The Eternal Gaijin

Thunderf00t strikes again. H/T Too Many Tribbles Why do people laugh at creationists? (part 30)

Every so often my mum sends me an email giving me some kind of scare about health or the Moozlims ! or some fucking thing. In return I send her a link to Snopes or Just Fucking Google It . There is a dearth of facts and truthful reflection on both sides of the aisle these days. As you may have notices when checking your blogs or email. (I will say this, in the last several years the right has had a more tenuous grip on the truth) Everyone who has something to sell or shill is prone to alarmist proclomations and those whose bias it confirms are happy enough to take it as fact. It behooves all of us to take it easy and figure out what is true and false before we jump all over something. Otherwise we're all going to run ourselves into the ground. JAMES EVANS: Truth essential element | montgomeryadvertiser.com | Montgomery Advertiser Recently I received an e-mail message warning me about a dangerous and vile movie called "Corpus Christi." According to the message, this movie ...

A nice CNN video between a drug warrior and drug realist. Milk: The Gateway Drug - Boing Boing It does make you ask the following questions: Have you ever met a drug user who didn't drink alcohol? How many drug users started up by smoking? Why a re those two gateway drugs illegal? Awaiting your answers.

I give you: Tucker Carlson's right-wing HuffPo killer. "Tell the truth, and be accurate," Carlson said of the venture's goals. "It's very important to live up to the basic standards of journalism." I wish you luck, Tuck. With a mission statement like that how could you not live up to it?

New Humanist reports that New Scientist has reinstated the article it pulled down previously. Good for them. BTW, support your local Simon Singh .

they've already come after geology and biology, now they're coming after astronomy. Texas is as fucked as the little guy in the prison shower. 'Texas is only 6000 years old' by Phil Plait - BadAstronomyBlog - RichardDawkins.net

Mr Magoo could have seen this one coming from the horizon. If you give the police, or anyone if we're honest, the power to stop and search without cause, warrent or reprisals they're going to use it. BBC NEWS | UK | England | London | Capital sees rise in terror stops Somebody in London is stopped and searched every three minutes, according to new figures obtained by BBC London. The Metropolitan Police used section 44 of the Terrorism Act more than 170,000 times in 2008 to stop people in London. The best parts? That compares to almost 72,000 anti-terror stop and searches carried out in the previous year. and Of all the stops last year, only 65 led to arrests for terror offences, a success rate of just 0.035%. Related articles by Zemanta: London cops catch and search a potential terrorist every three minutes Police accused of abusing powers as antiterrorism stop and searches treble Two-thirds of UK terror arrests not charged Anti-terror case to be reviewed - BBC News