Why Science Matters, Edition #38940

Naked mole rats.

You Really Need To Carefully Read Those Stolen Emails

An iceberg reaches Macquarie Island, 930 miles southeast of Tasmania, Australia, on Nov. 16

Australian Antarctic Division / Eve Merfield / AP

This picture would have had to be Photoshopped at one time,  not any longer.

This Is The Institution That Is Directing Health Care In America?

How far we've fallen as a nation.

"I do not exaggerate," Roosa told MacDonald on Tuesday. "People have died waiting for this case to end."

Well, This Ought To Work

Yeah, that's the ticket. This creepy loser will not make the BCS smell any better. The BCS & the contrived way it crowns a champion actually deserves a dickward like Fleischer.

Two In A Row

Packers win.

Farve Wins

AGAIN! He threw 4 TD passes & is now 10-1.

Biggest University In Wisco Loses

Oh, well.

Amur Tiger Time

A happier post, I suppose. Pic is from the Nuremberg Zoo, via the L.A. Times.

Play On Words, My Ass

The Wall Street Journal has always been a paper of lies & deceit, of apology for the continuing excesses of capitalism. & the editorial page has long been a bastion for the supremacy of white men. The headline for a recent editorial proves, once again, just how far the paper will go in protecting the privileges of the wealthy, white, the thugs of America.

Amur Tiger Time

It's been awhile since I posted on my favorite animal, the Amur tiger. The new news is, of course, not good.  As much a fan I am of indigenous cultures, I have an increasingly difficult time accepting the murder of Amur tigers for health potions that do not work.

These “cures” have never been proven to be

Jesus On A Cracker, Indeed

Packers win, yes, they beat the Cowboys 17-7.

Favre Wins, Again

27-10.

45-24, Badgers

The college football team in Wisco looked good. Wonder how the professional team will look today?

Thanks In Advance

Ya'll really need to go here & sign the petition. Then, copy the link & send it to everybody you know, including Uncle Bubba. It appears Stupak (M-Moronville) & the rest of his Blue Dung Posse need to be led into the light & into salvation & away from their patronizing, women hating ways.

Just Absolute Bullshit

This is such a tortured argument that I wonder how much the Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce may have paid this panel to come to the finding that what Gableman did is protected by the First Amendment, the notion that the lies Gableman told were objectively true. To use an expression Gableman & other stupid wingnuts use, this defies common sense.

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