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...probably the single most concrete and substantive thing an American, young American, could do to lower our carbon footprint is not turning off the lights or driving a Prius, it's having fewer kids, having fewer children.

Salon: You say in the beginning of the book that you would like to convince people that creationism is not a feasible or a viable belief system, but you also make it clear that you're not a big fan of creationists.

Dawkins: That's putting it mildly, yes.

Salon: Doesn't that make it difficult for a creationist to read this book without feeling insulted? Won't that hurt your goal?

Dawkins: No, I'm not really aiming it at creationists. I don't think they read books anyway, except for one book.

Salon: Do you also think there's a greater degree of anti-intellectualism in America compared to a lot of other countries?

Dawkins: There does seem to be evidence of a divide in the United States between two cultures. It does seem to be a deeper divide, and maybe even a widening one, perhaps we don't see in European countries. There seems to be a divide between what shall we say -- the Sarah Palin voters and the Barack Obama voters.

As the country's messy debate about health care reform continues, some online observers are starting to wonder if Obama has lost his grip on Internet discourse.

They're also wondering if it's possible for any one person -- no matter how powerful -- to control public dialogue on a medium like the Internet, where conversations are driven by millions of users instead of TV pundits and heads of state.

So, Obama just isn't powerful enough to control the internet? Or he is being overshadowed by others who are less powerful overall but have more internet-power? Are these people taking internet steroids? If so, how is the President supposed to get some of those?

More importantly, how am I supposed to get some of those?

Without explaining this reversal of policy, the OMB is seeking to allow the mass collection of personal information of every user of a federal government website. Until the OMB answers the multitude of questions surrounding this policy shift, we will continue to raise our strenuous objections.

Paul Holdren, the new science czar, another radical to add to President Obama’s list of questionable connections, is coming under fire for his controversial, and as some would say, morally wrong statements and ideas.

During Holdren’s Senate confirmation hearings, senators were unaware of a textbook he co-authored in 1977 titled, “Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment.” 
    
Portions of the book explain possible ways of controlling the human population in order to benefit the environment including forced abortion and involuntary sterilization. Read more here.

Over at the WaPost, Jose Antonio Vargas has a good profile of GOP internet guru Cyrus Krohn.  Here's the money quote:

"The use of TV in campaigns is kind of like our dependency on foreign oil. We know we have to get off it. We know we need to find alternative energy sources. But we keep on going back to the pump," Krohn continues. "Fact is, we need to develop a higher degree of comfort with allocating media dollars to the Web."