Month: May 2012

You Say You Want An Evolution…

“Do I believe in evolution?  Heck, I’ve seen it with my own two eyes!” Periodically—usually when the Texas Board of Education is reviewing textbook standards, or when evangelical conservatives...

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Wanker of the Day: David Brooks

We’ll have to bookmark this wisdom of David Brooks and check back in November to see if he was prescient or dead wrong: I’d say that Obama is a slight underdog this year: the scuffling economy will grind away at voters....

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Americans Don’t Elect Americans Elect

I haven’t written much at all about the effort to create a new political party called ‘Americans Elect.’ It seemed so stupid that it didn’t merit my attention. My only interest in it was to see who they...

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