Our Popular Governor

One of the tidbits of information I missed from the Republican Rasmussen Poll released this week was this: Fifty-nine percent (59%) approve of Jack Markell’s performance as governor, including 12%…

Banned Books Week

This past week has been Banned Books Week, the week the ALA and American booklovers shine a light on the effort to censor or remove books from public libraries or…

Late Night Awesome — Photos of the Solar System

We've been sending up exploratory missions (mostly unmnanned) through our solar system for quite some time -- they are so routine that there generally isn't much news when they go up. Unless something fails. We forget that scientists and engineers are working daily to discover more about the planets and other bodies close to us and that they are still making jaw-dropping discoveries. The October edition of Smithsonian Magazine has an article about the very high quality photos that are coming out of these expeditions, which are themselves jaw-dropping

UnAmerican

During the Bush Administration, supporters of President Bush (the very same critics of President Obama today) called any criticism of the President's policies to be treason and unAmerican. Obviously they…

Friday Open Thread

The weekend starts in only 5 hours! Have you been feeling anything different these days? Rachel Maddow uncovered the reason - it's the Liberty Council's (affiliated with Falwell's Liberty University)…