A big scientific birthdate occurred fifty years ago today; the discovery of DNA. Here’s a charming appreciation of Mr. Rogers; read the final paragraph for a lovely anecdote. I confess I never watched the show; I plead being the wrong age group. By the time it began I was already in college, and the idea …
The next time I need to have my car inspected and registered, somebody remind me that it should be done mid-month, not on the next-to-the-last day of the annual registration period. Gah! A half-hour in line at a satellite city hall for a three-minute transaction. All refund forms are due by 11:59 Monday night in …
I got sucked into this over at The Gamer’s Nook; Scott followed instructions found over at Jason’s. It’s an attempt to foil Daypop’s word burst rankings, and I’m up for subversion tonight. Author: Frank Jacobs Election Year Jabberwocky Walter Cronkite ‘Twas ’80, and the Carter Bush Did Kennedy the Brown campaign; All Reagan was the …
Admittedly, this article emanates from the Genome News Network, so the author is trying to make a point, but it’s still one of the better discussions I’ve seen about stem-cell research, cloning, and politics. One of the stumbling blocks is a broad, deep lack of understanding of what the word “cloning” means. The word is …
BREAKING NEWS: RUMSFELD CALLS FOR PREEMPTIVE STRIKE ON LOUISIANA! Judicial news and views: E.J. Dionne lays out the case for balance on the federal courts, while the Baltimore Sun calls for Ashcroft’s dismissal. Aside from ideology, the DOJ’s equivalent of grade inflation might be cause for at least a reprimand; terrorism conviction statistics for fiscal …
I posted some pix over at Hawai’i Stories from the first Hawai’i Bloggers picnic, in case you’re curious. Other than that, I’m having a Linda Ronstadt musicfest today, rediscovering all those wonderful songs. I have a hole in the collection I really want to fill, however: in the mid-80s she did three albums of the …
Ok, I was gonna rant and rave some more about the flawed gentleman running the DOJ, but this idea is too good not to pass along. Go sing the praises of your favorite state. (Thanks for the heads-up, Skits!)
Eric Alterman has written a book entitled “What Liberal Media?” which attempts to refute the commonly-held belief that the media is inherently biased. He makes a pretty convincing case, citing, among other things, the number of conservative pundits who regularly appear on TV and in print, even in the so-called liberal bastions of the Washington …
Remember that $15B for AIDS Bush announced in the State of the Union? Well, here come the strings. According to a leaked State Department memo, The President is considering a requirement that all foreign NGOs certify, as a condition of receiving US funds, that they neither perform nor promote abortion as a method of family …
Wanna get a bet down on Bush second term futures? On Saddam Hussein’s date of departure? On whether there’s a second UN resolution? Go to TradeSports, a Dublin-based betting shop; click on Politics/Current Events. In somewhat related news, am I the only one who thinks combining $26 billion in loans and grants to Turkey in …