MSNBC published a report today on journalists and their donations to various politicians. The results should come as little surprise: MSNBC.com identified 144 journalists who made political contributions from 2004 through the start of the 2008 campaign, according to the public records of the Federal Election Commission. Most of the newsroom checkbooks leaned to the […]
A new report reveals that the Iranians tried to capture some Aussie sailors back in 2004 -- and the Aussies were having none of it. The BBC reported earlier today that Iranian naval forces tried to capture the boarding team, but were repelled in the face of machine guns and "highly colourful language". Quoting a […]
Here's another one of those uneducated, ignorant right-wing idiots lying about global warming again: Solar scientists predict that, by 2020, the sun will be starting into its weakest Schwabe solar cycle of the past two centuries, likely leading to unusually cool conditions on Earth. Beginning to plan for adaptation to such a cool period, one […]
I was poking around The Washington Post's Web site when I decided to check out their "On Faith" feature. Ambivalence can probably best describe my feelings about the site -- I think it is too heavily populated by those mainline churches that nobody goes to anymore. When panelists tout their membership in the Jesus Seminar, […]