Hominid Views

The New York Times has an article discussing the “mission creep” of institutional review boards (IRBs) charged with protecting human research subjects.
Man, oh, man could I rant about this. For university researchers doing social science or biocultural research with humans, the IRB is notorious for being out of touch with reality, inappropriately framed [...]

Lynn Allen over at Evergreenpolitics interviews Governor Christine Gregoire. They cover transportation, education, and global warming. Check it out!

From Political Wire comes this:

A new survey of 1,112 international relations scholars by Foreign Policy magazine finds remarkable consistency of views on the Iraq war and its impact on the United States.
“Eighty-nine percent of scholars believe that the war will ultimately decrease U.S. security. Eighty-seven percent consider the conflict unjust, and 85 percent are pessimistic [...]

Yes, indeed…this was inevitable…

In an unprecedented move, the Supreme Court of the United States intervened to revoke the Academy Award won by ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ last night at the 79th Annual Academy Awards held at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center, in Los Angeles, California. Responding to a case filed this morning [...]

The Bush administration fooled much of America once—using an escalating series of lies to take us to war in 2003. Increasingly, it looks like they are using the exact same play book to engineer an attack on Iran. “Sexing-up the intelligence to fit the polity,” it is now called.
Here is the [...]

The Bush-Cheney-neocon program lost its credibility with most Americans withing the last year or two. Now it looks like they have lost substantial credibility within the Pentagon, as well. From the Sunday Times (London):

Tension in the Gulf region has raised fears that an attack on Iran is becoming increasingly likely [...]

Special Four More Years of Olbermann edition
Olberman introduces: FOX Noise: The 24 Hour Comedy Hour (via Crooks and Liars).
A song about those 16 famous words (Hat tip: Aritist Dog Boy):
Olberman and the inflated terror statistics (via Crooks and Liars).
An audio tribute to Tony Blair (via One Good Move).
Olbermann on Walter Reed Hospital [...]

Yesterday ABC News’ Jonathan Karl interviewed Dick Cheney:

Karl Because Congressman [Jack] Murtha and Speaker [Nancy] Pelosi have made it clear that what they would like to do is they would like to stop the surge. Can they do it? Do they have the power to stop the surge?
Cheney I don’t think so. The question [...]

You may remember Initiative 831, written by Goldy, that declared Tim Eyman a horse’s ass. In the end, the initiative had enough signatures to qualify for the ballot1, but Goldy’s efforts were thwarted by a meddling Attorney General by the name of Christine Gregoire. She felt that this brilliant initiative [...]

Michael Mixon of New York has been charged with providing financial support to terrorists. Actually, his real name is Abdul Tawala Ibn Ali Alishtari. Do you think there is any ethnic profiling going on here?

In the federal indictment, the government said Alishtari, 53, of Ardsley, N.Y., also known [...]

Today’s New York Times examines the inner workings of the White House as viewed through the eyes of the Libby trial:
The evidence in the trial shows Vice President Dick Cheney and Mr. Libby, his former chief of staff, countermanding and even occasionally misleading colleagues at the highest levels of Mr. Bush’s inner circle as [...]

Yesterday I saw this David Horsey commentary in the Seattle PI on Rep. Jim McDermott, Rep. Jay Inslee, and Rep. Dave Reichert. For part of the commentary, Horsey describes Reichert describing his encounter with a peace activist…

[Reichert] described a meeting with anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan during which one of her companions pointedly [...]

I missed this for the Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!….
From The Largest Minority blog, here is an interesting interview of John Edwards by Bill Maher.
And as long as we are on the topic, here is an interview with John Edwards on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart from last November when [...]

Another episode of The Sunday Funnies (via One Good Move).
Here is a special video for the anniversary of when Dick Cheney shot a man in the face.
Jon Stewart on U.S. aggressions toward Iran part I and part II.
They say that most Wingnuts are missing the satire gene. This preview of Fox’s answer to [...]

Billions and billions and billions squandered through incompetence in Iraq. Billions of dollars that could have gone for better schools, could have been used to fight homelessness, could have been used to improve childhood nutrition, might have been used to replace crumbling infrastructure. Instead, the Bush administration lost the money [...]