Thing You Don't Expect to Hear in Boston
Category: Boston
Overhead last weekend at a Boston coffeshop.
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Mad rantings about politics, evolution, and microbiology
Mad rantings about politics, evolution, and microbiology. Comment policy: say what you want, but back it up with an email address. I don't like anonymous trolls.
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May 13, 2008
Category: Boston
Overhead last weekend at a Boston coffeshop.
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By this metric, the euro is probably doing as poorly as the dollar.
Posted by Mike at 11:02 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 12, 2008
Category: Bloggity Blog
Our Benevolent Seed Overlords are having a photo contest.
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A participatory democracy requires avoiding giving people an 'out', and making people take responsibility themselves. That's not revenge, but what is simply necessary for a democracy to function.
Posted by Mike at 11:16 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 11, 2008
Theopolitically conservative churches haven't been suckered into politics: they use it as a fundraising tool.
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May 10, 2008
Category: Hypotheses
It's absolutely normal to have data confirm or support a previously held position. It's when you exclude data that conflict with your position, that you have a problem.
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Category: News Media
Somerby explains the economics of the polite liberal pundit.
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May 9, 2008
What's nuts about creationists is that the molecular evidence for natural selection is incredibly strong, unless you posit a God that likes to deceive people. Or maybe DNA is a Satanic plot.
Posted by Mike at 11:50 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 8, 2008
It's all just MRSA.
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May 7, 2008
Category: Democrats
Clinton does worse than George "Macacawitz" Allen?
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Only if you were dropped on your head repeatedly as an infant.
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May 6, 2008
What do we do with all of that human DNA we will sequence (even though we don't want to)?
Posted by Mike at 11:03 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 5, 2008
How 'new media' can potentially alter the public's understanding of science.
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May 4, 2008
Funny, I thought anti-Semitism caused the Holocaust.
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Revisiting solved problems distracts us from focusing on new ones.
Posted by Mike at 11:04 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 3, 2008
The Boston PD has a grope patrol. No, they're not groping people.
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May 2, 2008
Making you pay for treatment isn't a bug, but a feature.
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May 1, 2008
If we move from an employer-based system, families will pay more for healthcare.
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