Why Obama is no Buzz Windrip
Wherein I out myself as a rabid merito-classist.Buzz Windrip, chief villain of Sinclair Lewis' novel It Can't Happen Here, rides a grassroots tidal wave of popular support to the White House. His...
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JUST MARRIED (In a Secular Ceremony)!
Miss me? ;-)Okay, so technically Sara and I have been "just married" for over a month now. I wish I could say we've been spending the past few weeks on an extended honeymoon, but alas, there truly is...
View ArticleYoutuberisms
Dear Unidentified YouTube Algorithm,I know you mean well. But just because I spend an afternoon watching one or seven "Kim Possible" clips, doesn't mean I'm a 13-years-old girl. Therefore, in the...
View ArticleSharing Skepticism in Chiropractic
I've been wary of chiropractors for almost as long as I've been a self-identified skeptic. I frequented one throughout high school, never bothering to question the principles behind it, nor even its...
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On Nutrition
On one of America's Mighty Food Holidays, a note to any vegetarians (or aspiring vegetarians) out there: Please feed your babies.(From A Softer World)
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Planets By the Naked Eye
Clockwise from left: the Moon, Jupiter, and Venus. Taken from Cambridge, MA, at roughly 5 PM EST, 1 December 2008, with a 1.3-megapixel camera phone.As astronomy pictures go, this is a pretty darn...
View ArticleMemetics: Firsts of the Firsts of the Months of 2008
It's funny, the things that stick with us. What with Grandpop's funeral and all, I completely forgot to make note of a certain date. Sara and I were at PharynguFest Boston last night at the Cambridge...
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Carter and the Dragonslayers
My brother, a college senior aspiring to veterinary medicine, spent four weeks this past summer working on a pair of wildlife reserves in Uganda and Kenya. He had the time of his life, as should any...
View ArticleLoath to Admit It, but Denyse and I Share Genes
Normally, I don't bother to give Denyse O'Leary and her Shady Valley Link-Farm & Dairy the time of day. But seeing as how it's the middle of the night, and how her latest prattle at Uncommon...
View ArticleMerry Christmas
I've said it once before, and I'll say it again: we're doing it wrong.You might think that taking a pluralistic approach to the holidays is a good idea. The Christmas Tree is a Christian symbol, so for...
View ArticleEvolution and the Economy, Redux
A few months ago, I wrote a rather incoherent post about the economy. I had a good point, but I made it badly, and it's been nagging me ever since. Well, just now, doing dishes, the answer came to me....
View ArticleBibliophilia
The time has come for me to undertake a long-neglected rite of passage. I am going to read a book.Not just any book, mind you. Written long before my time by a British academic, this particular book...
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AstrLOLogy
The predictive power of astrology is kinda like... like...(Via the increasingly repetitive, yet still occasionally chuckle-worthy, FailBlog)
View ArticleChanges
I remember, at the start of 2nd grade in the autumn of '92, being given a sheet of paper with three faces on it: George Bush, Bill Clinton, and Ross Perot. I remember having no idea who any of them...
View ArticleEver As Before: Creationists Still Resist Antibiotic Resistance
It's hard to believe that it's been over a year since I wrote about creationists' arguments against using antibiotic resistance in bacteria as an example of evolution. The creationists' refrain, if you...
View ArticleThe Unheard Atheists
In which I argue for the necessity of my discipline, and rediscover my purpose in blogging.The argument that an atheistic, rationalist worldview is inherently better and more true than a religious one...
View ArticleOnce Burned, Twice Shy
I am surrounded by things that will kill me. I'm not even talking about any of the deadlypathogenswe study (this time). The spot of trouble I had was with a fairly mundane experiment.The other week, I...
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Hand Jive
A reminder that good hygiene isn't restricted to laboratory practices:Once again, via yeah-it's-high-time-I-dropped-this-from-my-feed-reader FailBlog.
View ArticleSome Kinda Druid Dudes Lifting the Veil
St. Patrick's Day has never been one of my favorite of holidays, to be honest. Not that I have anything really against the holiday itself... any excuse for a party, right? But for the longest time, I...
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