Why Close Gitmo?Think Progress » After Handing Out Jumbo Stimulus Checks, Jindal Still Refuses To Give Obama Any Credit For StimulusWhy Close Gitmo?

ThinkProgress points out the hypocrisy of GOP governors, Piyush Jindal in this case, of making an ass out of themselves of refusing federal stimulus money, then quietly accepting it, THEN taking credit for the money as if it magically appeared instead of getting on their knees and thanking the United States for creating jobs in their states seeing as their incompetent and/or broke selves couldn’t do it.

Why America is flunking science | Salon

Here’s a pretty honest report on the state of our nation’s education, or, rather, LACK of education when it comes to science.

Don’t cast all the blame on our underfunded schools. Also give some jeers to the anti-science Talibangelicals trying to destroy public education and to the media who someone ALWAYS gets science wrong.

So basically, fund the schools, take the Luddites out to the woodshed and deal with them, and promote science instead of just making stuff up.

Easy, no?

CBC.ca – The Greatest Canadian – Top Ten Greatest Canadians – Tommy Douglas

So….if nationalized health care is as bad as the Rethugs want us to believe, why do the Canadians revere the architect of their health care system as one of The Greatest Canadians?

Just saying.

Christian nutballs aim to change history for Texas schoolchildren « Eideard

More on the neocon nitwits trying to destroy education in Texas.

Yahoo Will Switch To Bing Search Engine – Lifehacker.com

Granted, apparently Bing is actually useful and a decent search engine. I wouldn’t really know as my history with Microsoft search has been awful. And no, I’m not a knee-jerk Microsoft basher; I’ve just been burned repeatedly to give such reviews much creedence.

So, basically, I use either Google or Yahoo for searching stuff. At least, I used to. Apparently, since Yahoo has some bills to pay off, they are joining forces with M$ and will soon be using the Bing search engine instead of their own useful one.

I guess this only leaves me using Yahoo for email and fantasy sports playing. Boo!

Bob Cesca: Republicans Lying to Old People About Euthanasia, Robots

Once again, Bob cuts to the core of an issue and takes the GOP to task for their outright lies concerning health care reform.

The Man Who Made Baseball’s Box Score A Hit : NPR

Normally, I give any story by Mike Pesca a wide berth but he’s usually pretty reliable when it comes to baseball. So I listened to – and enjoyed – this story concerning the origin of the box score.