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Josh at work Joshua Rosenau spends his days defending the teaching of evolution at the National Center for Science Education. He is formerly a doctoral candidate at the University of Kansas, in the department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. When not battling creationists or modeling species ranges, he writes about developments in progressive politics and the sciences.

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    Nietzschean conservativism: A brief dialog with John Ashcroft

    Category: Policy and Politics
    Posted on: November 28, 2007 11:16 PM, by Josh Rosenau

    Q: Mr. former Attorney General, would you be willing to be waterboarded:

    A: "The things that I can survive, if it were necessary to do them to me, I would do"
    Q: Indeed. Can you think of a less awkward way to phrase that?

    A: Hmm.

    Q: Friedrich Nietzsche famously claimed "That which does not kill us makes us stronger. "

    A: Ah.

    Q: Then again, he went insane.

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