Tide Shifts: Some States Now Give More Money To Public Television
http://billmoyers.com/***In post-recession reversal, some states give more money to public television. Elizabeth Jensen in The New York Times.***
View ArticleLincoln falsehood. What else don't conservatives know?
The current generation of American conservatives circulates falsehood more effectively than The Prince of Darkness.http://www.snopes.com/quotes/lincoln/prosperity.aspThis same taurine excrement has...
View ArticleThe Confederacy Is Alive And Unwell
The United States -- especially The Bible Belt -- has been much too indulgent exculpating itself for the sins of slavery."Turn the tables" and white trash meth heads would have their own "Heritage...
View ArticleCalifornia Roars Past Obamacare Enrolllment Goal. As CA Goes, So Goes The Nation
California has absolutely blown through its goal for enrollments in Obamacare.Covered California hit a milestone late Friday of one million people signed up for coverage in the state’s new health...
View ArticleWeird Enuf Fer Ya? News From Barbaria: #30
Republicans are angry about the poor getting food ... so, who are these people?FreedomWorks announces new list of preferred Freedom MoronsCalifornia hits huge Obamacare landmarkWorking poverty is a hot...
View ArticleWeird Enuf Fer Ya? News From Barbaria: #31
Southern Baptist official: The words ‘zygote’ and ‘embryo’ oppress unborn personsNeil deGrasse Tyson is really starting to scare conservativesTX man hit, killed by pickup truck in argument over ending...
View ArticleFrontline: My Favorite Epidodes
Alan: I've been watching a lot of Frontline lately. All of their productions are freely streamable at the Frontline website. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/view/The Frontline episodes that...
View ArticleThe Borowitz Report: Sanctions Take Effect; U.S. Freezes Putin's Netflix Account
WASHINGTON — In what was described as a major ramping up of sanctions, Secretary of State John Kerry announced on Tuesday that the United States had frozen Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Netflix...
View ArticleThomas Merton: Dread As A Form Of Infidelity
"(Dread is) an infidelity to a personal demand of which one is at least dimly aware: the failure to meet a challenge, to fulfill a certain possibility, which demands to be met and fulfilled. The price...
View ArticleIrish Joke
The judge says to a double-homicide defendant, "You're charged with beating your wife to death with a hammer."A voice in the back of the courtroom yells out, "You Bastard!"The judge continues, "You're...
View ArticleWeird Enuf Fer Ya? News From Barbaria: #32
"Any Religion That Needs Fear To Thrive Is Bad Religion"http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/02/religion-that-needs-fear-to.html***Pat Robertson: Woman’s cancer is her own fault for not forgiving...
View ArticleSave a Brain, Make a Checklist
New research says surgical checklists don't actually save lives. They do, though.JAMES HAMBLINMAR 17 2014On at least three occasions in 2007, surgeons at one Rhode Island hospital operated on the wrong...
View ArticleSaturated Fat Does Not Cause Heart Disease, Cambridge University Research Finds
Fatty fish are good for you, but fish oil extracts are not.***GUIDELINES urging people to eat less “unhealthy” fat may be too simplistic, new research suggests.An international study, led by Dr Rajiv...
View ArticleRemembering Four Heroes Of The Holocaust
The sign "Arbeit macht frei" (Work makes you free) is pictured at the main gate of the former Auschwitz concentration camp.(REUTERS)They pulled off the greatest escape in human history – from a Nazi...
View ArticleTexas Taken From Mexico By Illegal Immigrants Seeking To Extend American Slavery
Texas rancher Dob Cunningham (right) stands on the edge of his 800-acre ranch in Quemado, Texas, which touches the Rio Grande. On the other side, Mexico.Audio File and More Comments:...
View ArticleNew Book Sees Obamacare As Short-Term Disaster... With A Blue Sky Future
Ezekiel Emanuel of the University of PennsylvaniaWhy a complex, unjust, expensive, error-prone system might end up providing the best health careBY HAROLD POLLACKMarch 18Ezekiel Emanuel is Vice Provost...
View ArticleLevin And McCain Tell Department Of Justice To Extradite Swiss bankers
Swiss BankersToo powerful to punish.***BY DANIELLE DOUGLASMarch 19, 2014Somewhere in Switzerland, more than 50 indicted bankers and financial advisers who helped wealthy Americans hide billions of...
View ArticleNonsense!
"The Paranoid Style In American Politics"http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/01/paranoid-style-in-american-politics-by.html***"The United States of...
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