Chris Clarke

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Name: Chris Clarke
Date registered: 29 September 2011
URL: http://coyot.es/crossing/

Latest posts

  1. Did a bat land on you at the Kelso Depot in the Mojave Desert? — 7 May 2013
  2. Confession time: dental hygiene edition — 5 May 2013
  3. Fortunately for Matt Yglesias, Lindsay Beyerstein only leaves him in a metaphorical smoking crater. — 27 April 2013
  4. It’s Matthew Yglesias’ world: we just get blown up in it. — 24 April 2013
  5. Also, I know I’ll probably get flamed for this… — 19 April 2013

Most commented posts

  1. Here I Stand; I Can Do No Other — 252 comments

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May 07 2013

Did a bat land on you at the Kelso Depot in the Mojave Desert?

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Medicine, News, Organisms

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Boosting signal on this, because it’s potentially very urgent and the person at risk could be anywhere in the world at this point. A week ago, on April 30, a visitor to the Kelso Depot in the Mojave National Preserve had a bat land on his neck. The bat — a Myotis lucifugus a.k.a. little …

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41 comments

May 05 2013

Confession time: dental hygiene edition

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Skepticism

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In comments on PZ’s “divorce” post, Antiochus Epiphanes sez: Skepticism™ the movement and skepticism, the practice of thinking critically, shouldn’t be conflated. The latter is no great intellectual achievement and should be in the skill set of grade schoolers. That it isn’t may be the motivation of the former, but we shouldn’t expect any intellectual …

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92 comments

Apr 27 2013

Fortunately for Matt Yglesias, Lindsay Beyerstein only leaves him in a metaphorical smoking crater.

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Ethics, Fuckbrained assholes, Politics

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A couple of commenters here have persisted in defending Matthew Yglesias’ odious bleat that life is cheaper in Bangladesh because it ought to be because reasons, and that any anger we Westerners might feel about the horrendous loss of life in the recent factory collapse ought more helpfully be directed to buying clothes made in …

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136 comments

Apr 24 2013

It’s Matthew Yglesias’ world: we just get blown up in it.

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Evil, Fuckbrained assholes, Media, Politics

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I haven’t had much use for The Lizard of K Street since he posted this sociopathic little gem in 2004: Did the president really gut the Endangered Species Act yesterday while no one was paying attention? So I’ve heard, at any rate. If so, good riddance. You’ll all yell at me, I suppose, but really: …

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206 comments

Apr 19 2013

Also, I know I’ll probably get flamed for this…

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Organisms, Reproduction

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But after this week I just don’t care. PZ can feed me to the squids if he wants to. I just don’t care.

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59 comments

Apr 19 2013

Occidental College President Jonathan Veitch must resign

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Crime, Equality, Ethics, Fuckbrained assholes

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Occidental College is a small school in northeastern Los Angeles. It’s got about 2,000 students at any one time. And it’s got a huge sexual assault problem: yesterday, 38 students and alumnae of Occidental filed a Title IX complaint with the Federal Department of Education claiming that the college violated civil rights law in its …

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46 comments

Apr 18 2013

I know almost nothing about Jackiesue

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News

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I only just learned she even exists a few minutes ago. She calls herself “a pagan and a left wing democrat” in the tagline of her blog “Yellowdog Granny,” where she also says “I got older but I never grew up.” She’s a friend of someone I’ve known online for a few years. She’s in …

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25 comments

Apr 12 2013

Thank you, crowepps

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Bloggery, Social, Testimonial

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Bad news: I’m informed offline by Mattir that fellow hordeling crowepps has passed away, not particularly expectedly. She wasn’t the most loquacious commenter here, and I didn’t know her at all aside from reading what she wrote here. But I always liked what she had to say. She was funny: I am boggled by the …

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80 comments

Apr 11 2013

New Rule

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Bloggery

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You’ve all seen it, the increasingly common inept attempt people make to defuse valid criticism of their untenable positions. Most recent sighting for me was this comment at The Mary Sue, which consisted mainly of the commenter saying that no way would any man have pulled the “fake geek girl” routine on Rae Johnston and …

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142 comments

Apr 09 2013

This is just disgusting and wrong

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Cephalopods, Culture

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The Kraken

This cocktail, called “The Kraken” by its purveyors at the Whitehouse-Crawford restaurant in Walla Walla, WA, is one of the worst abominations I’ve ever seen. Here’s the description by the restaurateurs: spicy, dirty vodka martini with tentacles In other words, they take an innocent little cephalopod and mercilessly plunk it into a so-called “martini” made …

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