Category: Enlightenment Warrior

Although I have no idea who you are, I get the feeling you’re trying to tell me something. I’m not sure what, but I can’t help but think that shooting my house with a shotgun was some sort of message. I’m sorry if you’ve left me other messages, like peeing on my house to mark…

In his essay A Modest Proposal Jonathan Swift suggests that the Irish could pull themselves out of poverty by selling their babies off to British dinner plates: I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most…

I’m enjoying the Message to Obama Flickr Pool (HT TGAW). I added this photo: Support Science More about the pool.

Tomorrow is Halloween, and that means it’s time to trot out BS stories about razorblades in snickers bars and more BS stories about poisoned candy perpetrated by silly people who must want to believe this stuff because it fits in with their preconceived notions that the world is a dark and disturbing place. So I…

It’s looking very likely that the Supreme Court will rule against whales in the Navy sonar case. With the justices arguing that only the Navy knows what constitutes a national crisis in their justification for conducting sonar exercises, and suggesting environmental concerns are over hyped. Most disturbing is this statement from Justice Stephen Breyer, appointed…

Okay, so I’ve officially gone from admiration to mere respect, and now to plain dislike of John McCain. He made my list for the following point about Barack Obama in Tuesday night’s debate: He voted for nearly $1 billion in pork barrel earmark projects including, by the way, $3 million for an overhead projector at…

This has been a year of firsts for me this presidential election season. My first time voting in a primary, first time donating to a political campaign, and my first time ever being this incredibly addicted to the daily news (Honestly, I can’t wait for this to be over so I can stop refreshing the…

Science Debate 2008 has posted the two candidate’s answers side by side, and I have taken the time to thoroughly review them. Obama comes out the obvious winner in this debate for consistently demonstrating a clear understanding of the issue and proposing specific policies to handle it. McCain only clearly won on the topic of…

“The salary of the chief executive of the large corporations is not an award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm gesture by the individual to himself.” – John Kenneth Galbraith Is there any academic field more in desperate need of empirical standards than economics? Just consider the following statements: Quick!…

My personal notes on John McCain’s answers to Science Debate 2008: 1. Innovation. Depended on technology while in the Navy, former chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, guided Congress’ wireless spectrum policy. Will cut earmarks to free up funding to apply to science and technology. Will improve management of science and…