Dr. Grist explains our problems in 36 tweets.
It looks like we will not have our first female Secretary of Defense, as Michele Flournoy has taken herself out of the running for the post.
The White House doesn’t seem happy about a proposed tax-cut deal Harry Reid is making with the House Republicans. Will they veto it or just send out emails complaining about it?
When a Christian home-schooler visits the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago the results are hilarious.
Texas should go ahead and add the U.S. Constitution as a bona fide book in the Old Testament. But the question is: “Is our children learning?”
Very cool when your friend’s father gets a writeup in the Scientific American. But I am not a scientist, so I guess I can’t read it.
Philly’s City Paper has no patience for sanctimony about Ferguson from Mayor Nutter and District Attorney Seth Williams.
Ted Cruz can’t even handle questioning from Chris Wallace. How is he going to negotiate with Vladimir Putin?
Maybe Chuck Hagel was just bad at his job.
Here’s some more Bob Marley:
What’s on your mind?
Christian home-school dimwit isn’t funny. She is a potential ISIS recruit. What a piece of work. Its ok if daddy molested you (aka home-school) its not your fault. You don’t have to twist all of reality to cope. Get help.
Fuckinf Michael Nutter and Seth Williams. I never vote for that piece of shit Nutter, but I DID support Williams twice. I remember when that sack of garbage dropped by Drinking Liberally trolling for votes. I mean, i’m glad Lynne Abraham is gone, but Williams has proven to be a real turd.
Great advice. Saves me a round trip Metra ticket and a long walk in the cold.
I don’t think Chuck Hagel was bad at his job, at least compared to the previous SecDefs. Obama wanted a weak SecDef who wouldn’t protest Obama and his small, clique of liberal interventionist friends (Rice, Powers, etc) micromanaging affairs. From what I’ve been reading, Hagel wanted clarification on treating Assad and Syrian Army troops as under the table allies against ISIS. That didn’t fly with the conventional wisdom that Assad has to go and so he had to go instead.
This doesn’t solve any of Obama’s problems with foreign policy.
Skip the wingnut Museum of Natural History rant and go directly to the comments.
The phenomenon of brazen reality denial that David Roberts described is nothing new. At the very least, it characterized the entire Cheney Regency, not just the administration but the right-wing media’s support of it. But it’s likely a characteristic of many political movements throughout human history. What was actually new and possibly ephemeral was the modern idea that there is an objective reality established through scientific procedures (i.e., not revelation).