Democrats behaving badly
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The Editors of Effect Measure are senior public health scientists and practitioners. Paul Revere was a member of the first local Board of Health in the United States (Boston, 1799). The Editors sign their posts "Revere" to recognize the public service of a professional forerunner better known for other things.
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Civil liberties:
So SpongeBob Pants is gay. Who cares?
SpongeBob is sodomizing your children. Yawn.Posted on May 20, 2008 4:03 PM • 18 Comments •
The Bush administration: keeping us safe (from subversive art)
Charges of bioterrorism dismissed against an art professor who used a common bacterium to protest biological warfare.Posted on April 24, 2008 3:56 PM • 50 Comments •
Why we don't trust the FBI
Lying liars and the lies they tell.Posted on April 17, 2008 4:08 PM • 19 Comments •
Indonesia, bird flu viruses and the moral high ground
The US gander gets some of the sauce it serves up for the Indonesian goose.Posted on April 15, 2008 7:04 AM • 26 Comments •
Attorney General Mukasey intent on sending his reputation down the toilet
Mukasey rolls over for the Bushies. Again.Posted on April 4, 2008 3:41 PM • 6 Comments •
Penalties for health care workers who don't show up in a pandemic?
Doctors and nurses who don't show up and what to do about it.Posted on April 2, 2008 7:01 AM • 13 Comments •
Why do they hate us?
Let the BBC World Service count the waysPosted on March 24, 2008 3:47 PM • 56 Comments •
Pandemic flu "lockdown" nonsense
Coping with pandemic flu with computer modelsPosted on March 12, 2008 12:09 AM • 28 Comments •
US Senate passes Get Out of Jail Free legislation
Telecom immunity boosted by money vaccine to Congress.Posted on February 13, 2008 3:40 PM • 34 Comments •
Bush administration's private joke
Can we have some privacy, please?Posted on February 6, 2008 4:53 PM • 23 Comments •
Martin Luther King, turning the page
Strange Fruit, If I had a Hammer, We Shall OvercomePosted on January 15, 2008 3:27 PM • 15 Comments •
Will the Bush administration lock you up in a pandemic?
Civil liberties in a pandemic? No problem.Posted on January 15, 2008 6:53 AM • 20 Comments •
So what's the Big Deal about torture? (***sarcasm warning added)
The big deal is truly a Big Deal.Posted on November 26, 2007 4:01 PM • 23 Comments •
No more Citizens Anonymous
Name, rank and serial number. Now.Posted on November 13, 2007 4:54 PM • 10 Comments •
I thought everyone knew how paranoid US authorities were
Two stupids and the poor bastard caught between themPosted on November 7, 2007 4:36 PM • 23 Comments •
Experimental health tests in an emergency without informed consent
Should unapproved tests be allowed in an emergency?Posted on October 31, 2007 7:28 AM • 7 Comments •
500 terror suspects identified yesterday
At this rate, soon we'll all be on the list.Posted on October 30, 2007 4:35 PM • 26 Comments •
It can't happen here
Do I feel safer now? The government probably knows.Posted on October 18, 2007 4:34 PM • 6 Comments •
Protest of Howl
Hear no Evil, See no Evil, Speak no Evil. Or else.Posted on October 8, 2007 4:23 PM • 2 Comments •
The Onion reports the news
Couldn't have said it better.Posted on August 7, 2007 8:08 PM • 4 Comments •
Why I won't contribute to the DCCC
The Democrat Hall of ShamePosted on August 6, 2007 3:42 PM • 19 Comments •
TB and the police state
Time for your chest x-ray. You might want to bring your toothbrush. Just in case.Posted on June 12, 2007 4:26 PM • 15 Comments •
CDC, OnStar and Big Brother. Hmmm.
Saving lives with real-time tracking. Hmmm.Posted on March 22, 2007 4:29 PM • 23 Comments •
Bush policy not a joke but a gag
The Bush administration gag on AIDS policies by non-profits is challenged.Posted on November 16, 2006 5:47 PM • 12 Comments •
