Republican Lifeguards, Just In Time For Summer
Posted on March 29, 2014 in Political Cartoons
Sunscreen? You should be free to singe your skin however you damn well please.
Why Obama Is Losing Millennials
Posted on March 29, 2014 in Articles
The Article: Why Obama Is Losing Millennials by Julian Zelizer in CNN Online.
The Text: President Obama attracted a lot of attention when he went on “Between Two Ferns,” going mano-a-mano with comedian Zach Galifianakis. The President handled Galifianakis’ barbs well, throwing some back at the comedian (ridiculing his film “Hangover 3,” for example) and successfully stoking interest in his health care program, based on the uptick in traffic that followed.
The show was condemned by some who saw it as disrespectful of the office of the presidency; others said the president performed brilliantly, doing what presidents need to do in this day and age, by appearing on a hip and edgy popular culture outlet.
Reaching young people any way he can is particularly urgent with the March 31 deadline for health coverage enrollment under the Affordable Care Act. The administration has not made its sign-up targets, and evidence suggests balance between young and healthy versus old and infirm is not what the President wanted.
John Oliver Takes On Republican Attempts To Woo Young Voters
Posted on March 28, 2014 in Videos
You know things are going bad when the GOP has to reach out to women, minorities and young people to get votes. Case in point: their latest ad campaigns to accomplish just that. Not one to miss a thing, John Oliver took to tearing them apart in his nighttime talk show. Admittedly, the ads made for pretty easy targets. Enjoy.
Why The Climate Change Deniers Have Won
Posted on March 28, 2014 in Articles
The Article: The climate change deniers have won by Nick Cohen in The Guardian.
The Text: The American Association for the Advancement of Science came as close as such a respectable institution can to screaming an alarm last week. “As scientists, it is not our role to tell people what they should do,” it said as it began one of those sentences that you know will build to a “but”. “But human-caused climate risks abrupt, unpredictable and potentially irreversible changes.”
In other words, the most distinguished scientists from the country with the world’s pre-eminent educational institutions were trying to shake humanity out of its complacency. Why weren’t their warnings leading the news?
In one sense, the association’s appeal was not new. The Royal Society, the Royal Institution, Nasa, the US National Academy of Sciences, the US Geological Survey, the IPCC and the national science bodies of 30 or so other countries have said that man-made climate change is on the march. A survey of 2,000 peer-reviewed papers on global warming published in the last 20 years found that 97% said that humans were causing it.
