Modified slightly from the discussion here. This is my country and the regressive yahoos can take it from me when they pry it, etc. Especially since they don’t have a clue what to do with it except strip it of every unique thing it’s accomplished. I’m not calling for optimism out of naivety. I know …
Monthly Archive: October 2008
Oct 20 2008
The Cynicism of the “Realist”
I ran into another one yesterday. You know them, the ones who say, “Obama isn’t perfect, you know. He’s just not that different from McCain. I mean, I’ll vote for him, but really….” The next one gets swatted. Hard. Aside from the fact that anyone with a brain can tell that there are big differences …
Oct 20 2008
Replace Michele Bachmann Blog Carnival
…#4 is up at Greg Laden’s Blog. He rightly titles this edition, “We Told You So,” and makes an admission: A few weeks ago, Stephanie Zvan and I hatched a plot, I mean developed an action plan, to provide a weekly carnival of posts regarding Michele Bachmann. We quickly asked Radio Talk Show Host Mike …
Oct 19 2008
The Introvert’s Bill of Rights
Shrinking Violet Promotions, whose blog is subtitled “Marketing for Introverts,” are putting together a little list of awesome. They’re calling it The Introvert’s Bill of Rights. Some of my favorites: 8. Introverts have the right not to have to explain why they need down time or alone time. 14. Introverts have the right to screen …
Oct 18 2008
Who Is Anti-American?
You’ve seen it, of course. U.S. Representative Michele Bachmann on Hardball. Just in case you haven’t, just in case you usually feel Matthews is too obnoxious to watch, I’m going to post it again here, because this may be the most important video of this election season. I ask that you watch it. It’s tempting, …
Oct 18 2008
Fun With Numbers
Michele Bachmann may have done in her congressional campaign last night. Want proof? ActBlue, a site that raises money for Democratic campaigns, had about $4,000 in receipt for her challenger, El Tinklenberg, before Bachmann’s appearance yesterday. They now have $141,000. Oops, I mean $142,000. You can literally watch the money coming in–for a campaign that …
Oct 17 2008
Sensical Nonsense
Jessica has a post up at bioephemera about Turing tests and the Mechanical Turk, an eighteenth century hoax automaton. Good stuff. Go read. I’ll wait….And welcome back. If you read all the way into the comments, you’ll have noticed that I said that any Turing test I administered would have to involve sensical nonsense. You’ll …
Oct 16 2008
Getting Out More
…well, at least on the internet. Seriously, I read more than the three blogs I’ve been running around interlinking with for the last few days. What else have I been reading? Will Shetterly is also talking, as is most of the country, about race. In Florida in the early ’60s—when I was marching with my …
Oct 15 2008
Diversity Now
Riffing off the discussion of racist arguments here and on Greg’s blog, DrugMonkey asked why ScienceBlogs looks so unlike the rest of the world. Shortly thereafter, Isis the Scientist took a bunch of us to task for advocating for diversity because it would make us feel better. (Utterly incomplete summaries of both posts. Read them …
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