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Month: August 2009

Heckler’s Veto

August 31, 2009Burt Likko

If you subscribe to a religion that does not instruct you to disavow science and participation the real world, fine; you are not the target of this morning’s rant. Take moral and social solace from your religion and go and… Continue Reading →

Antiscience, Constitutional Law, Evolution, News, Religion

Station Fire

August 31, 2009Burt Likko 2 Comments

An update, mainly for out-of-area folks vaguely worried about the news of fires in Southern California. My immediate area is not threatened by the Station Fire. However, yesterday and today everyone here in northern Los Angeles County has been treated… Continue Reading →

California, News

Eggs Benedict

August 30, 2009Burt Likko 2 Comments

For some reason, poached eggs and hollandaise sauce have both challenged my technical skills in the kitchen. Which has put home preparation of one of my favorite breakfasts out of my reach. Until this morning, that is. This morning, I… Continue Reading →

Cooking, Food

Didn’t I Just Write About This The Other Day?

August 29, 2009Burt Likko

Don’t lie to advance your own cause. It only sets your cause back. And sometimes, it also makes you look like a complete fool on the Daily Show when you get caught in the act. Watch the interview here.

Domestic Politics

The Pleasant Face Of The Anti-SSM Movement

August 29, 2009Burt Likko

The guy is right about one thing — telling people that gay people caused Hurricane Katrina isn’t going to convince anyone to change their mind and oppose same-sex marriage. A frothing, crazed religious screed isn’t going to convince anyone who… Continue Reading →

Same-Sex Marriage

Like A Horror Movie, It’s Scary But Predictable And It Contains A Moral

August 29, 2009Burt Likko

The Concord Group is not a collection of paranoid alarmists nor are they insane. They are concerned with the government’s fiscal irresponsibility, and have been so since the Reagan Administration. Unlike a lot of other interest groups, they are truly… Continue Reading →

Barack Obama, Blog, Government, Lighting Our Money On Fire, Link Love

A Message From The Land That Irony Forgot

August 28, 2009Burt Likko

Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann of Minnesota, conservative firebrand from a liberal state, attends a town hall and finds a constituency sharply divided on the issue of health care reform — some adamantly in favor of it and some adamantly against it.… Continue Reading →

Domestic Politics

Sad To See

August 28, 2009Burt Likko 1 Comment

LeVar Burton may be most famous for playing Geordi LaForge on Star Trek, he may have made his mark playing Kunta Kinte in Roots, but he did his best work inspiring children to read books on Reading Rainbow, which after… Continue Reading →

Interesting Reading, News, Teaching

A Test Of Resilience

August 28, 2009Burt Likko

Many of you Readers will have already come across the sensational story of a woman escaping from an eighteen-year captivity in an East Bay Area exurb. She was kidnapped by a stranger near her home in South Lake Tahoe in… Continue Reading →

Armchair Psychoanalysis, California, Crime and Punishment, News

Our Last Best Hope

August 28, 2009Burt Likko

Finally, someone thinks up a workable, dramatic, and quick solution to our national debt problems. Also note the same network brings us best short-form debate yet about using torture to interrogate terror suspects. Finally, intelligent, balanced discussion about the issues… Continue Reading →

Link Love, Unimportant but Mildly Amusing

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