For the first time ever, scientists may have solidified a link between memory formation and REM sleep. We know that a bad night’s sleep can leave our heads in a fog and may even cause irritability, but it turns out a bad night’s sleep could also rob us of our memories. [1]
This week Bill Maher took on the GOP and their Fox allies for ramping up-- on cue: election time-- their fake war on Christianity again. Watch the video above. Maher was so good that none of his Real Time guests even mentioned that leading the Democratic Party's "war on Christianity" is the left's newest hero, Pope Francis I. Aren't Republican Catholics muttering that the Pope is off the reservation and sounding like Bernie Sanders (or, God forbid, Jesus)? Does this story from Philadelphia sound familiar?
Last month Dutch fascist leader Geert Wilders was back in America, talking to rabid right-wing Republicans about one of their favorite topics-- and his: Islamophobia. He spoke at the Four Seasons in New York City. I wonder if he called his party the New Nazi Party, instead of the Netherlands Party For Freedom, the Four Seasons would welcome him as a speaker. Probably. "I come to America with a mission," he began.
Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts Jr., writing today for the National Memo, made a reasonable point: While Our Planet Melts, GOP Pleads Ignorance. It was illustrated by a portrait of John Boehner.
