The Assault on Planetary Values
Watch as Bill Maher uses the reclassification of Pluto in a series of hilarious metaphors for the neoconservative cult of ignorance:
“An international panel of ’scientists’ has decided to cut and run on the planet Pluto.”
“As long as George Bush is president, the science is still out on science.”
“Many of my Republican friends got very excited [...]
Thank You, Alabama Democratic Party…
…for selectively enforcing a previously ignored rule in order to disqualify a woman who might have been your first openly gay legislator:
Attorney Bobby Segall told the committee earlier Thursday that if the party disqualified Todd for not filing a financial disclosure form with the party chairman it would also have to disqualify the party’s nominee [...]
Qui Bono?
Medicare Part D, written by and for the pharmaceutical corporations, amounted to a huge giveaway to the tune of billions. If you have any doubts as to the bill’s authorship, note that it removes the government’s power to negotiate drug prices, per Rep. Waxman’s (D-CA) report:
The prices offered by the ten Medicare drug plans [...]
