Human Affairs
Ronald Reagan – All Hat
by Nick Glossop on February 11, 2011
Funnily enough, I was looking for this very book last weekend as a way of marking the Reagan centennial. Succinctly, and with sad humor and painful truth, The Clothes Have No Emperor chronicles the galoiocracy (rule by the ridiculous) that was the Reagan years, marking (for just one example) the day on which ketchup was designated a vegetable in order that fast food junk could be fed as school …
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Bingo!–How Glen Beck and Barack Obama are the Same Guy
by Matthew Payne on February 11, 2011
Here’s a very nice post at Avedon Carol’s Sideshow that nicely sums up what is going on with American politics. While he finds far more identity with the political program of the “change you can believe in” crew with the Insane Right Clown Possie than I am comfortable with positing, the fact of the matter is that the spectrum of ideology in the American political scene runs the gamut from …
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Robot Jim And Vampire Joe
by Nick Glossop on February 10, 2011
In case you missed it, NewSouth Books is putting out a version of Huckleberry Finn with the ‘N-word’ changed to ‘slave’ (which is hardly a step up, as has been observed by funnier people than me) coupled with a version of Tom Sawyer with the ‘Injun Joe’ problem likewise fixed. Once again I suspect that if it was just a matter of ‘Injun Joe’ no one would be much bothering. …
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This Is Your Brain On Dieting
by Desiree Schell on February 10, 2011
There’s a lot of evidence suggesting that dieting isn’t particularly good at helping maintain long term weight loss. Now, a new study hints at a possible cause. Dieting might be making lots of unpleasant, stressy changes in your brain, that could linger long after you’ve gained back whatever weight you managed to take off.
Over at Neurotic Physiology, Scicurious digs into the research, which suggests that mice who …
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Mr. Obama’s New Plan for Fiscal Responsibility
by Matthew Payne on February 10, 2011
To screw the poor. It’s not like he hasn’t done it before (you know, cutting taxes on the top 2% while effectively raising the burden on working poor). I mean, it’s not like we have a crisis with poverty or anything. It’s hard to imagine, I know, that anyone will suffer from such cuts.
But that’s this “liberal” admiministration’s MO. It’s quite clear that their effort to …
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Bank of America Pinkertons Target Glen Greenwald
by Matthew Payne on February 9, 2011
UPDATE: So, apparently the Pinkertons were hired by the Chamber of Commerce as well to destroy liberal groups with various dirty tricks. Nice. We’re all living in Nixonland. And don’t expect a government investigation–the Justice Department recommended these thugs (spying on people’s children–ewwhh. There’s some sick fucks) so I doubt they’ll want to investigate the black mail, sabotage, invasion of privacy and conspiracy. Fortunately, I’m sure Think Progress will …
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Shit – Meet Fan
by Matthew Payne on February 9, 2011
This is not good news. Not unexpected of course. The louder people have been warning about “peak oil” the more they have been dismissed by political and industry hacks as alarmists. This news makes it quite clear why Obama favors offshore drilling (which will happen despite the ecological devastation), why Medvedev is signing on to Arctic drilling with Chevron and why China is making such a huge investment in …
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Juan Cole on BlogTalk Radio
by Nick Glossop on February 8, 2011
Juan Cole was interviewed Feb. 7 by Susie Madrak for Virtually Speaking on BlogTalk Radio. If you want to get up to speed on the Middle East, media and matters tangential, press play. The meat of the interview comes in the second half.
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Yes We Can Revolt (& forget will.i.am)
by Andrew Loewen on February 8, 2011
Montreal’s The Narcicyst and other notable Arab hip-hop and R&B artists have 
collaborated on the track “#Jan25″ in solidarity with the revolutionary Egyptian youth movements. So much more inspiring than the milquetoast feelgoodism of will.i.am and crew’s paean (“Yes We Can”) to the neoliberal POTUS to be. Chorus isn’t really my bag but the verses give me shivers.
It just went up today; let’s make it viral, friends.
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Universal Flu Shot: From Theory to (Almost) Practice
by Desiree Schell on February 8, 2011
Back in July of 2010, “Good Morning America” aired this segment, speculating about the possibility of a comprehensive vaccine that would prevent infection by every strain of flu. If a virus can be said to have an ass, this hypothetical shot would stop messing around kicking each one individually, and instead kick every flu’s ass all at once.
Now, researchers at Oxford University have successfully tested just such a …
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