"I am glad that the life of pandas is so dull by human standards, for our efforts at conservation have little moral value if we preserve creatures only as human ornaments; I shall be impressed when we show solicitude for warty toads and slithering worms."
-Stephen Jay Gould
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Via Dienekes,
Over at the VC, David Bernstein has a quick analysis of the Raich decision that includes this statement:
I've been thinking a lot about Ms. Melanson, the woman from Alberta who died after receiving the correct dose of infusional fluorouracil chemotherapy in an fatally incorrect short time.
While I like Obama I'm none too fond of some of the people he has around him, especially in the economic area. Larry Summers and his pals (Rubin, Geithner, etc.) helped bring us the current crisis, although it took GWB and the Republican Congress to turn a bad situation into a catastrophe.