Monthly Archives: October 2006

PZ Is Right About the ‘Religious’ Idiots

Posted on October 31, 2006 by mikethemadbiologist

While I don’t think arguing for or against reilgious particulars is something any political party should adopt a few days before an election (or should be a political issue at all, for that matter), PZ is absolutely right when he says that Robertson and his ilk should be called out for the foolish bigots that they are.
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Posted in Conservatives, Creationism, Democrats, Evolution, Fucking Morons, Progressives, Racism, Religion, The War on Science, We're Really Fucked | 6 Comments

Sen. George Allen’s Staffers Attack Ex-Marine

Posted on October 31, 2006 by mikethemadbiologist

Apparently, this is how Sen. George Allen (R-VA) conducts voter outreach.
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Posted in Conservatives, Fucking Morons, Voting | 1 Comment

I’m Gonna Party Like It’s 1969

Posted on October 31, 2006 by mikethemadbiologist

Because if I had been born in 1969, I would be 36 years old, and the Bush administration’s new abstinence program which is now targeting people up to 29 years old would ignore me.
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Kenya: Why Antibiotic Resistance Matters

Posted on October 30, 2006 by mikethemadbiologist

Recently, I described how the most frequent killer of children in the developing world wasn’t ‘the Big Three’ (AIDS, malaria, and TB), but boring old pneumonia. Well, the second greatest killer is diarhhea. And several factors are leading to increased treatment failure of diarhhea.
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Some Sunday Links

Posted on October 29, 2006 by mikethemadbiologist

Here’s some Sunday links for you. The sciency stuff:
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One Mundane Reason Why I Like ScienceBlogs

Posted on October 29, 2006 by mikethemadbiologist

It’s not Blogger.
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Are Progressives Just Kinder, Gentler Conservatives?

Posted on October 29, 2006 by mikethemadbiologist

A while ago, I described how I feel estranged from the internet Progressives: Bloggers like Kos constantly remind people that the lefty blogosphere isn’t liberal (sounds kinda like the DLC doesn’t it?). Actually to say that the internet progressives don’t stand for much of anything is unfair. It’s just that what most of what the internet progressives stand for is what any sane, reality-based person should stand for.
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Posted in Conservatives, Democrats, Economics, Progressives | 4 Comments

The Failure of ‘He Said/She Said’ Journalism

Posted on October 29, 2006 by mikethemadbiologist

Billmon has a superb post on the failures of journalism due to Compulsive Centrist Disorder:
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Bushonomics and the Irony of Iraq

Posted on October 29, 2006 by mikethemadbiologist

Recent estimates suggest that the dollar cost of the Iraq War and Occupation will be over two trillion dollars. The horrible irony is that, had Bush not fought this war–or very quickly declared democracy and ‘cut and run’–the amount of … Continue reading →

Posted in Economics, Iraq, Little Lord Pontchartrain, Taxes | 1 Comment

The reDiscovery Institute

Posted on October 28, 2006 by mikethemadbiologist

I stumbled across this great creationist parody site: The reDiscovery Institute. You’ll definitely have a few laughs with this.

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