Driftglass Identifies the Real Swing Voters of the 2008 Election
Category: Racism
The Swing Vote That Must Not Be Named.
Posted by Mike at 11:27 AM • 6 Comments •
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August 31, 2008
Category: Racism
The Swing Vote That Must Not Be Named.
Posted by Mike at 11:27 AM • 6 Comments •
August 30, 2008
This is the Alito-Roberts strategy: pick someone with virtually no track record so they can't get dinged. It's a crappy way to run the country.
Posted by Mike at 11:40 AM • 4 Comments •
August 29, 2008
Category: 'Snuggles' McCain
If 'the less they know, the better' is actually an apt description of your candidate and her policies, then you need a new candidate with different policies.
Posted by Mike at 2:29 PM • 6 Comments •
I don't think molecular data are susceptible to the macroevolution/microevolution creationist canard.
Posted by Mike at 11:03 AM • 10 Comments •
August 28, 2008
they would have talked through the whole thing and nobody would have ever actually seen it.
Posted by Mike at 10:54 AM • 8 Comments •
August 27, 2008
Was the Bear Stearns collapse the result of illegal manipulation?
Posted by Mike at 11:05 AM • 7 Comments •
August 26, 2008
We shouldn't get rid of the organismal approaches to teaching evolution, but do you think more of an emphasis on the molecular evidence for evolution would work?
Posted by Mike at 11:19 AM • 14 Comments •
August 25, 2008
Category: 'Snuggles' McCain
I think we're up to nine McCain homes. It's so hard to keep track...
Posted by Mike at 6:01 PM • 6 Comments •
In lieu of an influenza vaccine, bacterial vaccines and rapid diagnostics could save many lives.
Posted by Mike at 11:03 AM • 5 Comments •
August 24, 2008
Category: Civil Liberties
The Sideshow comments on why a right to privacy isn't found in the Bill of Rights.
Posted by Mike at 6:33 PM • 11 Comments •
...and that wasn't the point of the post anyway. Orac is right to call out Stoller for referring to McCain as cancer-ridden.
Posted by Mike at 4:35 PM • 3 Comments •
Rick Warren believes that dinosaurs and humans lived at the same time. Don't let all of that radiometric dating hooey fool you!
Posted by Mike at 11:53 AM • 9 Comments •
August 23, 2008
In the land of the complete f-cking moron, Adam Nagourney is king.
Posted by Mike at 11:01 AM • 2 Comments •
August 22, 2008
Category: Democrats
Obama's campaign is a mass movement, not a grassroots one, in that the communication--and decision-making--are unidirectional.
Posted by Mike at 11:05 AM • 9 Comments •
August 21, 2008
The stupidest and most absurd answer possible to 'Housing-gate.' Maybe the POW answer to everything routine has finally jumped the shark?
Posted by Mike at 4:15 PM • 13 Comments •
Releasing the scientific evidence would be a very good thing. Hopefully, it will happen very quickly--and be in an open access journal.
Posted by Mike at 11:02 AM • 5 Comments •
August 20, 2008
Category: 'Snuggles' McCain
"POW experience is not, in my opinion, something I would look for in a presidential candidate."
Posted by Mike at 11:01 AM • 12 Comments •
August 19, 2008
McCain's flip-flop on the bear DNA study is part of a larger pattern when it comes to government spending: all talk, no walk.
Posted by Mike at 4:52 PM • 4 Comments •
Category: Racism
"Don't worry about bigotry, because, while we'll always have bigotry, we are making inroads."
Posted by Mike at 11:07 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: Publishing
...and it's symptomatic of a larger problem too. When scientific communication is impaired by the needs of for-profit publishers, something needs to change...and it shouldn't be the science.
Posted by Mike at 11:04 AM • 11 Comments •
August 18, 2008
This is bad. The piggy MRSA has entered the commensal human population.
Posted by Mike at 11:08 AM • 2 Comments •
August 17, 2008
We need the concepts, methods, and techniques of evolutionary biology to do other stuff in biology.
Posted by Mike at 11:26 AM • 1 Comments •
Draining the groundwater aquifers because of a mistaken belief in what is 'natural.'
Posted by Mike at 10:55 AM • 9 Comments •
August 16, 2008
In case you need to induce vomiting for some reason, here's an image for you. Seriously, I think Bush's image handlers are just mailing it in at this point.
Posted by Mike at 11:41 AM • 12 Comments •
August 15, 2008
From FDR's grandson, here's a video that puts Social Security--and its current politics--in proper context
Posted by Mike at 11:02 AM • 0 Comments •
August 14, 2008
To the extent that the evil scientist myth is actually reinforced by the anthrax incident, it is that we have met the enemy and it is not the other, but us.
Posted by Mike at 11:05 AM • 4 Comments •
August 13, 2008
The Beijing Olympics has led to an increase in truthiness. Truth, not so much.
Posted by Mike at 5:06 PM • 9 Comments •
This displeases us greatly.
Posted by Mike at 11:09 AM • 6 Comments •
August 12, 2008
Even though the presidential race is stagnant in that the numbers aren't shifting much, that's not the same as the race being in a dead heat. This would be obvious, if your typical political reporter wasn't a mathematically illiterate moron.
Posted by Mike at 11:06 AM • 8 Comments •
August 11, 2008
Political puritanism means that the only way to be scandal-proof is to have spent your entire life planning a run for office. This selects a very bizarre group of people.
Posted by Mike at 4:41 PM • 6 Comments •
Finally, the scientific issues surrounding the anthrax investigation are entering the mainstream (kinda, sorta, at least).
Posted by Mike at 9:36 AM • 5 Comments •
August 10, 2008
Apparently, freedom isn't free: it costs $300.
Posted by Mike at 11:18 AM • 10 Comments •
August 9, 2008
Any time there's a send up of news anchors, disaster coverage, and George Bush, it's worth watching.
Posted by Mike at 11:15 AM • 4 Comments •
August 8, 2008
Category: Viruses
Welcome to the world of virophage--viruses that parasitize other viruses.
Posted by Mike at 10:58 AM • 4 Comments •
August 7, 2008
The inversion is not enough evidence to conclude that two anthrax strains were used.
Posted by Mike at 11:03 AM • 6 Comments •
August 6, 2008
Category: Anthrax
Does anyone know more about the DNA anthrax inversion? And why is this evidence of a mixed culture?
Posted by Mike at 12:57 PM • 5 Comments •
Category: Healthcare
Dislike of HMOs is a rational response.
Posted by Mike at 11:02 AM • 3 Comments •
August 5, 2008
Category: Bloggity Blog
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Posted by Mike at 5:13 PM • 0 Comments •
Anthrax--this exemplifies how the Bush Administration drives the country insane: we don't even have a good grasp on what qualifies as the surreal anymore.
Posted by Mike at 11:12 AM • 14 Comments •
August 4, 2008
Fear of a successful black man.
Posted by Mike at 4:58 PM • 2 Comments •
I've always thought that one of the hallmarks of being smart is the ability to explain complex things to other people. Unfortunately, our political press corps is quite stupid.
Posted by Mike at 3:31 PM • 1 Comments •
August 3, 2008
Lieberman and McCain claimed there were "indications" Iraq was behind the anthrax attacks. So why was the FBI focusing on U.S. scientists? Either this was an outright lie or a case of hysterical delusion.
Posted by Mike at 11:22 AM • 5 Comments •
August 2, 2008
WWI: a time when everyone viewed corn as a good thing.
Posted by Mike at 10:46 AM • 8 Comments •
August 1, 2008
More fallout from Bushist apparatchik Monica Goodling.
Posted by Mike at 10:56 AM • 6 Comments •
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