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Bill Nye the Science Guy says don’t teach your kids Creationism.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Scientist and children’s television personality Bill Nye, in a newly released online video, panned biblical creationism and implored American parents who reject the scientific...
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The Republican Guide to Female Anatomy:
Hey there folks… ever wonder how the Akins and Ryans and Tom Smiths come to their considered conclusions on rape and incest and the general needs of women? Why, they have precise technical...
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Why do we take medications that can kill us?
Have you noticed on more and more TV commercials for prescription medications that something upsetting appears? According to law, prescription meds have to state their side effects in advertising, and...
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Convention Video: The stories of our platform
This makes the Democratic platform have more understandable content. Related articles Gay Americans Can Thank The Democratic Party As Convention Places Marriage Equality In Party Platform...
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New Antietam Museum Room to open on Friday.
Antietam National Battlefield announces the opening of a new museum exhibit room in the park visitor center. A ribbon cutting will take place on Friday, September 7 at 10:00 a.m. The new exhibits...
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I really need your support to keep this blog up to date and functional…
…and I will give you a free gift if you make a donation of $5.00 or more… …you get my absolutely most popular picture font:“Bill’s Broadway DECOrations” These images created from many traditional and...
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Where’s the Controversy in Saving Lives?
Women should control their own health care, have access to contraceptives and safe abortions. Here is a nice animation from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation: So when the Republicans want to step...
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Quote of the Day – Women, please listen closely…
On Wednesday night, I spoke on the floor at the Democratic Convention about what a Romney-Ryan America would mean for women. An America in which access to birth control is controlled by people who...
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Intro to Solar Class Offered at No Cost to WV Residents
Thanks to a state grant, Mountain View Solar, in partnership with Blue Ridge Community and Technical College, will be offering “Introduction to Solar Energy Systems” in Berkeley Springs, WV and in...
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Bill Nye the Science Guy is a true hero…
… but he did not, as a mischievously placed article put out by the Daily Currant stated, use foul language and push science versus creationism arguments challenging Todd Akin to a debate. This happened...
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Geez… I go to flea markets all the time. Why don’t I find Renoirs?
Take a look at this WaPo article: “A ‘lost’ landscape thought to have been painted by Pierre-Auguste Renoir will go on the auction block Sept. 29 on behalf of the Baltimore-born woman who purchased...
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This will be a mobbed weekend in our general area…
Tomorrow and Sunday is the reenactment of the Battle of Antietam over the river from us in Sharpsburg. It is the 150th anniversary of the battle and this is drawing reenactors from all over the...
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When Romney criticizes Obama on education, ask what he did as Massachusetts’...
Want to know what Massachusetts educators learned from Mitt Romney‘s single term as Massachusetts governor? He forced them into increased classroom sizes, school budget cuts, higher fees and less...
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Arthur Ochs (Punch) Sulzberger, former NY Times publisher, dead at 86.
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger in 1973 Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, known to his colleagues as “Punch“, the fourth publisher of the New York Times, is famous for his decision to publish the Pentagon Papers and to...
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Environmental Scientist Barry Commoner Dies at 95
One of the men I admired most in the early environmental movement, Dr. Barry Commoner, has died at 95 at his home in Brooklyn Heights, and I think the world experiences a great loss. He was an early...
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Romney says he’ll eliminate PBS to cut the debt… Not a good move!
He shouldn’t have let us know that Sesame Street was on the line for cancellation if he was elected. Big Bird is going to get even by exposing the Mittster’s lies: Filed under: Announcement, Art,...
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Why Obama Now…
An animation by Simpsons/Family Guy animator Lucas Gray: Pass it around. It sums up the issues very well…very understandably. Entertaining, too. Related articles Why Obama Now – Animated short by...
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Ever wonder how some people get elected to Congress?
I know I do. The fact that there are Republicans who appear to be uneducated, anti-intellectual and just plain outrageous makes me have a very poor impression of the people who vote for them. Here are...
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An Architectural Marvel is up for trashing in Chicago…
I am deeply upset with my alma mater, Northwestern University, as they attempt to tear down a particularly special architectural classic from the 70s. This preservation battle has been building for...
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A quote for the day… from 68 Nobel Prize Winners
68 former Nobel Prize winning scientists have endorsed Barack Obama for the Presidency. Their feelings were published in “An Open Letter to the American People.” Here is a quote from that letter:...
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Educator and Cultural Critic Jacques Barzun Dies at 104;
Historian, essayist, cultural gadfly and educator Jacques Barzun, who helped establish the modern discipline of cultural history, was probably best known for viewing the West as sliding toward...
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Cartoon(s) of the Week – Election is crawling toward it’s end. I am sooo...
I’ll be so glad when all this election brouhaha is over. I’ll be so depressed if Romney captures a majority of American votes… in other words, I will think so much is wrong with this country’s...
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We’ve had a lovely afternoon and evening at the American Conservation Film...
We are in the four day period of the ACFF, now celebrating it’s 10th Anniversary of presenting conservation and nature support films here in Shepherdstown. We saw two films this afternoon, but tonight...
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The questions you ask yourself…
I’m discovering as I face brain surgery and it’s unknown consequences that I find myself asking questions about what I have and have not accomplished over the last 66 or so years. It’s not a pleasant...
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Artist Will Barnet dies at 101…
Will Barnet, a titan of the visual art world, died at his home in New York on Tuesday. He was 101. His family said the cause of death was old age. “He died peacefully in his home,” said Phil Alexandre...
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