No, there isn’t. John Oliver explains why.
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
No, there isn’t. John Oliver explains why.
I like this, and it’s probably what I would do: when some guy strolls into a restaurant flaunting his great big weapon, get up and leave. It grants them a lot of power to ruin your evening, but I think the risk of getting shot would ruin it even more.
I am not keen on Hilary Clinton, and Pollitt recognizes that in her peers.
My women college classmates (Radcliffe ‘71) aren’t so excited about Hillary Clinton. An e-mail to our New York City potluck group elicited distinctly modified rapture. They’re bothered by her high-priced speeches and the aura of favor-trading and favor-banking around the Clinton Foundation. They don’t like her Wall Street connections, and they don’t like Bill (a k a the “ick” factor). Plus, she’s not progressive enough. “It’s all so old and tired,” wrote one; “she’s been running forever.” “I’m definitely excited about the prospect of a woman,” another chimed in. “I am weary, not excited, about her in particular, and find it sad that she’s our best hope.” I should mention that these women are demographically much like Hillary (Wellesley ‘69) herself: prosperous, white, highly educated, sixtysomething feminists and professional women. You would think these women, of all people, would be jumping for joy at the prospect of someone so like themselves winning the White House.
Some of us guys, like me (University of Washington, 1979) feel the same way about Clinton. That’s a really good summary of why I’m unenthused.
I am reminded that Scalia wrote the dissent in Edwards v. Aguillard. I have been trying to forget.
The body of scientific evidence supporting creation science is as strong as that supporting evolution. In fact, it may be stronger…. The evidence for evolution is far less compelling than we have been led to believe. Evolution is not a scientific “fact,” since it cannot actually be observed in a laboratory. Rather, evolution is merely a scientific theory or “guess.”… It is a very bad guess at that. The scientific problems with evolution are so serious that it could accurately be termed a “myth.”…
Shocking, isn’t it? Who would have thought a Supreme Court justice could be such a pompous ignoramus?
Knock me over with a feather…she’s usually so vacuous and such a pawn of the right wing, I thought I’d never get a bit of information from her. But to my surprise, she brings a revelation. It’s kind of a stupid revelation, but it actually is something I didn’t know. And don’t really care about.
Edward Schlosser says, “I’m a liberal professor, and my liberal students terrify me”. Strangely, he doesn’t give any evidence that he’s at all liberal, and the one personal incident he cites involves a conservative student.
The next week, I got called into my director’s office. I was shown an email, sender name redacted, alleging that I “possessed communistical [sic] sympathies and refused to tell more than one side of the story.” The story in question wasn’t described, but I suspect it had do to with whether or not the economic collapse was caused by poor black people.
Rebecca Watson has the story: apparently, someone who still hasn’t apologized for claiming I’d ever targeted him for some kind of undefined vituperation is now demanding that I apologize to Ben Radford, because Radford has made a legal settlement with Karen Stollznow.
Now we know why Colbert retired. There was no way he could ever adequately satirize reality.
This is an actual, genuine, real ad from America’s Liberty PAC, a pro-Rand Paul SuperPAC. I lost it with the opening scene of fire-breathing bald eagles, dubbed in with the screech of the red-tailed hawk, as is traditional…and then the explosions. Explosions everywhere.
Please, international readers, close your eyes and pretend American politics isn’t happening. We’re embarrassed enough.
NY Magazine has the best summary of the LaCour affair. This is the recent case of a study published by a graduate student that showed the effectiveness of gay & lesbian survey-takers of persuading people to support marriage equality…which has since been found to consist of falsified data. The article summarizes how the study was exposed, and there were grounds for suspicion long before the news broke. Reading the protocols and doing a little math, for instance, revealed that this graduate student had apparently paid out about a million dollars for this survey. And it just unraveled from there.
Many years ago, when I first hit the job market after completing a post-doc, I applied for positions at many universities…but my top choice was UW Madison. I didn’t think I had a chance, so I was thrilled when I actually got as far as landing an interview there. I didn’t get the job obviously, but I was happy to just get a shot at it (maybe too happy: I was so wound up, my interview went dismally).
If I were back in that same position today, though, the last place I’d apply to would be UW Madison. It’s still a great university, but I wonder for how much longer — the state seems committed to gutting it.
