The New Ballad of Chicken Little
Once upon a day, so bright and fine Walked Chicken B. Little. A scientist, mind! "The sky is blue," he said, "but I am not." "For I know much, quite…
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Happy 1000th Post!
This is it! The nine-hundred-ninety-ninth-plus-one post! The post whose number is a pleasing and large (relatively speaking) power of ten! The post that pushes us over the top of the…
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Stephen Hawking Says Heaven Fairy Story
"There is no heaven; it's a fairy story," said Stephen Hawking to The Guardian. And since the wheelchair-bound physicist is famous, and known to be clever (despite bedevilment by disease),…
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Socialist Dominique Strauss-Kahn Not Guilty!
I have done an, admittedly crude, statistical analysis of rape and sexual harassment accusations of rich and powerful men in politics. I was not interested in whether the accusations were…
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Osama Bin Laden Dead: Time To Quit Afghanistan
Update below The man whose mind was a slave to evil and who planned the attacks of 9/11, the man who spent the last decade of his pathetic life cowering…
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Earth Has Rights! Guest Post by John Henry Briggs
Since I am away out west, I sent intrepid reporter and number two son John Henry Briggs to the Center for Place, Culture and Politics at CUNY Graduate Center, where…
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Taxing The Rich Always Fails Eventually
The solution Mr Obama proposed yesterday for increasing the federal budget was to raise taxes. He did not suggest taking a one-time chunk of money from those who earned it…
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Free Mumia! And Tunisia! A Play In One Act
Update: I have been informed that this play is anything but clear (thank you!). So. Every resolution listed below was indeed adopted by the California Federation of Teachers at their…