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By the way – if you really want some television coverage to help you remember and understand and appreciate the reality of the terrorist attacks five years ago, you can’t do much better than Jon Stewart’s comments in his show of September 20, 2001.
If we had more folks like Jon Stewart, and fewer folks like [...]

Most of the 9/11 rememberance stuff has come and gone by now, and every year it seems that the attacks of 9/11 get spun and twisted and distorted a little more. 9/11 and the War on Terror continues to be a rallying cry for the Bush administration, and yet the gap between the true [...]

Keith Olbermann on 9/11
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History teaches us that nearly unanimous support of a government cannot be taken away from that government, by its critics. It can only be squandered by those who use it not to heal a nation’s wounds, but to take political [...]

Steve Irwin, Crocodie Hunter, is dead at 44, apparently from having taken a stingray barb to the heart while filming a documentary off the Great Barrier Reef.
And so it goes.
Is this what life is like? One by one the people we know and the people we know of, the names and faces who’ve populated [...]

Major fire in the Trinity Church in St. Petersburg today, which I wanted to comment on here primarily because it yielded one of the most striking photos I’ve seen lately. Still, it’s tragic.
Funny – like Randal from Clerks (who hates people but loves gatherings), I hate most organized religion, but I can really appreciate [...]

In a remarkable accomplishment, a team of scientists and astronomers led by Doug Clowe of the University of Arizona at Tucson have uncovered direct proof of the existence of long-hypothesized dark matter. See NASA’s press release here, a nice article by National Geographic here, and an amazing first photograph here.
UPDATE: Fellow MeFite and [...]

If there was any doubt remaining in anyone’s minds about just how corrupt and cynical our government has become, check this out.
A little background – the federal minimum wage has been at $5.15 since 1997 (when it was raised $0.35 from $4.75). Taking inflation into consideration, the real purchasing power of this wage is [...]

Sometimes political correctness is, to put it succinctly, a pain in the ass.
Mitt Romney of Massachusetts got himself into hot water on Saturday by referring to Boston’s Big Dig as a “tar baby”:
The best thing for me to do politically is stay away from the Big Dig – just get as far away [...]

As expected, Floyd Landis continues to protest his innocence. No definitive word yet on his B sample, but further information has become available on his A sample, and it doesn’t look good.
In light of this, it’s hard to believe his B sample could possibly exonerate him, and it will probably just be a matter [...]

Initial reports confirm that Floyd Landis was probably doped during his Stage 17 performance in the Tour de France.
And just like that, enthusiam evaporates and condenses into cynicism and bitterness. Even in the (apparently unlikely) event that Landis is exonerated, it’s too late – it’ll never be the same.
Side note – I posted about [...]