Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 10:32:32 am
Ashton Carter It hasn't been officially announced yet, but numerous sources report that President Obama's nominee for the next Secretary of Defense will be Ashton Carter, a physicist with many years of experience in national security and defense. "Great, very highly qualified," said Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), the chairman of the ...

Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 3:03:28 pm
Vimeo For more information and stills gallery, please turn to: www.erikwernquist.com/wanderers (Just in case my website runs slow, here is a link to an imgur album version of the gallery: http://imgur.com/a/Ur5dP) Wanderers is a vision of humanity's expansion into the Solar System, based on scientific ideas and concepts of what our future ...

Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 10:33:29 am
Vimeo Here's a very cool and stylish stop-motion animated short put together from still photos. "Snooze" Featuring John Vanbeber & Laurie Bing / Kim Dawson Agency Director: Larry Oliver Director of Photography: Molly Dickson / Sisterbrother Mgmt. Mens Styling / Art Direction: Troy Steakley Stylist: Tess Wilcox / Seaminx Hair & Make-up: Ro Vielma / Kim Dawson Special ...

Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 9:58:50 am
John CookLess than two weeks after Matt Taibbi's sudden departure, today we learn of another high-profile bail-out from Glenn Greenwald's The Intercept: John Cook Is Leaving the Intercept to Return to Gawker at the End of the Year. Greenwald's post about Cook's departure is empty by-the-numbers PR-speak, revealing nothing. Which is ...

Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 6:26:45 pm
Some concepts are not really worth pursuing. For example, reclaiming the swastika as a Buddhist symbol of good fortune? Not gonna happen. Same principle applies to this well-known Montana white supremacist's attempt to launch an all-new "inclusive" Ku Klux Klan. Not gonna happen. The brand is too fucked up. John Abarr of Great ...

Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 3:22:25 pm
YouTube There's a lot of wacky inadvertently comedic stuff going on in local races this year, and here's John Oliver mining that rich motherlode of material for an extended bit from last night's Last Week Tonight.

Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 11:22:54 am
Sarah Palin's latest word salad is even more incoherent and ranty than usual -- a monumental wall of authentic wingnut gibberish. That nasty Obama guy is oppressing her again by suggesting women should have access to cheaper, better day care. (Do I even have to tell you that the Obama quote ...

Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 9:34:12 am
Former Secretary of State James Baker said today on CNN that when he was in office during the George H. W. Bush administration, he barred Benjamin Netanyahu from the State Department for saying US Middle East policy was "based on lies and distortions." Baker said that Netanyahu - then a ...

Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 9:51:33 am
YouTube Dr. Jane Goodall gives as good as she gets in this hilarious interview with John Oliver about her work with chimpanzees.

Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 8:30:45 pm
YouTube When he was 20, Ásgeir Trausti Einarsson released an album in Iceland, sung in Icelandic, with many of the words written by his father. Dýrð í dauðaþögn became the biggest-selling debut in Icelandic music history. A year or so later, he rerecorded that album in English under the name ...

Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 4:53:14 pm
Nothing creepy about this at all. This is what passes for "investigative journalism" on the right these days. Only time for 2-3 more election investigations. I went in Disguised as 45yo, this time people may lose their jobs pic.twitter.com/ihuTjpierm — James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) October 20, 2014 Democratic staffers in Colorado recently came ...

Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 5:23:03 pm
A medical correspondent for CBS News is reporting tonight that the latest person diagnosed with Ebola in Dallas, Amber Vinson, called the CDC several times before boarding a plane for Ohio to report a fever of 99.5 degrees -- but was not told to avoid flying, because her temperature wasn't ...

Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 5:53:47 pm
The Denver Post's John Frank and Lynn Bartels have a jaw-dropping report on the debate between gubernatorial candidates Gov. John Hickenlooper and his batshit crazy Republican rival Bob Beauprez, a microcosm of the sheer insanity that has taken over the GOP, not just in Colorado but across the nation. Beauprez has ...

Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 5:32:18 pm
YouTube Joe Satriani will be featured on a new episode of NPT's music series Front And Center! This hour long special was filmed recently in New York and will begin airing on October 21st. Check local listings & FrontAndCenter.com for air times The new season also includes Counting Crows, Dierks Bentley, ...

Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 10:13:48 am
Image via Shutterstock Here's a great article at Salon by Heather Digby Parton on America's messed up and often racist gun culture, and why "Open Carry" groups don't understand the factors that create police brutality like the shooting of John Crawford in an Ohio Wal-Mart. After finally being allowed to view ...

Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 11:21:56 am
[Video moved to newer post...] Yes, it's that time of the year again; the time when religious fanatics, creationists, fundamentalists, homophobic bigots and social conservatives with raging persecution complexes gather to share their psychoses at the right wing loonfest known as the Values Voter Summit. Here's a live feed from this insane ...

Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 3:06:19 pm
The family of John Crawford (the young black man gunned down in a Walmart store when police were falsely told by a 911 caller that he was pointing a gun at people in the store -- it was a BB gun) is horrified that the grand jury has decided not ...

Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 3:22:57 pm
Richard Cowen, Reuters: John Boehner Is Sick of Unemployed People That Would 'Rather Just Sit Around' Boehner then lamented "this idea that has been born, maybe out of the economy over the last couple years, that you know, I really don't have to work. I don't really want to do ...

Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 12:55:58 pm
YouTube Scotland is about to vote on whether to secede from the UK. There are solid arguments on both sides. But none of that makes bagpipes good to listen to...or does it?

Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 10:42:34 am
You may have already known that South Carolina Republican Rep. Mark Sanford was an amazingly crummy person. but the new details unearthed by Wonkette's Kaili Joy Gray take Sanford into the realm of jaw-droppingly horrible: Dead Children and a Deadbeat Dad: Mark Sanford's Sad, Sleazy Divorce Hearing Transcript. In this creepy ...

Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 1:22:01 pm
The screaming headline at right wing propaganda outlet Washington Free Beacon is just the beginning of the misleading idiocy in this article: U.S. Confirms ISIL Planning Infiltration of U.S. Southern Border. Really? Infiltration of the US border with Mexico by ISIS is actually in the planning stages? Well, uh... no, not really. ...

Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 6:21:14 pm
Tonight's screaming headline at Breitbart "News," for an article by wingnut hack John Nolte: OBAMACARE: HEALTHCARE.GOV SITE SUCCESSFULLY HACKED IN JULY. As usual, they pick a photo (probably unlicensed) that shows Obama smiling, because that never fails to enrage the knuckle-draggers. The same federal government that wants to centralize and ...

Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 11:29:54 am
Here's the latest news about the spurious, completely irrelevant lawsuit to get Michael Brown's juvenile records released: Juvenile Court: Michael Brown Had No Serious Felony Convictions, Did Not Face Felony Charges. CLAYTON • Michael Brown was never found delinquent of the juvenile equivalents of any Class A or B felony ...

Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 10:15:39 am
You may recall that National Review columnist John Derbyshire was fired from the magazine in 2012 when he published an absolutely horrible racist article at a website called Takimag. Takimag is an overtly racist and often antisemitic publication, with a list of contributors that's a who's who of white nationalists and ...

Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 9:13:56 pm
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