Only around 6 percent of U.S. scientists are Republicans; 55 percent are Democrats, 32 percent call themselves independent, and the rest don’t know or will not tell. This number from a recent PEW report is not surprisng, but does have worrisome political implications in the era of witches [...]
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Obama, the Failed Professor?
I would like to suggest that our national problems have a strong message about the failures of American education. President Obama’s policies, given the challenges we face, have been outstanding, but his ability to teach Americans why these things need to be done has been abysmal. I say “[...]
August 24th, 2010 - 12:05 am § in Misc.
May God Protect Science from the Radical Religous Right
How is this for a scary story? Imagine that the same radical religious right that sponsors the Tea Party and Glenn Beck decided to fund a scientific research company, for profit, to develop drugs that fit the right’s ethical agenda? That company exists, and it exists here in Seattle, an outgro[...]
August 18th, 2010 - 4:10 pm § in America
Why The U.W. And Nike Are A Threat To America’s War In Afghanistan
After discussing with Prof. Schwartz the UW’s relationship with Nike, I feel confident a meritorious argument can be made that the University’s arrangement with Nike is incestuous. The incest arises from the fact the University’s finance office and its academic departments are first cousins.[...]
A modest proposal
I advocate, more or less, a "high tuition, high financial aid" model for the UW.[...]
The Other Football.
BECK: I don’t get the baseball thing, but the soccer thing, I hate it so much — probably because the rest of the world likes it so much, and they riot over it, and they continually try to jam it down our throat.”[...]