Category: 'Snuggles' McCain
It's struck me as curious that fellow POWs haven't played more of a role in the McCain campaign--it can't be reticence on McCain's part since he repeatedly brings up his service (and starts many of his campaign events with a three minute film highlighting his capitivity). I was going to post about that, but then I stumbled across this column by another Vietnam POW:
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Posted by Mike at 11:01 AM • 9 Comments
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Republican John McCain has repeatedly portrayed a study that uses bear DNA to estimate the population size of potentially endangered bears as an example of government waste and pork barrel spending. There's one small problem, however.
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Posted by Mike at 4:52 PM • 3 Comments
Category: Racism
Admist all of the gnashing of teeth and rending of garments over what some think is a relatively poor performance by Obama against McCain, skippy puts racism in its proper context (note: skippy worked very hard to remove all of those capital letters. Who am I to put them all back?):
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Posted by Mike at 11:07 AM • 3 Comments
Category: Publishing
...and it's symptomatic of a larger problem too. First, here's what Eisen says about articles published in Science (and presumably Nature too; italics mine):
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Posted by Mike at 11:04 AM • 10 Comments
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This is not good. A recent article in Emerging Infectious Diseases describes two separate cases of community-acquired ST398 MRSA--and neither case was associated with agriculture. Let me explain what this means and why this is really bad news.
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Posted by Mike at 11:08 AM • 2 Comments
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Olivia Judson, in an excellent op-ed, lays out the utility argument for why students should learn evolution as part of biology:
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Posted by Mike at 11:26 AM • 1 Comments
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In a very interesting NY Times magazine article about wastewater treatment (no, really, it is worth reading), I came across this passage:
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Posted by Mike at 10:55 AM • 9 Comments
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Here's an image that is...unsettling:
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Posted by Mike at 11:41 AM • 8 Comments
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From FDR's grandson, here's a video that puts Social Security--and its current politics--in proper context:
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Posted by Mike at 11:02 AM • 0 Comments
Mad rantings about politics, evolution, and microbiology. Comment policy: say what you want, but back it up with an email address. I don't like anonymous trolls.
