What is the Far Side’s Gary Larson doing these days?

No, sorry.  He's not cartooning.   According to this article from USA Today, though, Larson has has recently released a calendar (of previously released cartoons), all of the profits going to help Conservation International for the organization's work to help end the illegal trade in Asian elephants, Indochinese tigers, Asiatic black bears,…

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Liberal Pledge to Disheartened Conservatives

Michael Moore recently published this pledge in the Los Angeles Times.  I applaud each of these twelve points: 1) We will always respect you. We will never, ever, call you "unpatriotic" simply because you disagree with us. In fact, we encourage you to dissent and disagree with us. 2) We…

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Oklahomo Senator says global warming is a myth and that “God is still up there.”

In this interview, Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) claims that global warming is not caused by humans. He argues that liberals "want us to believe the science is settled and it’s not.” Why is is the atmosphere getting warmer? Inhofe: "God is still up there and we still have natural changes…

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Understanding the world through a column of statistics

Bill Moyers wrote that "it has been said that the mark of a truly educated person is to be deeply moved by statistics." To the extent that this is true, go hither and understand the world through the statistics presented by "Worldometers."  Lots of thought-provoking statistics kept up to the…

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