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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.
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December 31, 2008
A nation of laws
Category: Policy and Politics
Martin Cothran, the perpetually benighted Disco. Inst. blogger, considers the tussle over Blagojevich's Senate appointment and sees it as a fight, The Democrats vs. the states: Whether Burris serves as Senator from Illinois is a matter for the people of Illinois to decide, not the U. S. Senate. Reid and the rest of the Senate need to keep their greedy hands off of Illinois's Senate seat.Sadly, no. A quick check of the owner's manual reveals: Section 5. Each House shall be the judge of the elections, returns and qualifications of its own members,No state involvement. Now, there happen to be...
Posted by Josh Rosenau at 5:24 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Gonzo's Journal-ism
Category: Policy and Politics
TPMMuckraker highlights this quote from former AG Alberto Gonzales' interview with the WSJ: [F]or some reason, I am portrayed as the one who is evil in formulating policies that people disagree with. I consider myself a casualty, one of the many casualties of the war on terror.We could, of course, spend all day pondering the fact that the guy who was theoretically responsible for prosecuting actual terrorists would compare himself to a victim of terrorism. He resigned his job in disgrace. A 100+ story building didn't fall on top of him. He wasn't hospitalized to treat anthrax from a random...
Posted by Josh Rosenau at 11:53 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 30, 2008
Disco. Inst. Financial Planning
Category: Policy and Politics
Discovery Institute boss Bruce Chapman has some ideas about your financial future. In September, while declaring that President Bush's stock was on the rise, Disco. frontman Chapman insisted the growing financial crisis was awesome: The disappearance of Lehman Brothers and the transformation of Morgan and Goldman Sachs into heavily regulated commercial banks presents an opportunity for entrepreneurial risk taking by someone else. … The turmoil in the markets world-wide disagregates the economy and makes new entitites possible. … Overall, is this not a political problem as much as an economic one? Is not the risk of posturing members of Congress...
Posted by Josh Rosenau at 7:04 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Major teen suicide cause found; Discovery Institute nowhere to be found
Category: Brain and Behavior
Several of the blogs have pointed to the Disco. Inst.'s shameful abuse of the suicide of Jesse Kilgore in an end-of-year fundraising pitch. Kilgore, a college student who had recently returned from military service in Iraq, had been challenging aspects of his upbringing, and his father (a fundamentalist pastor) concluded that reading Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion inspired Jesse to kill himself. The Disco. Inst. decided that the best thing to do was to glom onto that father's grief in order to drum up end-of-year donation. Given that the suicide rate for Iraq veterans keeps rising, I'd look past Jesse's...
Posted by Josh Rosenau at 5:02 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 29, 2008
Abstinence pledges still don't work, still encourage unprotected anal sex
Category: Culture Wars
Yet another study confirms what we've known for a long time, abstinence education doesn't work: The new analysis of data from a large federal survey found that more than half of youths became sexually active before marriage regardless of whether they had taken a "virginity pledge," but that the percentage who took precautions against pregnancy or sexually transmitted diseases was 10 points lower for pledgers than for non-pledgers. "Taking a pledge doesn't seem to make any difference at all in any sexual behavior," said Janet E. Rosenbaum of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, whose report appears in...
Posted by Josh Rosenau at 2:21 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 25, 2008
Star Trek women, RIP
Category: Chatter
Eartha Kitt and Majel Barrett both passed away recently. Barrett has had a role in all of the Star Trek movies and series, including the forthcoming prequel. Update: See comments below. I'm a moron....
Posted by Josh Rosenau at 6:49 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Harold Pinter takes a pause
Category: Policy and Politics
Playwright, Nobel Prize-winner, and peace activist Harold Pinter passed away yesterday. Pinter was most famous for the Pinter pause, a stage-directed delay which allowed actors to reorganize themselves, and for the audience to take in the events on stage. It also contributed to the disquieting nature of his pieces. More recently, Pinter took a role as one of the great proponents of peace, both in his literary work and as a public intellectual. In his 2005 Nobel acceptance speech, he explored the importance of speaking truth, and confronting those in power with truth, true sentiment, true evidence, and a true...
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Merry Xmas
Category: Chatter
Don't let Santa's jolly-seeking missiles get you. And, as we warriors in the war on Christmas say, Season's Greetings....
Posted by Josh Rosenau at 1:45 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 24, 2008
A Christmas Gift from Ken Starr
Category: Policy and Politics
You remember Kenneth Starr, right? The prudish pantysniffer who invested millions of your tax dollars to figure out where and when Bill Clinton got sexual favors from an intern and then reported all the prurient details. Anyway, he's been brought in by the anti-gay bigots seeking to enforce Prop. 8, and in particular to help their effort to forcibly divorce the 18,000 couples married during marriage equality's brief but beautiful reign in California. That's right, the former opponent of extramarital intercourse now wants to force all those married gays to return to their out-of-wedlock schtupping. Not all of the gays...
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