"Mitt the Twit"
Don't tell anyone, but I don't actually pay ANY taxes! Fuck you, Uncle Sam! Cross-posted at AtheistHobos.com Mitt Romney, who is aspiring for the position of head diplomat of the US, has been in the...
View ArticleCallous Disregard - A Penn State Football Story
Unless you're living in an alternate universe, you've probably heard about the Sandusky/Penn State scandal/cover-up. Sandusky was convicted in June and will likely die in prison for raping numerous...
View ArticleRandom Bible Verse of the Day: Romans 8:28
Remember, I gave you cancer because I love you :) Cross-posted at AtheistHobos.com As we continue our journey through the most popular bible verses on biblegateway.com, we come to Romans 8:28, which...
View ArticleFormer GOP FL Gov Charlie Crist Endorses Obama - GOP Freaks Out at How...
Charlie Crist: sold-out his native wingnuttia to a moderate (i.e. socialist) Cross-posted at AtheistHobos.com This morning former Republican governor of Florida, Charlie Crist, endorsed the Obama...
View ArticleThe 9/11 Memorial, Revisited
Cross-posted at AtheistHobos.com Last December I wrote about my visit to the 9/11 Memorial in NYC and noted that the Security Theater on display was a perfect, though unintentional, symbol of how our...
View ArticleRepost - Waving The Flag ≠ Patriotism
Re-posted from 2011 and cross-posted at AtheistHobos.com Hanging a multicolored piece of fabric is not patriotism. If you think it is, you're a pretentious rube. When you consider the impact 9/11 had...
View ArticleLibyan Attacks - Let's Fight Violence with Science
Cross posted at AtheistHobos.com By now, you've probably heard about the terrorist attacks on the US consulate in Libya where four Americans were killed in protest of an anti-Muslim film that was...
View ArticleFree Speech & Blasphemy
Non-violent Free Speech. You're doing it right. Cross-posted at AtheistHobos.com My last post was about the appropriate response to terrorist attacks. Appropriate in the sense that the response would...
View ArticleDebate Reform: iPads
Cross posted at AtheistHobos.com [Update: Gawker has a story about debate conspiracy theories of covert communications, including one about Romney pulling out a cheat-sheet. My only objection to this...
View ArticleAn Endorsement (if not a vote) for Jill Stein
Cross-posted at AtheistHobos.com I know, the title is bound to annoy people, but I'm still not sure who I will be voting for. Of course, it won't be Romney, but I have been swayed over the past week...
View ArticleKeep Your Politics to Yourself: A Guide to Facebook
Cross-posted at AtheistHobos.com You know what kills me? When people put up political talk on Facebook. Seriously, what makes you think I'm interested in your political views? Here's a clue. I'm...
View ArticleOn Pragmatism and Hope: Wingnuts Losing their Nuts?
Cross-posted at AtheistHobos.com With President Obama's re-election, the hard wall of reality has met the Republican party ideology head on as GOP leaders are rethinking their strategy in alienating...
View ArticleBill Gates Didn't Say That
Cross-posted at AtheistHobos.com Over the past few days I've seen the revival of a quote attributed to Bill Gates giving a commencement speech to a high school. It seems that this trope has been going...
View ArticlePenn Sate and Steubenville, OH - Not So Different
Cross-posted at AtheistHobos.com The fallout from the Sandusky scandal and the ensuing Penn State coverup continues. Pennsylvania's Governor, Tom Corbett, has filed suit against the NCAA claiming...
View ArticleVitamin C Megadosing & the Nobel Disease
Cross-posted at AtheistHobos.com Anyone that has ever been to one knows that the gym locker room is a curious place as one often over-hears others' conversations (not to mention the strange...
View ArticlePlease Remember That Funding Terrorists is Illegal...mmmk?
Cross-posted at AtheistHobos.com When I saw the Salon.com headline NFL under scrutiny for “gay checking" - NY Attorney General Eric Schneiderman told the NFL's Roger Goodell to investigate, I was...
View ArticleNature isn't Patentable!
Quikkie post to ease back into the groove... Yesterday the Supreme Court unanimously (!) ruled that human genes can't be patented. Previously some corporation had patented the BRCA1 gene that is used...
View ArticleDon't Debate, It's Impolite!
I happen to follow the Progressive Secular Humanist Examiner page on Facebook, which I would encourage any like-minded people to do so as well. A couple days ago I saw a post from them, however, that...
View ArticleThe Road to Equality is Paved with Millions of Pebbles of Support
Last week's Supreme Court rulings on Prop 8 and DOMA were positive in their ultimate effect on marriage equality (despite the narrowness of each and the problematic reasoning that got the positive...
View ArticleJuicy, Oblivious Irony
The continued exposure of the US Security State and the blatant Constitutional subversion as revealed by Snowden and Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald highlights not only the abuses explicitly...
View ArticleThe Stupidity of a Syria Strike
The Obama Administration really wants to bomb Syria, ostensibly for its use of chemical weapons against its own people. And of course a good number of Congress people want to bomb Syria as well for...
View ArticleRandom Bible Verse of the Day: Genesis 1:1
It's been a while since I did a Random Bible Verse of the Day post, and now I'm feeling shameful and unfit for a loving, benevolent Dog. Let's get back on the crazy train of popular Bible verses to...
View ArticleConservatives Fail at Facts: Part Infinity
This picture showed up in my facebook feed today as one of my friends shared it. First off, this is probably fake. But in a way that is incidental to the more relevant fact that over 200,000 people...
View ArticleTrump's a Disaster and Democrats Had it Coming
That I am disheartened at how the whole election process and results played out is an understatement. From all the ways the DNC violated its supposed neutrality in the Democratic primaries to the...
View ArticleWe've Moved to TPSReport.co!
Eventually I'll be shutting down this domain but I'm re-branding! Please go to TPSReport.co for my take on Tech. Politics. Science. -- get it, TPS? So clever. And follow me @tpsreportco on twitter....
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