Rantings of a New Yorker

It’s not the policy and I know the military are all John McCain seems to be able to say.

This is the full speech by Richard Dawkins at the “Protest The Pope” rally, 18th September 2010. (unedited)

Professional political gadfly Christine O’Donnell hit the Big Time this week with her win in the Delaware Republican primary over Mike Castle. Her checkered history, though, is just coming to light, and it paints an interesting picture of someone who’s made a career of running for office and not much else. She’s going to make [...]

From September 3, 2009

The Colony is a new documentary from Al Jazeera. The past decade has seen Chinese economic growth explode across the world and the Chinese economic miracle seems to reach into every imaginable area of manufacturing and natural resources. Filmmakers Brent Huffman and Xiaoli Zhou traveled to Senegal in West Africa to explore the onslaught of Chinese [...]

This is a good cartoon, but, for fuck’s sake people, link back to the original comic. It’s annoying as hell when people want to give credit to the originator of something and you can’t be bothered to give credit to the creator. Official site. Archives.

We’ve been discussing the dangers of Glenn Beck’s incendiary rhetoric for years on Ring of Fire, but in the last year, his actions have been taken to a whole new level. And with his recent Tea Party rally in Washington, it became clear that Beck isn’t the only problem out there. We now have tens [...]