The Real Reason Cloned Food Animals Are Dangerous
January 6, 2007
The FDA just approved the sexual offspring of cloned animals as human food. There are many who oppose this decision, and the movement to approve direct consumption of clones it heralds, but they do so for reasons based on popular misunderstanding of the technology, speculation as to long term effects, or its unintended consequences. None
Mike’s 2007 Predictions
January 5, 2007
I’ll be the first to admit, I’m a terrible prognosticator. My predictions are nearly always wrong. Yet for some reason I’m still compelled to make my clumsy attempts to predict what will come to pass in the coming year. Some are just obvious to anyone paying attention, some are very unlikely, and some are just
Drinking Liberally 1/04
January 3, 2007
Happy New Year! Liberals will be doing the Drinking Liberally thing this Thursday at the Shanty on 4th Avenue starting at 6pm. This week, our special guest is the Minority Leader of the Arizona House, Phil Lopes. Phil will be joining us to discuss the upcoming session of the Arizona House and what we Democrats
UPDATED: Finally, Something I Want To Blog About… McCain’s Sunny Dialer
January 3, 2007
As the Presidential candidates poke their heads out of their holes to check the political weather, the exploratory campaigns are looking to report early fund-raising goals met to intimidate the other hopefuls. Today I got a call from John McCain’s exploratory campaign; the reason, I imagine, is that I gave McCain a substantial donation during
GOP Certainly Hasn’t Lost Nerve
January 2, 2007
Link: Letter Proposing Minority Bill of Rights by Republicans. The House Minority (GOP) leadership transmitted a letter to Pelosi requesting minority protections that Pelosi requested herself in 2002 (and were completely ignored, of course). What is so incredibly wrong here is that there is not one word of acknowledgment of how the GOP majority systematically
Kolbe Makes His GOP Retirement Confession
January 1, 2007
Link: Kolbe: GOP on wrong path. I was gratified and impressed by some of Kolbe’s candor upon retirement. I found myself strongly in agreement on his views on the theocrats’ misguided culture war and his realization that the Iraq war must be ended. Why is it that Republicans seem only to be able to tell
Drinking Liberally 12/28
December 27, 2006
Happy New Year! (Well, almost…) As 2007, the penultimate year of the Bush Debacle, creeps up on us, Liberals will be gathering at the Shanty on 4th Avenue this Thursday evening starting at 6pm to begin the process of drinking away the memories of Auld Lang Syne. This week, in the tradition of Time Magazine,
The Nazi Philosopher at the root of GOP politics
December 27, 2006
Link: The Chronicle: 4/2/2004: A Fascist Philosopher Helps Us Understand Contemporary Politics. An interesting look at Nazi intellectual Carl Schmitt’s political philosophy and how it lives and breathes in today’s movement Conservatism. At base, Schmitt saw politics as a no-holds-barred struggle to define who is a friend and who is an enemy – an art
