Monthly Archives: August 2009

For this final installation of How the Loon Terns, I’d like to very briefly address four different items of “common knowledge.”

Loons are driven off lakes by boaters.
Loons use nursery pools.
Loon are “ancient birds”
“Loons winter in Mexico (or wherever).”

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Have you voted for Ana yet?

August 9, 2009UncategorizedUncategorizedGreg Laden

Well, you can do it every day, so please do it again! Thank you very much.

Atom bomb hits Nagasaki

August 9, 2009UncategorizedUncategorizedGreg Laden

….. on this day in 1945.

American forces have dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki – the second such attack on Japan in three days.

The bomb was dropped by parachute from an American B29 Bomber at 1102 local time.

It exploded about 1,625 ft (500m) above the ground and is believed to have completely destroyed the city, which is situated on the western side of the Japanese island of Kyushu.

more at the bbc

304 non-believers visit creation museum, don’t cause much fuss

August 8, 2009UncategorizedCreation Science, Creationism, Intelligent Design, ReligionGreg Laden

A group of scientists, students and secularists — 304 in all — visited Petersburg, Kentucky on Friday to tour exhibits on display at the Creation Museum.

The visitors are in town attending a conference of the Secular Student Alliance, a group formed “to organize, unite, educate and serve students and student communities that promote the ideals of scientific and critical inquiry, democracy, secularism, and human based ethics.”

Read the rest at ABC News

Hat Tip PZ

The Best of Michele Bachmann

August 8, 2009UncategorizedMichele Bachmann, RepublicansGreg Laden

Keith Olbermann:

Hat Tip DMB

Gordon Brown: Wiring a web for global good

August 8, 2009UncategorizedUncategorizedGreg Laden

We’re at a unique moment in history, says UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown: we can use today’s interconnectedness to develop our shared global ethic — and work together to confront the challenges of poverty, security, climate change and the economy.

Vote for Ana!

August 8, 2009UncategorizedUncategorizedGreg Laden

Hey, my BFF Analiese Miller needs you to vote for her. Go here and click on the stars down below her photo!!!

Vote early, vote often. (I think you can vote every day, starting today and for a few days.)

Trust me, she deserves this. She is an extraordinary actress. Quite good at singing and dancing, too, and she is brilliant in a zillion other ways as well.

Let’s get Ana this job! We can do it!

Oh, and if you are a blogger and want to remain my friend, you have to tell your readers to vote for Ana too. ASAP, please.

By the way, the photo is by Ben Zvan. Ben is quite an excellent photographer, and Ana is quite beautiful (and astonishingly diverse in her looks, btw). Quite a combo.

The Creozerg Visit to the Creation Musuem

August 8, 2009UncategorizedCreation Science, Creationism, Intelligent Design, Religion, Science EducationGreg Laden

I wish I coulda been there … by all accounts it sounds like the Creozerg visit to the Creation Museum went well. A couple of kids were thrown out because they said things or whatever, which is good because it shows that the whole point of the creation museum is to express, secure, and protect a particular point of view and to supress others. For your entertainment, I’ve collected a handful of links from the event. Please visit these links, and if you are a social neworking kinda person, digg-em-up or stumbleuponthem or whatever. It would be very nice, would it not, if over the next few months anyone who sought information on the creation museum found lots of these stories on the top of the google food chain?

If you have a blog, you know what to do. and in case you don’t, just open this page (the one you are reading now) with Firefox, and hit ctrl U. Then, find the code for the list of links, copy, paste, blog.

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