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Category: Politics
Back in the fall, I got all caught up in the election, like everybody else, and I added a bunch of blogs to my RSS feeds in Google Reader. I'm thinking that I might need to cut back to pre-election...
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Posted by Chad Orzel at 8:52 AM • 12 Comments •
Category: Class Issues
the New York Times Magazine has a cover story this week about Barack Obama's efforts to reach working-class voters. The headline writers did it no favors by tagging it "Will gun-toting, churchgoing white guys pull the lever for Obama?," which...
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Posted by Chad Orzel at 8:38 AM • 4 Comments •
Category: News
As noted at Making Light, the recent disasters in Iowa have depleted the American Red Cross's disaster relief fund, and they're borrowing money in order to keep running: "The disaster relief fund today is completely depleted. The balance is zero,"...
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Posted by Chad Orzel at 8:23 AM • 9 Comments •
Category: News
There's been a lot said and written about Cyclone Nargis recently, and reading the coverage by Chris Mooney and others makes me feel a little like a Bad Person for not saying anything myself. But, really, what is there to...
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Posted by Chad Orzel at 7:40 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: Academia
There has been another shooting on a college campus, with a gunman opening fire on a geology class at Northern Illinois, before killing himself. Early reports suggest that the safety measures put into place after the Virginia Tech tragedy all...
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Posted by Chad Orzel at 7:17 AM • 12 Comments •
Category: News
A big earthquake hit the Caribbean, and I know this because of a science fiction convention.
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Posted by Chad Orzel at 8:48 AM • 4 Comments •
Category: News
The weekend interrupted the parade of Nobel prizes, setting apart The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2007, more commonly called the Nobel in Economics (even though it's a late addition). This goes to three...
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Posted by Chad Orzel at 7:16 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: Silliness
(WASHINGTON, DC) On the heels of reports from Oslo that the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded jointly to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and former US Vice President Al Gore, a White House spokesman issued a statement...
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Posted by Chad Orzel at 8:34 AM • 13 Comments •
Category: News
The Nobel Peace Prize was announced this morning, and will be split between an international panel and everybody's favorite PowerPoint presenter: The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two...
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Posted by Chad Orzel at 6:40 AM • 7 Comments •
Category: News
In the "Social Networks Brighten My Morning" file, I am inordinately amused to be getting status updates from a Nobel laureate on Facebook. Speaking of Nobel laureates, the latest chunk of dynamite money was awarded this morning to novelist Doris...
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Posted by Chad Orzel at 8:45 AM • 5 Comments •