Now we know that the design part of intelligent design is true … the problem is the design is unintelligent. One of the most common bits of nonsense from the creationists and ID folk is the claim that there are no missing links. They suggest that species arise all of suggen by the Intelligen[...]
Archive for January 4th, 2011
January 4th, 2011 - 1:33 pm § in Misc.
The AVE Challenge: Whose lips?
Whose lips are these? a. Michelle Bachmann b. Mitt Romney c. Nicholas Sarkozy d. Rod Blagojevich e. Chinese Premier 习近平 [...]
January 4th, 2011 - 12:16 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Is U Penn Cheaper than UW?
David Goldstein’s latest post at HorseAss is a very disturbing comparison of true costs (after grants, loans, and so on) of attendance at his alma mater U. Penn. vs a typical public university. The point he makes is that the real cost of a student attending a private ivy, U. Penn, may not be a[...]
Francis Fukyama: How Reagan Destroyed Capitalism
Fukyama, Reagan’s ideological theorist and author of “The End of History,” is now writing that Reaganomics destroyed the balance between individual ambition and liberal democracy needed to make a free market work. In essence he says that the USA is no longer at the end of histo[...]
January 4th, 2011 - 12:55 am § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
Getting folks to vote against their interests.
Bill Lyne of the United Faculty of Washington writes about Governor Gregoire’s proposed budget. he says: ….. Tens of millions of dollars poured into Washington this fall to convince us that it’s better to have tens of thousands of children without health care than it is to pay two [...]
January 4th, 2011 - 12:40 am § in Politics
Robert Gates, of WAstate, cuts Pentagon Budget!
Sec. Gates to Slash Pentagon Budget There goes the untouchable military budget: Defense Secretary Robert Gates is expected to announce around $100 billion in cuts to Pentagon spending on Thursday. The Defense Department has been under increasing pressure to cut costs in the face of a mounting nation[...]
Deeep Cuts! .. Havana Style
(Reuters) – Cuba’s government, trying to save money and wean its citizens from subsidies, said on Wednesday it will remove soap, toothpaste and detergent from the monthly ration of food and consumer products it has handed out since the early days of the Cuban revolution. Priorities diffe[...]