Just one day after pushing opposition TV station RCTV off the air, the Chavez government is now calling for an investigation in Globovision for allegedly inciting its viewers to off the charismatic Venezuelan leader. Apparently, Globovision aired footage of the attempted assasintation of Pope John Paul II accompanied by Panamanian singer-now-government-minister Ruben Blades’ rendition of [...]
Anti-war protestor and grieving mom Cindy Sheehan has announced she is ending her campaign to stop the war in Iraq. And like anyone who lost a child in an unjust war, was abused by the right, and manipulated by the left, she is angry and heartbroken: The most devastating conclusion that I reached this morning, [...]
This is just weird. A new TV program, “The Big Donor Show” is set to premiere in The Netherlands. The premise? Contestants compete to win a terminally ill woman’s kidneys. Not surprisingly, the show has been roundly condemned by doctors. Not surprisingly, this new foray into the entertaining aspects of human misery is brought to [...]
You know, I want to like Hugo Chavez, I really do. He’s a populist, he appears to fight for his people, he’s a snappy dresser. He makes fun of George Bush, and provokes televangelists into calling for his assasination. Generally, Chavez is the go-to guy for entertaining latin american politics. And then he does something [...]
The United States is now the confirmed skipper of the sled-ride into climate change oblivion. And, they can’t keep track of their personal possessions. An American copy of the draft German proposal was discovered on Friday, covered in post-it notes and red ink, saying things like “runs counter to our overall position and crosses multiple [...]
It was the dark days of World War II. Hitler’s armies were at the apex of their power. The allies were losing thousands of tonnes of shipping to German U-Boats, threatening to strangle the war effort. They needed a secret weapon. They found Project Habakkuk. A 2,000 foot long, 300 foot wide aircraft carrier built [...]
Yes, the flight from fact and reason takes another giant leap forward on May 28, when the Creation Museum opens in Petersburg, Kentucky. The museum, created by the Answers in Genesis Ministry features Adam and Eve cavorting with dinosaurs, and a special ‘deluge simulator’ theatre. Basically, the museum mashes the selective invocation of scientific principles [...]