Category Archives: Bullshit As a Load Bearing Structure

The Boston Globe’s Failure to Adequately Edit Ashish Jha’s COVID Op-Ed

Posted on August 3, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

Recently, former White House COVID czar had an op-ed in the Boston Globe, which is par for the course for Jha (and most other public officials): lots of imprecise talk about how things will be mostly fine for most people. … Continue reading →

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Davos: On COVID, Watch What We Do, Not What We Say

Posted on January 20, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

This week, the Davos World Economic Forum, which is a gathering of powerful and famous assholes along with a few decent people who are trying to convince said assholes to occasionally do the right thing, convened. What was noticeable were … Continue reading →

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National Unity, Coercion, and Vaccination

Posted on August 9, 2021 by mikethemadbiologist

I wrote this a few weeks ago, but never got around to posting it. Oh well.. Every so often, one commentator or another caterwauls pleas for national unity, and argues that, today, ‘we’ aren’t able to pull together, unlike the … Continue reading →

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Some Impeachment Thoughts and Concerns

Posted on November 14, 2019 by mikethemadbiologist

In no particular order: Republicans are just going to keep firing off bullshit until something sticks with our moronic press corps. For example, Rep. Jim “Gym” Jordan is now arguing that the delay of weapons for 65 days was a … Continue reading →

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Paul Ryan Embraces the Congressional Retirement Plan™

Posted on August 25, 2019 by mikethemadbiologist

Many moons ago, I described the Congressional Retirement Plan™: I think he’s [Paul Krugman] right in that it’s not about the campaign contributions. If their reluctance to support a public option were based solely on the electoral calculus of campaign … Continue reading →

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Pre-Nihilist Policy Making: Differences Matter

Posted on February 24, 2019 by mikethemadbiologist

It’s hard to remember in the era of Republican Senator Mitch McConnell, but the official Republican position on any policy question was’t nihilism. While it’s currently acceptable for one party not to pose any solutions at all (for just about … Continue reading →

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Conservatives Will Always Find Something To Get Upset About. Ignore Them.

Posted on July 5, 2018 by mikethemadbiologist

One of the hilarious things about the 2009 healthcare debate thingee was that, once conservatives started calling Romneycare ‘socialist’, we were still supposed to take them seriously (though maybe showing up armed to town hall meetings had something to do … Continue reading →

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Incivilitudiciousness, Paul Ryan Style

Posted on June 27, 2018 by mikethemadbiologist

So this was a thing that happened in 2012 (boldface mine): The Republican ticket has embraced a new small-business hero. On Wednesday, the owner of a bakery who last week turned away Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. introduced Representative … Continue reading →

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This Is What Passes For A ‘Moderate’ Trumpist: The Pizzagate Edtion

Posted on December 15, 2016 by mikethemadbiologist

While I’ve argued repeatedly, that, at the margins, there are Trump supporters who can be peeled off (either switching or sitting out), many of them seem to be pretty far gone. For those who don’t know what Pizzagate is, here … Continue reading →

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Jill Stein And Anti-Vaxxers

Posted on August 1, 2016 by mikethemadbiologist

Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein has been quite the fly in the ointment the last couple of weeks, though that will probably recede as, unlike during the Democratic convention, there’s now no easy way for her to draw attention … Continue reading →

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