September 30, 2008
Category: Politics
We're worried about the current financial crisis — in fact, the whole world is concerned. Most of us have simple explanations for the mess we're in right now, such as excessive deregulation, lenders raking in short term profit at the...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 11:44 PM • 159 Comments •
Category: Pointless polls
That is, Jenny McCarthy, ditzy mummy who opposes vaccinations because she thinks they cause autism, and Amanda Peet, smart woman who knows that inoculation is a great benefit. McCarthy has just sniped at Peet: "(Peet) has a lot of [nerve]...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 6:20 PM • 507 Comments •
It's snowing on Mars....
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Posted by PZ Myers at 5:11 PM • 42 Comments •
Category: Politics
Another interesting blog that has been around for some time is Charles Stross's — you ought to check it out, and the comments are often informative too. One in particular was brought to my attention — it's a comment made...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 2:43 PM • 179 Comments •
Category: Academics
Jebus, but we're in for a world of trouble. I think one of the signs of the apocalypse is when instructors of dangeral studies revive moribund blogs. We're obviously in a cultural meltdown of epic proportions....
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Posted by PZ Myers at 1:55 PM • 40 Comments •
Category: Politics
Our campus has an alternative right-wing rag of a newspaper called the Counterweight, funded who knows how, that throws up horrible little articles that usually sound like the kind of thing that would make Karl Rove and Dick Cheney chortle....
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Posted by PZ Myers at 1:24 PM • 67 Comments •
Category: Creationism
The Brunswick school district in North Carolina was hurtling towards a lot of pain…and it's all thanks to the intransigent arrogance of the ignorant. There are some signs that they're going to see the light of reason, but there are...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 10:34 AM • 135 Comments •
Category: Communicating science
Tuesdays are not relaxing days for me; this is the day of the week when I sink into long class sessions for hours at a time. Somehow, I also decided that the last Tuesday of every month was also going...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 9:15 AM • 8 Comments •
A recent survey in New Zealand reveals that only 40% of the people believe in a god, and 10% do but have doubts. Only 52% believe in an immortal soul, and 80% accept evolution. I marvel at that — a...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 8:31 AM • 177 Comments •
Category: Evil
Only, of course, it won't be called an act of terrorism because the victims were Muslim, and the perpetrators were conservative white Americans. They sprayed gas into a mosque filled with kids. On Friday, September 26, the end of a...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 12:15 AM • 231 Comments •