The Smug Baldy Speaks

On the seventh anniversary 9/11, Keith Olbermann has the courage to speak out against Republican Party for using it as a political tool.

You’re about to travel through another dimension, a dimension not of logic and reason, but of political influence and deep pockets. Your are journeying into a land where up is down, and more pollution is less pollution. If you could read that signpost through the smog, you would know you’ve entered the Alabama Department of [...]

Pat Condell goes on a nice rant about where the limits of Cultural Sensitivity should be in Europe. The take home message? Europeans should stand up and protest the creeping “Islamization” of their culture, and do so to show Americans that they really do have some collective backbone.

In an interesting article on Bloomberg.com about how Congress is seeking a special prosecutor to investigate whether Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez repeatedly lied under oath, Tony Fratto, a former lobbyist turned Deputy White House Press Secretary, is quoted as follows: Bush spokesman Tony Fratto said Leahy is “more interested in headlines” than in reaching accommodation [...]

In the good old days, the blind led the blind, and even so, snake-oil salesmen were relatively easy to spot. Now the snake-oil is well marketed by cool-looking websites like Overwhelming Evidence, where kids are encouraged to, “communicate their views on intelligent design and evolution”. Indeed, OE puts the power in student’s hands” We believe [...]

For better than 30 years, the Republican party has consistently misused and abused science and scientific knowledge for the purpose of advancing the social agenda of party conservatives, and promoting the economic agenda of its large corporate supporters. That’s not to say that Democrats have not also abused science as well, but the Republicans have, [...]

This comes by way of mooncat at LeftInAlamama.com. On July 3rd, Keith Olbermann broadcasted one of the best “Special Comment” installments ever, in which he called on President Bush and Vice President Cheney to have as much decency as Richard Nixon had when he chose to resign than to continue to bow to partisan politics. [...]

I love my local newspaper, the Mobile Press-Register. There’s a section of the paper that changes each day, one day it’s the Senior Living section, the next it might be Neighbors section. On Saturdays it becomes the Religion section (because we need to justify the salary of our local Religion editor) and on Sundays, it’s [...]

Yesterday, a fey President Bush had this to say in defense of Alberto Gonzales, concerning the upcoming no-confidence vote of his embattled Attorney General in the United States Congress: “They can have their votes of no confidence, but it’s not going to make the determination about who serves on my government.” That’s right, he actually [...]

According to CBS News, a recent Gallup Survey shows that 68% of Republicans “Disbelieve Scientific Explanation of Creation”: A Gallup poll released Monday said that while the country is about evenly split over whether the theory of evolution is true, Republicans disbelieve it by more than 2-to-1. Republicans saying they don’t believe in evolution outnumbered [...]