Posts filed under “Science”
There is no room for a moderate Republican candidate
I wondered earlier this week whether a Republican presidential candidate with culturally moderate views (a.k.a. Jon Huntsman) could feasibly shore up conservative support for the Republican 2012 popularity contest. I wondered whether there was room for a ‘moderate.’ However, being reminded of tidbits such as the ones that follow, I sobered up and realized that [...]
Is there room for a moderate Republican?
This question has been baffling the political scene since John McCain ended his campaign as a fringe right-winger, claiming that Obama had ties to terrorists and America-haters, and refused to temper outbursts of “Kill Him!” at McCain-Palin rallies. We all know the story after that – the Republican Party erupted with a new wave of [...]
Todd Akin’s True Colors
There’s ignorance. There’s stupid ignorance. There’s criminally stupid ignorance. And then there criminally stupid ignorance bordering on insanity. Meet Todd Akin, who embarrasses and disgraces the great state of Missouri in the House of Representatives. He loves climate change, and will bitterly oppose any and all efforts to fight it. And that’s because he thinks [...]
Precious Bodily Fluids
The commies are truly on the attack these days, what with noted Socialist Barack Obama being elected and the Wall Street bailout amongst other fresh victories for the Reds. Various counties in Nebraska had ballot initiatives about banning flouridation of their water supplies in last week’s election. They all passed. Thank FSM that some True [...]
An Inconvenient Lawsuit
The concept of global warming has gotten a lot of press in the last few months, what with Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth leading a chorus of concerned voices from the scientific and political communities. I saw the movie shortly after it came out, and it certainly influenced some of the lifestyle choices that I’ve [...]
Why Zhang And Not Dong?
From the cutting edge of the world of medicine: A man who had the world’s first successful penis transplant had to have the organ removed two weeks later because of a problem with his wife. The 44-year-old father of three children was left with a 0.4 in stump and was unable to urinate or have [...]
Maybe Someone Can Explain This One
President Bush on the subject of global warming: “New technologies will change how we live and how we drive our cars, which all will have the beneficial effect of improving the environment,” Bush said. “And in my judgment we need to set aside whether or not greenhouse gases have been caused by mankind or because [...]
Corruption Doesn’t End at Abramoff
Corruption has become somewhat of a buzzword in the political discourse of late, what with überlobbyist Jack Abramoff’s recent legal troubles, which has every possibility of snaring any number of political leaders in ethical traps. But when it comes to corruption in the government, our lawmakers aren’t the only ones we should be paying attention [...]
As Slick As They Are Crude
Shame on me for looking to carefully crafted advertising as a cause for optimism. For several months I’ve been keen to thinking of BP (formerly British Petroleum) as a partial exception to the environmentally-myopic, profit-whoring giant oil companies we’ve come to know and despise. Their latest ad campaign, which chiefly spotlights the subject of carbon [...]
Global Warming is Simply an Illusion
Greenland Glaciers Dumping More Ice: Warmer temperatures over the past decade have sped up the march of Greenland’s southern glaciers to the Atlantic Ocean, where the ice and water they spill contribute more to the global rise in sea levels than previously thought. Those faster-moving glaciers now dump in a year twice as much ice [...]