Category Archives: You’re Having a Bad Hair Life

A Role for Morons? Thoughts on the Extinct Plague

Posted on September 6, 2011 by mikethemadbiologist

This isn’t my usual post about morons (or fucking morons). Nope, this is about the Black Death, caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis (we’ll get to the morons in a bit). Recent work, published in The Proceedings of the National … Continue reading →

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Why Blue Dog Democrats Are Despicable

Posted on February 6, 2009 by mikethemadbiologist

Because slashing funding for NSF, catching rapists, and the Smithsonian will make America better. Or something.
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Cheesesteak Politics

Posted on July 19, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

It’s bad enough when the mainstream media engages in ersatz psychology and semiotics. It’s even worse when this pseudoanalysis has a bias. I’m beginning to think that the average political reporter is simply unable to process anything that is conceptually more difficult than condiments.
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In Defense of the Reverse Mullet

Posted on January 3, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

Well, no one really can or should defend ‘the reverse mullet‘, but if people are going to criticize it, at the very least we should know its history.
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