Politics
Taking Bachmann Out of Congress
Posted by Greg Laden on April 11, 2013 
Minnesota’s 6th congressional district is represented by Michele Bachmann, who moved from the Minnesota Senate where she was one of the first legislators in the US to introduce academic freedom legislation to silence professors at the University of Minnesota who were lecturing on climate change and evolution, to the United States Congress a few terms…
Sexual Politics of Meat
Posted by Greg Laden on April 11, 2013 
Usually I don’t mention books unless I’ve read them, but I thought a lot of my readers would be interested in a volume I have only heard about: Defiant Daughters: 21 Women on Art, Activism, Animals, and the Sexual Politics of Meat. Here is the description: When The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical…
The Corporation. Have you seen it?
Posted by Greg Laden on April 11, 2013 
Have you seen The Corporation? It is an excellent documentary that runs through the list of psychiatric disorders that seem to be endemic to corporations. It came out in 2004, but is still very relevant. If you’ve not seen it, you should. The film has a website, here. In some countries you can watch at…
The Bottleneck Years by H. E. Taylor – Chapter 35
Posted by coby on April 10, 2013 The Bottleneck Years by H.E. Taylor Chapter 34 Table of Contents Chapter 36 Chapter 35 Prometheus, March 8, 2056 To be honest, the Group 2 debacle was more of a public relations disaster than an ecological one. The damage was dramatic, but relatively restricted. Within 48 hours someone leaked the hazmat team video on the…
Court overturns Obama administration’s Plan B age limit
Posted by Liz Borkowski on April 9, 2013 The court decision striking down age restrictions for non-prescription sale of emergency contraceptives is good news for public health — and, let’s hope, the end of a long and disturbing episode in the history of US contraceptives.
SCOTUS and Marriage: What’s next?
Posted by Greg Laden on April 8, 2013 The Bottleneck Years by H. E. Taylor – Chapter 34
Posted by coby on April 4, 2013 The Bottleneck Years by H.E. Taylor Chapter 33 Table of Contents Chapter 35 Chapter 34 Group 2 Disaster, February 17, 2056 At the next UNGETF conference, we were given an interim report on Corella Corporation activities on behalf of Group 2. They were using balloons to hoist tons of sulphur pellets for release in the…
Gutting on Catholicism
Posted by jrosenhouse on April 3, 2013 Via Massimo Pigliucci, I just read Gary Gutting’s defense of his Catholic faith. Here’s the opening: An old friend and mentor of mine, Ernan McMullin, was a philosopher of science widely respected in his discipline. He was also a Catholic priest. I don’t know how many times fellow philosophers at professional meetings drew me aside…
April 2013 Open Thread
Posted by Tim Lambert on April 1, 2013 Congressman Dan Young of Alaska on Mexicans and Mexican-Americans
Posted by Greg Laden on March 31, 2013 
This is why we can’t have nice things, like immigration reform. From MSNBC: Amid a hot-button debate in Washington over how to overhaul the nation’s immigration laws, Rep. Don Young, a 21-term lawmaker, referred to immigrant workers as “wetbacks” — a term that could threaten to inflame the debate about immigration reform. “My father had…
