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As someone who teaches comprehensive sexuality education, I particularly enjoyed Jane Jimenez’s recent delusional stream of consciousness everything has gone to hell op-ed.
Jimenez (who for reasons that are obvious only to wingnuts) has a national platform from which to speak, blathers that
Abstinence education shines a light on the problems inherent in promoting sex as entertainment without [...]

Two connected posts - first Street Prophets We’re All Dhimmis Now which links to Glen Greenwald’s The Islamist’s Are Coming:
Every now and then, it is worth noting that substantial portions of the right-wing political movement in the United States — the Pajamas Media/right-wing-blogosphere/Fox News/Michelle Malkin/Rush-Limbaugh-listener strain — actually believe that Islamists are going to take over [...]

In case you missed it at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, the best documentary about the occupation of Iraq, “No End in Sight” by Charles Ferguson, is now playing at the Broadway Centre Cinemas in Salt Lake City.
UPDATE: The only thing wrong with this movie is, you shouldn’t have to pay eight bucks to see [...]

Bush League War Drums Beating Louder on Iran
By Ray McGovern
t r u t h o u t | Guest Contributor Friday 24 August 2007
It is as though I’m back as an analyst at the CIA, trying to estimate the chances of an attack [...]

Former White House spokesman Ari Fleischer and other former Bush administration officials are behind a well-funded group called Freedom’s Watch which is catapulting the propaganda with TV ads. They have been described as a shadow White House communications shop.
Specifically, Freedom’s Watch is spending $15 million to try to make Americans think that the open-ended [...]

Utah’s governor says: “The federal mine safety system is broken. Congress needs to take a good look at this to make sure it never happens again.”
Utah’s senior U.S. Senator says: “Richard Stickler is a very competent MSHA official. He has done his best to see that the job is done right.”
Which one sounds closer to [...]

The New York Times broke the story this morning about another National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq.

Talking Points Memo has more, including the unclassified “key judgments.” Here’s a sample:
[T]he level of overall violence, including attacks on and casualties among civilians, remains high; Iraq’s sectarian groups remain unreconciled; AQI retains the ability to conduct high-profile attacks; [...]

“Had I known that this evil mountain, this alive mountain, would do what it did, I would never have sent the miners in here.”

One of my favorite books and movies of all time is Herman Melville’s classic “Moby Dick.” I just watched the recent remake of it with Patrick Stewart who does a great Captain [...]

“Trickle down”, the linchpin of Reaganomics, never had a basis in economic theory. It was, and still is a trick to lull us into complacency so Repulicans can further consolidate wealth (read power) into fewer hands.
In fact, “trickle down” worked so badly under Reagan, he was forced to raise taxes on the middle class [...]

As OneUtah author Richard Warnick posted previously, tonight, the History Channel will be airing a two-hour special on “9/11 conspiracies.”
The History Channel is a joint venture of Hearst Corporation, Disney, NBC, and a subsidiary of News Corp called Sky News.
It should be noted that the privatly held Hearst Corporation also owns Popular Mechanics Magazine which [...]

I think that concerns over myspace and online sexual predators have all the hallmarks of a moral panic.
A moral panic is a reaction by a group of people based on the false or exaggerated perception that some cultural behavior or group, frequently a minority group or a subculture, is dangerously deviant and poses a menace [...]

We don’t have to wait for the so-called “Petraeus Report” on September 11. This was supposed to be an objective, unbiased report by General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker on the progress of Bush’s so-called “surge.” Aside from the obvious problem of the general assessing the outcome of operations for which he [...]