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Our Enemy, The State permlink
Last fall I argued that the relatively light death toll of hurricane Sidr was due to improvements in the institutional framework of the Bangladeshi polity. More recently, I suggested that Burma's social & economic deficits vis-a-vis Bangladesh were due to...Posted on May 7, 2008 2:07 AM • 5 Comments
Political fictions & Social Darwinism permlink
Charles Johnson argues that Richard Dawkins has mischaracterized Herbert Spencer:...Posted on April 4, 2008 6:08 PM • 11 Comments
Is James Kirchick stupid, or does he just think we are? permlink
Normally I don't blog politics since I don't know shit really. I generally subscribe to 2-3 political feeds which I regularly rotate to keep me "hooked in." Today I saw something so so shockingly stupid, or, brazenly mendacious, that I...Posted on March 20, 2008 9:52 PM • 28 Comments
William F. Buckely was a racist permlink
Many are quoting this from an editorial by William F. Buckley Jr.: "The central question that emerges...is whether the White community in the South is entitled to take such measures as are necessary to prevail, politically and culturally, in areas...Posted on February 28, 2008 4:55 AM • 22 Comments
Implied presidential candidate permlink
I did the Project Implicit Presidential Candidate IAT. Results below the fold.......Posted on February 14, 2008 6:22 AM • 7 Comments
ScienceDebate 2008 announcement permlink
Got an email from Sheril today: Well it's finally happened! It's official. Hillary Clinton, Mike Huckabee, John McCain, and Barack Obama have been invited to ScienceDebate2008. The location? Philadelphia's Franklin Institute, named after one of our nation's greatest scientists (and...Posted on February 11, 2008 2:54 PM • 1 Comments
Age & income: South Carolina exit polls permlink
Was checking out the exit poll data. Two things that jumped out at me.... Here are the votes for Obama from non-blacks in the South Carolina primary by age: 18-29 - 52% 30-44 - 25% 45-59 - 23% 60+ -...Posted on January 26, 2008 9:51 PM • 7 Comments
Liberal Fascism permlink
Austin Bramwell has a very enjoyable review up of Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism in the most recent issue of The American Conservative. I don't plan on reading Goldberg's book myself, but Bramwell is an intimidating combination of substance & style,...Posted on January 23, 2008 2:36 AM • 38 Comments
Michigan evangelicals not anti-Mormon! permlink
Yesterday I pointed out that in the South Carolina Republican primaries this year where Huckabee did well Romney did badly, and vice versa, on a county by county basis. The tendency also seemed in line with the proportion of evangelicals...Posted on January 20, 2008 12:09 PM • 2 Comments
Huckabee & Romney & identity politics permlink
Not that interested in politics myself, but I was curious about the South Carolina primary. You can see the exit polls here; seems like Mike Huckabee won evangelicals while McCain won non-conservatives. Nothing too surprising. As someone who has generally...Posted on January 19, 2008 10:54 PM • 4 Comments
The candidates on evolution permlink
Ron Bailey at Reason has a long piece where he surveys what the various presidential candidates in regards to their attitudes and beliefs about evolution. He also makes a case for why their beliefs on this topic are important....Posted on January 14, 2008 4:45 PM • 3 Comments
My electoral compass permlink
Several other ScienceBloggers have posted their Electoral Compass results. Jake, Josh, Bora and Greg (sort of) have posted there results. Here are mine.......Posted on January 12, 2008 7:48 PM • 6 Comments
I was Wrong!!! permlink
Can I get a "What, what?!?!" You can check out the results real time. Here are the exit polls. I'm not going to do the final tally yet since it won't come in at 100% for a few hours, but...Posted on January 8, 2008 10:33 PM • 6 Comments
New Hampshire predictions permlink
I note that Slate is congratulating a reader who guessed the top 3 finishers for both Repubs and Dems. Well, I got everything right except flipping Biden and Richardson (heard some guy on the radio say he was going for...Posted on January 4, 2008 11:26 PM • 6 Comments
Iowa predictions vs. results permlink
How did I do? First, I got the rank order pretty much down! The only mistake was swapping Richardson and Biden. Second, I didn't know how the Iowa Democratic Caucus was set up...otherwise, I would have been retarded to not...Posted on January 4, 2008 2:47 AM • 7 Comments
Iowa poll percentage predictions permlink
Again, based on knowing almost jack-shit about politics compared to the pundits, here are the percentages I'm predicting after reading websites for a few hours.......Posted on January 3, 2008 1:17 AM • 6 Comments
