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Texas is missing (one of its) Idiots: OMG That Man's A Congressman Dept.
Via TPM TV: Watch it and weep. I mean really. There are many reasons the GOP deserves to lose every election: Joe Barton (R – Magic Beans) is one of them. This man shouldn’t be allowed … more →
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Texas is missing (one of its) Idiots: OMG That Man's A Congressman Dept.
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Tom wrote 7 months ago: Via TPM TV: Watch it and weep. I mean really. There are many reasons the GOP deserves to lose ever … more →
Quicky Alert on John Tierney's latest outrage.
Tom wrote 9 months ago: I’m tired; I’m stuck with parts of my day job that I really wish I didn’t have to … more →
We Are Ruled By Idiots: Susan Collins/Ben Nelson division
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Tom wrote 9 months ago: Update: TPM points out in one of their updates to this story that (a) the list of proposed cuts keep … more →
The Science Vote: An Entirely Unsurprising Endorsement by Your Faithful Blogger
Tom wrote 1 year ago: The past week or so have seen a number of significant endorsements for Barack Obama coming from mode … more →
The Great Debate and the Death of Science (in the USA)
Tom wrote 1 year ago: OK — so that’s hyperbole, by a wide margin. But the one thing that last night’s de … more →
Seth Lloyd, Quantum Entanglement, and Why it Matters Whether the President (and VP) Care About Science
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Tom wrote 1 year ago: One of the absolute best things about having a good gig at a place like MIT is that you get the quic … more →
Why a Little Empiricism Helps: Palin, Brooks, Noonan edition
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Tom wrote 1 year ago: OK folks. Enough with the venting. We all know that the McCain and Palin have been reduced (and I … more →
On to the substance of the Palin pick
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Tom wrote 1 year ago: Update 9/1/08: Ta-Nehisi Coates puts a spin on the same idea developed below shorter and stron … more →
Quicky addendum to Bishops and Biology...
Tom wrote 1 year ago: This is why the kind of rhetorical shenanigans discussed below matter. PZ Myers links to the lates … more →
Why it helps to run the numbers...
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Tom wrote 1 year ago: and why it matters. Brad DeLong reproduces a memo from Obama campaign econ. policy director Jason F … more →
What John Cole said...
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Tom wrote 1 year ago: See this dissection of the entirely dispensible Michael Gerson bewailing the fate of the polar bear … more →
Eric Roston Wins!: Judge Someone by Their Enemies, Dept.
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Tom wrote 1 year ago: Eric Roston, author of the new and invaluable The Carbon Age, has done well, very well, in a two ste … more →
Why do/should people care about science?: Brian Greene edition.
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Tom wrote 1 year ago: Brian Greene, physicist and leading expositor of physics to the rest of us, published a long op-ed i … more →
How not to pay for science...Mass Legislature edition
Tom wrote 1 year ago: From The Boston Globe today: The governor’s initial proposal sought to empower a panel of indu … more →
More on the fate of science under Bush (and McCain?...)
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Tom wrote 1 year ago: See this comment from Kevin on the Daily Kos thread responding to the McCain/science post below. Kev … more →
Q: Does John McCain Hate Science?
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Tom wrote 1 year ago: A: Apparently, sadly…Yes By way of background: over the last eight years of Republican power, … more →
Pigs Fly Today...
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Tom wrote 1 year ago: That is to say…I never in my wildest dreams thought I would link approvingly to John Derbyshir … more →
Why is it so hard...
Tom wrote 1 year ago: OK. I’m sitting at home, alternating cups of tea with doubleshots of tylenol or ibuprophen, tr … more →
A brush with the US Health Care System: one man's confession.
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Tom wrote 1 year ago: I talk the talk about health care. Do I walk the walk? Here’s the talk: the US approach to hea … more →
