No, Maha, It Isn't Weird at All
The Uruk-hai Republican base is used to being told what to think.
Posted by Mike at 4:44 PM • 3 Comments •
Mike the Mad Biologist
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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.
Recent Posts
- Palin and Alito: The No-Name Strategy
- Teaching Macro- and Microevolution
- If CNN Had Covered MLK's "I Have a Dream" Speech...
- Did Someone Help Bear Stearns Tank?
- Is Molecular Evolution a Good Way to Teach High School Students About Evolution?
- The McCain Mansions
- Bacteria and Influenza: The Streptococcus Vaccine Is One Way to Prepare Against the Unknown
- Quote of the Day: Privacy, Then and Now
- On "Cancer Ridden"
- For the Next Debate Thingee, Can the Moderator Be a Member of the Coalition of the Sane
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June 30, 2008
June 29, 2008
Sunday Sermon: Obama Needs to Make Some Chanage, Not Just Talk About It
If Obama and his advisors think FISA is a tough vote, then he'll fold when the shit really hits the fan.
Posted by Mike at 5:13 PM • 7 Comments •
Drug Treatment: Iran Gets It, and the U.S. Doesn't
Category: Drugs
More evidence that the U.S. is suffering from a severe epidemic of dumbitude.
Posted by Mike at 12:31 PM • 0 Comments •
June 28, 2008
Two Must-Read Posts by Driftglass
Some good posts that I nearly missed and you shouldn't.
Posted by Mike at 10:48 AM • 1 Comments •
June 27, 2008
As If an Outbreak of Teen Pregnancy Wasn't Bad Enough, Now We Have a Ninja Threat?
Category: WhatEVAH!
We, as a society, have gone insane.
Posted by Mike at 4:02 PM • 7 Comments •
Dowd, Creationism, PhysioProf, and Why We Need to Keep the Pressure On
Of course, Dowd hasn't changed what she fundamentally believes; those with massive personality disorders rarely do. But she can change what she writes, even if it's for the 'wrong' reasons.
Posted by Mike at 11:22 AM • 9 Comments •
June 26, 2008
A Cancer-Causing Virus...Protects Against Cancer?
That's right: a virus that occasionally results in leukemia protects you from gastric cancer.
Posted by Mike at 11:06 AM • 2 Comments •
June 25, 2008
Why I'm Glad I Donated to Dodd's Campaign
Too bad he's one of the few senators actually worth a damn, because he wouldn't be a bad VP.
Posted by Mike at 4:02 PM • 0 Comments •
Looks Like the Blogosphere Had Some Influence on Maureen Dowd
Category: News Media
Either all of the shouting from the bloggysphere did some good, or else she's been replaced with a pod person.
Posted by Mike at 12:08 PM • 2 Comments •
Blackflies, Caribou, and Conservative Talking Points
If Republicans claim that oil pipelines are good for caribou, I wonder what they'll make of the blackfly outbreak in Maine. Yes, Congressman Bachmann is involved.
Posted by Mike at 11:05 AM • 4 Comments •
June 24, 2008
CDC Q Fever Lab: FAIL!
I'm a big fan of duct tape. It very well might represent the apotheosis of American technological ingenuity. But two things do not go together: Q Fever and duct tape.
Posted by Mike at 10:47 AM • 7 Comments •
June 23, 2008
I Think the NY Times Editors Read My Blog (The Bobby Jindal Edition)
Category: Creationism
Who needs the NY Times? Just read my blog.
Posted by Mike at 4:46 PM • 2 Comments •
Self-Hating Science Teacher and ID Proponent Forces Expelled on Students...
...and that wasn't the worst part.
Posted by Mike at 11:03 AM • 11 Comments •
June 22, 2008
Democrats Cave on FISA and the Rule of Law
This is the vitiation of the Fourth Amendment and the creation of presidential fiat. Here's something you can do about it.
Posted by Mike at 1:20 PM • 2 Comments •
June 21, 2008
June 20, 2008
Lenski*: Please Don't Respond to Schlafly and Purdom
You can't reason with ignoramuses.
Posted by Mike at 10:51 AM • 10 Comments •
June 19, 2008
Impact Factors and eigenFACTOR.org (Redux)
Category: Publishing
Don't worry about impact factors; worry about your eigenfactor.
Posted by Mike at 11:03 AM • 1 Comments •
June 18, 2008
Mother to McCain: "You Can't Have Him"
The Washington Mandarins are clutching their pearls over this dastardly Democratic ad.
Posted by Mike at 4:52 PM • 1 Comments •
The Political Failure of Charter Schools: Conservatives Reap What They Have Sown
For the last two decades, give or take, charter schools have been a cause celebre for conservatives. Yet they seem to have abandoned them as a political issue. Here's one reason why (italics mine):...
Posted by Mike at 11:19 AM • 7 Comments •
June 17, 2008
About That Mutations-Are-Always-Bad Creationist Idiocy... (Again)
Mutations can restore function. Don't tell the creationists.
Posted by Mike at 11:18 AM • 5 Comments •
June 16, 2008
The Piggy MRSA Is in Hospitals
I've been saying for a while now that the 'piggy MRSA*', known as ST398, is going to be a problem. Always listen to the Mad Biologist.
Posted by Mike at 11:04 AM • 2 Comments •
June 15, 2008
Why Is Bobby Jindal Devaluing My College Education? The Exorcism Edition
Republican governor Bobby Jindal is further attempting to lower the value of my degree: he performed an exorcism, and believes that it cured the 'possessed' woman of cancer.
Posted by Mike at 11:25 AM • 5 Comments •
June 14, 2008
A Question About Boston's T
Category: Boston
Why are the cars moving so slowly?
Posted by Mike at 11:50 AM • 9 Comments •
June 13, 2008
Ben Stein Lies About Economics Too
So we know Ben Stein lies about evolution. Now, Stein is lying about economics.
Posted by Mike at 11:00 AM • 7 Comments •
June 12, 2008
"The Next Right" on Oil: Saudi Silliness
A conservative asks, "How did the GOP get stuck "Defending Big Oil" again?" A picture explains everything.
Posted by Mike at 10:47 AM • 8 Comments •
June 11, 2008
If Mexico Can Teach Evolution, Why Can't the U.S.?
Confronting the origin of life 'problem' head on.
Posted by Mike at 11:19 AM • 11 Comments •
There Are No Magic Pendulums and No Magic Ponies Either?
Progress is not an indefatigable natural phenomenon. It requires work.
Posted by Mike at 11:14 AM • 0 Comments •
June 10, 2008
Clinton, Obama, and the Mainstream Media Seeing the Trees and Missing the Forest
The NY Times has an article recapping how Obama defeated Clinton in the Democratic primary. The article is a prime example of the myopia that afflicts our political press. And it's not what's in the article, but what's missing.
Posted by Mike at 11:21 AM • 7 Comments •
June 9, 2008
Children, Childless, and Academia: The Need for Better Scientific Managers
Category: Management
If we did a better managing, much of the stress of academia could be reduced, family or no.
Posted by Mike at 11:02 AM • 12 Comments •
June 8, 2008
Race: The Long Hard Road
If there will be "change", it is we, not Obama, who will have done it.
Posted by Mike at 11:19 AM • 2 Comments •
June 7, 2008
Primary Care Physicians and Universal Healthcare
We're told that primary care physicians are the 'gatekeepers' for healthcare, but we pay them like rent-a-cops.
Posted by Mike at 11:04 AM • 10 Comments •
June 6, 2008
The 'Piggy' MRSA: It's Here...
The piggy MRSA is here. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Posted by Mike at 11:03 AM • 0 Comments •
June 4, 2008
When the States Cut Spending
Didn't I warn about this a month ago: the states and municipalities will have to cut spending massively. And now, when it's too late, Wall Street wants to adopt the Mad Biologist's stimulus plan.
Posted by Mike at 11:09 AM • 4 Comments •
June 3, 2008
Sick Leave and Infection
Category: Public Health
Keeping sick workers out of the workplace is good bidness. And most businesses want to do it.
Posted by Mike at 11:36 AM • 6 Comments •
June 2, 2008
Bestest Science Fair Experiment EVAH!
A student isolates plastic bag-eating bacteria.
Posted by Mike at 11:03 AM • 12 Comments •
June 1, 2008
Programming Note: ASM Meeting
Category: Bloggity Blog
I'll be at ASM for a few days.
Posted by Mike at 5:33 PM • 1 Comments •
I Actually Agree with...Huckabee?!?
Didn't think I would ever write that.
Posted by Mike at 10:57 AM • 7 Comments •
