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Archive for April, 2010

Stephen Hawking Warns: Don’t Go Looking For E.T.

by Doug Mataconis @ Sunday, April 25th, 2010. Filed under Science, Space Exploration

One of the world’s most famous theoretical physicists makes a sanguine warning about the life we may encounter elsewhere in the universe:
THE aliens are out there and Earth had better watch out, at least according to Stephen Hawking. He has suggested that extraterrestrials are almost certain to exist — but that instead of seeking them [...]

North Korea Aims To Maintain The World’s First Herediary Communist Dictatorship

by Doug Mataconis @ Sunday, April 25th, 2010. Filed under Foreign Affairs, North Korea

It looks like North Korea is already grooming one of Kim Jong Il’s sons to take over when his father dies:
SUNGNAM, South Korea — The black-and-white photographs that were published last month in a North Korean newspaper appear no different from other propaganda coming from North Korea: they show the supreme leader, Kim Jong-il, touring [...]

Administration Note: Syndication

by Doug Mataconis @ Saturday, April 24th, 2010. Filed under Blogging, News About The Site

I’ve been advised that the RSS feed for the blog hasn’t been updating, and from the looks of it, it looks like it hasn’t updated since we did the server move last Saturday.
I’ll be looking into that, but, until then, please note that the Atom feed is current so you can switch your subscriptions [...]

Arizona’s Immigration Bill Is Unconstitutional And Will Bankrupt The State Of Arizona

by Doug Mataconis @ Saturday, April 24th, 2010. Filed under Immigration, Individual Liberty, Political Parties, Politics, Republicans

Judge Andrew Napolitano weighed in pretty quickly yesterday on Arizona’s new immigration bill:

The Ad That Was “Too Revealing” For Dancing With The Stars

by Doug Mataconis @ Saturday, April 24th, 2010. Filed under Celebrities, Dumbasses

Apparently, ABC considered this ad to be too revealing to run during Dancing With The Stars:
ABC is issuing a “fat”-wa against full-figured models, plus-size label Lane Bryant says.
The Disney-owned network refused to air the brand’s lingerie ad during its hit show “Dancing with the Stars,” saying it bared too much cleavage, a Lane Bryant insider [...]

Quote Of The Day

by Doug Mataconis @ Saturday, April 24th, 2010. Filed under Blogging, Political Parties, Politics, Quote Of The Day, Republicans

Marc Ambinder gives his take on the ongoing debate over the closing of the conservative mind:
It is absolutely a condition of the age of the triumph of conservative personality politics, where entertainers shouting slogans are taken seriously as political actors, and where the incentive structures exist to stomp on dissent and nuance, causing experimental voices [...]

NYPD Increases Security At Comedy Central Offices In Wake Of Threats

by Doug Mataconis @ Saturday, April 24th, 2010. Filed under Freedom of Speech, Individual Liberty, Islam, Religion

Oh my:
The New York Police Department has stepped up security at the headquarters of the Comedy Central cable channel after an Islamic extremist Web site posted apparent threats to the creators of South Park, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, for making fun of the Prophet Muhammad. Paul Browne, NYPD deputy commissioner and chief spokesman, says [...]

Interstellar Photo Of The Day

by Doug Mataconis @ Saturday, April 24th, 2010. Filed under Science, Space Exploration

To celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the launch and deployment of the Hubble Space Telescope, NASA gave us this image of the Carina Nebula
Click picture for full-size version

May 20, 2010 — First Annual Everybody Draw Mohammed Day

by Doug Mataconis @ Saturday, April 24th, 2010. Filed under Freedom of Speech, Individual Liberty, Islam, Religion

The guys at Reason inform us that May 20th has been designated Everybody Draw Mohammed Day:
Via Dan Savage’s blog at The Stranger, some clever chappie (I don’t know who) has declared May 20, 2010 “Everybody Draw Mohammad Day,” in support of Matt Stone and Trey Parker and in opposition to religious thuggery. Why May 20? [...]

What If There Had Been A Border Fence In 1620 ?

by Doug Mataconis @ Saturday, April 24th, 2010. Filed under History, Humor, Immigration
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