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Joshua Rosenau spends his days defending the teaching of evolution at the National Center for Science Education. He is also a graduate student at the University of Kansas, completing a doctorate in the department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. When not modeling species distributions or battling creationists, he writes about developments in progressive politics and the sciences.
The opinions expressed here are his own, do not reflect the official position of the NCSE. Indeed, older posts may no longer reflect his own official position.
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July 31, 2008
Category: Policy and Politics
Joan Walsh wonders: "Are Kaine and Bayh the best Obama can do?" No. Conventional wisdom has narrowed the Democratic veepstakes to those two and Kathleen Sebelius. Kaine gets a lot of the DC attention, since he's right there in Virginia, but there's no reason Walsh should blow off Sebelius. Bayh would be a stupid choice. Obama's strength against McCain is that he was right about Iraq, so his VP shouldn't be one of the war's congressional cheerleaders. The speculation (from Walsh if no one else) that Bayh would be some sort of sop to disappointed Clinton fans doesn't hold up,...
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Posted by Josh Rosenau at 9:30 PM • 6 Comments •
Category: Policy and Politics
Senator McCain is attacking Barack Obama with an ad claiming Obama is the world's biggest political celebrity, on a par with Paris Hilton and Britney Spears. Others have noted that McCain is a bit of a celebrity himself, and, more importantly, the two blond starlets are not exactly at the top of today's celebrity charts. Indeed, as Jonathan Chait points out, neither is in the Forbes list of the top 100 celebrities. Nor are either in the current celebrity hot-list at People magazine. The only reason anyone can offer for putting them in the ad is to race-bait. It's just...
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Posted by Josh Rosenau at 6:09 PM • 3 Comments •
July 29, 2008
Category: Chatter
I have never understood Maureen Dowd, neither why people read her, why she has a regular spot on the Times op-ed page, nor why she writes what she does. At last, The Editors explain it. And the explanation involves furries....
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Posted by Josh Rosenau at 8:37 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Chatter
Two stories came up next to each other in my RSS reader. First, Jessica's makeover, in which a caller discusses Jesse Helms and his crossdressing ways. Second, Jessica King joins the Luxurious Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. Coincidence?...
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Posted by Josh Rosenau at 4:55 PM • 0 Comments •
July 28, 2008
Category: Policy and Politics
The pundit, famous for a profanity-laden exit from a CNN set in 2005, and for outing undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame in 2003, checked into a Boston hospital only days after running over a pedestrian in D.C. and insisting I didn’t know I hit anybody. In a statement, Novak explained: I will be suspending my journalistic work for an indefinite but, God willing, not too lengthy period.We can only assume this announcement about his "journalistic work" is meant to be retroactive....
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Posted by Josh Rosenau at 1:37 PM • 5 Comments •
July 27, 2008
Category: Chatter
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July 26, 2008
Category: Chatter
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Posted by Josh Rosenau at 2:12 AM • 8 Comments •
July 25, 2008
Category: Chatter
There are 951 unread items in my RSS reader's Science section. There are a whopping 10992 unread articles over all. They will not all get read....
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Posted by Josh Rosenau at 5:19 PM • 4 Comments •
July 24, 2008
Category: Planet Earth
The Washington Post checks McCain's rhetoric about and the safety of offshore drilling: Sen. John McCain says at every campaign stop that offshore oil drilling is safe, playing down the risk of environmental accidents, even when faced with the power of a hurricane. "I'm aware that off the coast of Louisiana and Texas there are oil rigs, as we well know, and those rigs have survived, very successfully, the impacts of hurricanes, Hurricane Katrina, as far as Louisiana's concerned," McCain said at a town hall in Michigan last week. In an energy speech recently, McCain said that: "As for offshore...
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Posted by Josh Rosenau at 6:14 PM • 4 Comments •
July 23, 2008
Category: Policy and Politics
After Phill Kline (the extra "L" is for "Loser") lost his re-election bid as Kansas Attorney General, the Johnson County Republican Party installed him as district attorney. The move outraged voters, and Kline promised not to run for a full term. Turns out, Kline was just kidding. He is running for re-election, despite the drubbing he took statewide, and especially in Johnson County, just two years ago. Rick Guinn is a veteran of that department, having served the JoCo DA's office for 26 years, before joining the state AG's office as the head of the criminal division a year ago....
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