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ARGH!

Sunday, November 2, 2008

I just got back from an infuriating “conversation” with some idiot posting up door-hangers for Prop 102 all over our apartment complex (Prop 102 is Arizona’s Ban Gay Marriage amendment). I got home from walking the dog and he was just about to put one on my door, when I said, “Sorry, not on my [...]

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The Culture of Nonsense

Saturday, October 11, 2008

This one comes courtesy A Vote For Science, a science blog covering the election. It’s got some very interesting posts, trying to bring a fact-based approach to the candidates positions. The issue here is, amazingly, in vitro fertilization (IVF). When asked at a science forum whether McCain’s position that life begins at conception is at [...]

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Voting Reform

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Ask any school-kid how decisions get made in a “Democracy” and you’ll get the classic two word answer: “Majority Rule.” Or, if the kid went to school during the Bush administration, “The Vice President tells the President what to do and he orders the army to do it.” But I digress. Many people think that [...]

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