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Rachel Maddow tells Glenn Beck to “Back off!”

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maddowbeck-20100306-121011Game on.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=OXwOv9MAHcI

Poor Mr. Beck doesn’t stand a chance.


New bill to ban mermaids, centaurs and other human-animal hybrids

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Human-animal HybridIntellectual giants Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS) and Mary Landrieu (D-LA) have introduced the Human-Animal Hybrid Protection Act of 2009 to stem the growing market for centaurs, harpies, satyrs, mermaids and other animal-human hybrid freaks.

“This legislation works to ensure that our society recognizes the dignity and sacredness of human life,” said Brownback. “Creating human-animal hybrids, which permanently alter the genetic makeup of an organism, will challenge the very definition of what it means to be human and is a violation of human dignity and a grave injustice.”

This important piece of legislation is co-sponsored by nearly 20 other like-minded individuals who refuse to blur the lines between man and beast, and should be the Senate’s top priority. Prohibiting mad scientists from creating man-beasts is so much more important than health care or any of those other trifles the Senate is currently debating.

Give me a break. Granted there is some legitimate research going on in Britain, but it is not as the bible-thumping conservatives would present it.


Tuesdays with TED: Why people believe strange things

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From the Virgin Mary hitching a ride on a cheese sandwich to hubcaps impersonating UFO’s, founder and publisher of Skeptic Magazine Michael Shermer explores why people often believe the strangest things…