Barking Rabbits

Here’s a bit of science for you, and a very odd bit at that . The picture is of a huge hexagon-shaped structure in the atmosphere of Saturn...

(Update below.) Via the Carpetbagger Report , via Kevin Drum (link on the right), here’s Trett Lott, stalwart Defender of the Realm and Fear...

That’s what people seem to take for granted in this country. Electrical power grid. Sewage. Roads. Gasoline. Food distribution. Water....

Via Firedoglake , here is Bush lackey, Scott Jennings, “answering a question” about what he does for the Federal Government. Leahy: You wo...

After my week long business trip and coming back to a houseful of my wife’s family, I have having a difficult time summoning up the outrage ...

That was the hook to a 70’s song by the Charlie Daniels Band, and it was a big hit in Mississippi and Alabama at that time. I never really ...

One more day, one more outrage. I’ll try to keep the background info short. The DailyKos web site has been, for the last two years, organ...

From wikipedia : Deus ex machina (pl. deī ex māchinīs "gods out of machines" or deī ex māchinā "gods out of a machine") ...

Here’s why I reached that conclusion. Joe, along with a lot of his influential neo-cons buddies and their wingnut base, is exceedingly enth...

This is a little bit more , adding to a post I did last week , on how Republicans are using obstruction of any Democratic initiative or prop...

I have to contain my desire to chew on nails when I see the Republicans and conservative pundits label, usually successfully, a Dem (such as...

I have seen this story from the U .K. Independent by Johann Hari linked in a number of places. Here is one from Balloon Juice . The basic ...

Here’s a telling quote from Senator Kent Conrad, via The Young Turks . Cenk: Exactly, that’s a perfect situation. We’re actually going to ma...

Humor from Tom Tomorrow, via Salon.

"Hey, I think I see Tippy Hedron in first class!"

What motivates terrorists? There are many reasons, I think. Primarily, terrorism is employed by those who think it will advance their caus...

Guest blogger here, by invitation of the blogmaster. And his question to me was: what do Americans look like right now from the point of vie...

O.K., so when are we, as a nation, going to acknowledge that Fundamentalist Christians are getting completely out of control? From TPM Café ...

From the NOLA blog via Harry Shearer (yes, that Harry Shearer, of The Simpsons and Spinal Tap fame), on his HuffPo column. Yet another poli...

Look at this magnificent photograph of part of the crater wall of Victoria Crater, taken recently by the Mars Rover Opportunity. It is time...

Thanks to the IMDB, three times over . Aragorn: Are you frightened? Frodo: Yes. Aragorn: Not nearly frightened enough. Gandalf: There is onl...

I rarely watch network television, and I don’t have HBO or Showtime, so I have missed (but yet not missed) hits that “has everyone talking”,...

Listening to and reading about the fundamentalist Christians who subscribe to the Rapture, those End Times are very, very near and will no d...

Or else they are UFO’s, no one seems to know which. Here’s a link to an interesting video . Not sure how long it will work, as the link to...

No, they have taken the concept of incompetence to an entirely new level. Like the Munchkin doctor said of the Wicked Witch of the East, “S...

John: Hello, miss. Say, would you care to go back to my hotel with me? I have lots of cash. Undercover officer: You are under arrest for...

A tool, in every sense of the word. I mean, I am very sorry that Tony has had a recurrence of colon cancer. I hope he enjoys a full recove...

Remember all those Constitutionally guarenteed freedoms that we are celebrating today are under attack by the Bush administration. I wrote ...

Can't say I am much surprised. It's all in keeping with the contempt Bush treats everything he touches that the rest of us value. ...

An alternative title to this post could be, “Pragmatism vs. wishful thinking”. This is one aspect of human beings that drives me absolutely ...