This just in…

Huckabee, idiot.

Hat tip to Talking Points Memo.

Last night I went to see Crowded House at The Fillmore in San Francisco.

No one was smoking weed. And about a third of the crowd was, at some point or another, texting on their cell phones and Blackberries.

My god, what happened to my town? Are we all gonna start calling it Frisco now too?

Einstein on religion:

The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish

He went on to add, “And the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong and with whose mentality I have a deep affinity have no different quality for me than all other people.”

(Though historians believe he may have made the latter point while nibbling on a knish).

The military rulers in Myanmar continue to block aid and food for the masses of people devastated by the cyclone (an event that is being played down on state TV). The leadership is also still focused on a referendum that would give them even more power (the date of the vote is not being changed in part because it was ordained by astrologers).

We really need to broaden the meaning of the word genocide.

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