Here’s the latest version of Greensboro’s Political Comapss: I find it interesting that many of the results that fall into the center and the lower-left quadrant seem to be “bunched up” in many places – specifically there are four groupings towards which many of the results seem to gravitate. Compare that to the upper and […]
Greg at The Talent Show has posted a great 1947 short film on the dangers of prejudice and an “us versus them” mentality. As the film points out, America is a nation of minorities. Anyone trying to divide us and pit one group against another is looking to get something out of it, and we […]
A wire story in today’s News and Record reported that the House passed a bill preventing states from adding extra warnings to food labels: The House voted Wednesday to strip many warnings from food labels, potentially affecting alerts about arsenic in bottled water, lead in candy and allergy-causing sulfites, among others. Pushed by food companies […]
Lex has a great post over at his News and Record blog on our government and open-records laws: Stripped of all its social, political and legal niceties, our relationship to government is almost like that of a hostage. We have to pay taxes, and if we don’t pay the government can jail us, and if […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
