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Now here’s a candidate who could really sink his teeth into the job

With nearly 20 months to go before the election itself and 10 months before even the first primaries, I’m already bored with the Presidential election of 2008. None of the current candidates does anything for me. One’s a total lightweight who’s in no way ready to be President, and I utterly loathe two others. My […]

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Music Politics Religion Sports

Prince turned my son gay!

Believe it or not, the FCC is receiving a fair number of complaints over the Superbowl halftime show featuring His Purpleness, particularly the part where he did a bit of a phallic thing with his guitar (as if generations of rockers haven’t done the whole guitar as wank-off thing since at least the 1960’s–heck David […]

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Autism Medicine Politics

Flea is instructed by Autism Speaks

Flea has a rather amusing response to a letter about GI symptoms in autistic children that left him scratching his head… Don’t feel insulted, Flea; occasionally, we get mass mailings from cancer advocacy groups or–much more annoying to me and unfortunately much more frequent–pharmaceutical companies that sound as though they’re telling us how to treat […]

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Blogging Politics

Bullet dodged (not by me)

It looks to me as though one of my favorite lefty bloggers, Majikthise (real name: Lindsay Beyerstein), dodged a bullet. In a Salon.com article, she describes how she originally was approached to blog for the John Edwards campaign. As you may recall, Amanda Marcotte of Pandagon ultimately was offered the job and ultimately ended up […]

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Medicine News of the Weird Politics

Conservapedia?

Fellow ScienceBloggers Ed, PZ, Afarensis, Tim, and John have all been having loads of fun beating up on a rather amusing and pathetic project known as Conservapedia, which, according to its creators, is designed to “combat the liberal bias” in Wikipedia. There’s not much for me to add, except that I noticed one particularly amusing […]