'Current Affairs' Archive
May 11th, 2009 / Celebrities, Current Affairs, Newswire /
The right is in a holy froth because President Obama laughed at a joke by Wanda Sykes saying she hoped Rush Limbaugh's kidneys would fail. Drudge immediately picked up the ...
May 9th, 2009 / Admin, Current Affairs /
Sean and Annette Prophet
I turned 45 today, and I am hopeful, both for my future and for the future of the ...
April 29th, 2009 / Atheism, Current Affairs /
The New York Times (!) just ran an article called More Atheists Shout It From The Rooftops. The Los Angeles ...
April 26th, 2009 / Current Affairs, Energy Transition, Psychology /
A survey out last week from the Pew Research Center shows declining perceptions of necessity for a variety of household ...
February 7th, 2009 / Current Affairs, Energy Transition, Psychology, Science /
R Donaldson - February 2009
Water, Water
It is most of what our bodies are made of, in some way included in ...
February 1st, 2009 / Current Affairs, Energy Transition /
Climate-induced drought. Deadly heat waves. Overfishing. 400,000 annual premature deaths from coal-soot in China (US ...
January 20th, 2009 / Current Affairs /
On the cusp of this amazing moment in world history, I'm compelled to reflect on what has led us to this ...
December 15th, 2008 / Current Affairs /
Our mad lame-duck priest-president has saved the most vile ass-shagging of our beleaguered country for his final few weeks. After leading us into a fraudulent ...
December 12th, 2008 / Current Affairs, Energy Transition /
Turns out Bob Dylan was right after all. A new study by Stanford professor Mark Z. Jacobson (via Stanford News Service) ...
November 16th, 2008 / Bigotry, Current Affairs, Newswire, Religion /
I love the energy at this anti-Prop. 8 protest in San Diego. This bad law is SO getting tossed. You can't write discrimination into the state constitution without a supermajority ...
November 5th, 2008 / Current Affairs /
After living through the last eight wasted years in America--writing in outrage for seven of them--it's hard to overstate the elation I share with ...
November 4th, 2008 / Current Affairs, Newswire /
One-two punch for an election-eve finish. A veteran journalist has decided it's time for him to weigh in on media bias. It seemed the 2008 election had become enough of ...
October 16th, 2008 / Current Affairs, Newswire /
Since we've been talking about Joe the Plumber in the comments today, here's some background on Joe Wurzelbacher and how he got into John McCain's debate script. Joe Wurzelbacher was ...
October 15th, 2008 / Current Affairs /
Learning to be a great leader is the last area where anyone is a novice all over again. And unlike most training programs, ...
October 10th, 2008 / Current Affairs, Psychology /
"Socialism, Communism, go to Russia!" shouts the woman wearing a cross. "He should die," "Socialist Swine," "Terrorist." These are not the epithets of a ...
October 5th, 2008 / Current Affairs, Religion /
What makes you angry? Seriously. What does it take to get you riled up these days? Yes, I'm talking to you. Does the ...
October 3rd, 2008 / Current Affairs, Newswire /
This video kinda sums it all up. Get out there, get registered, get an absentee ballot, whatever--VOTE! ...
September 5th, 2008 / Current Affairs, Newswire /
Gov. Sarah Palin has burst on the scene with style, guts -- and a penchant for distorting the facts, thanks to Bush's former speech writer who wrote her speech ...
August 1st, 2008 / Atheism, Current Affairs, Religion, Society /
Nothing is more basic to human liberty than the ability to designate one's choice of a partner to be recognized under the law. Nothing ...
July 31st, 2008 / Current Affairs, Newswire, Religion /
It's official, we have another bat-shit crazy lunatic in the U.S. Congress, who seems to have forgotten not only common sense, but the very constitution he's sworn to uphold. This ...
May 16th, 2008 / Current Affairs, Religion /
Given the ever-increasing milquetoast flavor of each successive presidential campaign, I had pretty much decided that in my lifetime I would never see a ...
April 5th, 2008 / Critical Thought, Current Affairs, Religion /
Objectivity scares the hell out of people, because facts always trump wishes. I knew that when I started writing for Black Sun Journal 7 ...
February 20th, 2008 / Current Affairs /
UPDATE 03.04.08: The judge has now dropped his order, allowing Wikileaks to be reached by its original URL. Following the internet furor over the case, Julius ...
February 5th, 2008 / Atheism, Current Affairs, Religion /
As an atheist, I only go to church when I'm forced to. And as a civic-minded citizen of West Hills, CA, that's about twice a year--on ...
November 5th, 2007 / Current Affairs, Drug War, Religion, Television /
On the Bill Maher show this past weekend (which is absolute must-see TV), Jeremy Scahill appeared via satellite to talk about his book Blackwater: The ...