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Archive for July 16th, 2008

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

Thoughts for the Day

John McCain is the downer cow of American politics.
David Gregory of MSNBC’s Race for the White House seems to hate Barack Obama so much that one hopes Obama’s secret-service detail has a profile on him.
People say we need a massive government program to increase usage of the word "peripatetic," but I think Matthew Yglesias, about [...]

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

Could creationists evolve into an irreducibly small role?

By Thoreau
Creationists evolve, despite the mental gymnastics that they employ to deny such a process.  Originally they were proclaiming a 6 day creation.  Then they realized that they needed some science, so they waved their hands about floods destroying the evidence.  Then they realized that flood geology wouldn’t fly, so they started preaching the Gospel [...]

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

PSA: If you have misplaced some radioactive materials, the Pakistani cops would like to chat with you

By Thoreau
From Nature:
When Pakistan ran an advertisement campaign last year telling citizens what to do if they stumbled upon radioactive material, it raised eyebrows in the West. Now Pakistani authorities have discovered two radioactive containers of unknown origin, bringing into further doubt their ability to keep track of nuclear material.
The sealed containers were dug up [...]