Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 9:36:58 am
Mitt Romney's first political ad of this election season is now infamous for a blatantly dishonest out of context quote from President Obama. When the lie was exposed, Romney's staff simply boasted that "it worked." Dishonesty is working so well for Romney that his new advertisement carries on the tradition, with ...

Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 6:31:24 pm
I'm getting a distinct whiff of James O'Keefe from this story: It was the middle of the day on Friday, and Eric Boehlert heard a knock on the door. A senior fellow at Media Matters, a nonprofit watchdog that challenges conservative news outlets, Boehlert works from his Montclair, N.J., home. A ...

Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 10:15:10 am
It's a picture of a political party completely lost in lala land, as Newt Gingrich teams up with Birther Donald Trump to subvert America's child labor laws and put disadvantaged kids to work swabbing out the toilets in their own schools, reality show style: Gingrich asks Trump to create 'apprentice' ...

Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 5:09:37 pm
We have a terrorism arrest tonight, another case in which the suspect was under surveillance the whole time: Bloomberg announces arrest of terror suspect. New York (CNN) -- Authorities have arrested a man they claim was plotting to detonate pipe bombs, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Sunday night. The Manhattan ...

Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 5:38:17 pm
I recently published a book in Norwegian attacking the counterjihadist movement, and the naiveté shown towards it by, for instance, Norwegian media. This has annoyed certain bloggers, including Baron Bodissey at Gates of Vienna, who promptly decided to attack me. Normally, I would not bother answering an article attacking me at ...

Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 9:03:51 am
The big news this morning: New York police have cleared Zuccotti Park of Occupy Wall Street protesters, arresting nearly 200 of them in the process. The police action was quickly challenged as lawyers for the protesters obtained a temporary restraining order barring the city and the park’s private landlord from ...

Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 11:25:38 am
Dr. Richard Muller is testifying in the House of Representatives on his important climate change research project, in a hearing intended to promote the "End of Climate Change Skepticism." A live video feed is here. Related: Video: Climate Change Study Deals Crushing Blow to Denial Machine

Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 10:11:43 am
White supremacist James Edwards, host of the overtly racist Political Cesspool radio show in Tennessee, is gloating today that he got noticed by the "extremist left" after MSNBC political consultant Pat Buchanan appeared on his show: I must be doing something right | JAMES EDWARDS. (Google cache link.) I will ...

Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 9:52:22 am
Here's a good piece by Michelle Goldberg on the relentless attempt by the right wing hate machine to smear Occupy Wall Street as "antisemitic:" Occupy Wall Street Isn't Anti-Semitic, But It's Too Leaderless. One of the curses of left-wing politics is the perennial presence of International ANSWER, a front group ...

Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 5:59:54 pm
I went down to the site of Occupy Wall Street (after first having been confused at Zucotti park, where I luckily found a few dudes from the protests who sent me in the right direction) to ask some random questions I thought would be illuminating. Before I get into the data, ...

Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 1:25:16 pm
blogherenow.net They say you can't fight fire with fire. Actually, you can. But what you really can't do - at least effectively - is fight what you identify as fallacious reasoning with precisely the same style of fallacious reasoning. George Will provides a striking illustration of this self-defeating pattern of reasoning ...

Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 5:23:57 pm
Today's insanity break is a surreal little short that won the "Best Film" jury prize at the "48 Hour Film" project in Utrecht, Netherlands.

Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 3:42:41 pm
Here's some amazing footage from the "Eyes on Leuser" project, condensed from a month's worth of recordings from video cameras placed in northern Indonesia's mountain jungles.

Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 2:21:03 pm
As the Republican Party denies, denies, denies that global warming is real: Canada's Arctic ice shelves breaking up fast. Luke Copland, an associate geography professor at the University of Ottawa, said the Serson Ice Shelf shrank from 79 square miles to two remnant sections five years ago, and was further ...

Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 6:24:30 pm
The 10th anniversary of 9/11 isn't more important than the earlier ones or those yet to come, and we may only mark it as "special" because it's a nice, neat number in our base-10 numeral system, but we feel an emotional need to mark it in some way nonetheless, don't ...

Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 3:24:01 pm
As the rubble was removed from Ground Zero, thoughts turned to what would come of the World Trade Center complex. Millions of people streamed through the site before 9/11 annually, hundreds of thousands every day. What would be a fitting memorial? What would happen to retail space and office space? What would ...

Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 2:17:58 pm
We're tweaking the poll creation feature of our LGF Pages app, and the latest addition is an expiration date. When someone loads a Page with a poll that's past the date, they'll see a message saying the poll is "closed," and won't be able to vote. (The results will still ...

Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 1:45:32 pm
Climate change denial websites immediately jumped all over a recent paper from the CERN CLOUD project, about the effects of cosmic rays on cloud formation. I knew they had jumped, actually, before I even read "Watts Up With That" or any of the other blogs dedicated to discrediting climate science, because ...

Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 9:27:43 am
It's always fun when right wing bloggers encounter a story about scientists doing what scientists do, and promptly turn into a mob of shrieking monkeys flinging poo at something they don't understand. Today, nearly the entire right wing blogosphere is moronically piling onto a story from the Guardian about a research ...

Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 5:11:47 pm
The identity of Fjordman has been revealed. He revealed it himself, realising that media would sooner or later figure out who he is. Personally, I don't find his identity all that interesting, but it is a good thing that we now know. Just yesterday, someone else was "exposed" as being ...

Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 6:29:09 pm
If you think the James Webb Space Telescope is exactly the kind of cutting-edge science the US government needs to support, here's a page where you can add your authenticated signature to an open letter to Save the James Webb Space Telescope from the depredations of the anti-science right wing. ...

Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 2:10:06 pm
You've got to be kidding me. One of America's greatest, grandest scientific successes -- and possibly one of the biggest scientific successes of all time -- has been the Hubble Space Telescope. It has expanded our knowledge of the universe in ways that no one could ever have imagined. NASA has been ...

Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:12:56 am
More than 24,000 emails from Sarah Palin's time as governor of Alaska are being released today -- on paper, for some odd reason. ProPublica is going to make a full searchable archive available online as soon as possible: A Reader’s Guide to the (Still Coming) Sarah Palin Emails. What should ...

Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 6:01:10 pm
You may recall our story from last year about fundamentalist Christian leader George Rekers, who founded the politically active and virulently anti-gay Family Research Council with Dr. James Dobson -- and then was caught on vacation with a "rent boy." It wasn't the first case of an anti-gay preacher busted doing ...

Mon, May 16, 2011 at 11:27:10 am
He's a "chimpanzee in heat," well-known by his French nickname "chaud lapin" (hot rabbit), and he's also the chief overseer of the global financial system: French writer describes 2002 grab-and-grope by Dominique Strauss-Kahn. IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn acted like a "chimpanzee in heat" during a creepy previous grab-and-grope with a ...