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As for me, I love socialism! : Pharyngula

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 08:31:48 -0700

Goddamn stupid. This guy understands socialism even less than the teabaggers do.

Only a real asshole would mock people for protesting against a system that they are forced to participate in.

Norman Borlaug - Acceptance Speech

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:51:58 -0700

A call to avoid complacency about the problem of how to feed humanity (and generally provide a decent quality of life). We've got a lot of work to do.

Best Undergrad College Degrees By Salary

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:48:28 -0700

Good to know, but as always, correlation does not demonstrate causation

Artificial life is only months away, says biologist Craig Venter - Times Online

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 13:19:57 -0700

bunch of hype... a "synthetic genome" is a far cry from artificial life. And restriction enzymes are nothing new

Is the U.S. on the Brink of Fascism? | Politics | AlterNet

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 16:24:56 -0700

the rabble is targeted solely at politicians. Doesn't qualify as "brownshirts"

Featured Article - WSJ.com

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 10:44:42 -0700

From the page: "They viewed radical Islamic fundamentalism as resulting in part from the corrupt dictatorial regimes that inhabit the Middle East, which have effectively repressed indigenous democratic reformers. Although opposed to nation building generally, these libertarians believed that a strategy of fomenting democratic regimes in the Middle East, as was done in Germany and Japan after World War II, might well be the best way to take the fight to the enemy rather than solely trying to ward off the next attack. "

With this argument, a "libertarian" could justify drug prohibition or any other social engineering program based on speculative social theories.

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Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:33:22 -0700

Good overview. I agree that BNW is more similar to modern America than 1984 is, but we still see people using the strategy from 1984 (in Iran, for instance). Also, the two strategies can be combined, after all, even BNW was built on a foundation of violence (remember that the "simple life" movement was forcibly dissipated). Probably the main determinant of which strategy is followed is the amount of wealth in a society (rich societies follow BNW, poor societies follow 1984)

Sadly, An Honest Creationist

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 07:47:30 -0700

A good description of a sincere creationist as a person who has rejected science. However, I find Dawkin's arrogant, dogmatic scientism (i.e. the idea that scientific theory is The Truth) to be a bit of a turnoff. Dawkins assumes (without argument) that The Truth is knowable, and that science is the way to do it, while his essay illustrates that each person has their own preferred method of thinking about the world, and ultimately it depends on how they choose to live their life.

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Sun, 07 Jun 2009 07:38:14 -0700

Totally out of scale -- there is way more diversity among bacteria than animals (and probably more than eukaryotes).

The Venus Project

Sun, 24 May 2009 18:19:41 -0700

megalomaniacal wankery