Category: Politics

Bush’s Empha­sis on Absti­nence Puts USA at Risk for Increase in HIV Cas­es A study by Peter Bear­man of Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty and Han­nah Bruck­n­er of Yale Uni­ver­si­ty found that teenagers who made vir­gin­i­ty pledges delayed the onset of sex­u­al activity…

Bush Video I know it was a mis­state­ment, but I have to think of it as a Freudi­an slip in many ways. “Our ene­mies are inno­v­a­tive and resource­ful. And so are we. They nev­er stop think­ing about new ways to harm…

“But I can’t take what is an arti­cle of faith for me and leg­is­late it or some­one who does­n’t share that arti­cle of faith, whether they be agnos­tic, athe­ist, Jew, Protes­tant, what­ev­er. I can’t do that.” Not much mys­tery as to…

World’s Small­est Polit­i­cal Quiz Post­ed because shad­owkatt want­ed to see it, so I fig­ured oth­ers might, too. EDIT: I meant to men­tion that the ques­tions are, in my opin­ion, rather slant­ed. I’d like to see a more bal­anced ver­sion of the quiz.

Do you see a pat­tern here? The ref­er­enced web­site has ref­er­ences. Those I checked seemed sol­id. Lots of chick­en­hawks on down this list. Democ­rats Richard Gephardt: Air Nation­al Guard, 1965–71. David Bonior: Staff Sgt., Air Force 1968–72. Tom Daschle: 1st Lt.,…

Again, very inter­est­ing analy­sis. I’ve def­i­nite­ly seen the same dynam­ic in more per­son­al con­texts. The Alpha Fac­tor  By Stephen Dinan Humans have evolved sophis­ti­cat­ed neur­al soft­ware that allows us to inter­pret and manip­u­late the world in new ways, cre­at­ing everything…

Cheney Speaks to the Rep­tile Brain Very inter­est­ing analy­sis, what­ev­er side of the polit­i­cal fence you’re on.