Munich, 1972: Black September had neo-Nazi helpers
IT WOULD HAVE BEEN the crime of the century if there just weren’t so many others to compete with it. In the early hours of September 5, 1972, a group of Palestinian terrorists calling themselves Black...
View ArticleReligion and Elections
Back in December, 2010 a Gallup Poll revealed that approximately 40% of Americans believe that god created man exactly as we are now about 10,000 years ago. Literally. Not as a fable. Not as allegory....
View ArticleOh, goody. NCCAM has a blog. [Respectful Insolence]
Oh, goody.I don’t know how I’ve missed this, given that it’s been in existence now for over a month now, but I have. Regular readers (and even fairly recent readers, given that I write about this topic...
View ArticleFor Mitt's Every Action, An Equal and Opposite Retraction
Romney forcefully disagrees with the President over support of undocumented immigrant youth, but then back pedals from clarifying whether as President he'd repeal the policy.Mitt says he's for Simpson...
View ArticleThe Politics of Fools, Lies and Deception
Politics is a dirty game. Candidates sling mud at each other and outside well-funded sources fill our airwaves with ads that are anything but honest. We can look back to the 2000 presidential race for...
View ArticleThe Texas Republican Party platform: Creationism, denialism, “health...
And now for something completely different.Except that it isn’t really. I say that it isn’t really different because, although this post will seem to be about politics, in reality it will be about a...
View ArticleAnother Week of GW News – July 1, 2012 [A Few Things Ill Considered]
Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck YearsThis weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week’s Global Warming news roundupskip to bottom Another...
View ArticleIndiana, Eugenics and Fascism
Vigo County Poor Farm - Terre Haute, Indiana Those Socialists were wrongPoverty is not a social condition. People do not become criminals as a product of social and economic conditions.They are born...
View ArticleChicken, UTIs, and a long-festering antibiotic problem [The Pump Handle]
If you haven’t yet read Maryn McKenna’s riveting Atlantic article “How Your Chicken Dinner is Creating a Drug-Resistant Superbug,” you should. McKenna, working with the with the Food and Environment...
View ArticleOf Geese and Ganders [A Few Things Ill Considered]
“Show me the code!” This is the rallying cry of climate “skeptics” everywhere and the foundation of the numerous climate conspiracy insinuations hurled around the blogosphere.Well, apparently what is...
View ArticleRight Wing Takes Aim at Public Education
How sad -- and suicidal - that conservatives have decided to declare open warfare on public education. In a previous life, I played a minor role as speechwriter and special assistant to our state's...
View ArticleGovernor Fallon and other Governors Turn Down Federal Dollars for Health Care
I live in one of the states whose governor decided to refuse cooperating with the federal government on implementing ObamaCare — in Oklahoma. I am also one of many who do not have health care but...
View ArticleWhen A Tornado Isn't The Only Destructive Force
We grieve for those lost in Oklahoma's tragedy, as we did for victims of recent hurricanes and tornadoes, but denial of science keeps us from addressing climate change's role in these unnatural...
View ArticleMonsanto Shill Mom?
From Webster’s New World College Dictionary:Shill- noun: [slang] 1) The confederate of a gambler, pitchman, auctioneer, etc. who pretends to buy so as to lure onlookers into participating. 2) A person...
View ArticleLong Term Business Strategy; Easier with a Dashboard!
The execution phase of business strategy – any strategy really – is where most management fail to deliver. I know many companies –including Fortune 500s- where strategy building is an exercise in...
View ArticleCDC WARNS FUNERAL HOMES IN U.S. TO PREPARE FOR EBOLA VICTIMS
Recommendations caution workers not to embalm corpses: The Centers for Disease Control is advising funeral homes in the United States on how to handle the remains of Ebola victims, although officials...
View ArticleReligion and Elections
Back in December, 2010 a Gallup Poll revealed that approximately 40% of Americans believe that god created man exactly as we are now about 10,000 years ago. Literally. Not as a fable. Not as allegory....
View ArticleMunich, 1972: Black September had neo-Nazi helpers
IT WOULD HAVE BEEN the crime of the century if there just weren’t so many others to compete with it. In the early hours of September 5, 1972, a group of Palestinian terrorists calling themselves Black...
View ArticleGOP continues with anti science, anti guv themes making themselves look...
Issue: ScienceFree Tagging: gopanti scienceanti govermentcartoonistcartoonleftright wingrand paulBPgophttp://blackienose.blogspot.com/2015/02/gop-continues-with-anti-science-anti.htm...
View ArticleWhy schools need Sex Ed
So today I had the great honor of creating a Sexual Education Curricular for my school. I got some materials from places around the country, and one thing I noticed was that a lot of schools especially...
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