The year in science, more or less, according to the most read articles over at Wired.com.
Monthly Archives: December 2009
Dick the Coward | The Washington Monthly
“Seven years of bellicose rhetoric failed to reduce the threat from al Qaeda and succeeded in dividing this country. And it seems strangely off-key now, at a time when our country is under attack, for the architect of those policies to be attacking the President.”
– Dan Pfeiffer, White House Communications Director on Cheney’s stupidity
Dick Cheney is being a douchebag blowhard again. He keeps on meddling with treason as far as I’m concerned.
More from Juan Cole on how Cheney has done more to make us less safe than practically anyone. Even al-Qaeda.
And the Ed Show has this wonderful bit, including the following quote:
“It was Dick Cheney personally responsible for the release of the masterminds of the Christmas airline terror plot….
“People like Jim DeMint and people like Dick Cheney need to go away so we can solve the problems they’ve created.”
– Rep. Eric Massa, NY
Think Progress » Madden defends GOP’s hypocritical attacks: Obama’s in Hawaii, which ‘seems like a foreign place.’
“(Y)ou have to also remember the fact that the president being on vacation in Hawaii, it’s much different than being in Texas. Hawaii to many Americans seems like a foreign place. And I think those images, the optics, hurt President Obama very badly.”
– Former Romney spokesman and current Tool Kevin Madden
Republicans are, quite seriously, anti-American douchebags. To think that Hawaii isn’t American enough for them goes back to the whole Palinite BS argument about “real Americans”. I live in a desert surrounded by casinos and mountains. No one in Nebraska would find any similarity with that at all, but that person and I are both Americans.
There’s probably some conservative racist code words in there too I imagine.
Best reply to this asshole who thinks only Texas can be viewed as the standard for America?
Yeah, uh, that state whose leaders want it to actually become a foreign place via secession?
– Commenter BobbyG
Hopi Teens Worry About Loss Of Culture : NPR
Working at various casinos around the country, I occasionally landed in tribal areas. Many of them are working hard to improve their communities while hanging onto their past. For some tribes, it is already too late.
I have never been to Hopi territory nor do I know if they even have a casino to bring some money into the community. That said, when I heard this story about the young folks there trying to preserve their language, it struck a chord.
And to hell with all those bastards who just want people to conform and lose their identity.
The Top ‘Nontroversies’ Of 2009 : NPR
In short, we as a nation spent way too much time on stupid people and their stupid issues.
Amen. Let’s try to avoid that in the future.
Most Hated Cubs of the Decade: A LOHO Album – A League of Her Own
I found a new Cubs fan site just in time for slideshow like this one.
The 12 Weirdest Right-Wing Conspiracies Of 2009
Because Republicans truly are nitwits who need to stop being taken seriously until they grow up.
Worst Cubs of the Decade: A Photo Retrospective – A League of Her Own
For as bad as the degenerate players are, sometimes they put up numbers. Here’s a slideshow of the sad sack Cubs of the past decade.
You know, it’s enough to depress you a bit.
NGM Blog Central – The Cost of Care – National Geographic Magazine – NGM.com
Turns out that just because we spend lots more on health care than any other nation, it really doesn’t help us live any longer.
Might that be because we’re too busy lining the pockets of already rich people to actually worry ourselves about healing anyone with those dollars?
Deus Ex Malcontent: The Year of Living Painfully
Patrick Swayze, Farrah Fawcett and John Hughes died and Orly Taitz, Dick Cheney and that idiot who wrote those Twilight books didn’t.
Chez Pazienza analyzes the politics and pop culture of 2009 in a nutshell:
How can I properly categorize the various virulent strains of blatant ridiculousness we’ve been throttled by as a culture? What makes Sarah Palin more balls-out fucking stupid than Glenn Beck, or either of them more shamefully, cartoonishly insane than Michele Bachmann or the Teabagging Army?