End of Ebola outbreak in sight as fearmongering escalates
While there is only one Ebola patient still receiving treatment, Republicans are fundraising and fearmongering as though millions were going to die. Thanks, Obama.xEmbedded Content(Oh, it's a treat to...
View ArticleNestlé: The Grinch Who Stole Our Water
by Dan BacherThe "Crunch Nestlé Alliance," the group that "shut down" the Nestlé Waters bottling plant in Sacramento in March 2015 and October 2014, will be protesting at the plant again on December 4,...
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Dilbert: DBAD
Scott Adams invites us to share his Dilbert strips on the Internet. Today's is Dick From The InternetThursday November 19,2015. I mentioned our community moderation system, and our DBAD rule, in the...
View ArticleHTML Tags in DK5 Story and Comment Editors
This diary demonstrates all of the HTML tags on the official list of those supported in the new DK5 software, and notes some errors in implementation and oddities in behavior. There are tags that...
View ArticleSmash Global Warming!
Scientific American: 139 Countries Could Get All of their Power from Renewable SourcesEnergy from wind, water and sun would eliminate nuclear and fossil fuels.No, they haven't sold out completely at...
View ArticleMy Letter to the BBC on COP21
This is my reply to COP21: Final push for climate deal amid 'optimism'.Negotiators at the Paris summit aim to wrap up a global agreement to curb climate change on Saturday - a day later than...
View ArticleElectoral College Counting is Under Way
Some of my handwringing friends think Hillary is doomed, but no matter how you count it, Democratic Presidential candidates start off in the Electoral College with a significant lead. Real Clear...
View ArticleBreaking: LIGO Detects Second Pair of Merging Black Holes
This is twice in four months. First was the detection last September that was announced in February. This detection occurred in December, and was announced today in a press conference and a published...
View ArticleWhat did Blacks want from Bernie Sanders?
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King was asked when he was in Birmingham Jail, as in the iconic image above, what "you people" wanted. He repliedRespect.Everything else follows directly from that. With respect...
View ArticleDemocratic National Convention Speakers
Unlike the Republican National ConventionHatefest, we have had a smooth rollout of Democratic speaker and event lists for our convention.Democratic Convention Events and Speakers, preliminary listAdded...
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What Would You Tell Trump to Sign?
Trump signs whatever Bannon puts in front of him. But now you, too, can wield this frightening power, by writing your own Trump Executive Order and tweeting it to @realDonaldTrump. Or you may have a...
View ArticleTrump Executive Order Generator: Education Dept. Edition
By now you should have heard that Betsy DeVos squeaked through with 50 Senate votes plus Mike Pence as VPOTUS and President of the Senate to become our new Secretary of Miseducation.xI just asked a...
View ArticleIndiana Hate Crime Bill Urged, Killed
I and others got to give two of our state Senators what for on this.Columbus, Indiana Republic, lead story, top of front page: Hate-crime bill debate ragesColumbus residents share ideas on measure...
View ArticleCongressional Republican Voice Mail and E-Mail is Jammed. We Can Help.
Republicans don't want to hear from us, and due to Congress's antiquated phone system, often can't. But we could fix that. And laugh at them in the process as the Luddites they are.They dodge town...
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Nigeria on the Potomac
I got an e-mail from some dude or dudette in Japan who goes by Rex W Tillerson <"ww."@abelia.ocn.ne.jp> (return address rextillerson@citromail.hu), offering to expedite my 10 megabuck “contract...
View ArticleTrump's Environment EO Blows Itself Out of the Water
Two provisions in Trump's recent Executive Order on the environment contradict everything he tried to accomplish in it.(d) It further is the policy of the United States that, to the extent permitted...
View ArticleWhat John Oliver Didn't Say About Gerrymanders
Solving the thorny problem of gerrymanders would transform our entire political landscape.John Oliver, on Last Week Tonight on Sunday, April 9, took on gerrymandering as one of the biggest political...
View ArticleOrigins of Western Civilization 101: Writing
I don't need to tell Kossacks that Western White Christian Male civilization owes a lot to the rest of the world, and to women, but specific facts sometimes help when talking to others. Agriculture is...
View ArticleHalf-Baked, Partly-Baked, and Negatively-Baked Ideas
Half-baked ideas, called conjectures in the scientific community, are essential to the progress of science. We can extend that idea into the wider realm of partly-baked ideas (PBI). But harmful ideas...
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How to See Quantum Mechanics
Just look around you.Everybody says that we can't see quantum effects. This turns out not to be the case. We see nothing else.It is true that the uncertainty in position and momentum of visible objects...
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