REAL ART (and politics and culture)

The Unbelievable Ways Schools Are Now Monitoring Children -- Even What They're Eating From AlterNet : Schools across the country are...

Congressman calls evolution lie from 'pit of hell' From the AP via the Houston Chronicle: Georgia Rep. Paul Broun said in video...

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DEBATE SCHMEBATE, LISTEN TO ME AND MATT RANT AND RAVE IN A PODCAST! This was waiting for me on my facebook "timeline" Wednesday ...

FROM THE REAL ART SPORTS DESK TEXAS BEATS OKLAHOMA STATE ON THE ROAD; LSU SLUGGISH AGAINST DIVISION II TEAM From the AP via ESPN: No. ...

GOP "LEGITIMATE RAPE" GUY SHOVES OTHER FOOT IN MOUTH From the Huffington Post: Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.), the Senate candidate th...

FACEBOOK DEBATES DEBATING THE POOR My old buddy Matt, a highly intelligent, ethical, right-leaning moderate inspires me to lots of wordag...

RESPONDING TO A CONSERVATIVE NUT It appears that one of my classmates from high school turned out to be a conservative nut.  No surprise t...

QUIS CUSTODIET IPSOS CUSTODES Means "Who Polices the Police?" From CounterPunch : The Big Lie About Police Brutality Police...

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Texas AG offers to help school district in battle over religious banners   From the Houston Chronicle: A Southeast Texas school district...

FULL COURT PRESS From CounterPunch : Upward Redistribution Almost all of this discussion has focused narrowly on what the government a...

FUCKING THE ECONOMY FOR YEARS AT A TIME HAS BIG CONSEQUENCES From AlterNet : Life Expectancy Decreases by 4 Years Among Poor Whites in U...

FACEBOOK DEBATES HOW SHOULD WE DEBATE RELIGION IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE? I've taken to putting some of what I consider to be my better po...

Joel Osteen Says Being Straight Is 'Not A Choice,' But Maintains Being Gay Is A Sin From the Huffington Post: Conservative telev...

Star Trek's 'warp drives' may not only be possible - but practical From the Daily Mail courtesy, once again, of a friend on fa...

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Disdain for Workers New Krugman:   But here’s the question: Should we imagine that Mr. Romney and his party would think better of the 4...