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Yes, Of Course Dogs are Sentient. But Now There’s Science to Prove It.
Gregory Berns, a professor of neuroeconomics at Emory University, writing for The New York Times: In dogs, we found that activity in the caudate increased in response to hand signals indicating food...
UN Chemical Weapons Team Begins Dismantling Syria’s Stockpile
NBC News reports, via LGF: A team of international experts began the process of destroying Syria’s chemical weapons on Sunday, according to the United Nations. The group consists of...
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“I have friends that I know, or very much suspect, are homosexual. Everybody does.” Justice Antonin Scalia What the I don’t even— No, Scalia can’t possibly be homophobic...
That Thing About Unions Being Waived from Obamacare? Another Whopper Lie.
My Monday column: Last week, we proved that the congressional Republicans and Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) have been serially lying whenever they’ve said that Congress is “exempted”...
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MST3K Saturday – “It Conquered the World” Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading...
This Is Bigfoot. (It’s not.)
Bigfoot is real and they have video footage of it! Something tells me these units also believe in chemtrails, estrogen juice boxes and shape-shifting lizard people from outer space. And they all have...
Ted Cruz’s Fifteen Minutes are Ticking Away. Quickly.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is on the receiving end of some appropriate poop flinging inside his caucus: Ted Cruz faced a barrage of hostile questions Wednesday from angry GOP senators, who lashed the Texas...
The Daily Banter Mail Bag: the Angry Childish GOP, Greenwald’s Q&A and How F**ked Are We?
This week’s Mail Bag questions. Answers here. 1) Is there anything that can be done to get the Republicans to reverse course and stop behaving like angry children? It seems impossible to stop...
The Shutdown Further Exposes the Congressional Clown Show
My Friday column: As we enter day four of the government shutdown and its accompanying clown show, there appears to be a flicker of light inside the increasingly dark tantrum tunnel. The New York...
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Here’s What You’re Missing on This Week’s After Party
Join the After Party. Only $6 per month! If you’re already a member, go on in. Here’s What You’re Missing This Week: Our Brushes With Celebrity; Chez Bumps into Olivia Wilde; Bob...
Snowden’s Email Provider Lavabit Defied a Federal Search Warrant
Sure, Lavabit is taking a stand on privacy, but didn’t Snowden once say “we’re a nation of laws?” It’s not like the FBI raided the Lavabit office and absconded with the...
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New Trailer for ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug’
I seriously can’t wait to return to Middle Earth for the next movie. If it’s half as good as this new trailer, it won’t disappoint. Continue reading → Continue reading →...
Greenwald: NSA’s Objective is to ‘Eliminate Privacy Worldwide, Literally’
(I’ll be writing two shorter pieces for Banter every day in addition to my usual columns. I’ll occasionally be cross-posting them on the blog. Here’s one of the shorter posts from...
The Future of Battery Technology: Carbon Super-Supercapacitors
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Worst Person in the World
Here’s the latest nonsense from that “Unskewed Polls” guy: The conservative activist who gained fame during the 2012 election for “unskewing” polls favorable to Barack...
That Thing About Congress Being ‘Exempted’ from Obamacare? Huge Whopper Lie.
My Wednesday column: This is one of the trickiest political lies to come along in quite some time, so bear with me as we walk through it. You might’ve heard just about every Republican member...