Count Four

War on Science

From an excellent article by Christopher Hitchens over on Slate:

This is what the Republican Party has done to us this year: It has placed within reach of the Oval Office a woman who is a religious fanatic and a proud, boastful ignoramus. Those who despise science and learning are not anti-elitist. They are morally and intellectually slothful people who are secretly envious of the educated and the cultured. And those who prate of spiritual warfare and demons are not just “people of faith” but theocratic bullies. On Nov. 4, anyone who cares for the Constitution has a clear duty to repudiate this wickedness and stupidity.

Hear, hear.

Bankstas

Sinfest nails the bailout in: Damn it feels good to be a Banksta.

Head of Skate

A few weeks ago Matt Damon compared Palin’s nomination to a bad Disney film. Well, someone went and made a trailer for that same film.

Link courtesy hoyvenmayven.

Nailed It

I’d definitely say the Associated Press got this one exactly right.

Can’t make this stuff up.

“Believe Me, It’s Torture”

Christopher Hitchens Gets Waterboarded

Link courtesy Saxon.

Innovations in Energy

This would be laughable, if it weren’t so true.

(Flash required)

Coming to a City Near You

This could so easily apply to DC, too.

A Study, Examined

An interesting examination of the new report from from the New England Journal of Medicine on obesity, courtesy Slate, and on the conclusions reached therein.

A Rose By Any Other Name

In honor of the Live Earth concerts, I’d like to point you to this comic (Prickly City).

Good Bye

While I do not rejoice in Mr. Falwell’s passing, I certainly do not mourn him, either.