Archives for February, 2009
Secretary Sebelius
Posted by Josh Rosenau on February 28, 2009 Following weeks of speculation, President Obama nominated Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius to be his Secretary of Health and Human Services. She will be responsible for shepherding the president’s promise of universal health care through Congress, and for carrying out his promises to reform health care in America. In last week’s address to Congress, Obama stated:…
Jindal fails, KS GOP is there to catch him
Posted by Josh Rosenau on February 26, 2009 Outgoing KS GOP boss Christian Morgan reacts to the response to President Obama’s address to Congress: Governor Jindal from Louisiana is fantastic. But other conservatives aren’t so sure: David Brooks: “In a moment when only the federal government is actually big enough to do stuff, to just ignore all that and just say ?government is…
Volcano monitoring
Posted by Josh Rosenau on February 26, 2009 I’m still confused. Did Bobby Jindal really dis volcano monitoring, of the sort that saved lives when Mt. St. Helens erupted? He really doesn’t care for science, does he?
Gay adoption
Posted by Josh Rosenau on February 26, 2009 Last year, we spent a lot of time mocking the self-righteous bigotry of Martin Cothran. Cothran, who works for the Kentucky affiliate of Focus on the Family and blogs for the Disco. Inst., objects to gays having an equal right to marriage, and thinks it’s hateful to call him a bigot for his anti-gay bigotry.…
Deep Thought
Posted by Josh Rosenau on February 24, 2009 Will Bobby Jindal suggest faith healing or exorcism as solutions to our nation’s challenges?
Dobzhansky, Evolution and Me at AAAS
Posted by Josh Rosenau on February 23, 2009 At the AAAS meetings in Chicago two weeks ago, I was privileged to be on a panel with such luminaries as Olivia Judson, David Deamer, Neil Shubin, and this year’s winner of the AAAS Award for the Public Understanding of Science, Ken Miller. It was a great occasion, and afterward I got to shake hands…
Denialism is denialism
Posted by Josh Rosenau on February 23, 2009 DaveScot, at ID creationist Bill Dembski’s place, is on a climate change denial binge. Dave writes: that antarctic sea ice is at a record high (at least since 1980 when measurement started). The new high is REALLY high. It?s 50% greater than the old record set in 1995. In case anyone is laboring under the…
Shorter Bruce Chapman
Posted by Josh Rosenau on February 20, 2009 Disco. Inst. honcho Bruce Chapman is upset at The Weakness at the Center of the Conservative Coalition. Shorter Bruce Chapman: No one wants to have anything to do with social conservatives. Waaaaah! We’ll take our ball and go home. Yesterday, Chapman was going ape about ? well, it’s hard to be sure. Shorter Bruce Chapman:…
True enough
Posted by Josh Rosenau on February 19, 2009 More here, via Glenn Branch.
Blogger Agonistes
Posted by Josh Rosenau on February 10, 2009 Blogging is slow this week. I’ve got a talk at AAAS in Chicago to prepare, an abstract for a conference in Montreal to prepare, and a dissertation to complete. So let it be known that creationism still sucks, that I’m glad a bill forcing evolution disclaimers into Mississippi textbooks failed, that creationist bills in Iowa…
Joshua Rosenau spends his days defending the teaching of evolution at the