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December 31, 2007

NY Times Editorial Board Makes an Affirmative Action Hire

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That would be William Kristol.

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Bush Administration Cuts Funding for Schoolkids' Health and Immunization

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Because nothing says compassionate conservatism like cutting funding for poor disabled children.

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December 30, 2007

Some Sunday Links

Category: Lotsa Links

Happy two days before New Year's... Anyway, I've got a whole mess of posts for you.

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Democrats Should Stop Talking About What They Should Do...

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...and start doing it. Most people care far less about how a politician or political party can be elected than they do about what that politician or party will do to help them.

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December 29, 2007

Lakota Indians Unilaterally Break Treaties with U.S.

Category: Secession

Fortunately, the Lakota don't seem to have a lot of neocons, so there probably won't be an outbreak of waterboarding.

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December 28, 2007

Opaque Markets and the Need for National Healthcare

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In light of claim rejection, how can anyone realistically price different healthcare plans?

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December 27, 2007

E. coli, Shigella, and Creationism

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One of the lesser known microbiology facts is that the pathogen Shigella is actually E. coli. From the archives, here's an explanation.

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December 26, 2007

I Always Did Like Roger Ebert

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Roger Ebert sends me an email. Does that mean I'm a terrorist?

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December 25, 2007

Gut Yontif!

Category: Religion

A merry Christmas to all.

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December 24, 2007

Happy Birthday to Me!

Category: Bloggity Blog

It's my birthday. No blogging for me--however I do have...

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December 22, 2007

Reconquista! The Best 300 Parody EVAH!

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By way of Dave Neiwert comes this hysterical mash up of the movie 300 and the anti-immigrant right.

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December 21, 2007

The Most Important Science Study EVAH!

Category: Humor

It's a couple years old, but good science never goes bad.

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December 20, 2007

If You Live in Chicago, Help Driftglass Take on Michael Savage

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Driftglass is organizing a letter writing campaign to the advertisers on Chicago's hate radio station WIND. If you live in the area, help him out. Here's why:...

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What Is Science?

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So asks Paul Orwin.

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Pigs, MRSA, and 'Superbugs'

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The misuse of antibiotics in agriculture needs to stop, but I'm not sure it has much to do with community-acquired methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA).

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December 19, 2007

About That Mutations-Are-Always-Bad Creationist Idiocy...

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the Chikungunya virus might have something to say about that (if it could speak).

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December 18, 2007

Torture Is Never an Isolated Event

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If torture is truly used as an interrogation technique, and not to fulfill a psychological need or as terrorism, it can not be an isolated event--it must be systemic and routine. As with any other interrogation technique, innocent people will be subjected to torture.

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December 17, 2007

John Aravosis' Christmas Time Snarl at the Poor

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Note to Aravosis: helping the poor is not the moral equivalent of helping the rich.

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Creationism, Accreditation, and Higher Education

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Imagine if a coalition of universities announced that they would consider students from Texas or those states that accept teachers certified in Texas as not having fulfilled necessary science requirements.

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December 16, 2007

Some Sunday Links

Category: Bloggity Blog

We're having a nor'easter. That's a great excuse for some links.

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The Surveillance State: Everything Changed After 1/20/2007...

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not 9/11. The Bush Administration spied on American citizens without court orders before Sept. 11, 2001. And it didn't stop the attacks.

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Sunday Sermon: Johnathan Schell on Nuclear Disarmament

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"If, in the sixty years of the nuclear age, no great nuclear power has won a war by making nuclear threats against even tiny, weak adversaries, then how could a nuclear monopoly by a small country enable it to coerce and bully the whole world?"

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December 15, 2007

Rising Income Inequality and the Bush Administration: It's a Bug, Not a Feature

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At least, that's what the latest CBO data suggest. And good luck paying for your kids college education.

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December 14, 2007

Mr. Helmut Goes to Washington and Tells Them About Torture

Category: Torture

Torture as a strategy can never be an isolated or extremely rare case. For it to be effective, it must be used routinely.

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December 13, 2007

Conservative Exiles: Welcome to Liberalville

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Hatred is one tiger that can never be successfully ridden.

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I'm on the Fence Regarding Sciencedebate 2008

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How can you have a debate about science policy when many of those participating in the debate would deny the existence of foundational scientific observations?

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December 12, 2007

Prominent Conservative Bloggers Defend Halliburton Rapists But...

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never fear, Jon Swift is on the case.

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Is the Microbiome Being Driven by the Right Biologists?

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Decoding the human microbiome will be easy...except for...oh crap.

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December 11, 2007

I Wield the Plunger of God!

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And I blame the demise of my rocket-propelled toilet for this.

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December 10, 2007

What Will Human Microbiome Metagenomics Tell Us (Redux)?

Category: Genomics

What do we learn from metagenomics of the human microbiome?

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December 9, 2007

Teaching, Testing, and Training

Category: Education

As long as we consider teaching to be a secular equivalent of the priesthood, and not a job with the pay and workplace environment (some) other professionals have, we're going to have a teacher shortage.

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December 8, 2007

If Democrats Ask Republicans Questions, Then It Would Be, Like, a Debate

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Next thing you know, they might have to answer the questions. Or they can just boo veterans.

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December 7, 2007

Do We Really Suck This Bad at Making Things?

Category: Automobiles

So the best we can do is be years behind Europe in automobile and energy technology?

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December 6, 2007

One More Reason Why Letting Iowa and New Hampshire Go First Is Stupid: Florida

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The Democratic D.C. establishment might have just sucked the energy out of the Florida Democratic Party.

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December 5, 2007

Fossil Mummy Dinosaur

Category: Dinosaurs

No, it doesn't eat brains: that would be a fossil mummy dinosaur.

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The Politicization of Evolution

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Yes, it's regrettable that the teaching of the fact of evolution will be decided by political power and not reason.

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December 4, 2007

Merry Hasmonean Liberation Day!

Category: Jewish Stuff

It's the first night of Chanukah.

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Let Me Explain This Whole Kosher Thing...

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Balducci's grocery needs to upgrade their Jewish outreach program.

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The Bell Curve: Great Minds Think Alike-Gould and the Mad Biologist

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When I read The Bell Curve, I thought that the data presented were crap. A few years later, I read an essay by Gould where he made the same argument. You don't have to be as smart as Gould (I'm not) to have figured this out. And Atrios, there are people other than economists, known as biologists, who are qualified to discuss The Bell Curve.

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December 3, 2007

Texas: Vichy Science Is on the March

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In light of recent creationist idiocy in Texas, the evolution 'controversy' will be in the news. Those of us who support science will need some talking points made for TV debate, not the classroom. Here are my suggestions

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The Evilest Spam EVAH!

Category: Beer

Who spams Guinness? Is there no decency left?

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December 2, 2007

Some Sunday Links

Category: Lotsa Links

It's damn cold outside, so here are some links for you.

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Abortion, Stem Cells, In Vitro Fertilization, and Tribalism

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The 'pro-life' position on embryonic stem cell research has nothing to do with ethical reasoning and everything to with tribalism.

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December 1, 2007

A Possible Way to Strike Back at Creationist Politicians

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you've probably heard about the firing of the Texas Education Agency's director of science curriculum. There's not much to add to what others have already said about how stupid this is, so, instead, I want to propose one possible way to strike back at these bozos: federalize the issue.

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More Racism in a 'Post-Racist' Society

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Another racist political outburst. Guess what? It's from a Republican.

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Intelligent Design Creationism: The Intersection of Everything Stupid

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By way of moonbat, I came across this diagram that explains intelligent design creationism perfectly.

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