February 2011
3 posts
$69 Million Cut Proposed For Peace Corps
The House of Representatives has passed HR 1, which aims to cut $60 billion in federal spending including $69 million from Peace Corps for the current fiscal year. As the fiscal year is half over, this would have a disastrous effect on Peace Corps. It is uncertain what will happen as the bill goes to the Senate which is expected to take it up the week of February 28th. If no consensus is...
Bill O'Reilly is an Idiot
I just finished the book, ‘Your Inner Fish’ by Neil Shubin and I wanted to pull a quote out in response to seeing this video the other day. One answer to his question, ‘How did the moon get there?’ can be found here. However, I think the following quote does a better job of explaining that tides and moons weren’t put here for humans.
“Take the entire...