Wake up! You're in the presence of your future

From XinJua

From Alaska's biggest-ever protest rally. Thanks Jeannette!!



Yes, thanks! she said.


McCain's pants catch fire

National health care is not about you, or me, or our taxes. It's a matter of the public health. Think of it this way: If your neighbor is sick, you are more likely to get sick, yourself. If that homeless guy you pass on your way to work gets sick, then everyone he's exposed to is more likely to get sick. Maybe it's not a nightmare if all they have is a cold, but what happens when Ebola crosses the Atlantic? It's a small world- given time, it's inevitable. It seems so obvious to me... how can people continue to think that they live in a safe little bubble? We all need health care. When one of us is sick, all of us are sick.

Plants and pain. Careful with that sprout, vegans!

Things that make you go "hmm..."

On this day in 1783, the first hot air balloon passengers were sent aloft, at Versailles: a sheep, a rooster, and a duck. Science! And in 1959, Soviet Premier Nikita Krushchev was denied entrance to Disneyland. Damn commies.