Can someone please tell the ridiculous fucking assmonkey shitbag talking heads at ESPN that the plural of “RBI” is “RBIs”, not “RBI”? I have had it up to here with this fake-ass illiterate pseudo-intellectual pompous douchebaggery coming out of the mouths of a bunch of dumb-ass frat boys who all got picked last for kickball! …

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Commenter Bijan Parsia made an important point in our discussion of intellectual appropriation and attribution about the role of good faith all of this: One thing to remember is that *good faith* is critical: One shouldn’t let the idea of better than due diligence prevent one from doing work (or posting), but if one makes …

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An astute reader expressed concern yesterday that the tagline of this blog currently read as follows: “Step in, Sit Down, Chill The Heck Out” — I said that She speculated that perhaps WordPress had ordered the removal of what those who are observant as she is will recall as the original tagline: “Step in, Sit …

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From Digby yesterday: Update: I hadn’t actually read this Krugman column before I wrote this, but as readers point out it makes some similar observations. This is an illustration of what one can do when related material comes to light pursuant to good-faith intellectual discourse.

For the most part, pathetic right-wing dumbfuck scumbags don’t seem to visit PhysioProf, or at least if they do, they rarely leave comments. And we do not censor non-spam comments here, except if they contain racist, misogynist, or other hateful content. Well, some absurd shitbag Republican douchemonkey calling himself “Rick” decided he was not real …

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Lots of agonizing and hand-wringing and philosophizing and navel-gazing and vituperation and fight/flight-response activation at ScienceBlogs and elsewhere in the blogosphere concerning pseudonymous blogging. Some say that pseudonymous bloggers are RUINING THE INTERNET11!!1!!!!ELEVENTY!11!!1!!!!, while others assert that pseudonymous blogging KICKS TOTAL FUCKING ASS. PhysioProf has opined on this topic previously:

Blue Gal has pointed out a very pernicious theme that is percolating around liberal Democratic circles, which concerns the relative “progressiveness” of the remaining two Democratic Presidential candidates: [S]pare me the “your candidate is not progressive enough” meme because I can’t stand it. Yeah, fuck that shit. Here’s PhysioProf’s retort when some liberal fucking tucheslacker …

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As promised, here is the Ravelers’ manifesto: A spectre is haunting the Internet– the spectre of LSG. All the powers of the old Internet have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Wikipedia and the DRA, Theocratic Douchemonkeys and That Group That Gives Us All the Screaming Habdabs, Moderators and Those Whackaloons Who …

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UPDATE: Feminist blog Feministing has pledged to do exactly the kind of reasonable investigation of prior work in an area of inquiry before posting on it that I have suggested is required by academic norms of scholarship: We’re actually going to take this opportunity to pledge to do better. With every post we write, we’ll …

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OK. Here’s the deal. Knitters and crocheters in the “Lazy, Stupid, and Godless” (“LSG”) discussion group at the Ravelry Web site have linked to and discussed PhysioProf with approval. According to one of their participants, it is “The group for hardworking, smart, and sometimes spiritual people who have a bad attitude!” Well shit, that sounds …

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