Herdwatching

Allow me to introduce you to a study you will be hearing misquoted and taken out of context by idiots for the next decade forever. A “scientist” with an obvious chip on her shoulder named Janet Elise Rosenbaum from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has published a study that lead to a [...]

In another forum there has been a discussion of the fantasy many on the left hold that any minute now President Bush and Vice president Cheney will be put on trial for “war crimes” and vaguely understood violations of “international law”. When it becomes clear that these concepts are simply too useless to hold much [...]

I have been pretty quiet of late, frankly I burned out on it all after the election as did so many others. This new year is going to be a good one here at Herdwatching and I hope it will be so for you as well. So relax and enjoy, I will be back to [...]

We’ve looked before at the meme making the rounds that there is a tidal wave of rage on the right being fed by Palin and McCain. Depending on who is doing the worrying the meme will claim that they are deliberately inciting the gap toothed redneck mobs* or they are simply unaware that their words [...]

Just one week ago an Obama victory looked inevitable. He was up in the polls by double digits and the McCain camp couldn’t find a way to dent the momentum. Let’s be honest, once the media and many of the voters decide the facts don’t matter then you do have a hard time making a [...]

As a member of an alternative lifestyle I hear my share of folks disparaging people with strong religious beliefs. Well, that’s not true – many usually just talk about Christians. Any number of other odd religions from vague “Gaia” stuff to flat our paganism is treated with tolerance… it is just Christians who get a [...]

The common meme these days is that McCain supporters are filled with rage (and thus, must be racists). The media is full of coverage of isolated shout out that supposedly signify how uniquely evil the right is. Of course, this is incorrect. We have had to deal with insane hatred for more than eight years [...]

Despite my desire not to go one for one with my peep the Political Virgin, I do want to once again use a post of hers as a jumping off point. First though, I will quote myself from the comment I just left. “I had not seen this post when I wrote mine so it [...]

Up until today I was pretty mellow about this election, maybe even detached. I figured that Obama was going to win because frankly the amount of whining happening for the last eight years had whipped the Democratic base into a frenzy. All part of the normal give and take in the US system. Basically, whoever [...]

The last thing either PV and I need is to become a game of blog-pong. So I am not going to directly answer each post… but this one is a useful launching point for some comments. Hopefully we can use each other to expand our thoughts and not go head to head all the time! [...]