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Science vs. God: How About Some Peace on Earth?


Posted by Omnipotent Poobah

As America rearms for the annual War on Christmas, a new study provides some fresh ammunition to fuel the Yule Logs of War. The study shows that many theists believe atheists are about as trustworthy as rapists and would outright discriminate against them in several ways. However, atheists don’t seem to harbor a corresponding distrust of theists. The extent to which you believe the study likely hinges on the larger battle at the center of the schism – God or science.

California: Thinking Long and the Missing Stakeholders


Posted by Omnipotent Poobah

California – which has a budget crisis (that when scaled) is equal to or greater than the country’s – has a bipartisan “supercommittee” called the Think Long Committee to generate ideas for how to get the state out of the mess it’s in. That’s not a bad idea. Undoubtedly, someone should be thinking long.

One Percenters Have the Most to Lose


Posted by Omnipotent Poobah

Tea Partiers often cite the inability to cut budgets through the bone and still run the government on drill baby, drill fumes as a cruel thing to foist on future generations. While we need to cut expenses, the more important task is creating jobs with livable wages

The Canonization of George Bush and Barack Obama


Posted by Omnipotent Poobah

For the past few weeks we’ve seen the overheated spectacle of Steve Jobs’ hi-tech canonization. St. Steven of Applevania was described as a great man who single-handedly brought the world into the computer age by inventing self-described “neat things”. His gift for reliably tickling America’s zeitgeist was legendary, though dubiously important. His talent owes a lot to H.L. Mencken’s quote, “Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.” And the puffery continues on to Obama and Bush.

OWS: Let the Co-Opting Begin


Posted by Omnipotent Poobah

Many people like to compare the Tea Party to Occupy Wall St. I’m sure it’s a delight for the pundits to debate themselves on innumerable news programs and shout fests, but it doesn’t mean much right now. The situation is simply too fluid to predict where it will go.