March 14, 2007
Chris Mooney is on tour, and will be in KC:
Thursday, May 10, Time TBA
Stowers Institute for Medical Research
1000 E. 50th St.
Kansas City, MO 64110
* Public lecture with Matthew Nisbet of Seed's "Framing Science" blog.
Should be an interesting event.
March 13, 2007
The whining about where the new dollar coins will contain the word "God" is too silly for words. Consider the opening sentences of a letter in today's Journal World:
I would like to know whose stupid idea it was to take "In God We Trust" off our new dollar coins.
Yes, it is still on there, but…
March 13, 2007
Climate Progress highlights an article in the Atlantic Monthly arguing that:
The violence in Darfur is usually attributed to ethnic hatred. But global warming may be primarily to blame.
I don't have a subscription, so I'm relying on Climate Progress's account. Apparently, the author argues that…
March 13, 2007
Rasmussen Reports polled Brownback vs. Clinton & Obama:
Brownback … trail[s] … Clinton among likely voters by the narrow margin of just five percentage points. It’s Clinton 46% Brownback 41%.
However, Democratic Senator Barack Obama leads Senator Brownback by the much wider margin of 49% to 34…
March 12, 2007
Talking about Iraq is getting harder and harder. Not in the way that talking about Israel is getting harder; there are no forces maumauing dissenters into lockstep. Indeed, the political leadership is lagging the public's desire to see an end to the occupation of Iraq.
What's hard to talk about…
March 11, 2007
I'll agree with Kevin that citing the Dred Scott decision is an odd way to justify anything, let alone the claim that the 2nd Amendment grants an individual right to bear arms. That's an interpretation that is, at best, debatable, and Dred Scott is not considered the high water mark of American…
March 10, 2007
Conservatives are shocked (shocked!) to learn that Democrats don't care for Fox News.
Democrats actually were shocked that the Nevada Party thought it was a good idea to broadcast on the extraordinarily conservative Fox, but were not at all surprised that Fox wouldn't let Air America carry the…
March 9, 2007
The body will not be empowered to create legislation, but will investigate climate change and energy independence with an eye towards creating a record which will support future policymaking. 44 Republicans supported this committee. Perhaps the 150 opponents hope that we can address the problem…
March 7, 2007
The BB Gang find this contradictory:
In the Washington Post today, Nancy Boyda reported that commanders in Iraq were "cautiously optimistic" about new efforts to secure Baghdad.
That's not the same picture she painted in today's Cap Journal, where "she had little positive to report."
If the only…
March 7, 2007
Denyse "Buy My Book" O'Leary explain How the Darwinists help the ID guys, citing the example of Paul Mirecki (as described by Johnny Wells):
Anti-Christian zealots are often in the forefront of attacks on intelligent design. In 2005, the chairman of the University of Kansas Religious Studies…
March 7, 2007
The stories about conditions at Walter Reed hospital are appalling, as are stories about problems at VA hospitals and other care for veterans and returning soldiers. It is unacceptable that anyone at all should suffer so greatly under such horrific conditions.
And I do mean anyone. I imagine a…
March 6, 2007
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March 6, 2007
Misogynistic authoritarian Vox Day requests a definition of science. His commenter suggests:
Science - sci·ence (sī'əns) n. - The organized attempt to disprove the existence of God so we can do whatever we want without feeling bad about it.
Anyone involved in the arguments over creationism will…
March 6, 2007
"Scooter" Libby is guilty of obstruction of justice, perjury, and making false statements to federal officers. He did so to protect his boss, Dick "Go F--- Yourself" Cheney from an investigation into who ordered a covert agent's identity to be exposed. His lies prevented the investigation from…
March 5, 2007
Tony Ortega, formerly of our own Pitch Weekly, will be the editor in chief of the Village Voice:
Ortega, 43, who started his career with New Times (now Village Voice) Media in 1995 at the Phoenix New Times, will take the reins on Cooper Square later this week, according to Village Voice Media…
March 5, 2007
The Times reviews a biological Hot Spot in Tanzania:
So far, researchers have identified 96 endemic species of vertebrates in the Eastern Arc Mountains, including sunbirds, chameleons and the wide-eyed primates called bushbabies.
Many insects are also endemic to the Eastern Arc, including 43…
March 5, 2007
Can't even mock Bill Clinton correctly.
March 4, 2007
Bill Clinton tells Kansas Democrats:
"You're in a party that's in the solutions business. … Can you prove that what unites us is more important than what we disagree about? Can you prove that America can be about doing again? And that the Democratic party can lead the way? That's what everybody'…
March 4, 2007
Bill Clinton is rightly known as a tremendous orator. He speaks to a crowd of hundreds as if he were just chatting over a cup of coffee, and exudes a charisma of a sort that few others have. Last year's speaker, Barack Obama, has a different sort of charisma
He began by saying that in the many…
March 4, 2007
IDolator Denyse O'Leary quotes Frank Pastore. Can you figure out who the target is, and why it wouldn't be equally applicable to the ID movement?:
He wanted some of that Da Vinci Code action so badly that he jumped on a 27 year old story line .... He ignored so many early warning signs, too. When…
March 3, 2007
Bill Clinton is a great orator, and unquestionably one of the great minds of our age. A full report will be up tomorrow.
Well-placed sources had not even heard the rumors about Steve Boyda running for Senate, and sources that had heard the rumors were generally dismissive of them. People are…
March 3, 2007
The Pitch Weekly reports a clearly unconstitutional judicial order. Having obtained a document which apparently showed how the Kansas City Kansas Board of Public Utilities may have violated clean air laws, the Pitch and the Kansas City Star each ran stories about the potential fines that the Board…
March 2, 2007
Just when you thought you were done with science blogging anthologies for another year, they start taking submissions for next year's.
March 1, 2007
Tomorrow will be the big gathering of the Kansas Democratic tribe. Any of you who'll be there should keep an eye out for the guy who looks like this and isn't running for President:
Consider this an open thread: here's your chance to suggest questions I should ask people.
March 1, 2007
Shamelessly stolen from Nitpicker. For those who don't know, Terry was a soldier in Afghanistan, where he organized a drive for people to send pens to Afghan kids. He wrote this in response to Barack Obama's apology for saying lives have been wasted in Iraq, but it's apt after John McCain sort of…
March 1, 2007
GMail was broken today, so if you sent me any emails today, you may want to resend them.
March 1, 2007
A lake in Winfield is the second in Kansas with zebra mussels. The zebra mussel was introduced into the Great Lakes by bilge water from a European vessel. Since then, they have spread on birds and boats from lake to lake.
Upon arrival, they spread and outcompete local mollusks, filtering out food…
March 1, 2007
There are any number of things wrong with Steve's complaints about an art show at the College of William and Mary. We could complain, for instance, that his criticism of the show on the basis of who the performers are (people who have been sex workers at some point) rather than on the basis of…
March 1, 2007
Increased Demand for Ivory Threatens Elephant Survival - washingtonpost.com:
An international effort to halt the illegal killing of elephants for their ivory tusks has all but collapsed in most of Africa, leaving officials and advocates alarmed about the survival of the species. A study released…
March 1, 2007
The White House is threatening to veto a bill to fully implement the 9/11 commission's recommendations. What horror could be in that bill which would earn the second veto in 6 years?:
the White House [is] threatening a veto because one part would extend union protection to 45,000 airport workers.…
