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ClaudeMonet
1/02/11 9:03:02 pmre: #154 ggt Reading actual books, some of which I haven't touched in years. I love the feel of books; reading them is both an intellectual and tactile pleasure. Doing less theater. The crap/pleasure ratio has swung the wrong way ...

Charles Johnson

12/31/10 8:49:02 pmFriday, December 31, 2010 at 8:49 pm PST • Views: 23,217

Here’s an open thread as 1/1/11 begins to dawn across America…

Nontroversy of the Year Nominations

sglewis
1/03/11 2:07:59 pmNontroversy of the year: iPhone 4 antennagate! Oops, wrong blog!

Charles Johnson

12/31/10 3:31:49 pmFriday, December 31, 2010 at 3:31 pm PST • Views: 23,447

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Fox News Stokes the Climate Change Denial Machine

Eclectic Cyborg
12/31/10 5:27:48 pmI think the major problem is a lack of good science education. I am college educated, I have two degrees, but I really don't know much about science. In Canada when I was in high school we were required to ...

Charles Johnson

12/31/10 11:43:23 amFriday, December 31, 2010 at 11:43 am PST • Views: 28,981

Judith Miller Finds a New Home

(I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was)
12/31/10 1:28:31 pmre: #140 SanFranciscoZionist Could have to do with the religious angle.

Charles Johnson

12/31/10 10:17:03 amFriday, December 31, 2010 at 10:17 am PST • Views: 21,576

Overnight Open Thread

albusteve
12/31/10 10:43:41 amre: #267 marjoriemoon I've donned my armor

Charles Johnson

12/30/10 10:28:41 pmThursday, December 30, 2010 at 10:28 pm PST • Views: 21,546

Wired Journalists Say Chat Transcripts Contain ‘Nothing Newsworthy’

ihateronpaul
12/31/10 9:18:13 amI'm impressed by the amount of hyperventilation that greenwald has been doing...haaha

Charles Johnson

12/30/10 2:05:41 pmThursday, December 30, 2010 at 2:05 pm PST • Views: 26,039

Seven in 10 Americans See Religion Losing Influence

S'latch
12/31/10 9:19:10 amI think your analysis of that poll is correct. Thanks.

Charles Johnson

12/30/10 12:49:12 pmThursday, December 30, 2010 at 12:49 pm PST • Views: 23,209

Pamela Geller Spews Hatred at Jewish Week

ihateronpaul
12/31/10 9:18:59 amShame on geller and anyone that thinks that supporting her is an "ends justify the means" type of situation

Charles Johnson

12/30/10 10:38:03 amThursday, December 30, 2010 at 10:38 am PST • Views: 22,914

Christine O’Donnell: Biden and the Liberals Are Out to Get Me

(I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was)
1/02/11 5:22:17 amre: #32 Obdicut Sure. Again, I am trying to use the term in a neutral way, not in order to fight political battles. Don't try to straw-man the nefarious meaning on me! Why do you believe that I have a ...

Charles Johnson

12/30/10 9:37:14 amThursday, December 30, 2010 at 9:37 am PST • Views: 21,836

Overnight Open Thread

Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)
12/30/10 10:53:28 amre: #349 sattv4u2 The list of what it includes is extremely long. Military action, political sanctions, support for internal revolution, economic sanctions, seizure of assets, etc. Can you explain why you want to know everything that it includes, and why ...

Charles Johnson

12/29/10 10:27:28 pmWednesday, December 29, 2010 at 10:27 pm PST • Views: 21,420

Chris Whitley: O God My Heart Is Ready

chbartle
12/30/10 1:40:04 pmthis is just excellent. I hear some Captain Beefheart cadences/chaos here.

Charles Johnson

12/29/10 5:06:02 pmWednesday, December 29, 2010 at 5:06 pm PST • Views: 21,799

FBI Raids Texas Business in Criminal Probe of Pro-Wikileaks DOS Attacks

Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)
12/30/10 9:13:56 amre: #441 lostlakehiker No, it's because there's not a consensus. Correlation is not causation, no matter how much you want it to be.

Charles Johnson

12/29/10 2:09:47 pmWednesday, December 29, 2010 at 2:09 pm PST • Views: 24,343

The Window Opens

Varek Raith
12/29/10 2:19:30 pmre: #216 Walter L. Newton "The bard is a standard playable character class in many editions of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.[1] The bard class is versatile, capable of combat and of magic (Divine magic in earlier editions, ...

Charles Johnson

12/29/10 12:12:34 pmWednesday, December 29, 2010 at 12:12 pm PST • Views: 19,878

Feds Investigate Christine O’Donnell’s Campaign Finances

Ming
12/30/10 9:30:27 amYesterday, I saw a reporter on CNN trying to get Christine O'Donnell to answer a simple question. I was bothered by how open and clear was her contempt for the media. She made it perfectly clear that one of the ...

Charles Johnson

12/29/10 11:33:57 amWednesday, December 29, 2010 at 11:33 am PST • Views: 21,684

Floyd Abrams: Wikileaks is Not Like the Pentagon Papers

Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)
12/29/10 12:56:38 pmre: #39 Noyjinh Then state what you think is fair, and make your case.

Charles Johnson

12/29/10 10:43:35 amWednesday, December 29, 2010 at 10:43 am PST • Views: 19,419

Religious Right Bails on CPAC (or, Fear of a Gay Planet)

Lidane
12/29/10 2:56:13 pmre: #34 ggt The fact that they're still bending over backwards for the John Birch Society negates any good that might come from pissing off the religious right. This is a case of one step forward, a hundred steps back. ...

Charles Johnson

12/29/10 9:27:42 amWednesday, December 29, 2010 at 9:27 am PST • Views: 16,926

Wired Responds to Glenn Greenwald’s Accusations

butterick
12/30/10 7:34:32 amThe plot thickens... or thins, maybe - wired.com: Lamo/Manning Wikileaks chat logs contain no unpublished references to Assange or private servers Sorry if someone already posted that - this is a pretty big thread!

Charles Johnson

12/28/10 6:33:59 pmTuesday, December 28, 2010 at 6:33 pm PST • Views: 24,102

Onion: Kim Jong-Il Agrees to End Nuclear Program

researchok
12/29/10 12:12:10 amCan't sleep.

Charles Johnson

12/28/10 3:00:28 pmTuesday, December 28, 2010 at 3:00 pm PST • Views: 20,898

Video: Worst City Workers of the Year

mich-again
12/28/10 9:44:42 pmI'm guessing on the insurance form it will say "Act of God" for the cause. The city probably has some obscure line of code that prohibits parking on the street in a snow emergency. Kind of like how your windows ...

Charles Johnson

12/28/10 11:44:08 amTuesday, December 28, 2010 at 11:44 am PST • Views: 23,136

Irony Meter Breaks: 4chan Down Due to DOS Attack

Hombre McBacon
12/28/10 2:01:39 pmThis is a perfect example of why I'm no longer a libertarian.

Charles Johnson

12/28/10 10:42:24 amTuesday, December 28, 2010 at 10:42 am PST • Views: 20,764