Bill Ayers: Passive living as violent living

Bill Ayers talked with Salon.com, exploring many issues.   I was especially interested in his characterization of those Americans who would argue that they are passive or non-violent by the fact that they are not, themselves, physically violent.  Per Ayers, there is no "neutral" when one's country is perpetrating despicable violence.…

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Frienemies?

Arriana Huffington, sitting in for Rachel Maddow, talks about Obama's frienemies with Bill Maher. Also at this same page, Google's CEO Eric Schmidt talks about our first Internet President.

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Texas “Intelligent Design” results not quite overwhelming enough.

Less than 1% of the 464 biology and biological anthropology faculty members who responded to a recent survey approved of the following proposition: “Modern evolutionary biology is mostly wrong. Life arose through multiple creation events by an intelligent designer, although evolution by natural selection played a limited role.” The biologists…

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