Category Archives: Things That Make Ya Go Boom

Five Armed Terrorists Have An Eighty Percent Chance Of Breaching TSA Security

Posted on May 22, 2016 by mikethemadbiologist

And I mean all five of them, not just one of them. There have been a spate of articles about how long it takes to get through TSA airport security. But what’s amazing–in a bad way–is how bad it is … Continue reading →

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Technobrats, Beware Campbell’s Law

Posted on July 21, 2014 by mikethemadbiologist

David Leonhardt is all excited about the growing movement to measure the effectiveness of gummint programs! And yet there is some good news in this area, too. The explosion of available data has made evaluating success – in the government … Continue reading →

Posted in Economics, Education, Fucking Morons, Statistics, Things That Make Ya Go Boom | 2 Comments

Security Theater: The Waiting In Line Edition

Posted on December 28, 2013 by mikethemadbiologist

After the Sept. 11 attacks, I remember that my family’s synagogue in DC tightened security for the High Holidays (Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur). It always had some security: elected officials and Israeli embassy staff often attended, so there was … Continue reading →

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In 1953, the Gangs of New York Were Hardcore

Posted on April 18, 2013 by mikethemadbiologist

We have a tendency, perhaps in part due to the massive social changes that occurred in the 1960s and 1970s, to view the 1950s as a halcyon era. A picture from a cool photo essay at The Gothamist about Red … Continue reading →

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Florida Voters: Don’t Know What Evolution Is, but It Triggers Something

Posted on February 19, 2008 by mikethemadbiologist

How in the Intelligent Designer’s green earth do the same number of people define evolution as creationism as do correctly define evolution? And what does that mean?
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Posted in Creationism, Fucking Morons, The War on Science, Things That Make Ya Go Boom | 13 Comments

A Nation of Nine-Eleven Ninnies

Posted on January 16, 2008 by mikethemadbiologist

Tens of millions of U.S. residents believe that they could be the victims of a terrorist attack.
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Posted in Fucking Morons, Ninnies, Propaganda, Terrorism, Things That Make Ya Go Boom | 9 Comments

‘Defending’ Freedom Isn’t Free, Particularly When Wiretappers Don’t Pay Their Bills

Posted on January 11, 2008 by mikethemadbiologist

The sound you’re hearing is the heads of everyone who cares about civil liberties going BOOM!
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Posted in Bidness, Civil Liberties, Things That Make Ya Go Boom, WhatEVAH! | 4 Comments

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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