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Daily Archives: May 14th, 2007

Political Science

Monday, May 14, 2007

When he’s not coining money writing relatively drecky stuff for the movies, Randy Newman is busy writing superb songs filled with wit and irony. I’ve been a fan since my long ago college days. For no reason in particular I present for your viewing pleasure this video (not really a song) I just found, in […]

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Another general weighs in

Monday, May 14, 2007

Steadily shredding Bush’s cover story: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw4jSZLkJqA[/youtube]

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Building bridges

Monday, May 14, 2007

Alaskans sure do like bridges. Frustrated in their attempt to build one bridge to nowhere, they are not attempting to build a bridge to almost nowhere: n 2005, Congress defeated the infamous “Bridge to Nowhere” earmark spearheaded by Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK), which would have spent $200 million connecting mainland Alaska to an island home […]

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Silently longing

Monday, May 14, 2007

The Catholic Church, at least today, has a fairly good record on science. Having been burned by Galileo (figuratively that is, almost literally for him), the Church has kept a rather low profile on scientific issues. Officially, for instance, it has reluctantly accepted the scientific validity of evolution. However, that doesn’t stop it from adopting […]

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