Here are your links, you damn kids. First, science:
- The Angry Toxicologist doesn't like antibiotics in the salad.
- The Black Death might be responsible for the relative lack of genetic variation in British populations.
- ERV not only tears creationist Michael Behe a new one, but tells us about some very interesting HIV biology while doing so.
Otha stuff:
- Jill of Feministe asks those who opposed legal and safe abortion a very important question. Here's the follow-up, and Scott Lemieux piles on.
- An oldie but a goldie: A Day in the Life of Joe Middle Class Republican.
- The bridge collapse: "No More Collapses", Michael O'Hare on engineering bridges and societies, "Broken Bridges, Lost Levees and a Brutal Culture of Neglect", and R.J. Eskow: "If terrorists had bombed this bridge, or destroyed the levees and flooded New Orleans, life in America would change forever. But since it's only our own governmental neglect -- and conservative greed -- nobody seems to give a damn."
- Shush! You'll scare the D.C. elites.
- With friends like the Christian Zionists, who needs anti-Semites?
- The Vitter prostitution scandal gets weirder: one of the escorts may have been a congressional staffer on his committee.
- Maha and the Rude Pundit remind us that it's George Bush's world and we're just fortunate to be allowed to live in it.
- Rudy Giuliani: the first dittohead candidate.
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Thanks for the link :) Im rather liking the silent response from the Creationists :)