Cal-Berkeley Gets Serious About Locating Alien Spacecraft
FROM UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY - Geoff Marcy hopes instruments at the Keck Observatory in Hawaii will spot an errant laser beam flashing from a distant star system.By Peter Brannen,...
View ArticleWendell Berry and Human Blindness
Dear Fred,Thanks again for your commentary and encouragement.With few (if any) exceptions, blindness is built into the human condition. Who would dare the journey if newborns saw pain in the round and...
View ArticleWhy No One Cares About the White Jesus of Mitt Romney's Mormonism
Posted: 09/09/2012During the middle of the Civil Rights movement, Mormons placed an 11-foot-tall white Jesus with an exposed powerful chest at the center of Salt Lake City. Christus, as he was...
View ArticleBlume's Blog: "The Best We Have"
Monday, July 22, 2013Commentary: The Best We HaveSometimes what you want to do is curate, to use that awfully pretentious Huffpo word. Sometimes you want to point to writers and thinkers who provide...
View Article83% Hispanic Voters Want Immigration Bill With Path To Citizenship
Jose Luis Magana/Reuters -Demonstrators march against amnesty for immigrants in the U.S. illegally during a July 15 rally against the immigration reform bill in Washington.By Jon Cohen and Dan BalzJuly...
View ArticleBill Maher rips into GOP anti-intellectuals with advanced degrees
byBruinKidFollow 95 Comments Last night, Bill Maher closed the show by ripping into the anti-intellectuals in the GOP who actually have advanced scientific degrees. (Video at...
View ArticleBill Maher - America's Craziest Congresspeople 2013
America' Craziest Congress Peoplehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAc6xzo8_Aw
View ArticleBill Maher: Republicans Always Harbor The Same Fear
Alan: Is this a classic case of projection, or what?
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"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."Devout Christian, Blaise Pascalhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaise_Pascal
View ArticleDonald Trump: Just sayin'...
"Among the Very Rich you will never find a really generous man, even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egoistic, secretive, dry as old...
View ArticleBill Maher Rips Ignorant Americans Over Opposition To Science
Bill Maher Rips Ignorant Americans Over Oppostion To Sciencehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvT1nTvF5ps***"The Danger Of Science Denial" TED Talk by Michael...
View ArticleTrayvon Martin Verdict Reveals Stark Racial Gaps
"George Zimmerman: Not Guilty" http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/07/george-zimmerman-not-guilty.html***Read related article.This Washington Post-ABC News poll was conducted by telephone July...
View ArticleNeutrinos Caught Shape-Shifting Among Three Physical Forms
A candidate electron neutrino appears in the Super Kamiokande particle detector in Japan like this. In July 2013 researchers announced they'd definitively measured muon neutrinos oscillating flavor...
View ArticleModerate Republicans Marooned In Their Own Party. (Christian Science Monitor)
Stanley Greenberg, chairman of Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research and a founder of Democracy Corps, speaks at a 2011 Monitor breakfast in Washington. He released a new survey about the GOP at a...
View Article"(We all) deserve hanging ten times over." Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaignehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_de_Montaigne***"There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in...
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