Monthly Archives: March 2007

While I’m Away in D.C…

Posted on March 31, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

I plan on visiting the Smithsonian. Sadly, it hasn’t been run very well the last seven years. Maybe the resignation of Lawrence Small will turn things around. Who is Small?
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Posted in Conservatives, Fucking Morons, Museums etc. | 2 Comments

Creationist Sez: Peanut Butter Disproves Evolution…

Posted on March 30, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

…or something like that. By way of skippy, comes this, erm, fascinating creationist exposition on the inertness of peanut butter.
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Posted in Creationism, Fucking Morons, Religion, The War on Science, We're Really Fucked | 271 Comments

Newspapers: Alienating Your Readers Is a Bad Business Model

Posted on March 30, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

Atrios makes an interesting observation about the decline in newspaper sales and political trend at major metropolitan dailies.
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A Question About DLC Democrats

Posted on March 29, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

How can the DLC-wing of Democratic Party, including Rahm Emanuel, continue to claim to know what’s best for the Democratic Party after they’ve been so badly schooled? By other Democrats.
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Posted in Democrats, Fucking Morons, Fucking Royals | 2 Comments

And Who Elected These Guys Anyway?

Posted on March 29, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

One of the interesting things about blogging is that it has undermined the importance of the punditocracy. In the pre-interenet, and certainly pre-blog era, you had a very different relationship to politics, even if you were aware and relatively active: you were a consumer.
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Prayer Is the Answer?

Posted on March 29, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

That’s according to Republican congressman Randy Forbes, member of the Congressional Prayer Caucus. Personally, I think exercising Congress’ oversight role and passing some legislation worth a damn might help a bit more, but then again, my prayers wouldn’t count for much anyway according to the Caucus.
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Posted in Civil Liberties, Conservatives, Fucking Morons, Religion | 18 Comments

Creationists, “Biological Information”, and Cyber-Vitalism

Posted on March 29, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

In response to us foul-mouthed evolutionists, Casey Luskin asks, “Yet for all their numbers and name-calling, not a single one has answered Egnor’s question: How does [sic] Darwinian mechanisms produce new biological information?” I’ve never liked the whole “biological information” concept.
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Posted in Bioinformatics, Creationism, Evolution, Fucking Morons, Microbiology, The War on Science | 9 Comments

Willful Ignorance: the Global Warming Edition

Posted on March 28, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

Blogger Mike Stark recently debated Myron Ebell about global warming. Apparently, Mike Stark did more than just hold his own, which is pretty impressive considering the debate was hosted by the ultraconservative Federalist Society. Stark had this interesting point about credibility, which is similar to a point I made about creationist credibility.
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Posted in Conservatives, Creationism, Global Warming, Propaganda | 4 Comments

The Closer the End Gets, the Louder the Screeching Is

Posted on March 28, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

Hunter has a superb piece on the declining (or perhaps negligible) authority of the punditocracy. To paraphrase Hunter, we’re all cheesegraters here.
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Posted in Fucking Morons, News Media | 3 Comments

This I Do Not Understand

Posted on March 28, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

By way of Seeing the Forest, I came across this Zogby poll from Sept. 2006 about the Iraq War. The stoopid is really painful.
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Posted in Fucking Morons, Iraq | 4 Comments