Monthly Archives: December 2007

The Surveillance State: Everything Changed After 1/20/2007…

Posted on December 16, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

not 9/11. The Bush Administration spied on American citizens without court orders before Sept. 11, 2001. And it didn’t stop the attacks.
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Posted in Civil Liberties, Little Lord Pontchartrain, Terrorism, The Soviet | 1 Comment

Sunday Sermon: Johnathan Schell on Nuclear Disarmament

Posted on December 16, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

“If, in the sixty years of the nuclear age, no great nuclear power has won a war by making nuclear threats against even tiny, weak adversaries, then how could a nuclear monopoly by a small country enable it to coerce and bully the whole world?”
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Posted in Terrorism, Things That Make Ya Go Boom | 2 Comments

Rising Income Inequality and the Bush Administration: It’s a Bug, Not a Feature

Posted on December 15, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

At least, that’s what the latest CBO data suggest. And good luck paying for your kids college education.
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Posted in Conservatives, Economics, Taxes | 1 Comment

Mr. Helmut Goes to Washington and Tells Them About Torture

Posted on December 14, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

Torture as a strategy can never be an isolated or extremely rare case. For it to be effective, it must be used routinely.
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Posted in Torture | 3 Comments

Conservative Exiles: Welcome to Liberalville

Posted on December 13, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

Hatred is one tiger that can never be successfully ridden.
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Prominent Conservative Bloggers Defend Halliburton Rapists But…

Posted on December 12, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

never fear, Jon Swift is on the case.
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Posted in Conservatives, Rape | 1 Comment

Is the Microbiome Being Driven by the Right Biologists?

Posted on December 12, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

Decoding the human microbiome will be easy…except for…oh crap.
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Posted in A Fungus Among Us, Bioinformatics, Genomics, Microbiology, Statistics, Viruses | 5 Comments

I Wield the Plunger of God!

Posted on December 11, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

And I blame the demise of my rocket-propelled toilet for this.
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Posted in Boston, Humor | 11 Comments

What Will Human Microbiome Metagenomics Tell Us (Redux)?

Posted on December 10, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

What do we learn from metagenomics of the human microbiome?
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Posted in Genomics | 3 Comments

Teaching, Testing, and Training

Posted on December 9, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

As long as we consider teaching to be a secular equivalent of the priesthood, and not a job with the pay and workplace environment (some) other professionals have, we’re going to have a teacher shortage.
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Posted in Education | 3 Comments