Archive for February, 2006

Bin Laden: Honorary GOP Member?

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

Well, not exactly, but Bush thinks he’s been helpful nonetheless: President Bush said his 2004 re-election victory over Sen. John Kerry was inadvertently aided by Osama bin Laden, The Washington Examiner newspaper reported Tuesday. The al Qaeda leader had issued a taped diatribe against Bush the Friday before Americans went to the polls … “I […]

Cartoon: A Collection for the GOP

Monday, February 27th, 2006

Cartoon: A Collection for the GOP

The Limits of Evolution

Sunday, February 26th, 2006

Addressing misconceptions on what the theory of evolution is all about, Ed Brayton says: Evolution is not a “theory of everything”, it is a theory that explains the development of the biodiversity of life on earth. And that’s all it explains. We may well be able to learn things from the study about some of […]

Greensboro’s Political Compass, Version 2.0

Tuesday, February 21st, 2006

Thanks to everyone who added their results in the earlier thread. I was right – a smaller font size was definitely necessary. I made some other minor changes to the graph, including adjusting Cara Michele’s marker to reflect her actual score, which she sent to me via email. Everyone else should be in the correct […]

The Intelligent Designer’s God

Tuesday, February 21st, 2006

The root of the conflict between believers in Intelligent Design and proponents of Evolution is philosophical. The idea that humans and apes branched off from a common ancestor – that biologically speaking we are but a twig on the tree of life – is unacceptable to IDers and Creationists. The notion that seemingly unguided processes […]

Greensboro’s Political Compass

Sunday, February 19th, 2006

Last week I posted a link to politicalcompass.org, a site with a quiz that expands on the traditional “left vs. rightâ€? political spectrum. Several local Greensboro-area bloggers took the quiz and posted their results. I’ve plotted them on a handy dandy chart to see how everyone compares: An explanation of the chart can be found […]

Hunting with the Chairman

Wednesday, February 15th, 2006

You know, I really didn’t think much of it when I heard about Vice President Cheney’s hunting accident. Accidents happen, and it sounded obvious that that’s all this was. It seemed likely that members of the hunting party weren’t being as careful as they should have been, but that was for them to deal with […]

Liberal Definition of “Liberal”

Monday, February 13th, 2006

What does it take to be considered a “liberal”? Not that much these days – it’s very easy to qualify. As Glenn Greenwald writes, a large number of self-proclaimed conservatives will bestow the liberal label on someone for nothing more than expressing disagreement with George W. Bush: It used to be the case that in […]

Political Compass

Sunday, February 12th, 2006

In the interest of helping Michele solve her ongoing identity labelling crisis, I posted a link to politicalcompass.org over at Ed Cone’s blog. The Political Compass expands on the traditional “left vs. right” political spectrum and gives a more precise measure of where one stands. Give it a try and post your results if you’d […]

Intercepted Al Qaeda Messages

Sunday, February 12th, 2006

Greg over at The Talent Show has managed to get his hands on an intercepted Al Qaeda conversation, and he’s posted a transcript for us.