Here’s a very useful breakdown of various presidential wanna-be’s position on evolution. There’s a rather sharp distinction between the political parties.
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
Here’s a very useful breakdown of various presidential wanna-be’s position on evolution. There’s a rather sharp distinction between the political parties.
The behavior of the University of Minnesota keeps sinking to new lows. In the case of Dan Markingson, they recruited a mentally ill young man into an experimental pharmaceutical treatment, his condition worsened, and he committed suicide. He was a person who needed help, not to be roped into the position of a guinea pig, but you know there is big money behind clinical trials sponsored by pharmaceutical companies (but not enough, apparently, to cover adequate monitoring and care for test subjects).
My university has made a statement about another test patient.
The Atlantic takes a look at Minneapolis, which is an outlier in several ways: it’s doing relatively well economically (it’s no Detroit), but at the same time, it’s managed to avoid extreme disparities — there’s affordable housing without the overpriced real estate at the top (it’s no San Francisco, in a good way). How do they do it?
Among other factors, it’s all about…wealth redistribution.
ISIS is running rampant in Fallujah.
The Iraqi Ministry of Human Rights announced Tuesday that a man identified as Abu Anas al-Libi had killed more than 150 women and girls in Iraq’s Fallujah, some of whom were pregnant.
OK, we all know you’re not a scientist. You might even be a college drop-out. You might have personal beliefs that are a little wacky. But when you’re running for office, any office, even the presidency, it is understood that you’re not going to micromanage every single detail, and one of the things we’re going to expect of you is that you’ll delegate responsibilities to qualified, intelligent underlings.
So when you’re asked a question like “Do you believe in evolution,” there is a good answer and a bad answer.
For all of his flaws, he’s one of those rare people in the media who is able to step back and provide an appropriate perspective. Here, he goes after the Brian Williams story, making the point that it is important for news sources to maintain their credibility…but then why are they going after this trivial Williams story and completely ignoring the major media lies that led to war?
You can see a whole page of stupid: Bill Moyers has the complete list of climate change denialists in congress, complete with quotes from each one, organized by state. What yahoo is representing your state?
I hadn’t heard from Coach Daubenmire in a while, but I knew that when he popped up again, it would be remarkably nutty. That’s what he does. And here he comes, weeping for Kent Hovind.
There is a proposal in Vermont to adopt the Latin motto, Stella quarta decima fulgeat. I wish this were a joke, but some of the citizens of the state had a remarkable reaction.
In a proposed change that cuts the Wisconsin university system to the bone, Walker also proposes removing every vestige of idealism from the state.
Gov. Scott Walker is once again at odds with his state’s public sector, this time for proposing massive budget cuts to the University of Wisconsin and attempting to remove references to "state needs" and improving "the human condition" from the school’s mission statement.
Walker’s proposed cuts would slash $150 million in funding from the UW system, roughly 13 percent of the school’s budget. Additionally, it would completely remove the "The Wisconsin Idea" from the UW mission statement, which prioritized extending educational resources to "every family in the state."
