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Neil DeGrasse Tyson Will Feed Your Nerdstalgia With ‘Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey’

9 March 2014, 6:36 pm by: Doktor Zoom
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For some of us, Carl Sagan’s 1980 series Cosmos is an almost mythic memory — Kid Zoom knows that one sure way to get Dad all sentimental (and maybe even weepy) is to just queue up Vangelis’s theme music from the series. Those shots of Carl Sagan staring…
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Sundays With The Christianists: American History Textbooks With The Right Dynamic For the New…

9 March 2014, 1:46 pm by: Doktor Zoom
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We told you last week that we were finished with the 1950s and moving into the ’60s, and we are — but by a quirk of editing, both of our history textbooks for the Christian school market have shoehorned the Kennedy administration into the very end of their…
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Sunday Bloody NYT Sunday: Special Sexy CPAC Edition

9 March 2014, 12:25 pm by: snipy
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Hello! Still bleary-eyed from losing that hour of sleep? Us too! We’re going to blame that for any missteps in this week’s Sunday Times roundup. First off, of course, is the big exciting political news that beloved conervative bullyboy icon Rand Paul won…
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Are You Dressed To Impress The Young Reaganites Of CPAC?

9 March 2014, 10:53 am by: Beth Ethier
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At CPAC, the biggest conservative event of the year, everyone is dressed to impress. Rick Perry, aka Governor Nerdlinger, brought the house down with this snappy ensemble topped off with glasses for the intellectual look. We almost expected him to whip them…
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Reaganpalooza! A Children’s Treasury Of Douches Near But Not Officially Part Of CPAC

9 March 2014, 10:30 am by: Beth Ethier
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Young conservatives love Ronald Reagan. If you want them to come to your party, name it after the Gipper! Throw in some Reagan-themed cocktails and a swag table from the Daily Caller and you’ve got Reaganpalooza, an unofficial CPAC function that marked its…
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Derp Roundup: Your Weekly Cornucopia Of Creeps & Crazies

8 March 2014, 3:54 pm by: Doktor Zoom
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Welcome to another edition of Derp Roundup, the weekly feature where we take a good stiff metaphorical cleaning tool to our browser tabs, collect the stories that are too stupid to ignore altogether but not enough to deserve a full post, and serve them up to…
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It Is Time For Paul Ryan To Stop Insulting Our Parents

8 March 2014, 11:00 am by: Alex Ruthrauff
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Paul Ryan is in the news for lying again, and Wonkette helped break the story, go us! The Washington Post cited yr Editrix’s post about a comment on this TPM story that noted how Paul Ryan’s tale of a young boy who preferred the brown-bagged love of his…
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