Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Hopping around the rally stage like a drunken monkey, Elon Musk — the world’s most awkward man — […]
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Oceans acidifying faster than anytime in last 300 million Years
About 55 million years ago, in the Eocene, volcanic activity spewed enormous amounts of carbon dioxide into the air. The earth warmed by 4-5 degrees […]
Omar Khayyan (49)
In monasteries, seminaries, retreats and synagogues, they fear hell and seek paradise. Those who know the mysteries of God never let that seed be planted […]
Tomgram: Andy Kroll, The Unlikely Oracle of Occupy Wall Street
When Jonathan Schell’s The Unconquerable World, a meditation on the history and power of nonviolent action, was published in 2003, the timing could not have been worse…
Limbaugh and the best argument for Birth Control
Best argument for birth control: If Rush Limbaugh’s mother had used it, imagine how much better the world would be.
Mark Twain on Courage
Dear President Obama: On Iran, Listen to the Israelis, not the Likud
It is often the case in democratic societies that reasonable people get saddled with extremist governments. Israel is in such a situation at the moment. […]
Dear MSM: Andrew Breitbart was not a Blogger
Dear Mainstream Media: Andrew Breitbart was not a blogger. He was a political trickster, a serial frame-up artist, a con man, a fraud, a flimflam […]
Hizbullah: Israeli attack on Iran would “ignite the region”
Sheikh Naim Qassem, the number two man in Lebanon’s Hizbullah, told Reuters on Wednesday that any Israeli strike on Iran would spin out of control […]
Mark Twain on Education
Does this make you think of anyone in the news these days?