On Press the Meat today, homophobe Rick Warren is on to talk about Faith and Charity (two hookers he picked up last night, I think). Then Bill and Melinda Gates are on to tell us that when once you’ve got more money than God and have accumulated pretty much everything you can think of accumulating, you might as well give some of it away.
At CBS’s Faze the Nation, is a mostly Republican kinda day, with otken Democrat Carl Levin, the teabaggers’ best friend, Dick Armey on to face the woman whose candidacy Dick helped to flush down the toilet, Dede Scozzafava, and Ed Gillespie gets out of his closet to stretch his legs.
On Fux News Sunday, Weaselface Wallace talks Afghanistan with Jon Kyl and Evan Bayh, and health care with Howard Dean Mike “Huckleberry” Huckabee.
At the Goebbels network, George Snufalufagus has girly man, Lindsey Graham, VT Independent Boynie Sanders, and a roundtable with George :jerk: Will, Cokie “the hag” Roberts, Paul Krugman, Matty Dowd and “Douchebag Dan” Senor.
On CNN, Fareed Zakaria has Maziar Bahari, the Newsweek reporter who spent four months in a prison in Tehran and a conversation Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
Happy Birthday, Em!
Now Monsanto — like IBM and Google — has drawn scrutiny from U.S. antitrust investigators, who under the Obama administration have looked more skeptically at the actions of dominant firms.
During the Bush administration, the Justice Department did not file a single case under antimonopoly laws regulating a dominant firm. But that stretch seems unlikely to continue.
This year, the Obama Justice Department tossed out the antitrust guidelines of its predecessor because they advocated “extreme hesitancy in the face of potential abuses by monopoly firms.”
“We must change course,” Christine Varney, the Obama administration’s chief antitrust enforcer, said at the time.
Of all the new scrutiny by Justice, the Monsanto investigation might have the highest stakes, dealing as it does with the food supply and one of the nation’s largest agricultural firms. It could also force the Obama administration, already under fire for the government’s expanded role in the economy, to explain how it distinguishes between normal rough-and-tumble competition and abusive monopolistic business practices.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/28/AR2009112802471.html
Remember when Monsanto was suing farmers for growing their seeds even though the seeds were spread to these farms naturally? I believe one farmer won a case against Monsanto, making Monsanto remove the offending crops because they were on his property.
About 5,000 years ago, societies in ancient Sumeria, China and South America invented writing, and in the millennia since, the ability to read has propelled human intellectual and cultural development, vastly expanding our capacity to learn, create, explore and record what we think, feel and know. Reading supplies our brains with an external hard drive and gives us access to our species’s past: In the words of Francisco de Quevedo, it enables us “to listen to the dead with our eyes.”
But how, in such a short time, did the human species evolve this unique skill, one that requires the brain to decode written words visually and process their sounds and sense rapidly? In this fascinating and scholarly book, French neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene explains what scientists now know about how the human brain performs the feat of reading, and what made this astonishing cultural invention biologically possible.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/25/AR2009112502775.html
Birds are flying in to our windows and I realized they’re feasting (heavily) on the holly berries in the tree. A little research revealed birds can get quite drunk from these berries. :40:
Obama seems to be making changes at all levels, sp. Spoke with someone in the know this past weekend about the national cancer research institute. Seems the bushies wasted staggering sums of money. The Obama administration is actually hiring scientists to actually work.
PS Went to Bedlam game yesterday where OU routed OSU (I mentioned to Mr. FK how the osu outfits looked liked Syracuse’s!)
The next Family Guy Star Wars