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Remarks on the Senate’s Failure to Legislate (gun background checks)
The following video shows remarks by various individuals including President Obama on the shameful behavior of the US Senate in relation to a bill increasing the scope of background checks on individuals who plan to purchase firearms in the United States.
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Flash Mob Uses Chalk as Weapon Against Gun Violence
It is only fair to the earth that we build the Keystone XL Pipeline…
The 26th mile was dedicated to the Newtown victims
Feed me or I’ll die, and possibly take you with me!
Years ago it was pointed out by somebody, probably Tinbergen or Lack or Wynn-Edwards or one of the other great bird-savvy ethologists of the day, that young Pelicans would blackmail their parents by biting their own wings, a very self defeating activity for a bird with a huge and powerful beak. “If you don’t feed me right way, I’m taking off this wing and your reproductive success is done!” they seemed to be saying.
More recently a study of Babblers in South Africa may have demonstrated a similar kind of extortion….
Read the rest of my monthly contribution to 10,000 birds HERE.
The rest of my stuff at 10,000 Birds is HERE.
Atheist Voices of Minnesota Mention
The book Atheist Voices of Minnesota: an Anthology of Personal Stories
While Prometheus Books is the grandfather of publishing atheism books, there are two upstarts, another indication of the category’s strength. The newest is Freethought House, founded in 2011 and debuting last August with Atheist Voices of Minnesota edited by the press’s publisher, Bill Lehto. He says the house plans to publish up to four atheism titles a year, the next being Deliverance at Hand! by James Zimmerman (2013), a memoir by the former Jehovah’s Witness. Da Capo Press has another out-of-religion memoir with Hope After Faith: An Ex-Pastor’s Journey from Belief to Atheism by Jerry DeWitt with Ethan Brown (June). Lehto says among the reasons he founded Freethought Press was to promote more moderate voices. “I think there is this view of atheists that they are all militants who want to destroy religion, and I wanted there to be a book out there that isn’t a diatribe against religion, but just personal stories.”
Anthony Leiserowitz on Making People Care About Climate Change
Climate Denialists Attack Author on Amazon. Again.
Once again, the winged monkeys of climate change denialim are writing fake, stupid, made up an absurd reviews of Michael Man’s book The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines
If you’ve read the book and like it and have not written a review of it on Amazon, please go do so! Help a scientist out.
Thank you very much.
Soviet Era Space Flight White Lies
Celebrity Swatting: 4Chan? Probably
You know about celebrity swatting? It’s when 4chaners trick the police into arriving at a celebrity’s home under the assumption that there is a hostage situation or something like that. It is incredibly stupid, obnoxious, dangerous, and a famous 4chaner-er (whom you probably know of but whose name I will not mention or he’ll do bad things to me) told me he has done several times.
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Nice going, assholes.
Jonathan Winters 1964 The Stick
The Hermit of Maine
Maine is my favorite state. If you’ve not visited then your life is an empty shell and you don’t even know it. But it is also true that I’ve seen and heard some of the strangest things I’ve ever encountered there. So strange I can’t even tell you about it. The story that recently emerge from the Pine Tree State, about a man who became a hermit nearly 30 years ago, is not as strange as all of that, but you will enjoy it:
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I hear he’s a very good prisoner.
13 Oil Spills in 30 Days
They always say they won’t spill the oil. Then they spill the oil. And we seem to not mind. We should mind
From here, this:
This was a slow month for oil spills, compared to those moments when a tanker hits the rocks or a retreating army opens the spigots.
The Corporation. Have you seen it?
Have you seen The Corporation
The film has a website, here. In some countries you can watch at least part of the film there (it may also be on YouTube, I’ve not checked lately) and The DVD