Here Be Dragons Submitted by Bill Lyne United Faculty of Washington Why would I want to be integrated into a burning house? –James BaldwinIn all the intense and wide-ranging testimony about the Marriage Equality bills (SB 6239 and HB 2516) nobody asked an obvious question: Why would anyo[...]
Archive for February, 2012
February 20th, 2012 - 11:12 am § in Misc.
Comparing Apple and North Korea
Apple the Equivalent of North Korea in Google Andy Rubin’s Eyes Google’s Andy Rubin had a frank and candid discussion about Android, Google, Apple, and iPhone with The New York Times in which he discussed Android’s latest strategies, Flash, and even compared Apple to North Korea. R[...]
February 20th, 2012 - 8:37 am § in Misc.
Washington: The ‘Blackest Name’ In America
by JESSE WASHINGTON, Huff Post George Washington’s name is inseparable from America, and not only from the nation’s history. It identifies countless streets, buildings, mountains, bridges, monuments, cities – and people. In a puzzling twist, most of these people are black. The 2000 U.S[...]
February 19th, 2012 - 1:36 pm § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Atheists To Hold Massive Rally On National Mall Next Month
‘We Are Stronger’ << readmore On March 24, the National Mall will be populated by those who sympathize with atheist perspectives, generally defined by an absence in belief of deities or other religious icons. [...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Article in Scientific American upsets basic theory of genetics.
Jeckyl and Hyde: Each Clone Has a Different Personality, Why? Until now biologists and even theologians have believed that the DNA was the same in all cells. A clone of my fibroblasts could be used to grow me … a twin! The idea is central to two major tenets. In biology we now believe in [&h[...]
February 18th, 2012 - 10:08 am § in Misc.
Republican Angst
“If Romney cannot win Michigan, we need a new candidate. We’d get killed, (if Romney went on to be nominated) He’d be too damaged,if he can’t even win in Michigan, where his family is from, where he grew up.” As for Rick Santorum? “He’d lose 35 states,” Who else? “Jeb Bush,”[...]
February 17th, 2012 - 1:40 pm § in Misc.
Santorum
“They are taking faith and crushing it. Why? Why? When you marginalize faith in America, when you remove the pillar of God-given rights, then what’s left is the French Revolution. What’s left is a government that gives you rights. What’s left are no unalienable rights. What’s left is a gov[...]
February 17th, 2012 - 12:23 pm § in Misc.
Will New iPAD be Built Outside China?
Apple is working with component suppliers in Korea to test a new version of its popular tablet computer with a smaller screen, U.S. media reported on Tuesday. Officials at Korea’s ministry of technology, who declined to be named, said the company has shown them screen designs for a new table[...]
The GOP Primary Continues
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