America, the Hypocrite

From Wikipedia: "According to the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO), there are 1,138 statutory provisions in which marital status is a factor in determining benefits, rights, and privileges."

The U.S. government's definition of marriage is not inherently the same as that of any religious institution, nor should it be. Voting to deprive same-sex couples equal rights under the law simply because you disagree with their lifestyle is against the quintessential idea of America: freedom. Keep your churches separated from my states.

Getting Warmer by the Numbers

This video is an interesting look at the back and forth of the climate change debate. Today, the Associated Press released an article by their science writer, Seth Borenstein, detailing the results of a new analysis on climate data.

"The AP sent expert statisticians NOAA's year-to-year ground temperature changes over 130 years and the 30 years of satellite-measured temperatures preferred by skeptics and gathered by scientists at the University of Alabama in Huntsville."

"Statisticians who analyzed the data found a distinct decades-long upward trend in the numbers, but could not find a significant drop in the past 10 years in either data set. The ups and downs during the last decade repeat random variability in data as far back as 1880."

American Imperialism

Whatever the History channel is broadcasting right now isn't as important as Howard Zinn's History of American Imperialism. Doesn't hurt that Viggo Mortensen is narrating.

Future Possibilities

The grandchildren of our grandchildren will think about us in the way we think about Neanderthals.

Muslim Demographics or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Laugh at Fearmongers

I love how the video stops just short of announcing a brand new crusade.

"As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents." George Orwell