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Last night, the state of Georgia executed a man who was very likely innocent . Like PZ, I don't care whether he was guilty or innocent. ...

This sickens me so much I'm at a loss for words : Fifteen year-old Larry King (no relation to the CNN interviewer) was shot twice in t...

A while back, our own Chris Rhetts asked me to unlimber the Smack-o-Matic and deliver an epic beatdown. He pointed me to this : And I wat...

It's be a while since we've had the Smack-o-Matic off the woodshed wall.  I shall now proceed to lift it down reverently, blow the d...

I've been planning a set of posts on atheism and morality for some time now, but kept kicking the can down the road because I've had...

The party of "life" strikes again: House File 1467, which ought to be called "Shoot First," will be heard in the Hous...

This is how easy it is to steal an election: Programmer under oath admits computers rig elections. ( h/t via Suzanne )

I'd meant to get the next Oregon Geology post up, but instead have spent the past several days watching in bemusement, sometimes in horr...

Neil Gaiman tweeted a link to this article recently.  It's about a young woman who died, alone and in pain, of a heart attack, because ...

Right, then, ladies.  The Cons in Congress, together with a handful of despicable Dems, have decided we must have rape babies .  Observe : ...

Saw this at Digby's after I'd written the previous post : All over TV today, I'm hearing the gasbags fret about the fact that ...

Do not subscribe, or give someone you love a subscription, to Mothering Magazine.  Mothering magazine: Peddling dangerous health misinform...

In my home state of Arizona, a man loaded a gun, picked up a knife, and went to Rep. Gabrielle Giffords's first Congress on Your Corner ...

I've been trying for several days now to figure out how to capture my outrage in words, but it's impossible to do it.  Let's jus...

Read.  Weep (with laughter and outrage) .  Then sign the petition , unless you already have, in which case: go, you!  Tell your friends to g...

You can't miss this.  Truly cannot.  Go. Read .  And marvel at the power of faith to make dangerous ridiculous fucking morons out of som...

Via our own John Pieret , who knows legal fuckery when he sees it, Orac points up the travails of Dr. Steve Bennett of Quackwatch , who is c...

So, today, my intrepid companion emails me this link , and so I was prepared a few moments ago when I stopped watching a program I'd rec...

The Muse knows I am fuming, and has graciously allowed me to post another post. First, absorb this bit of reality and see if you're st...

I saw this over the weekend, and meant to highlight it, but then there was the Telepalmer incident and afterward my characters dragged me aw...