Category: Current Affairs
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PETA has decided that Michael Vick (whom we have discussed previously on this blog here and here) is a psychopath and should not be allowed to play in the NFL after he gets out of jail. PETA was going to shoot an anti-dogfighting PSA with Vick and support his return to the NFL, but now…
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why Barack Obama decided to announce that his middle name was Steve in the Alfred E. Smith dinner. Could this be a reason why? Maybe not, but it would be fun if it were. "NCSE's "Project Steve" is a tongue-in-cheek parody of a long-standing creationist tradition of amassing lists of "scientists who doubt evolution" or…
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It is human nature to want to find a personal connection to triumph and tragedy. Cries of solidarity, "Today we are all Americans," (here, here and here) were heard from all over the world after 9/11/2001. John McCain declared, "Today we are all Georgians," during the recent Russian-Georgian conflict (although there is reason to believe…
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(In which we look again at the prevalence of melamine in various food chains, now confirmed to include human babies of practically all countries that use infant formulas from multinational companies like Nestle and Bristol-Meyers Squibb.)
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Yes, we did !!! I was a young girl in India looking from afar in awe when the civil rights movement in the US was under way. Today as a middle aged woman and an American citizen, I am equally thrilled to be a participant in the logical grand finale to those distant events of…
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Can we or can’t we? Whatever is on your schedule today, be sure to vote, if you have not done so already. It is an important election and an exciting one. Make certain that you are a player in the outcome.We at Accidental Blogger, hope that you will vote for Senator Barack Obama and other…
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This morning, the local channels and newspapers were abuzz with the news report that a young McCain campaign worker had been robbed and assaulted near an ATM in Pittsburgh. [Ashley]Todd is a 20-year old Texas woman, a volunteer for the McCain-Palin campaign, who told police she was robbed and attacked by a man in Bloomfield.A…
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With the difficulties Ruchira has been having trying to get out even short posts while in India, she has asked me to post this for her. Ruchira: A great illustration of putting lipstick on a pig. It seems that the RNC spent money to dress up the entire Palin clan. So much for small town…
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Paul Krugman has won this year’s economics Nobel Prize. http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/paul-krugman-wins-economics-nobel/?hp (Thanks for the link, Ruchira.) In a charmingly self-deprecating interview on the New York Times: “For economists, this is a validation but not news. We know what each other have been up to,” Mr. Krugman said. “For readers of the column, maybe they will read…
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I think this article by Mary Lyon mirrors my impressions quite well on the presidential debate last night, and saves me the trouble of having to write in detail about it.
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The Nobel prize for medicine this year has been awarded to HIV and HPV pioneers: Luc Montagnier and Francoise Barre-Sinoussi of France (HIV) and Harald zur Hausen of Germany (HPV). "Luc Montagnier, director of the World Foundation for AIDS Research and Prevention, and Francoise Barre-Sinoussi of the Institut Pasteur won half the prize of 10…
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A couple of weeks ago, an insert containing a DVD was in my Sunday newspaper : ‘Obsession’, with the O represented by a Crescent and Star, well recognizable as the symbol of Islam, and the N ending in the business end of a machine gun. The linkage implied was all too clear, despite miniscule disclaimers…
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