A new study seems to indicate pretty strongly a possible genetic basis for homosexuality. It’s not an “I told you so” moment yet, but,… maybe sometime in the not-too-distant future we can shut some religious kooks up.

As long as I’m posting UI pix, here’s one that annoys me in my current favorite shipping OS, Mac OS X. Finder (the OS X file browser) windows have what’s called the Sidebar, a little container on the left where you can stick favorite folders for quick access. Love the Sidebar. But the annoyances: 1. [...]

Here’s what Outlook users have to look forward to when they are forced to upgrade to Outlook 12: I just threw up in my mouth.

Of who? Shrub, that’s who. Nations have been demonized and God has been enlisted in national agendas that are nothing short of idolatrous. We lament with special anguish the war in Iraq, launched in deception and violating global norms of justice and human rights. They don’t mince words. Good to see the religious community starting [...]

Expedia is running a commercial and they say “one less day”. Argh. I’d tell them (some might try to say that time gets treated as an amount for these purposes, but it requires the “less than” construction for those cases), but they’re one of those evil sites that won’t even let you see the front [...]

It’s sick. More photos from Abu Ghraib that the US doesn’t want revealed because it might “fuel anti-American sentiment.” No. Fucking. Shit. But doesn’t knowing that terrible abuse photographs exist pretty much do that already? Aren’t we hated already because everyone pretty much knows what’s in those photos? They know we tortured people, killed them, [...]

Why elect someone to run the government who hates the government? Why do we do this? It’s not like they make any secret out of hating the government, so why give it to them to dismantle? Their game plan is obvious: defund the government so it can’t do any job, and people will stop wanting [...]

Ian York is one of the smartest guys I know, and he made an excellent post in honor of Darwin’s 197th birthday today. Check it out.

The congressional Katrina Report, produced by a House GOP-led committee, is actually critical of – gasp! – the President, and other high level officials like Chertoff. Normally, of course, reports like this go out on Friday, for minimum media impact. Let’s hope this report comes out fully fanged and the truth gets discussed for a [...]

More proof that Bush got us into Iraq with lies and false pretenses can be found in this article about a former CIA official saying that Bush cherry-picked intelligence to support his public case for war. I’ve said it all along, and it gets reaffirmed all the time: Iraq was not a threat to us, [...]