It is better to send in the Peace Corps than the Marine Corp... ....Teddy Kennedy -----------------------
“Evolution is a fact. Beyond reasonable doubt, beyond serious doubt, beyond sane, informed, intelligent doubt, beyond doubt evolution is a fact” ....Richard Dawkins
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You campaigned for them, voted for them, got them into office. Now hold their feet to the fire

Try to Contain Yourselves, Ladies! He’s on the Loose!

Somewhat shopworn, $74K lighter in the bank, about to be unemployed and still possibly facing criminal charges. All the single ladies, line up for Mr. South Carolina!

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford has closed two chapters of his life, agreeing to pay $74,000 in fines to resolve ethics charges brought against him after last summer’s [...]

“Let’s not pretend they’re a news network”

Like Alan Grayson, Anita Dunn was a “Huh? Who?” name to most liberals a few weeks ago. But like Congressman Grayson, she’ll be a star by noon.

That’s what happens when someone in the Democratic party finds the intestinal fortitude to tell the truth about the GOP and their fanboys.

Goodbye, Whole Foods! It’s been a slice.

It surprises most city dwellers we know to learn how hard it is for us in farm country to buy good fresh produce locally.  That’s because this is corn and soybeans country and most folks don’t realize that 98% of the soybeans and 80% of the corn grown in the United States is the type [...]

Let’s turn down the lights and put on our jammies. Maybe then Texas will go.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-perry18-2009may18,0,3281558.story

Red State Porn Dogs

Is anyone really surprised by this?  Of course not!

Americans may paint themselves in increasingly bright shades of red and blue, but new research finds one thing that varies little across the nation: the liking for online pornography.

A new nationwide study (pdf) of anonymised credit-card receipts from a major online adult entertainment provider finds little variation [...]

FBI seeks moles to spy on vegan potlucks???!!!??? Well, they better bring something good to eat.

Can this be true?  Are the Keystone Kops running the FBI???!!??

Having been vegan for many years and having attended quite a few of these things, let me tell you the conversation is about food, food, and food.  The most subversive thing I ever heard was the suggestion to try lentil soup made without garlic.  Heresy, [...]

If he was a gas station owner instead of mayor, he’d still have the $20 in his pocket

We don’t pretend to understand Arkansas. Most of what we know about the state comes from an X-Files episode in which Mulder and Scully are investigating a sudden spike in CJD cases. Normally associated with Mad Cow, in this little corner of Hillbilly Heaven, the CJD is more like Mad Chicken, with poultry [...]

Son of GOP state senator admits to sodomizing 18 boys, 11- to 14-year-old with broomsticks and flashlights in at least 40 incidents. Gets plea deal

Connected

Two young men charged with sodomizing 18 boys at a youth camp last year have been offered a plea agreement that may net them little jail time and no record of sexual assault.

Clifton Bennett, 18, the son of Arizona Senate President Ken Bennett, and his co-defendant, Kyle Wheeler, 19, were charged in January with 18 [...]

Jesse Helms suffers from dementia

Hey, we could have told you this years ago.

Former U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms, in increasingly poor health since he left office three years ago, has vascular dementia and has moved into a convalescent center near his home, his wife said.

“He has his good days and his bad days,” Dot Helms told the News & Observer [...]

GOP revolt: White House told Rove is out of touch

No sympathy here. The GOP rode the tiger with Rove and now they have to choose between being eaten by him or being eaten by the voters.

An increasing number of House Republican members are urging President Bush to keep Karl Rove out of the driver’s seat in the 2006 congressional campaign.GOP sources said House [...]

When Republicans eat their own

That much-vaunted GOP unity is looking a little tattered these days.

Social-conservative groups have warned Republicans that their voters feel unappreciated and frustrated with Congress and that the party must get more aggressive on such values issues as marriage, human cloning, religious freedom and abortion if they want a decent turnout from the conservative base in [...]