Here’s some Sunday links for you. The sciency stuff:
- If I were a fish, I wouldn’t want to live in an echinoderm’s anus, but I suppose the Intelligent Designer works in mysterious ways.
- Can viruses make you forget stuff?
- Empty Pockets whips the vote count on stem cell research.
- The politics of stem cell research, California edition.
- Razib discusses the probability that a mutation will become extinct in one generation.
- A great primer on polling and statistics.
- Do diesels beat hybrids?
- I write about memes.
- Here’s a post of mine about MRSA and ‘search and destroy‘
- I also have some public health information about strep throat and antibiotics.
- driftglass on the Great Cleanup.
- digby on the politics of character assassination.
- Ezra Klein describes why workers can’t raise their wages: because they can’t.
- On a related note, here’s a post on Clintonian economics, six years post-Clinton.
- Field Negro describes the difference between Northern and Southern racism.
- “Pray the vote.” I see crazy people…
- digby on the failure of conservatism, not conservatives.
- Remind me never to piss off James Wolcott. Ever.
- Peggy Noonan jumps ship with the rest of the rats.
- Glenn Greenwald and Billmon both diagnose the Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz as suffering from Compulsive Centrist Disorder.
- maha differentiates betweens ideas and ideology, and discusses how this relates to the Democrats.
- Kevin Drum asks some questions about income inequality.
- A very thought-provoking essay about abortion from The Guardian.
- Related to a post I wrote about progressives, liberals, and conservatives, I found this post by IOZ about the conservative nature of the Democratic internet insurgents.
- Chris Bowers describes how Republicans have given up on trying to win in large parts of the country.
The other stuff:
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