Christmas Story
Discriminating Kmareka readers may have read Charles Dicken’s ‘A Christmas Carol’. If you’re from the Blue Persuasion you might have noticed that Scrooge was calculating lost productivity/profit vs the fact that making Bob Cratchit work on Christmas would have cost him social capital. But tormenting Bob cost Scrooge nothing, and might give him leverage to [...]
Let’s All Go Back to Using Baby Shampoo and Lotion
The Environment Minister of Denmark has created legislation to ban certain chemicals which are believed to cause disruption to the endocrine system. A small blurb here — there will likely be more news about this once it hits the mainstream publications. It sounds like a good idea for anyone concerned about endocrine disruptors to try [...]
Predictions 2011
Kind of fun. CNN has some predictions made by experts in various fields to the New York Times in 1931– check out the hits and misses… I thought the net would abound with provocative and edgy predictions, but most psychics favor the vague. I’m posting these predictions by Tremcrst who’s not afraid to say in [...]
Once in a Lifetime
This Winter Solstice there is an astronomical event that won’t return for 456 years. OTTAWA — This year’s winter solstice — an event that will occur next Tuesday — will coincide with a full lunar eclipse in a union that hasn’t been seen in 456 years. The celestial eccentricity holds special significance for spiritualities that [...]
Muslims for Bush
Muhammed Ali Hasan, lifelong Republican and founder of Muslims for Bush has had it. He is leaving the Republican Party. He sees the Tea Party as a corruption of what the GOP should stand for. In an interview with ThinkProgress, Hasan said that “there’s obviously some bigotry in the Republican party,” but he does not [...]
DADT Repeal Passes in the Senate
It’s simple justice, it took too long, in a few years no one will even remember why we discharged people who wanted to serve just because they are gay. Don’t Ask Don’t Tell is on its way out. I hope they kept the addresses of the Arabic interpreters they kicked out at the height of [...]
Persecuted Majority
Is it an error in translation? Did the Pope really mean to say that of all the suffering people on earth, Christians are uniquely singled out for persecution? From MSNBC… VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI singled out Christians as the religious group that suffers from the most persecution on Thursday, denouncing lack of freedom [...]
Solstice Lunar Eclipse
Anguised Repose has fine coverage of the upcoming lunar eclipse– simultaneous with the full moon and the Winter Solstice. Anguished has the astronomy and some glorious illustrations of the stages of the moon. Via EGreenway, here is a poem for the Solstice… “So the shortest day came, and the year died, And everywhere down the [...]
Thank You, Senator Whitehouse
It’s always the little things that really get on your nerves. From ProJo.com… 07:09 AM EST on Thursday, December 16, 2010 By JOHN E. MULLIGAN Journal Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, D.C. — It may be, as Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse put it, “far from the most serious issue we face,” but he may be in for some [...]
Blogging for Dollars
George Monbiot, on AlterNet writes about paid internet trolls posing as private citizens, using comments on internet sites to sway opinion and create an illusion of popular demand. First, in China… Anyone writing a comment piece in Mandarin critical of the Chinese government, for example, is likely to be bombarded with abuse by people purporting [...]
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