From the daily archives:

Monday, January 26, 2009

Darwin the Abolitionist?

January 26, 2009

Did you know that Charles Darwin was an abolitionist as were other of his family members and that it may have motivated his research into natural selection?
Science historians Adrian Desmond and James Moore have compiled compelling new evidence which reveals Darwin was passionately opposed to slavery and this was the moral impetus behind his work.
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Blagojevich: "I Thought About Mandela, Dr. King, And Gandhi"

January 26, 2009

You may have read about Blagojevich comparing himself to the biggest names in Civil and Human Rights, but here’s your chance to actually watch him do it:

Words fail me. Well, no they don’t. It’s absolutely fucking astounding to see a white man say something like that.  Fucking astounding.

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