Bay of Fundie

I’m not an expert on economics, but I think I know enough about it to be able to come to reasonably-informed opinions on the issues.
I’ve been warning about the national debt to anybody who would listen since the late ’70s. You can’t run on deficit spending forever, yet that’s what we we’ve been doing.
That [...]

I heard a great documentary on public (read: socialist) radio tonight. It’s called “The Great Textbook War”. It’s about a controversy in Kanawha County, West Virginia in 1974 about some new school textbooks. You can find the documentary’s download link in the sidebar of their website.
The whole thing sounds eerily contemporary. [...]

Wouldn’t making people spin in mid-air when
you yell at them be a great superpower?
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I discovered a good interview program on the local low-power NPR affiliate. It’s called Your Call. [...]

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I found this song over on the WFMU blog. It’s a top ten hit from 1948, starring Arthur Godfrey. Here’s part of what they write about it:
The subject matter (and, yes, I realized the 1948 version of what’s acceptable differs from the 2009 version) is bad enough. The song extols the [...]

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Few people anger the creationists more than Eugenie Scott. She actively opposes their efforts to get religion into the schools under whichever euphemism they’re currently peddling.
She was on Science Friday yesterday to give us a summary of the whole Texas School Board science standards fiasco. We’ve discussed that here previously, [...]

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The latest Skeptics’ Circle was posted a few days ago at The Skeptic’s Field Guide. It happens to be a podcast, so you can hear them talk about each article in the carnival.
These guys seem to call their podcast “Hunting Humbug”, and apparently it’s devoted primarily to logical fallacies. That [...]

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Here is the post I tried to write last night, before I went off on a tangent of trying to find an appropriate graphic.
This is just a quick off-topic post. Barack Obama recorded the audio-book version of Dreams of My Father himself. Somebody thought it would be funny to extract [...]

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Now we come to the finale of our Christmas music series. Christmas music by actual Christians! Yes, a few [...]