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Dr. Martin Rundkvist is a Swedish archaeologist, journal editor, public speaker, skeptic, atheist, lefty liberal, bookworm, and father of two.
Category: Politics
In the 1970s mode of thinking, feminists accept and celebrate the female body for what it is. Attempting to look like 20 when you're 35 is seen as a symptom of patriarchal repression.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 30 Comments •
Category: Politics
Last night somebody googled the phrase "martin rundqvist republikan" and ended up here on my blog. Note the K: this person probably didn't wonder if I'd vote for Sarah Palin. They wondered what I think about the Swedish constitution,...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 29 Comments •
Category: Archaeology
The Institute for Archaeologists announces that one in six jobs in UK contract archaeology have been lost since the start of the recession, with more losses likely in the near future.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 12 Comments •
Category: Politics
In the West we shake our heads, and very rightly so in my opinion, at sharia, Islamic law rooted in the culture of 7th century AD Arabia. This is the body of thought that leads to judicial stonings and mutilations...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 42 Comments •
Category: Politics
Andersson has fed his editor a scary interesting story that happens not to be true. His choice of words suggests that he has pretty extreme libertarian opinions that cause him to want the Swedish system to fail.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 14 Comments •
Category: Politics
If president Sarkozy really believes that Muslim women are subservient to male members of their families, then he shouldn't try to regulate their clothing. He should draw the full consequences of his beliefs and forbid Muslim women to vote in...
Posted by Martin R at 5:22 PM • 9 Comments •
Category: Children
In the long run, Darwinian selection acts upon cultures. But us in the world at large can't wait for that to make the current cultures of Liberia and Congo go extinct.
Posted by Martin R at 1:40 PM • 51 Comments •
Category: Archaeology
If you want to evict people forcefully to get at an archaeological site, you're doing it all wrong and for the wrong reasons.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 7 Comments •
Category: Homeownership
The only effect of the financial crisis on my life that I am aware of is that our mortgage is absurdly cheap.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 17 Comments •
Category: Politics
Woman or man -- thy loins must never issue more than two children, preferably less!
Posted by Martin R at 10:37 AM • 48 Comments •
Category: Politics
Most of us at Sb are screaming pinko dirty commie hippies.
Posted by Martin R at 8:38 AM • 9 Comments •
Category: Biology
Our goal should never be to rid the planet of humans.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 91 Comments •
Category: Biology
There is no way of life that is ecologically sustainable for a global population of more than a billion.
Posted by Martin R at 5:17 AM • 68 Comments •
Category: Politics
Among other things, they rendered twenty m/48 Carl Gustaf bazookas inoperable.
Posted by Martin R at 7:14 AM • 26 Comments •
Category: Politics
A timely must-read: Kevin Nguyen explains the financial crisis to his kid sister using Pokémon cards as an analogy.Kevin: Imagine that I let you borrow $50, but in exchange for my generosity, you promise to pay me back the...
Posted by Martin R at 11:35 AM • 5 Comments •
Category: Politics
The US owe Hamdan one year and four months' imprisonment.
Posted by Martin R at 4:15 AM • 9 Comments •
Category: Politics
Hymen construction is a silly pointless procedure in demand among certain immigrant groups.
Posted by Martin R at 9:35 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: Skepticism
It's great to live in a country where run-of-the-mill Dominionist statements piss the right wing off most mightily.
Posted by Martin R at 9:05 AM • 31 Comments •
Category: Politics
Science Debate 2008 is an initiative to inject more science policy into the run-up to the US presidential elections. Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum over at The Intersection just announced that they have sent formal invitations for an April 18...
Posted by Martin R at 2:09 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Politics
None of the presidential candidates would be a viable politician in Sweden.
Posted by Martin R at 5:26 AM • 278 Comments •
Category: Politics
Wherever we all are in the world, we need the next US president to be science-friendly, science-savvy and reality-based.
Posted by Martin R at 3:20 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Environment
The system is grossly inefficient. A bit of tax pressure would do wonders to tighten it up.
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 31 Comments •
Category: Sweden
The WZO realised that their net had caught a somewhat unusual breed of young political activist.
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 4 Comments •
Category: Politics
Give the magazine's white academic readers a warm fuzzy feeling.
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 32 Comments •
Category: Politics
You scratch my dictatorial back, I'll scratch yours, little brother.
Posted by Martin R at 9:05 AM • 2 Comments •
