Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith
Hillary Clinton successfully faces down angry senators, prompting Leon Panetta to realize that women can be good in combat.
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Headline of the Day
From the Renewable Energy World website:
National Coal Mining Museum Fits Solar Panels
Erroneous Headline of the Morning
From today’s New York Times:
Study Finds One in 6 Follows No Religion
A global study of religious adherence released on Tuesday by the Pew Research Center found that about one of every six people worldwide has no religious affiliation. …
Not the same thing, guys. The number of people who claim no religious affiliation may be only one in six, but the number of people who in fact follow no religion is more like 999 in a thousand.
Quote of the Day
Charlie Webster, state chairman of the GOP in Maine, on how voter fraud helped Obama win:
In some parts of rural Maine, there were dozens, dozens of black people who came in and voted on Election Day. Everybody has a right to vote, but nobody in town knows anyone who’s black. How did that happen? I don’t know.
Somebody’s in a Delusional, Reality-Challenged State, Though
Tucker Carlson on FOX:
There’s something what went basically unnoticed by the press and that was the Obama campaign making a push of social issues, particularly abortion, and that seems to have worked. … If you were a voter in a white, working-class state, you had no idea that they were running a campaign based on abortion!
First, since when is a president not supposed to be campaigning on social issues? And second, what the fuck is a “white, working-class state”? Michigan in 1880?
A Thought
If God really sent Hurricane Sandy to punish America for its growing tolerance of gays, I have to wonder why He made it stop just in time for Halloween.
The WELL: Consistently Formulating an Mood That Rewards Original Think and Contingent Mutual Respect Since 1985!
If you only read one article about the sale of The WELL all year, make it this one!
“The WELL welcomes the chance to encouragement its existing bottom and extends an call in to like-minded people seeking for a amicable network that puts the giveaway swap of ideas at the forefront,” explained Earl Crabb, CEO of The Well Group, Inc.
Thought
Nobody seems to be talking about the real reason you can’t open the windows on an airplane: so kids can’t spit on people below.
Still, They Deserve to Flunk Just for Cooperating with Each Other
Given that the course under investigation for academic misconduct at Harvard was “Introduction to Congress”, how sure are we that having to deal with the media fallout over a cheating scandal isn’t just the midterm assignment?
Speaking of Sin
You want to talk about sin, I’ve got one for you: inventing simplistic, imaginary, absolute rules about the world in order to make you feel more knowledgeable and in control and self-righteous than you really are, and then hurting other people in the process of trying to make the world fit your ideals so that you don’t have to do the more difficult work of making your ideals fit the world.
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