Some really good stuff at DailyKos.  Here are some much under-appreciated proposals to actually pay for the bailout. Better yet, these include some proposals to make the people benefiting from the bailout pay for it. Really, does it make any sense to call this a "bailout" when we are accomplishing…
I sleep with a lot of books near my bed so that I can learn by osmosis, I joke. Now, check out this surreal statement by Sarah Palin on why Alaska's proximity to Russian and Canada bolsters her foreign policy credentials. And notice another reference to the impending attack on…
...but I love science anyway. Just so you know, I'm not going to start every post with "Why I am ... ". It's an homage to famous 19th Century heretic Robert Green Ingersoll and his famous manifesto, "Why I Am An Agnostic". This style of title has also been used by, among others, Bertrand…
There was a recent online tempest about an article posted by Roger Ebert outlining, nay promoting, the Creationist way of thinking. For a few days, many were arguing about whether his site was hacked, or had he lost his rational mind? I voted for "hacked". Turns out, he was attempting…
I've read several accounts of McCain's cozy relationship with Charles Keating.  And here we are now, deja vu. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxBCAaulG-k&eurl=http://www.dailykos.com/[/youtube]