Monthly Archives: January 2009

Bush, OSHA, TB, and the Need for a Universal Healthcare System

Posted on January 6, 2009 by mikethemadbiologist

Socialized insurance is actually more efficient economically and in terms of public health.
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Posted in Healthcare | 3 Comments

Obama and Self-Inflicted Negotiation: More of the Same?

Posted on January 5, 2009 by mikethemadbiologist

Democrats won the election handily. Why are we rolling ourselves?
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Posted in Democrats, Fucking Morons, Taxes | 8 Comments

Another Tax Rebate? Give It to the States Instead

Posted on January 5, 2009 by mikethemadbiologist

What’s needed is a Keynesian firewall.
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Posted in Economics, Taxes | 2 Comments

What the Mad Biologist Is Reading

Posted on January 4, 2009 by mikethemadbiologist

Lotsa good links.
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Regarding Hamas, the Guys Waiting in the Wings Are Worse

Posted on January 4, 2009 by mikethemadbiologist

Meet your local neighborhood Salafists. Anyone who says things can’t get worse is simply suffering from a lack of imagination.
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Posted in Middle East | 10 Comments

Forget Madoff, It’s the Abramoff Scandal That Will Rock the Capitol in 2009

Posted on January 3, 2009 by mikethemadbiologist

It probably won’t affect too many elected Republican officials, but the Republican power structure could be eviscerated.
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Saturday Sermon: Race and Republican Economics

Posted on January 3, 2009 by mikethemadbiologist

Without the implicit connection between economics and “Those People”, it becomes much harder to make the case for conservative economics.
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Posted in Conservatives, Economics, Racism | 4 Comments

The Gaza War and the Decline of Reaganite Judaism

Posted on January 2, 2009 by mikethemadbiologist

Before everyone knew what a neoconserative was, there were Reaganite Jews.
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Posted in Jewish Stuff, Middle East | 4 Comments

Best NY Times Parody EVAH!

Posted on January 1, 2009 by mikethemadbiologist

A loyal reader forwarded to me a link of an imaginary July 4, 2009 edition of The New York Times. My favorite was the fake op-ed (not) by columnist Thomas Friedman:

Posted in Humor, News Media | 1 Comment

Can We Reduce Scientific Output to a Single Number?

Posted on January 1, 2009 by mikethemadbiologist

And do we want to? Maybe it could help formally include non-publishing activities in a scientist’s evaluation?
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Posted in Experts, Publishing | 3 Comments