For anyone interested in the controversy over MMR vaccines and autism, David Gorski’s comprehensive fisking is a must-read. The exposé of that sleazy fraud Andrew… Read More »Comprehensively refuting the antivaccinationists
I just learned from my mother that an old friend of ours, Ken Binning, died last weekend. Ken was an extroverted, larger than life man,… Read More »Ken Binning, RIP
I’ve just posted a review of Denis Dutton’s wonderful new book “The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution”: If you’re reading this, you probably… Read More »The Art Instinct
Today is my boss‘s birthday….
Steve Benen at The Washington Monthly waxes incredulous at Rush Limbaugh’s latest piece of… well, treason is about the only word for it: The right-wing… Read More »"I want everything he does to fail"
Digby at Hullabaloo: But the fact that the white house consciously and knowingly used anal rape to control, interrogate and punish prisoners and went to… Read More »Are there any limits?
[w]hen the GOP enforces a party line vote against the stimulus bill and then goes on Sunday morning talk shows to complain about the lack… Read More »Quote of the day
Via Susan Claire at Facebook: Place an X by all the things you’ve done and remove the X from the ones you have not, then… Read More »An odd "things you've done" blogmeme. OK, I'll play.
Over at Facebook, my old friend John Sundman displayed his results for this BBC-initiated meme…. Apparently the BBC reckons most people will have only read… Read More »The "pretentious" books meme
When politicians use mutually incompatible arguments to attack the same proposal, it’s safe to say that they are more interested in scoring political points than… Read More »The extraordinary cluelessness of the Republicans
