Reuters
No high-quality study done to date can document that having an abortion causes psychological distress, or a “post-abortion syndrome,” and efforts to show it does occur appear to be politically motivated, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.
No shit.
It’s just the way we show we care. Some people do it with flowers. But we do it by [...]
Category Archives: Politics
Today In No Shit News: Abortion
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Conspiracy Theory: Wall Street Journal Edition
Thursday, December 4, 2008
One suspects the terrorists spent far too much time listening to the BBC World Service.
Let’s hasten to add that by no means should the BBC alone be singled out. When it comes to terrorists and their grievances, nearly all the Western media have provided them with a rich diet on which to feed.
Media Narratives Feed [...]
Creative Commons Gets Legit
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Change.gov is licensed under Creative Commons. It used to be that Creative Commons was something that only amateur musicians, fan fic authors, and people who post to Slashdot cared about. But now it’s something of interest to amateur musicians, fan fic authors, people who post to Slashdot and the President of the United States of [...]
It’s What He Said He’d Do
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
With the exception of F.I.S.A., so far, all his actions reflect what he’s said he was going to do. I don’t know if that’s good news or bad news. I hope it isn’t a pattern, in that we can expect his centrist statements to hold up under duress, but his leftist statements to get dropped [...]
Ding Ding Ding
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
The Salvation Army bell-ringers are a cultural sign that Christmas is coming. And they’d be sort of quaint, if it weren’t for the fact that anyone who has ever dealt with the Salvation Army on an institutional level knows that the Salvation Army is actually kind of a bunch of pricks. I’m glad the ACLU [...]
Joe The Biden Makes Me Happy When He Talks About The Choo Choo
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Moar Trainz Plz K Thnx
Anthrax
Monday, December 1, 2008
My point in my previous post about anthrax isn’t to say that we should all run out right now and get anthrax vaccinations. My point is that I think it says something about who we are that we’re not getting vaccinated against what has got to be the most plausible potential terrorist attack.
I say that [...]
An Ounce Of Prevention
Sunday, November 30, 2008
In a country where paranoia so steadily grips the hearts of the people that The War On Terror is allowed to excuse two foreign wars, the jailing of political enemies, and a developing police state, does it strike anyone else as a little odd that we don’t have universal anthrax vaccinations?
Wouldn’t vaccinations against the [...]
Hillary
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
I clearly recall reading a piece in The Guardian which reported that Hillary is the next Secretary State as a fact which had come to pass, the headline of which was: Hillary Clinton to accept Obama’s offer of secretary of state job.
Hillary Clinton plans to accept the job of secretary of state offered by Barack [...]
Welcome To Moral Hazzard County
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Citi, AIG Won’t Drop Big Sports Sponsorships
Citigroup is still going to pay the New York Mets millions of dollars to keep their baseball park named Citi Field. The AIG logo is still going to be on the Manchester United uniforms. Any pretense that our monetary system is anything closely resembling a meritocracy is being abandoned [...]
