Drum agrees: Despite all the grief she's gotten, I continue to think that the selection of Sarah Palin as John McCain's running mate represents the breaking of a consensual cultural barrier far more fundamental than most people realize. It's not... Full story...
National Geographic explains why identical twins might not have the same sexual orientation: (Hat tip: Box Turtle)
Phillip Carter, who ran the blog Intel Dump before joining the Obama administration as an official for detainee affairs, resigned last week.
The turkey wasn't always so dumb: Generally considered cranially vacant even for a bird—the turkey wasn’t always such a buffoon.
Blake Hurst gives thanks: If the movie “Food, Inc.” can be said to have a theme, it is that corn is too cheap.
A very useful reminder of the long view, in these days of precipitous decline after the disastrous, bankrupting, morale-breaking over-reach of the Bush-Cheney years: Even if America is exhausted, worn out and a shadow of her former self, from having.
And why I will not relent on Palin and the danger she represents: "The energy that actually shapes the world springs from emotions -- racial pride, leader-worship, religious belief, love of war -- which liberal intellectuals mechanically write off as.
Hank Hyena, writing for transhumanist magazine H+, imagines the consequences of lab grown meat: In-Vitro Meat will be fashioned from any creature, not just domestics that were affordable to farm.
A military wife reflects: I remember the year we celebrated Thanksgiving on a Sunday evening in October.
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