Friday, October 31, 2014
Suspect in Phoenix 'upskirt' incident ID'd as Clarkdale man - CBS 5 - KPHO
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Thursday, October 30, 2014
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Saturday, October 25, 2014
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Saturday, October 18, 2014
Poll tax in Texas
http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/18/politics/texas-voter-id-law/index.html
---Steve
Friday, October 17, 2014
why_men_love_war
n wrote that war is the enduring condition of twentieth-century man. He was only partly right. War is the enduring condition of man, period. Men have gone to war over everything from Helen of Troy to Jenkins's ear. Two million Frenchmen and Englishmen died in muddy trenches in World War I because a student shot an archduke. The truth is, the reasons don't matter. There is a reason for every war and a war for every reason.
Scott Brown: We Wouldn’t Have Ebola If Mitt Was President | Wonkette
Why don't you leave the grown-ups to talk about how to deal with Ebola, and you can stick to what you know: hanging out with the young Republicans and giving free beer to the co-eds at the college tailgate parties, where the cool kids talk about the very issues you want to focus on,
Read more at http://wonkette.com/563687/scott-brown-we-wouldnt-have-ebola-if-mitt-was-president#3mxHHaQjfHtJA0sw.99
---Steve
Thursday, October 16, 2014
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Sunday, October 12, 2014
The idea that the Quran is God’s literal and most perfect word
We can continue to be in denial and claim that ISIS's ideology has nothing to do with Islam, hoping to dissuade the jihadis and silence the anti-Muslim bigots. Thing is, with the Quran at so many people's fingertips these days, neither the jihadis nor the anti-Muslim bigots are believing this anymore and we are simply hurting our own credibility.
If we want to really solve the problem and maybe even regain some credibility, we need leaders who are willing to put forth the idea that we have to change the way we regard the Quran. Treating the Quran as God's perfect and literal word to man is creating too much havoc.
Only when the notions of Quranic infallibility and inerrancy are challenged, will it be possible for believing Muslims to openly admit that according to literalist interpretations at least, violent and hateful passages exist in the Quran: passages that call for fighting those who don't believe in Allah, that support ISIS's ideology and help them recruit young Muslims like Aqsa Mahmood.
Saturday, October 11, 2014
Tweet from Dan Wineman (@dwineman)
Friday, October 10, 2014
Thursday, October 09, 2014
Phyllis Schlafly: Obama Intentionally Bringing In Ebola To Make America More Like Africa | Right Wing Watch
Phyllis Schlafly: Obama Intentionally Bringing In Ebola To Make America More Like Africa - See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/phyllis-schlafly-obama-intentionally-bringing-ebola-make-america-more-africa#sthash.EQ01xwzE.dpuf
---Steve
Wednesday, October 08, 2014
Monday, October 06, 2014
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Slate: The Better Call Saul Music Video Is a Great Advertisement, but a Better Song
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/10/05/better_call_saul_music_video_watch_junior_brown_perform_the_breaking_bad.html
---Steve
Sunday, October 05, 2014
Friday, October 03, 2014
New Statesman | John Gray: is religion to blame for history’s bloodiest wars?
Conventional distinctions between religious and secular belief pass over the role that belief itself plays in our lives. "We are meaning-seeking creatures," Karen Armstrong writes wisely, "and, unlike other animals, fall very easily into despair if we fail to make sense of our lives." We are unlike our animal kin in another way. Only human beings kill and die for the sake of beliefs about themselves and the nature of the world. Looking for sense in their lives, they attack others who find meaning in beliefs different from their own. The violence of faith cannot be exorcised by demonising religion. It goes with being human.
---Steve
Thursday, October 02, 2014
Slate: Climate Science Is Settled Enough
---Steve