Liberty on the Rocks™ Denver

But not nearly as important as the one below. What ever happened to all those lawsuits David Lane (Ward Churchill’s attorney, of course) and the ACLU were going to file on behalf of arrested and otherwise inconvenienced protestors at the Democratic National Convention last [...]

Who came up with the tabloid-perfect name, “Octo-Mom“? They should get a medal, or a chunk of the stimulus, or [...]

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Colorado State Senator Scott Renfroe said that God “created men and women, male and female, for procreation.” For good measure, he added that homosexuality is an “abomination” and a sin “equal” to murder.
A letter by L. E. Bell in today’s Rocky Mountain News expresses a similar sentiment on the procreation point: “By simply observing the [...]

That was unexpected. Colorado Daily:
When it comes to being an academic under fire, ex-Weatherman Bill Ayers can empathize with fired University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill.
Currently a professor at the University of Illinois in Chicago, Ayers’ 22 years of teaching did little to prepare him for the media firestorm that enveloped him during last year’s [...]

NYT:
Former Vice President Al Gore is pulling a dramatic slide from his ever-evolving global warming presentation. When Mr. Gore addressed a packed, cheering hall at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Chicago earlier this month, his climate slide show contained a startling graph showing a ceiling-high spike in [...]

One of my beefs with Christianity is that, because of its many unsound ethical tenets, it encourages members to voice one set of principles and act on another. Here is a great example:
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s 18-year-old daughter, an unwed mother, says teenagers should avoid having sex.
However, Bristol Palin acknowledges that abstinence is “not realistic [...]

The Guardian:
Social network sites risk infantilising the mid-21st century mind, leaving it characterised by short attention spans, sensationalism, inability to empathise and a shaky sense of identity, according to a leading neuroscientist.
The startling warning from Lady Greenfield, professor of synaptic pharmacology at Lincoln college, Oxford, and director of the Royal Institution, has led members of [...]

In two posts at his website Open Anthropology, Concordia University associate professor Maximilian Forte attempts to debunk the academic fraud findings by CU against Ward Churchill, and specifically the comments of Churchill lie-exposer Thomas Brown on this piece by Marc Bousquet in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
The first post concerns the the alleged motivations for [...]

Well, that might be how the Ward Churchill Solidarity Network will spin it, anyway. Actually, in an editorial today the News restates the obvious:
Perfect. One historical fiction writer and fantasist, Bill Ayers, is coming to the defense of another, Ward Churchill. See it in person on the University of Colorado campus at 7 p.m. on [...]