Strong Evidence of Dark Matter Found
by Angry White LiberalOh yeah, I’m geeked about this news…
The strongest evidence yet for the existence of dark matter has been spotted 5 billion light-years away in the ongoing collision of two clusters of galaxies. Astronomers have detected what appears to be a vast ring of dark matter — so wide that even light would need 2.6 million years to cross it.
I am not a proponent for the idea of saying nice things about a — – — – — – s. So I am in complete agreement with Timothy Noah’s decision to denounce Jerry Falwell on the occasion of Falwell’s death.
God, they say, is love, but the Rev. Jerry Falwell, who died May 15, hit the jackpot trafficking in small-minded condemnation. The controversies Falwell generated followed a predictable loop. 1.) Falwell would say something hateful or clownish about some person or group associated with liberalism. 2.) A public outcry would ensue. 3.) Falwell would apologize and retract the offending comment. 4.) Falwell would repeat the comment, slightly rephrased.
For 20 years, evangelicals have chided the mainstream media for treating Falwell’s ghastly pronouncements as news; Falwell, they often confide in private, ceased being a significant figure well before he left his signature political organization, the Moral Majority, in 1987. If so, someone forgot to tell Sen. John McCain, R.-Ariz., who as a presidential candidate in 2000 condemned Falwell’s intolerance (”The political tactics of division and slander are not our values, they are corrupting influences on religion and politics, and those who practice them in the name of religion or in the name of the Republican Party or in the name of America shame our faith, our party and our country”) but last year, as a presidential candidate positioning for 2008, made peace with Falwell and gave a commencement address (”We have nothing to fear from each other“) to the 2006 graduating class at Falwell’s Liberty University. On news of Falwell’s death, McCain said in a statement, “Dr. Falwell was a man of distinguished accomplishment who devoted his life to serving his faith and country.”
Nonsense. He was a bigot, a reactionary, a liar, and a fool. Herewith, [is] a Falwell sampler.
http://www.slate.com/id/2166220?nav=ais
There can now be no doubt now that Alberto “Gonzo” Gonzales is quite the S.O.B. I NEVER thought that I would see the day when John “Pentacostal and proud of it” Ashcroft would be venerated by the left for his stands. That is how bad things are.
It’s hard to take any pleasure from the depiction of government officials in critical condition being manipulated in their hospital beds by soulless White House flunkies. But Senate Democrats are all smiles as former Deputy Attorney General James Comey goes before the Senate judiciary committee this morning. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., can barely stop grinning long enough to ask his next question. Because Alberto Gonzales truly is the gift that keeps on giving. Only a handful of reporters are on hand, at what should have been a rerun of Comey’s devastating House testimony two weeks ago. But we are treated to Grey’s Anatomy meets The West Wing.And maybe that’s why the Democrats finally have reason to grin. They have failed so far to take down Attorney General Alberto Gonzales with tales of the man’s hackery, sycophancy, and boundless apathy. But now we’re being treated to a graphic retelling of the AG’s efforts to browbeat a critically ill man into signing off on the National Security Agency’s illegal surveillance program.
Wait. Now even I’m grinning.
http://www.slate.com/id/2166213/fr/flyout