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Jon Stewart + Bill Moyers

We’ll be the first to admit that we didn’t know Bill Moyers was even back on PBS, but nevertheless, it’s nice to see. By way of justification, for one of his first episodes, he’s done a really nice interview with Jon Stewart, which is amazingly candid and forthcoming in a way that’s almost impossible to see on The Daily Show. It’s very worth a watch.

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Sweet, Sweet Municipal Water

We’re so happy to hear about this new trend in hoighty toighty restaurants. Many San Francisco and New York restaurants are now proudly serving tap water rather than pay the hefty cost, and heftier carbon footprint, of importing something which is supposed to be the most plentiful substance on earth.

This all reminds us of something we read recently detailing the true cost of Fiji water. It’s all particularly sad, when you realize that bottled water is really no safer for you than tap.

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Gonzalez on the Block

This week’s testimony of Alberto Gonzalez before the Senate Judiciary Committee was certainly a reminder of just how far president Bush has fallen from what he claimed would be “an administration that reaches across the isle”. More chilling and insidious, however, are the constant, and mounting reminders that that we’re currently baring witness to the most secretive administration in United States history (more and more).

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Discovery Does Planet Earth

In case you haven’t been watching the Discovery Channel’s amazing documentary series Planet Earth, here’s your friendly reminder to catch the wave. It is awe inspiring. As an added bonus, thanks to one of our favorite neighborhood blogs, we now have The Planet Earth Drinking Game.

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Is This the Bandwagon?

Our thoughts go out to the families and friends of the students killed at Virginia Tech yesterday. It’s a terrible tragedy which, if anything, illustrates the need for every human being to find a way to look past the option of violence as a problem solver.

Now, onto John McCain’s crumbling campaign. Sure, we could go after the timing of his speech reaffirming his belief in the Second Amendment, but mostly, we’d rather just use this as an opportunity to demonstrate how totally out of touch modern politicians have become. Is there really a massive base of voters who heard about this tragedy and instantly worried that this might endanger their right to bare arms? If so, let us know. I’d love to hear a cogent argument to that affect. Until then, can I borrow your gun? I just need it for a minute. I promise I’ll give it back.

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Happy Easter!!

As we all know, Easter is the day when Jesus was resurrected by a giant, human sized rabbit who laid grade “AA” colored eggs. Now, of course, we also know that our celebration of this hallowed day can never achieve the level of detail we’d like, since the colors used to pigment the eggs back in the old days are incredibly hard to come by at Walgreens. That said, if you’re committed, you can occasionally come by some blood from an out-of-wedlock woman whose been stoned to death.

So really, if today should be about anything, it should really be about stoning people to death. But we totally don’t endorse that sort of thing in the slightest, even though the bible says you really, really should, or you’ll burn in hell for eternity or something. So…um….don’t do that.

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An Athiest Manifesto

Care of Sam Harris.

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The Republican War on Science

So we’ve found a very illuminating map which details the level of darwinism vs. creationism being taught in schools throughout the country. For the most part, it plays out just as your liberal bias would suggest, but I’ll admit to being surprised that North and South Carolina tipped the scales in a rather surprising and positive direction.

This reminded me about a lecture I saw by a journalist named Chris Mooney. He wrote a book called The Republican War on Science, and amongst other frightening facts, it details the ways in which the current administration has done away with reputed scientists in favor of “think tanks” created to introduce scientific controversy where there really is none. Check out his lecture and buy his book. We’re sure he could use your support.

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fun with athiests

I’m so much more inclined to follow Richard Dawkins when he says having a word like “athiest” for folks who don’t believe in god, is like having a word for “not a heart surgeon”. That said, anything that helps all of us better understand the opposite point of view is really a great thing. So thanks to Google video, check out the great documentary show 30 Days in their quest to better understand the Christian / Athiest divide.

Also, leave us comments. We’re totally comment crazy now that we have this blog software up and running.

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