Monthly Archives: August 2007

When Privatization Fails: College Loans

Posted on August 3, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

Last week, Joe Nocera had an excellent piece in the NY Times about how college loans became so exorbitant. He asks, “Why did student loans become more about shareholders than about students?”
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Posted in Basic Human Decency, Bidness, Economics, Education | 6 Comments

Nothing in Politics Makes Sense Except in the Light of the Evolution Controversy

Posted on August 2, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

Dobzhansky actually said, “Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution”, but, as I’ve mentioned before, there’s a lot to be learned from the sociopolitcal controversy surrounding evolutionary biology.
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Posted in Antibiotics, Civil Liberties, Progressives, Public Health | 3 Comments

More Samuelson Stupidity About Social Security

Posted on August 2, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

Once again, Robert Samuelson tries to argue that Social Security is DOOOMMMEEDDD! one Samuelson Unit from now. Samuelson falls back on his old standby–lumping Social Security and Medicare together.
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Posted in Economics, Fucking Morons, Social Security | 3 Comments

The Lancet Supports Legal, Safe, and Rare Abortion

Posted on August 2, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

The July 28 edition of the Lancet has a superb editorial about the need for legal and safe abortion in the developing world, particularly in Latin America.
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Posted in Civil Liberties, Healthcare, Public Health | 1 Comment

Libertarianism Is Silly

Posted on August 1, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

By way of Amanda, I found this great FAQ about libertarianism.
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Posted in Conservatives, Fucking Morons | 21 Comments

A Good Critique of the Unified Theory of the Surge

Posted on August 1, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

Robert Farley takes on two of the major proponents of the Unified Theory of the Surge, Michael O’Hanlon and Kenneth Pollack.
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Posted in Experts, Fucking Morons, Iraq | 4 Comments

Giuliani’s Mistress of Woo and Psychobabble

Posted on August 1, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

The blogosphere is in a wee bit of a tizzy over a Vanity Fair article that hints Giuliani might be having an(other) affair, this time with advisor and motivational speaker, Starr Shephard. Personally, as long as he’s not doing it in public, I don’t care who Giuliani is or is not screwing, although the whole subject does generate some unappealing mental images. But the motivational guru part is disturbing.
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Posted in A Message to You, Rudy, Conservatives, Framing, Fucking Morons, The War on Science | 2 Comments