Big ball of fire in sky. Is it the sun? Anyway, links for you:
An Open Letter: To the Awesome Speaker
Getting even with the odds ratio
Other:
How Obama Screws His Base
Paul Ryan is a Man Who Takes His Responsibilities as a Public Official Seriously
Left Ed: Waiting for Sanity
If the Nazis Do It, It's Torture
Behind the drumbeat for charter schools
More like this
I've now finished posting archives up through June of 2005. There's some great stuff in there -- here are some highlights:
Drumbeats alone can convey emotion
So, I posted something at Daily Kos you might find interesting:
As we wrestle with hard science and hard policy and the interaction between the two, the real problem we face are made much harder to solve because of the seemingly incessant drumbeat of science denialism.
In a brief essay describing renewed efforts to raise the profile of science in the national discourse, Time magazine writer Michael Lemonick offers the following (see the original for links):
Mark Hoofnagle is urging everyone to get behind a simple, non-partisan goal that would greatly benefit science policy: bring back the Office of Technology Assessment.