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 •
Mad rantings about politics, evolution, and microbiology
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June 30, 2008
The Uruk-hai Republican base is used to being told what to think.
Posted by Mike at 4:44 PM • 3 Comments •
June 29, 2008
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 •
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
Some good posts that I nearly missed and you shouldn't.
Posted by Mike at 10:48 AM • 1 Comments •
June 27, 2008
Category: WhatEVAH!
We, as a society, have gone insane.
Posted by Mike at 4:02 PM • 7 Comments •
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
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
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 •
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 •
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
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
Category: Creationism
Who needs the NY Times? Just read my blog.
Posted by Mike at 4:46 PM • 2 Comments •
...and that wasn't the worst part.
Posted by Mike at 11:03 AM • 11 Comments •
June 22, 2008
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
You can't reason with ignoramuses.
Posted by Mike at 10:51 AM • 10 Comments •
June 19, 2008
Category: Publishing
Don't worry about impact factors; worry about your eigenfactor.
Posted by Mike at 11:03 AM • 1 Comments •
June 18, 2008
The Washington Mandarins are clutching their pearls over this dastardly Democratic ad.
Posted by Mike at 4:52 PM • 1 Comments •
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
Mutations can restore function. Don't tell the creationists.
Posted by Mike at 11:18 AM • 5 Comments •
June 16, 2008
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
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
Category: Boston
Why are the cars moving so slowly?
Posted by Mike at 11:50 AM • 9 Comments •
June 13, 2008
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
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
Confronting the origin of life 'problem' head on.
Posted by Mike at 11:19 AM • 11 Comments •
Progress is not an indefatigable natural phenomenon. It requires work.
Posted by Mike at 11:14 AM • 0 Comments •
June 10, 2008
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
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
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
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 is here. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Posted by Mike at 11:03 AM • 0 Comments •
June 4, 2008
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
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
A student isolates plastic bag-eating bacteria.
Posted by Mike at 11:03 AM • 12 Comments •
June 1, 2008
Category: Bloggity Blog
I'll be at ASM for a few days.
Posted by Mike at 5:33 PM • 1 Comments •
Didn't think I would ever write that.
Posted by Mike at 10:57 AM • 7 Comments •
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