05-16-09
- Military-Industrial Profiteers - Criminal to the Core:
- Rumsfeld's Renegade Unit Blamed for Afghan Deaths - Special Forces group implicated in three incidents that claimed the lives of hundreds of innocent civilians (independent)
- Barack McSame Obama (salon - nytimes) "The president's recent decisions on detainee abuse photos and tribunals have put him more in line with his predecessor, despite pledges of a new direction."
- Rightwing Christians usually lie like a rug to try to justify their hateful, homophobic bigotry:
- Anti-gay bigots caught lying again (americablog) - Lost In Homophobic Translation (sobeale)
- Ex-Archbishop of Milwaukee Speaks About Catholic Church and Homosexuality (nytimes) "If we say our God is an all-loving god,” he said, “how do you explain that at any given time probably 400 million living on the planet at one time would be gay? Are the religions of the world, as does Catholicism, saying to those hundreds of millions of people, you have to pass your whole life without any physical, genital expression of that love?"
- Battling Runaway Corporatist Scams:
- Michael Pollan’s New Advice on Buying Food: “Don’t Buy Any Food You’ve Ever Seen Advertised” (democracynow)
- Atlantis and Hubble Side by Side (apod)
