Monthly Archives: May 2007

Oh God, McCain Is the Sane One

Posted on May 16, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

The Republican presidential candidates were asked what they would do in a “24” situation. This very well could be the ‘flag-burning’ of 2008
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Posted in Authoritarianism, Civil Liberties, Conservatives, Terrorism, Things That Make Ya Go Boom, Torture | 5 Comments

Romney Is Alright on the Evolution Issue

Posted on May 16, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

Let’s leave aside decency and morality and try to forget that Romney eliminated funding for a gay teen suicide hotline to curry favor with the theopolitical Right. Let’s not plumb the dark, foul abyss that is Mitt Romney’s soul. Let’s not ask how morally decrepit one would have to be to attempt to gain political office through the suicide of a child. Let’s talk about evolution: Romney’s not half bad.
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Posted in Conservatives, Creationism, Evolution, Religion, Romney, The War on Science | 11 Comments

Sick Jewish Veteran Harassed By Evangelicals

Posted on May 16, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

The last thing most people in the Coalition of the Sane want when they are being treated for a serious illness in the hospital to have the staff try to convert you to another religion. And when you force a sick patient to choose between following the dictates of his religion or not eating, that is not ‘godly’, that is an abomination. It’s also par for the course when dealing with Christopathic Uruk-hai.
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‘Progressives’: Max Is Speaking, and You Should Listen

Posted on May 15, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

As regular readers of this blog know, I’m not particularly fond of the ‘progressive’ netroots, largely because I don’t know what they stand for, and what little I do know doesn’t strike me as particularly compelling. Over at MaxSpeak, there’s an excellent take on the netroots, which includes some points I hadn’t considered.
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Posted in Democrats, Progressives | 3 Comments

PNAS Colloquium on Adaptation and Biological Design

Posted on May 15, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has posted of all of the articles from In the light of evolution I: Adaptation and complex design .
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Why Harvard’s Skocpol Is Full of It

Posted on May 15, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

And by “it”, I don’t mean the good stuff. Harvard dean Theda Skocpol has announced a new initiative to improve undergraduate teaching at Harvard. I’ll believe it when I see it–which means it will never happen.
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Posted in Education, Funding | 16 Comments

Some Outtakes From a Flock of Dodos

Posted on May 14, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

By way of Oliver Willis, I stumbled across these outtakes from the movie Flock of Dodos. I will never stop being amazed by the disingenuousness of the ID movement.
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Ode to the Phrase “F-cking Moron”

Posted on May 14, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

Well, that isn’t what Ezra Klein titled his post about blogospheric venom, but he should have.
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Posted in Bloggity Blog, Fucking Morons, News Media, Ninnies | 1 Comment

Some Sunday Links

Posted on May 13, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

A special edition of Sunday links. Last week, I asked non-science bloggers to post five links that had something to do with science. So, I’ll start by returning the linky love
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Posted in Bloggity Blog, Lotsa Links | 1 Comment

You Keep Using That Word. I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means

Posted on May 13, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

The mainstream media has a double standard for Democratic candidates. INCONCEIVABLE!
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Posted in Democrats, Fucking Morons, News Media, Propaganda | 5 Comments