Monthly Archives: March 2007

Delurking Blogroll Day (I Am the Anti-Kos)

Posted on March 4, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

This is what happens when you leave posts in the Blogerator: someone beats you to it (hat tip: skippy). Unlike certain famous* bloggers, whose initials are Kos, I don’t like to purge live blogs.
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Posted in Bloggity Blog | 20 Comments

Democrats: Still the Most Hapless Political Organization in Recorded History

Posted on March 3, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

Seeing the Forest wonders how the ridiculous post-Oscar smear of Al Gore was pulled off by a no-name organization with assets of $100,000:
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Posted in Democrats, Fucking Morons, News Media, Propaganda | 6 Comments

A ‘Kiss-and-Tell’ Medical Blog

Posted on March 2, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

There’s a very interesting Boston Globe story about Paul Levy, the CEO of Boston’s Beth-Israel Deaconess Hospital. He’s not only a CEO, but also a blogger. His blog, Running a Hospital, is, well, self-explanatory–I guess you can blog about work…if you’re the boss. Levy appears to have started a minor kerfuffle because he has been posting his hospital’s catheter-associated ICU infection rates.
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Who’s Right About Iraq: Frank Rich or Christopher Tyreman?

Posted on March 1, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

I just finished reading NY Times columnist Frank Rich’s The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina. While it’s a good recap of the last six years, there isn’t much that’s new in the book (if you’ve been paying attention), until you hit the last chapter where Rich lays out why he thinks the Bush administration pursued the Iraq War and Occupation.
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A Commensal ‘Epidemic’ in E. coli?

Posted on March 1, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

It sure looks that way. Last night, I was talking to a colleague and he told me that several groups, including his, are seeing a very interesting pattern in commensal Escherichia coli (those E. coli that live in everyone’s gut and aren’t making us sick).
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Posted in E. coli, Ecology, Evolution, Microbiology, MRSA | 24 Comments