The rain has been prayed away from Texas | The Zingularity
That’s what it feels like in the Lone Star State. Governor Rick Perry’s rain dance event, the one that brought out all the classy folks including a dominionist lunatic who…
BBC News – California man arrested for biting pet python twice
A man in the Californian city of Sacramento has been accused of biting a pet snake, leaving the python seriously hurt, police say. Police were called to the northern part…
The GOP War on Voting | Rolling Stone Politics
To hear Republicans tell it, they are waging a virtuous campaign to crack down on rampant voter fraud – a curious position for a party that managed to seize control…
Adult Industry Prepares For 2012 GOP Convention
In the meantime, Redner's got a few bones to pick with GOP policymakers. "[Republicans] keep saying this stuff about how if we tax the rich, then small businesses won't be…
BBC News – Space junk at tipping point, says report
Scientists in the US have warned Nasa that the amount of so-called space junk orbiting Earth is at tipping point. A report by the National Research Council says the debris…
Why Bachmann And Perry Are Different – The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan – The Daily Beast
What's so troubling about the phenomenon Kilgore highlights is its fundamental hostility to liberal rights. In liberal democracies, we believe that it's wrong to use the government to force people…
How the Other Half Tests
Most Americans think of the SAT as the ultimate high-stakes college admissions test, but the Accuplacer has more real claim to the title. (As it happens, the same company, the…
Picture of the Day
From NASA. This is the view of our planet and the moon, as seen from the latest space probe, Juno, on it's way to Jupiter. This image was taken August…