Monthly Archives: August 2008

On “Cancer Ridden”

Posted on August 24, 2008 by mikethemadbiologist

…and that wasn’t the point of the post anyway. Orac is right to call out Stoller for referring to McCain as cancer-ridden.
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Posted in 'Snuggles' McCain, Military | 4 Comments

For the Next Debate Thingee, Can the Moderator Be a Member of the Coalition of the Sane

Posted on August 24, 2008 by mikethemadbiologist

Rick Warren believes that dinosaurs and humans lived at the same time. Don’t let all of that radiometric dating hooey fool you!
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Posted in Creationism, Evolution, The War on Science | 9 Comments

With “Innovation” Like This, No Wonder Political Reporting Is So Stupid

Posted on August 23, 2008 by mikethemadbiologist

In the land of the complete f-cking moron, Adam Nagourney is king.
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Posted in Fucking Morons, News Media | 2 Comments

Chris Bowers Writes What I’ve Been Thinking…

Posted on August 22, 2008 by mikethemadbiologist

Obama’s campaign is a mass movement, not a grassroots one, in that the communication–and decision-making–are unidirectional.
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Posted in Democrats | 10 Comments

At Long Last, Has the McCain Campaign No Decency?

Posted on August 21, 2008 by mikethemadbiologist

The stupidest and most absurd answer possible to ‘Housing-gate.’ Maybe the POW answer to everything routine has finally jumped the shark?
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Posted in 'Snuggles' McCain, Fucking Morons, Housing, WhatEVAH! | 13 Comments

FBI to Published Anthrax Evidence

Posted on August 21, 2008 by mikethemadbiologist

Releasing the scientific evidence would be a very good thing. Hopefully, it will happen very quickly–and be in an open access journal.
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Posted in Anthrax, Genomics, Terrorism | 5 Comments

Former Vietnam POW on the Irrelevancy of Being a POW to Being President

Posted on August 20, 2008 by mikethemadbiologist

“POW experience is not, in my opinion, something I would look for in a presidential candidate.”
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Posted in 'Snuggles' McCain | 12 Comments

McCain: He Was for the Bear DNA Study Before He Was Against It

Posted on August 19, 2008 by mikethemadbiologist

McCain’s flip-flop on the bear DNA study is part of a larger pattern when it comes to government spending: all talk, no walk.
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Posted in 'Snuggles' McCain, Funding, The War on Science | 5 Comments

Skippy Takes the Long View on Racism and Obama

Posted on August 19, 2008 by mikethemadbiologist

“Don’t worry about bigotry, because, while we’ll always have bigotry, we are making inroads.”
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Posted in Racism | 3 Comments

Jonathan Eisen Is Absolutely Right About Science Articles…

Posted on August 19, 2008 by mikethemadbiologist

…and it’s symptomatic of a larger problem too. When scientific communication is impaired by the needs of for-profit publishers, something needs to change…and it shouldn’t be the science.
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Posted in Publishing | 12 Comments