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Envoronment
November 20, 2009
Built on Facts
Leaked Climate Change Documents Around ScienceBlogs, people who don't accept global warming as a real phenomena tend to get called denialists. In the interests of full disclosure, I should admit that I'm not a denialist but rather a global warming defeatist. Doesn't matter how...
Mike the Mad Biologist
The Republican Establishment Is Absolutely Nuts "Prepare for war?" So says a Republican county party committee.
The Primate Diaries
Friday Rant: Atheists Need To Be Brighter Now that the Darwin Reclamation Project collage has been posted, I can confess that I have a few problems with the recent atheist action that sought to counter the dunderhead Ray Comfort and his Creationist propaganda ministry. I'm not sure...
Respectful Insolence
"Obama's fixin' death panels for your mama": The USPSTF recommendations for mammography used as a political weapon Nooooo! Not one of the seemingly rational ones too!
Mike the Mad Biologist
Misinterpreting the Solution to the Manure Crisis and the Global Warming Problem... ...and how Levitt and Dubner fail to see that the Manure problem was not 'solved', only turned into a new problem that will also require wrenching change.
Dispatches from the Culture Wars
52% of Republicans Think Obama Not Really Elected Just when you think things can't get any more loopy on the right, a new poll has found that a majority of Republicans actually believe that Obama is not the real president because ACORN stole the election for him. TPM...
Dispatches from the Culture Wars
USCIRF Blasts Defamation of Religion Resolutions The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom issued a strongly worded policy document (PDF) blasting the various defamation of religion resolutions that have been passed by the United Nations over the last few years. It begins: Although these resolutions purport...
Dispatches from the Culture Wars
Dumbass Quote of the Day From Sen. Jeff Sessions, promising to filibuster Obama's judicial nominees after screaming bloody murder at the horrible injustice of filibuster nominations by Democrats: I cannot and will not allow the easy confirmation of an individual who seeks a lifetime appointment...
Dispatches from the Culture Wars
Another School Mangles the First Amendment Here's yet another example of a school administration completely missing the point of the First Amendment and violating the free speech rights of students because they don't understand either the free speech clause or the establishment clause. A student in...
Dispatches from the Culture Wars
Gingrich Warns GOP Even Newt Gingrich is recognizing the danger of purging the Republican party of all but the most hardcore right-wing candidates running for office. In an interview with Politico, he says: "If we get into a cycle where there are tea...
Dynamics of Cats
Taxing the Hidden Economy Income tax for elves, and VAT on dwarfs.
November 19, 2009
The Questionable Authority
Did Doug Hoffman Just Cross the Line Separating "Dirty Politics" and "Defamation"? Doug Hoffman recently posted a new fundraising letter on his blog. Now, I know some of you might be wondering why the guy is trying to raise money for an election that already happened. It's simple, really. He wants...
Pharyngula
A contemptible pseudoscientific scam Grrr. I was sent a link to these lying, sleazebag scammers at mygeneprofile.com, and it's the kind of thing that pisses me off. What you'll find there is a long video where the lowlife in a suit talks about how...
The Questionable Authority
E. J. Dionne on Senate Stupidity As many of my regular readers know, I often find myself frustrated by something that's happening (or, more often, not happening) in the United States Senate. Over the past several years, I've been repeatedly stunned by the near-complete absence...
Mike the Mad Biologist
Framing the Not-So-Obvious Answer, Stimulus, Theopolitical Conservatism, and the Power of Empowered Stupidity The rampant stupidity of an idea is meaningless to the Potomac Mandarins: what matters is the power possessed by the person espousing that idea.
Dispatches from the Culture Wars
The Weekly Standard's Standard Absurdity Neo-con rag The Weekly Standard has one of the most ridiculous and intellectually dishonest screeds against the ACLU that you will ever read. They are mad as hell that the ACLU released that video of former Guantanamo inmates detailing their...
Dispatches from the Culture Wars
Palin the Creationist It turns out that those rumors from an Alaskan activist about Palin being a creationist were true. Not that anyone should be shocked by this; given Palin's religious views it would be extremely shocking if she was not a creationist....
Dispatches from the Culture Wars
Dumbass Quote of the Day From our old friend Joseph Farah: Further, I would suggest to you the big "take-away" from any biblical study of the death penalty would suggest that it is the very basis of God's rules for governance on Earth. It's the...
Dispatches from the Culture Wars
Disagreeing with Kuznicki I have to disagree with this post by my friend and co-blogger Jason Kuznicki. This is not something I do lightly because I have such enormous respect for Jason, but I really think he's wrong on this. And he is...
Dispatches from the Culture Wars
National Organization for Marriage Drops Prejean My CIM colleague John Tomasic notes that the anti-gay National Organization for Marriage has quietly dropped Carrie Prejean after so famously promoting her in the wake of her fake martyrdom in the Miss USA pageant. Carrie Prejean, the decrowned Miss...
Respectful Insolence
"Obama's fixin' death panels for your mama," the misogyny gambit, and other idiotic responses to the updated USPSTF mammography recommendations Oh, noes! The new breast cancer screening guidelines are misogynistic, primitive, and part of Obama death panels!
Framing Science
Science and Yale Environment 360 on Climate Fatigue Some advocates on the left consider themselves part of the communication solution, but in fact are likely to be part of the problem.
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
President Obama's Teleprompter Malfunctions During Family Dinner Imagine the crisis that occurred when President Obama's teleprompter unexpectedly stopped functioning during a family dinner
November 18, 2009
Deltoid
AAP reports from the future The AAP is either reporting from the future, or did a cut and paste from a press release.
Tomorrow's Table
Africa's Organic Peasantry An article in the Harvard International Review by Paul Collier paints a stark view of African peasantry. Collier presents a convincing argument that for African agriculture to become more productive, it needs modern agricultural technologies and new modes of organization...
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As the 2009 hurricane season picks up speed after a remarkably mild beginning, we look to the ScienceBlogs archives for the science behind the storms.
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