Archives for October 15, 2008
Time for McCain’s Ten-Run Homer …
Posted by Greg Laden on October 15, 2008 …. NOT! Once again, Barack Obama totally wins the debate. This is Barack Obama after the debate: This is John McCain after the debate: Don’t cry, John McCain, Georgie will make you feel better:
Liveblogging The Debate
Posted by Greg Laden on October 15, 2008 Just the salient points. McCain does not want to spread the wealth around. Obama wants to cut the 15 billion dollar subsidy to insurance companies. Obama wants to invest in higher education. McCain is taking copious notes as Obama speaks. Maybe he’ll pick something up. McCain is having a hard time finishing a sentence. But…
Items of Interest
Posted by Greg Laden on October 15, 2008 Are you sure the earth is round? If you had to persuade a medieval peasant that the world was round, how would you do it? Why do you believe the world is round? And what does the American public in general think? Obama: At least as radical as a Puritan Melanie Phillips, who is a…
Notices and Blogospherics
Posted by Greg Laden on October 15, 2008 The Blog Carnival Oekologie will be hosted at The Infinite Sphere on November 15. Get your posts in using this submission form. I will be hosting Oekologie the following month. I may have missed nothing that Berry go Round #9 is up at Gravity’s Rainbow. This is botanical web carnival.
Norm Coleman is Going to Hell
Posted by Greg Laden on October 15, 2008 Well, ok, there is no Hell. So we’re just going to tell Norm the truth and he’s going to think it’s hell….. This item, from Tangled Up in Blue Guy (see THIS for more commentary) is absolutely outrageous. Unbelievable. Watch this piece of video from a Norm Coleman ad showing how Al Franken can get…
SynchroBlogging
Posted by Greg Laden on October 15, 2008 I just wanted to point out the new Web Badge (to the left) that I’ve stuck on my side bar. This is the Open Access Day Synchroblogging Competition Winner badge. Only those of us who have won the award can have the badge, so you better not download it and put it on your site.…
EMERGENCY ACTION NEEDED NOW
Posted by Greg Laden on October 15, 2008 The creationist-biased Texas Board of Education has assembled a committee to ‘review science curriculum standards.’ This group includes a few actual scientist types, and … pay attention folks .. Wisconsin based ID creationist Ralph Seelke, Baylor creationist chemist Charles Garner, and Stephen Meyer, vice president of the Discovery Institute. Yes, you read that right. The…
Winding up for the debate….
Posted by Greg Laden on October 15, 2008 The latest polls are interesting. Locally we have Ashwin Madia in a statistical dead heat so if you are in Minnesota Congresstional District 3 it is NOW TIME to either volunteer or kick in a few bucks. Madia has an excellent chance of taking this seat away from the Republicans. The Minnesota Senate race is…
In case the debates are not grabbing your attention…
Posted by Greg Laden on October 15, 2008 Click here, then click all over the pretty picture. There are enough details here to keep you amused for at least ten minutes. [Hat Tip: PZ]
Click Here
Posted by Greg Laden on October 15, 2008 Down below the fold where it says “CLICK HERE” …. don’t click there! First, make sure the following things are true: 1) You are alone. 2) Your computer’s sound is turned up. 2) Nobody can hear you. OK, go…
Conservative Forced Out by Right Wing for Expressing Opinion
Posted by Greg Laden on October 15, 2008 They used to say that “The problem with Democrats is that the eat their own young.” Not any more. Christopher Buckley, son of ultra conservative dit William F. Buckley, and an ultra conservative dit in his own right, came out with an endorsement of Barack Obama the other day, and as a result, has been…
Open Access Blogging Competition Winners Announced!!!
Posted by Greg Laden on October 15, 2008 Yesterday was Open Access Day and there was a blogging competition designed to promote Open Access and stuff. People were asked to write about Open Access, address certain issues, and use the phrase “Open Access Day” in their blogs. These blog posts were then gathered up by Internet Robots and evaluated by a team of…
A Carnival of Carnivals!
Posted by Greg Laden on October 15, 2008 NEW:Replace Michele Bachmann Blog Carnival #3 Praxis #3 NEW: The Carnival of Evolution New and Exciting in PLoS ONE Open Access Day – the blog posts Carnival of Homeschooling: The Missing Day Grand Rounds!
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