Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
The theme of Republicans being anti-science was still in a state of crescendo during the 2004 election; I recall it became an even more prominent fixture in 2006 and 2008 and may have been a primary contributing factor to their defeat.
What captures my attention about this, though, is not that the democrat party holds itself out as superior leadership in the “supporting science” department, but where. Having made a sweep through my political memory about this issue, and being satisfied that it is a functionally exhaustive one, I dredge up three public policy questions to which this has been applied.
1. The planet is on the brink of dying off because of our toxic human fumes;
2. You cannot properly do stem cell research until you first grind up some babies;
3. The theory of evolution proves this is a godless universe.
I’m not counting all the chatter about the who’s-who of “X has a Blackberry” and “X can’t figure out how to use an iPod.” I’m ignoring it because I think it’s stupid.
So I can’t think of anything beyond those three. What do the three have in common I wonder? That’s the “D’Jever Notice” moment: Humans have all the origin, all the destiny, all the sanctity, and all of the entitlement to a continuing existence of a cluster of bacteria on a kitchen sponge. It all seems to come back to that. We are an infestation and nothing more than that. There’s no reason for anyone to love our species save for what we are going to become later.
If something comes up to substantiate it, our liberals shout it from the hilltops and make sure everyone hears about it over and over again. If there’s something to suggest otherwise, they ignore it. That isn’t an illustration of science, that’s cognitive bias.
Those aren’t white coats they’re wearing; they’re straight-jackets.
And, at times, that is not so hard to see.
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