dark matter. The PAMELA satellite indicates a heavy emission of positrons in space that may be the result of colliding dark matter particles. One thing these particles could then be are winos, a specific kind of neutralino which is "the supersymmetric partner of a particle called the W boson" ...

Along with Z bosons, the W boson carries the weak force which is the player in radioactive decay.

The Big Deal About Science

2009-03-31T16:35:00.004-05:00

I know this clip came from a last year's The Colbert Report (5/27/2008) but I missed it...maybe you did too:

The Colbert Report

Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c

Brian Greene

comedycentral.com

Colbert Report Full Episodes

Political Humor

NASA Name Contest

In case you missed Brian Green the first time he was on The Colbert Report (11/28/2005) here he is talking about string theory:

The Colbert Report

Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c

Brian Greene

comedycentral.com

Colbert Report Full Episodes

Political Humor

NASA Name Contest

Sleepwalking?

2009-01-30T09:27:00.001-05:00

...Viral Video Chart

Come out, come out...wherever you are

2009-01-29T17:44:00.004-05:00

Richard Dawkins and Ted Haggard

Burning Man Photos

2008-12-12T09:50:00.004-05:00

Check out photo journalist, Gabe Kirchheimer's site of Burning Man photos...past and present.

And for those interested in pre-sale tickets...

...and here's our Burning Man photo album.

Bunny, Jason and Allyne

2008-12-08T11:36:00.003-05:00

...having breakfast at the Floridian before taking the girls to Port Everglades so they can board Carnival Freedom for a week-long crusie.

Free Obama Sticker

2008-11-07T09:04:00.006-05:00

Want a free Obama sticker to celebrate our victory?

It's designed by Shepard Fairey, the artist who created the iconic HOPE poster. And MoveOn's giving them away totally free--even the shipping's free.

I just got mine.

Click this link to get your free Obama sticker.

Top 10 Campaign Media Moments

2008-11-06T13:22:00.001-05:00

Message to McCain

2008-11-03T15:31:00.001-05:00

Obama Rally

2008-10-24T08:20:00.007-05:00

Bicentennial Park, Miami, Florida
October 21, 2008

Jason on platform interpreting for Miami Mayor Manny Diaz

William on platform with Barack Obama and other public figures

photos by Julie B.

The End of America

2008-10-22T12:33:00.005-05:00

A documentary film by Naomi Klein, based on her book of the same title. She's a true patriot in the traditional vein of Thomas Paine. This film highlights the similarities between certain recent activites in the United States with those that brought Germany to its National Socialist era.

Visit My America Project for more information.

Brothers in Arms

2008-10-16T12:30:00.007-05:00

Elliot Cowan, the creator of Boxhead & Roundhead, gives me something special...words escape me; inspiration, animus,insight... I feel the different parts of me coming together when I see his stuff and I want to see more:

Pia Refero

2008-10-15T11:19:00.008-05:00

About 3 minutes and 35 seconds into this CNN video friend Sean posted the best question that was posed to Ralph Nader (third party Presidential candidate):

I happened to catch it while I was at the gym when I saw Sean's screen name come up on the t.v.; the response from Nader was the answer that most of us, hopefully, were hoping to hear.

Beauty Pagent Queen or VP Candidate?

2008-10-11T19:51:00.002-05:00

Equivalents

2008-10-11T19:40:00.001-05:00

thanks Todd

Iconic

2008-10-11T09:51:00.000-05:00

Fair and Balanced

2008-10-11T09:21:00.002-05:00

You go, FOX!

Guilt by Association

2008-10-09T13:53:00.001-05:00

The Keating Five Scandal

2008-10-09T11:21:00.006-05:00

Breaking down the facts on McCain's role

That One...

2008-10-08T13:45:00.000-05:00

That Won

Vet to Vet

2008-10-08T12:58:00.003-05:00

VoteVets.org

One hand giveth...

2008-10-08T09:52:00.000-05:00

Who said the following?...

2008-10-07T16:18:00.010-05:00

"My government is my worst enemy. I'm going to fight them with any means at hand."

Got a guess?...it was Joe Vogler, founder of the Alaska Independence Party. Vogler also owns the following gem,

"I'm an Alaskan, not an American. I've got no use for America or her damned institutions."

You know this party. It's the same one that Sarah Palin's husband belonged to...omg, by her own admission, she, herself, must be a terrorists!!

Poor Sarah...is her reward in heaven? ... cause, it sure ain't on this planet.

By Any Measure, Sarah Palin is a Radical Political and Religious Extremist

Director Oliver Stone presents

2008-10-07T12:37:00.003-05:00

sweet

John McCAin & the Making of a Financial Crisis

2008-10-06T19:59:00.002-05:00

Keating Economics...to learn more.

"True mavericks don't brand themselves" Maureen Dowd

2008-10-06T12:21:00.005-05:00

So, Sarah Palin reads...The New York Times...maybe she read the following column by Maureen Dowd: Sarah’s Pompom Palaver

Maverick?...Really?

2008-10-06T09:12:00.004-05:00

Mishaps Mark John McCain's Record As Naval Aviator
A Pal Around McCain

RollingStone

2008-10-05T10:07:00.005-05:00

Make-Believe Maverick

Five Myths About John McCain

Linear Regression

2008-10-03T09:39:00.008-05:00

Finding the trend line amidst a scatter plot of polls...

...Election Day approaches.

Need a Global Mind

2008-10-01T17:16:00.000-05:00

Economic Disaster

2008-09-30T12:48:00.000-05:00

My Friends

2008-09-25T12:21:00.001-05:00

The Ring

2008-09-25T10:43:00.001-05:00

TheRealMcCain

2008-09-24T22:30:00.002-05:00

Staying On Message

2008-09-12T10:04:00.005-05:00

The Obama campaign's response to distortions made by team McCain.

"Electing John McCain and Sarah Palin for four more years of Bush is no change at all. Now that's a pig in lipstick the American people can't afford."

Earmark Queen

2008-09-10T17:46:00.010-05:00

Put lipstick on a pig...

...it's still a pig.

Dave Letterman tonight hosts Barack Obama who readily explains that Palin obviously is the lipstick on McCain's policies. Dress the pig up all you want...it's still a pig. No worse than what McCain said about "Hillary Care." And why are we hearing all this fake outrage from the McCain campaign? Avoiding issues, perhaps? What else is new? McSame old stuff...

I'm hoping for tonight's Top Ten, Dave will suggest other ways McCain can dress a pig.

The Corporation

2008-09-08T14:45:00.004-05:00

Birth

Legal Person

Case Histories

Pathology of Commerce

Mindset

Boundary Crisis

Basic Training

Perception Management

Advancing the Front

Unsettling Accounts

Expansion Plan

Hostile Takeover

Psychotherapies

Prognosis

Whose Plan Is Palin?

2008-09-08T14:32:00.003-05:00

So, who actually picked Sarah Palin?

A presidential race without precedent

Palin brings McCains'critics rushing to his side

Leggo My Eggo

2008-09-04T07:55:00.017-05:00

orionian for : It's Waffle-time!!

Great episode last night on the Daily Show! ... I still don't know which part was my favorite because everything was so salient and laughable... it just has to be taken in as a whole. I suppose the most funniest parts revealed the flip-flopping of loser pundits and candidates who were at one time "for something before they were against it" or "against something before they were for it".

What this all demonstrates for people in the thinking world is that those in this vein posture themselves as these special people who write the rules for everyone that apparently don't apply to themselves. For them, breaking the rules demands no accountability because they can do whatever god-damned thing they want and in the end they can pray for forgiveness...their sins washed away. Hallelujah!

So... during the Daily Show segment with Newt Gingrich, John Stewart points out that from Sarah Palin's perspective, being pro-choice is apparently good enough for her own daughter but not for everyone else. In her own words, it's her daughter's decision to allow the embryo to full term. Would it be that everyone else be afforded the same respect. Bringing her daughter's condition into this race is commensurate with discussing the issues at hand.

Watch and enjoy

Republicans Slam Palin

Here's the story. In all fairness, Peggy Noonan (former speechwriter for Ronald Reagan and columnist for the Wall Street Journal) did later render an apology... good for her!

Another Broken Commandment

2008-09-02T09:10:00.023-05:00

With the start of what has become the Republican Sideshow in Minnesota this week the Atlantic Ocean has become a boiler plate on this the 3rd anniversary of Hurricane Katrina... Now, we have hurricanes Gustav and Hannah, as well as tropical storms Ike and Josephine.

If anyone were to cite one of several "authorities" and their mystic declarations about natural catastrophes on this planet... then the only explanation must be that God is really pissed off at those who have used his name in vain (third commandment).

Dobson Crony Prays For Rain

Did God answered their prayers?

Obama's Acceptance Speech

It's the Movies!!!

2008-08-24T08:44:00.005-05:00

Pre-election period is fast approaching and some fun movies coming out...

Crawford

Religulous

...good fair for those desirous of an alternative to attack ads seen on the corporate media.

Tropical Storm Fay Rain

2008-08-19T19:09:00.013-05:00

Yesterday and today
The city closed all the schools for Tropical Storm Fay...
She grazed us like a bullet that scrapes the elbow ...
Reminding us of the potential for a more than fairly windy day...
Reminding us that the white space airwave must take hold.

I like the wind in my face.
Especially if it isn't too cold...which here, it's not.
We were in the path of bands that swing around Fay's quadrant I...
Picking up gulf stream waters like helio-buckets of fire-quenching thirst...
Bands that dump a lot of rain...

Tomorrow?

These recent You Tube uploads bring it all to bare:

You can't stop the rain

The Cone of Silence

2008-08-18T10:14:00.012-05:00

Pastor Rick Warren of the Saddleback Church held a nationally televised evangelical forum that involved the two Presidential candidates in separate interviews, back-to-back. This was done to reveal their religious natures (as if that needed to be done ). This Pastor Warren had crossed his heart and hoped to die, guaranteeing to his congregation, and all America, that McCain was placed in a cone-of-silence. That way, he would posses no unfair advantage hearing the questions an hour before he himself was to answer them. Obama was first; decided by a toss of the coin.

Now, we hear that there was no cone-of-silence; that, during Obama's interview, McCain was actually in his motorcade on his way to the event, amongst his campaign staff...so, the Pastor Warren's claim was an apparent lie. McCain wasn't even in the building. In the version that Warren goes by, he broke the eighth commandment... and they have probably already switched the coin with a real one.

Too bad this was not an event with broader informative implications. It could have been so much more than what it pretended to be... To be fair and not so balanced (check out the comments)...Instead, the cone-of-silence was brought down on us all.

McCain: Oil Companies First!!

2008-08-07T09:48:00.011-05:00

This above photo is from a recent Miami New Times report and shows that the Staight Talking Express, while in town, had made a right hand turn from a left turn lane and slammed up against a smaller vehicle. (Maybe the tires on the bus weren't properly inflated?) Apparently, the old guy wasn't driving the bus...since his ability to speak for his campaign is suspect:

He wasn't even in town.
The flip-flopper does, however, speak for the oil companies.

Blood-suckers

2008-07-18T06:58:00.005-05:00

Abandoned pools due to home foreclosures are now breeding grounds for the West Nile Virus which goes to show you that if the government doesn't do its duty, the environment sure will.

In light of the recent Supreme Court ruling, lawyers representing the NRA are attacking ordinances that place restrictions on gun ownership in homes.

Remember: Guns don't kill people...blood-suckers do.

Glass houses...

2008-06-23T08:01:00.003-05:00

and the people who live in them.

LetSibelEdmondsSpeak.blogspot.com

2008-06-18T07:14:00.002-05:00

Scott Horton's interview with Sibel Edmonds June 12, 2008 transcripted on AntiWar.com

God Hates Fags (any everyone else)

2008-06-16T07:40:00.008-05:00

The almighty Mr. "Thank God for 911" Fred Phelps and his cadre of inbreds are protesting the funeral of Tim Russert because

he "chose himself and his idols" over God.

Next on their list, according to the Monterey Herald, this gang will be protesting at the funeral of the two Boy Scouts killed by the tornado in Iowa because

that's how God takes care of evildoers...punish 'em with a maelstrom.

Bush-Nazi Connection

2008-06-02T18:02:00.008-05:00

To the ears of the gods...

2008-06-02T17:19:00.002-05:00

...and even the Washington Post is reporting this Gallup finding that 6 in 10 Americans prefer our U.S President talk with their Iranian President.

Happy Mother's Day

2008-05-11T09:43:00.002-05:00

M

2008-05-11T09:43:00.001-05:00

What Goes Around...

2008-05-08T15:59:00.010-05:00

...comes around to the Reverend Rod Parsley. Are we finally going to witness McCain's turn to throw his "spiritual advisor" under the bus? The pure drudgery of the corporate media's multiplicity of redundancy dealing with Obama and the good Reverend Jeremiah Wright was such a success for them.

This should be good for a news cycle or two, ya think?

ride

2008-05-06T18:40:00.002-05:00

;) mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...>

2008-05-06T17:57:00.002-05:00

Thank you Wake Up From Your Slumber

That's $1,385 a Second...

2008-05-01T16:38:00.004-05:00

Crocodile tears for Exxon. They fell short of their estimate regarding profits for the current quarter. Actual profits came to only $10,890,000,000 and didn't do as well as last quarter's $11,600,000,000. I guess we weren't all out there buying as much gas as they thought we would.

Body of War

2008-04-25T06:48:00.003-05:00

Body of War

Mugshot du jour

2008-04-18T12:04:00.003-05:00

Silent fim star Lon Chaney, Sr. was known as the "The Man of a Thousand Faces" and lived up to it. He was the hearing son of Deaf parents and seeing his expressions one can see why he was able to communicate volumes with just his face. Facial grammar is an often ignored aspect of communication but it renders loads as a special aspect of body language. Look at these mugshots worth a thousand words.

Trust Us?

2008-04-17T09:32:00.002-05:00

The best thing here about this interview with George Stephanopoulos is when Stephen Hadley, Bush's NSA, says, don't trust us. It's the most honest thing he's said todate.

Aspirations of Redundancy

2008-03-28T07:24:00.007-05:00

I feel so safe now knowing that I can get on a plane and don't have to worry about a terrorist stabbing me, the pilot, or anyone else with a nipple ring ...whew!!

Way to hang in there TSA.

orion: the naked eye

Book-burning Day in Florida *

Sirius,

Large Hadron Collider T-Shirt Demands a Flat Stomach

Signing Up For Stop Loss?...

How the !*#@ is this a magazine?

The Event Horizon...

Sign of The Times?

Still Standing?

Borna Sammak

The Great Prelude...

Don't Forget to Breathe

Does the Moon have water?

"a whining sense of entitlement"

The Real Truth Behind the Public Option

Carl Pope and Van Jones

"I Don't Recall"

$187 Million

The Real Death Panels

"Let them define themselves." Maxine Waters

It Is Official!

Raising the Hoop

Innocense Doesn't Matter

Real Healthcare

Commentary: Thunderf00t with Ray Comfort

Take a close look at our constitution...

When it rains...it pours.

Media Wars

In Superposition...

Generations of Matter

particle heaven

Light Embedded

Linus Pauling

LHC

Fairytale

Fehrenbach on Maddow

The NCNA Party

Good Time For A...

One lump or two?

Fish Out Of Water

Closer to Dark Matter

The Big Deal About Science

Sleepwalking?

Come out, come out...wherever you are

Burning Man Photos

Bunny, Jason and Allyne

Free Obama Sticker

Top 10 Campaign Media Moments

Message to McCain

More Obama Rally Video

Obama Rally

The End of America

Brothers in Arms

Pia Refero

Beauty Pagent Queen or VP Candidate?

Equivalents

Iconic

Fair and Balanced

Guilt by Association

The Keating Five Scandal

That One...

Vet to Vet

One hand giveth...

Who said the following?...

Director Oliver Stone presents

John McCAin & the Making of a Financial Crisis

"True mavericks don't brand themselves" Maureen Dowd

Maverick?...Really?

RollingStone

Linear Regression

Need a Global Mind

Economic Disaster

My Friends

The Ring

TheRealMcCain

Staying On Message

Earmark Queen

The Corporation

Whose Plan Is Palin?

Leggo My Eggo