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Who is Sarah Palin?
Aug. 30th, 2008 09:21 amThis Alaskan blog has good information about McCain's bizarre pick for successor (if elected, and the inevitable happens sometime in the next four years). Radically conservative for even the incredibly conservative state of Alaska, anti-women's right to choose, anti-gay (anti-gay existance, never mind 'rights') and creationist, embroiled in a scandal that dropped her Alaskan approval rating 23 percentage points, younger and more inexperienced than the opponent who Republicans claim is too inexperienced to be elected. She's worse in almost every way than Dan Quayle, but probably better spoken, considering her background as a sportscaster and beauty pageant runner-up. A bizarre cynical choice by a bizarre cynical man who has changed all his "maverick" positions to fall in line with the Party Faithful, and allied himself with those he used to condemn as the "agents of intolerance." I hope that it's the gift to the Democrats that it appears to be.
( and then I get a little strident--I think it's the Sudofed )
( and then I get a little strident--I think it's the Sudofed )
My ban on new T-shirts is crumbling.
Jun. 17th, 2008 08:40 pmI own way too many t-shirts. I've even forbidden my friend Alex, who gave me many of my favorites, from giving me any more. Now I'm finding myself filling an imaginary shopping cart. Why?
BEST T-SHIRTS EVER.
Thanks as usual to sclerotic rings, or texas triffid ranch, or groundskeeper willie or whatever he's calling himself these days.
BEST T-SHIRTS EVER.
Thanks as usual to sclerotic rings, or texas triffid ranch, or groundskeeper willie or whatever he's calling himself these days.
If it's "science" it must be true.
Aug. 19th, 2007 05:47 pmWild speculation worded as if it were science, published in a "science journal," proves wacky theory of panspermia.
I especially like the figure of "one trillion trillion times more likely" that life originated in the non-frozen heart clay-and water filled of a comet than on earth. Not that anyone has proven that any comets contain liquid water, or clay. That's a big number. It must be true.
If someone can mine a comet, and produce the building blocks of life from it, then we can talk about comets "seeding life." But in the meanwhile, Panspermia is just a way of saying that Earth isn't special enough to have produced life--it's just the telescope owner's version of Special Creation or Intelligent Design. MagicMan Comet done it.
I especially like the figure of "one trillion trillion times more likely" that life originated in the non-frozen heart clay-and water filled of a comet than on earth. Not that anyone has proven that any comets contain liquid water, or clay. That's a big number. It must be true.
If someone can mine a comet, and produce the building blocks of life from it, then we can talk about comets "seeding life." But in the meanwhile, Panspermia is just a way of saying that Earth isn't special enough to have produced life--it's just the telescope owner's version of Special Creation or Intelligent Design. Magic
Krulwich on Quammin on Darwin
Oct. 2nd, 2006 01:43 pmI just listened to the podcast of "Hmmmm..." the horribly named but otherwise pretty good science feature from NPR. In it I learned that David Quammen (my favorite science journalist) is writing a book about Darwin. I'm not sure if I should be excited about this or disappointed. I think Quammen's best writing is travel and experience based--the stuff he writes based on written research can be kind of dull. But anyway, the reason I bring it up is this quote, describing what the pre-Darwin theory of why living things live where they are (why there are only kangaroos in Australia for example):
"God created every species individually, and put them down wherever they are. I call that 'Special Creation, plus Special Delivery.'"
Cross-posted.
"God created every species individually, and put them down wherever they are. I call that 'Special Creation, plus Special Delivery.'"
Cross-posted.
