'Serious' Question about the Hobby Lobby ruling: Can I stop paying my student...
So let's review some facts.1. The Hobby Lobby decision says essentially that people (Including Corporate People) cannot be legally forced to act in a way that violates their sincerely held religious...
View ArticleAlert! Do not drink the water in Toledo Ohio and Surrounding Areas inc. parts...
And don't give it to your pets.Local news is reporting that a Harmful Algae Bloom has contaminated the water in Lake Erie. This algae has released certain chemicals including Microcystin, a deadly...
View ArticleIf we're going to have a conversation about 2016, can we at least base it in...
We have an election coming up in three fucking months.Three.And yet again, there's a fact-free diary on the reclist going after Hillary Clinton. Clinton Derrangement Syndrome seems to be an affliction...
View ArticleThe End of Employment has come. Robots will replace all of us soon. We've got...
The Robots are coming, and if they replace everything that they're capable of replacing over the next 15-20 years, we're going to hit 65% unemployment.That isn't an exaggeration.I've been working on a...
View ArticleCrooks and Liars: Brown appears to have paid for those cigars.
In a careful examination of the video released by the Ferguson PD, it appears that Michael Brown actually paid for the cigars that the police claim he stole.Crooks and Liars:Ferguson police's attempts...
View ArticleScottish Independence can actually happen.
A lot of international observers have long written off Scottish Independence as something that simply will not happen. Financial markets, political betting websites, all of them have been expecting...
View ArticleNo, Business Insider, Russia is Not Going to Invade Scotland.
I'm shocked that this article in Business Insider wasn't printed in a satirical paper like the Onion, or the Telegraph, but unfortunately, this kind of fact-free reporting seems par for the course for...
View ArticleMy fellow Americans: Scotland is not Texas.
Scotland is a nation where the two largest parties are socialists, the Labour Party, and left-wing Progressives a la Elizabeth Warren, the Scottish National Party.And while the word "National," as in...
View ArticleI'm Live tonight with Referendum TV in Edinburgh.
I'm with a group of other Citizen Journalists here in Scotland. Referendum TV, along with Wings Over Scotland and Newsnet Scotland has been trying to inform the Scottish people while the UK Media has...
View ArticleCNBC just embarrassed the United States on live television.
CNBC's Squick Box scored an interview with Martin Shanahan the other day. Things went pretty well as long as they stuck to the subject of golf. But then, the conversation got a bit tougher. The...
View ArticleAlert: GomLab products now packaged with malware.
I just spent 30 minutes cleaning crap off of my partner's computer because of a program that I tend to stand by.I hate Windows Media Player. I hate that it talks to the internet every time I put a CD...
View Article"What makes it immoral if you lose, but not immoral if you win?"
Today is Sunday, Dec 7th 2014.Sunday, Dec 7th, 1941 was 73 years ago, today.On that day, one of the most brutal wars in human history began. It included the murder and torture of hostages by both...
View Article#GamerGate: If at first you don't succeed, lie like a republican.
So there's a situation online called "GamerGate" where a rabid mob of Men's Rights Activists have been going after women in technology simply for having the gall to exist.The leader of this movement,...
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Dear Internet: Can we please stop harassing women online?
Those of you who've been listening to me on Netroots Radio or reading my posts lately know I've been following what David Futrelle calls "The New Misogyny." I've covered Elliot Rodger and the Men's...
View ArticleCan we at least consider the history of Ukraine if we're going to talk about it?
Eternal Hope is right in the contention that military advisers in Ukraine can snowball. We're in a dangerous situation. Obama's focus on diplomacy is the right one, and I have to admit that military...
View ArticleThe history of Riots in Baltimore
One of the things that really stuck out in Monday's reporting on the unrest in Baltimore was a statement by Daryll DeSousa, the chief of patrol.He said in a press briefing that Baltimore was seeing...
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Scotland Rising: If you think the Republican wave in 2010 was big...
The polls open UK wide in one week. But the most interesting part of the election is happening in Scotland.Here's a map of Scotland in 2010 along with the most recent Polling projections for...
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I can find no evidence of the Baltimore Sun's "Purge" Claim from Monday
The Baltimore Sun made the following claim about the riots on Monday:The incident stemmed from a flier that circulated widely among city school students via social media about a “purge” to take place...
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Three Days til The Election: Labour's Stone Plinth May as Well be a Gravestone
The UK goes to the polls on Thursday to decide who their representatives in parliament will be. It's a tough election, with no party slated in the polls to take an overall majority. I'll be making a...
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Two Days to Go til the UK Election: Why there won't be a coalition
The polling is pretty clear. Neither Labour nor the Tories are expected to get an overall majority. Here's the BBC's election projection for tonight: The target is 326 seats. That's how many votes are...
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