http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/01/last_night_in_iowa.html

JK had to back down from an assertion (That TPM got right) before the ink was even dry. Also, news on the street suggests that Hillary is going to go more negative. Speculation is rampant on how this will affect her relationship to the press corps. (Will they embrace her finally generating some drama for them or will it be just more evidence of her cold heartless character.)

Do stay tuned......

Enquiring minds don't give a rats @$$.

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=/Politics/archive/200801/POL20080104b.html

Huckabee Described As 'Christian Socialist'

By Susan Jones

CNSNews.com Senior Editor

The cult of personality may work while covering drunk driving underage actresses, but it fails America when applied to national politics.

as both sell eyeballs. The same short-attention-span theater that drives the celebrity coverage drives the political coverage so the failure (in the form, of shitty government, endless warfare and routine domestic survellance) doesn't actually come in to play in the reward/punishment system that drives the individual reporters' behavior.

In other words, they act like Jr. High School kids because they're encouraged to do sop and there's nothing to stop them.

(having just posted this on the other thread...)

http://www.aquaticape.org/

Most sources I'm aware of dismiss the aquatic ape hypothesis without much explanation. I don't know why, but then again I haven't read the link I just posted.

I'm sure its fascinating.

http://www.aquaticape.org/

Most sources I'm aware of dismiss the aquatic ape hypothesis without much explanation. I don't know why, but then again I haven't read the link I just posted.

I'm sure its fascinating.

He was talking about you.

Again, the reading comprehension has taken a serious nose-dive.

I'm rubber, you're glue

Either that or his reading comprehension is even more impaired than I would have assumed.

Quite the piece of work in any event.

Someone who hates a particular politician for perfectly rational reasons, or someone who assumes that our possesion of a large industrial infrastructure not only allows but actually obliges us to shape the world by the use of explosives with barely a thought of the people who's lives have been devastated and/or abruptly ended in the process.

Never overestimate the intelligence or ability of the greedy and powerful.

They are human beings and many of them are remarkably incompetent and/or short-sighted.

The fastest way to approach the truth is to assume that someone was lazy, effed up and is trying to hide the results. It's certainly easier to believe than dark closely held secrets involving explosive charges and SAM's.

Wow, what a kuhl phrase!

Do think he thought it up all by himself?

I hear he's clever enough to - he told me so himself.

This is of course why the sun never sets on the British Empire.....oh wait.

Fitz was likely a Republican as well.

Republicans with principles do exist. They've just don't get invited to all the GOOD parties.

[blockquote]Equally disappointing is the limited scope of this

investigation, which appears limited to the destruction of two

tapes. The government needs to scrutinize what other evidence may

have been destroyed beyond the two tapes, as well as the underlying

allegations of misconduct associated with the interrogations.

[blockquote]

{p}So, NO looking into what other evidence might've been destroyed,

and NO investigation into the underlying crime of (to quote

Jonathan Turley) TORTURE.{/p}

[/blockquote]

[/blockquote]

So you have a paragraph nested in another paragraph and they both are closed at the end.

Bucky beleives in evolution.

His candidate doesn't.

He therefore finds it necessary to attack "Dawinian gradualism" in order to conceal the fact that his candidate is a card-carrying member of the wingnut brigade who won't acknowlege evolution at all.

He's clearly devoted a lot of energy to solving his conundrum.

Oh well. I wish him well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionarily_stable_state

A population is said to be in an evolutionarily stable state if its genetic composition is restored by selection after a disturbance, provided the disturbance is not too large. Such a population can be genetically monomorphic or polymorphic

Apparently the stable point in our population is 30% scumbags.

I could go on to speculate that there is a tunable parameter in humans that relates to the degree of empathy they feel for unrelated people but its easier to just let the political result speak for itself.

None of which changes the fact that Toxicity Warning is a certifiable sociopath.

yes.

This has been another edition of....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punctuated_equilibrium

The wikipedia on Puntuated Equilibrium looks pretty good, and if I had had it at hand last night, I would have had an even easier time of explaining to Bucky just how misguided his defense of Ron Paul Re: evolution.

It also explains how punctuated equilibrium differs from bifurcation in that the rapid speciation it postulates is rapid only across geologic time. The actual changes across individual generations remain minor.

In the grand scheme of things, this seems like a relatively minor offense compared to the Bush regime's egregious high crimes and misdemeanors.

When encounering the Naked emporer marching down the street, it IS acceptable to note that its a little bit chilly outside.

It isn't that the crime itself is more serious than others, its that the evidence is more unavoidable. I'm still sticking to the theory that in addition to stymieing any further Congressional investigation, the criminal investigation will be rushed to insure that pardons can be issued in time.

Gee too bad we've never encountered anybody ELSE like that here in our little playground.

Of course self-importance goes hand in hand with the moral bankruptcy noted earlier.

My first reaction, when they assigned a prosecuter was that they were probably going to fast-track the investigation to make sure that the convictions were in place before GW left office.

Hillary might not be as generous with the pardon pen.