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From NewDonkey.com: Christ and Christmas Nothing, it seems, not even the Season of Peace and Good Will Towards Men, can evade today’s great secular idol, the conservative kulturkampf. Until I read E.J. Dionne’s column in today’s WaPo, I was only dimly aware of, and in some sort of unconscious mental triage had decided to ignore, [...]

“Double Handguns” [T]here’s new burger joint called Epstein’s opening in the old Living Room space on Allen Street and Stanton with pretensions to the throne. CityRag reports from the scene, we said hi and asked him if he could tell us what was going in… he said “a really really good burger joint” was going [...]

If a monkey is hungry but has his arms pinned, there’s not much he can do about it. Unless that monkey can control a nearby robotic arm with his brain. And that’s exactly what the monkey in Andrew Schwartz‘s neurobiology lab at the University of Pittsburgh can do, feeding himself using a prosthetic arm controlled [...]

New New York City Streetlight designs: City Lights Design Competition – Winners

Alan Keyes never fails to disappoint. I look forward to him proposing the Federal Adoption Amendment whereby we prevent all of the children of donated sperm/eggs and all of the children who are adopted without a full family history, from copulating. I look forward to that except that he’s never going to actually get elected [...]

HoustonChronicle.com – Why abortion rate is up in Bush years: What does this tell us? Economic policy and abortion are not separate issues; they form one moral imperative. Rhetoric is hollow, mere tinkling brass, without health care, insurance, jobs, child care and a living wage. Pro-life in deed, not merely in word, means we need [...]

I found this interview with Tony Campolo to be interesting: My purpose in writing the book was to communicate loud and clear that I felt that evangelical Christianity had been hijacked. When did it become anti-feminist? When did evangelical Christianity become anti-gay? When did it become supportive of capital punishment? Pro-war? When did it become [...]

Street Photo 1 – Subway Announcement

I was curious as to how Alan Keyes was going to get around the destruction of federalism and run for Senate in Illinois. Josh Marshall tells us how: Harkening back to the wisdom of no one in particular, Keyes intoned, “I deeply resent the destruction of federalism represented by Hillary Clinton’s willingness to go into [...]