Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives by Michael Specter Penguin Press, 294pp, ~$15 (Powell’s, Barnes & Noble, Amazon) “But first, we all stink.” – Kent Brockman “We all? Hey!” – Citizen “That’s according to a national survey ranking Springfield as the least popular city in America. In [...]
Archive for February 2012
They Hate Us for Our Science
[Stage Whisper] Fuck the Poor
Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer–And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class by Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson Simon & Schuster, pp 368, ~$15 (Powell’s, Barnes & Noble, Amazon) The Great Risk Shift: Why American Jobs, Families, Health Care and Retirement Aren’t Secure — and How You Can Fight Back by [...]
Let’s Keep Wasting Time
“Isn’t that just pointless busy work?” – Lisa Simpson “Bulls eye. Get cracking.” – Miss Hoover A little digging into the archives tells me that it’s been more than three years since I did anything resembling site maintenance around here. Hopefully that’s a testament both to my laziness and to the relative decency of this [...]
What Drones?
“You know, you humans are so scared of a little robot competition you won’t even let us on the field.” – Bender On Monday, in an event that was equal parts participatory democracy and election stunt, President Obama took questions via Google Plus that had been voted on by Americans connected enough to know and [...]
