SansPretense

Not sure how many of my 5 readers have heard about this story, but I wanted to comment on it.   The gist of it is this: A school district in Mississippi canceled the high school prom because the ACLU filed a lawsuit on behalf of a lesbian student, named Constance McMillen (18 years old). [...]

For any of you keeping up on today’s major blog story, I thought I would make some comments from the perspective of a scientist on the controversy. 
Science relies on open debate.   When I first saw the story, my instinct was to give the scientists the benefit of the doubt: many discussions within a scientific research [...]

So now I am sitting in another Canadian restaurant and bored again. So time for more stereotyping and generalizations…
So I watched dancing with the stars last night for the first time. Some of the ball room dance instructors seemed fake and manipulative of their celebrity students…I suppose that’s because they were on tv [...]

I hope my credit card works…
Wtf is Canadian food? So far all I’ve seen is non-Canadian themed restaurants and upscale places.
I feel lost without my iPhone internet but data roaming is expensive. To me this is justiication for invading Canada and creating a new US territory. AT&T should lobby for it.
Judging all canadians stricly by [...]

Is this a joke or do these guys have no sense of irony?
At a joint press conference with Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization chief Ali Akbar Salehi in Tehran, ElBaradei brought Israel under spotlight and said that the Tel Aviv regime has refused to allow inspections into its nuclear installations for [...]

“I’m convinced that today the majority of Americans want what those first Americans wanted: A better life for themselves and their children; a minimum of government authority. Very simply, they want to be left alone in peace and safety to take care of the family by earning an honest dollar and putting away some [...]

Dear 52,
Thank you for your warm-hearted attempt at bringing the country back together with photos and words of support. I’ve noticed that many of you have booked an event on facebook wanting to treat a Republican to lunch. Well, I have to say that I am rather surprised, so I have my own [...]

My dad sent this to me via email. Gotta love Shatner.

From Virginia Virtucon, some commentary from a professional polester (emphasis mine):

…Anyway, her shop was retained to do a few Presidential polls for targetted states on behalf of a union so the union could decide where to spend their ad dollars for the last week. They did Ohio, Florida, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Colorado, New [...]

Below the fold, there are some screen shots of MSM sites as of noonish CST, today. Let me summarize what they show. Out of the five major news sites (ABC News, CBS News, MSNBC, Fox News, and CNN), CBS, CNN, and MSNBC do not even mention the breaking news of Obama’s audio-tape, explaining [...]