Happy two days before New Year's... Anyway, I've got a whole mess of posts for you. Science first:
- Here's a favorite of mine about E. coli, Shigella, and creationism.
- ScienceBlogling Brian Switek bashes creationists and tells us about convergent evolution.
- Speaking of creationists, Ron Paul is one.
- Here's an interesting post about solar power breakthroughs.
- John Quiggin describes how the classic peppered moth experiments were repeated--and the original explanation holds.
- The science of boredom.
- Here's a great explanation of what a scientific theory is.
- ScienceBlogling Brian Switek again: "I reject a direction or plan for evolution because there is no evidence of one." Now, when is this very smart person going to find the time to finish his Ph.D....
- Grape genomics!
Other stuff:
- The must-read post: Matt Stoller describes five never-discussed political issues.
- Jon Swift has a best of the blogs for 2007.
- James Wolcott rips apart rightwing propagandist Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Facism. So does Orcinus.
- Here's a new variant of Compulsive Centrist Disorder: the belief that polarization is necessarily a bad thing. Paul Rosenberg discusses the moral imperative of polarization and MLK. The Great Orange Satan has some thoughts about this too. So does digby.
- Maha discusses the Conservative Crack Up.
- ScienceBlogling Ed Brayton discusses the irrational hatred of the French by some on the right.
- Lambert explains why Obama's rhetoric of conciliation is stupid.
- Here's an obituary of Steve Gilliard, with some corrections.
- driftglass wants to make conservatives choose between decency and the Hezbollah wing of the Republican Party.
- Here's a compelling reason to support John Edwards.
- Bush supporters don't know what he actually supports.
- Europe has a problem with fascism, not Islamofascism.
- How conservative backlash to the strikes of 1946 led to the Taft-Hartley Act and the beginnings of wage suppression.
- Scott Horton discusses the Bush Administration's fear of videotapes.
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Re Jonah Goldberg
Actually, Mr. Goldbergs' mother is a more interesting example of stupidity in that she claims to have had a sexual encounter with former president Harry Truman. If anybody believes that, I have a nice bridge I would like to sell them.