On global warming, who's paying to shoot the messenger?
Funny how some bloggers of the the right wing is so obsessed with party colors that they cannot see green. Clinging to their delusions in spite of scientific evidence, this past week we marveled as the...
View ArticleGOP getting re-elected, plan b(?): Approve Plan B
The FDA has shocked me. After stonewalling their own doctors and scientists, the politicians in the agency have decided to act rationally, perhaps as a ploy to help the Republicans you've seen frothing...
View ArticleTall tales and easy scientific conclusions
I've laid off this one for a few days now, but it persists in the headlines. Here's the logic:While researchers have long shown that tall people earn more than their shorter counterparts, it's not only...
View ArticleWhen all the fish are extinct, will oil profits hold so much appeal?
You didn't want to eat them, did you?WASHINGTON (AFP) - The world's fish and seafood could disappear by 2048 as overfishing and pollution destroy ocean ecosystems at an accelerating pace, US and...
View ArticleDisabling the disabled: a "pillow angel" story
I saw this story yesterday and just thought it was truly creepy.The bedridden 9-year-old girl had her uterus and breast tissue removed at a Seattle hospital and received large doses of hormones to halt...
View ArticleScience too "inconvenient" for school district
Apparently the Bible is now the litmus test against which all science must be measured. Never mind what we can observe in the world, religious dogma is the only truth to be taught in schools in Federal...
View ArticleEvolution Opponent Running Unopposed For National School Board Association
Via Think Progress, we learn this horror:In 2005, the Kansas Board of Education received national ridicule when it rewrote public school standards to cast doubt on the mainstream evolution theories of...
View ArticleNew giant dinosaur discovered in Argentina
Fascinating.Brazilian and Argentine paleontologists have discovered the largely complete fossil of a new species of giant dinosaur which roamed what is now northern Patagonia about 80 million years...
View Article"Country First" ... Is that a savings and loan company? (John McCain's new...
That's John McCain's new slogan. It makes me think of the savings and loan scandal and that Keating scandal.How unfortunate.And what of Sarah Palin, who's a big fan of forced pregnancy and has a bit of...
View ArticleToday the world changes
A nation built with African slaves inaugurates an African-American President.A nation driven by culture wars born out of the Vietnam era moves into hope for more pragmatic, if still partisan,...
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