Banned spam-troll Jason Tannery is attempting to post about Stephen Hawking’s The Grand Design now. Who knew we had such an expert in our midst.
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Thought of the day
Posted on September 18, 2011 by Michael
Why, hello fall. You’re a bit early, but come on in anyway.
Also, this is the picture that is currently the background image:
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Thought of the day
Posted on September 15, 2011 by Michael
That’s weird. A certain someone was banned from another site primarily due to his incessant dishonesty.
At least he didn’t text anyone this time.
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Thought of the day
Posted on September 12, 2011 by Michael
It’s nice and all that football is back, but is it hockey season yet? Please?
Update: Okay, it’s really nice that Brady threw for 500+ yards.
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Thought of the day
Posted on September 10, 2011 by Michael
Let’s review: The Republicans hampered the success of the stimulus, they increased the deficit without benefit (again) by giving rich people more money (which will not be used to hire anyone without demand), they caused world volatility by causing gridlock about something as routine as increasing the debt limit, and now their very nature of being the Party of No has contributed, in part, to the world markets performing poorly because no one has any confidence they will pass President Obama’s jobs bill (something most economists say will be a great success).
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Thought of the day
Posted on September 9, 2011 by Michael
I found out today that my tentatively planned trip to Haiti (it depends upon things getting approved on my university’s end) will involve the study of cholera as well as the two types of starvation in children, kwashiorkor and marasmus (the former involves a distended belly whereas the latter is emaciation). I don’t know much about either one, but I figured I would throw it up here in a post so I could at least have an easy way to get to the terms – “kwashiorkor” is not the easiest word to recall, after all.
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Thought of the day
Posted on September 5, 2011 by Michael
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.
~Mark Twain
And for a more complete post, here are my major travel plans over the next several years: Haiti (2012), Italy (2012), Aconcagua (2013 or 2014).
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Thought of the day
Posted on September 2, 2011 by Michael
What we need to do to spur job growth – especially given the reports for August – is to give big corporations more money. I know what you’re saying, “But that’s retarded. They already have trillions of dollars on hand and they aren’t using it to hire anyone. At all. It’s the consumer who needs to be given more money. They will then go out and spend, thus giving businesses a reason to hire in the first place. And if you don’t believe me, just look at the fact that giving corporations more money has been a dismal economic failure for the past 10 years, save the times when we enjoyed a few bubbles.” To that I reply, let’s slash everything in the budget so that overall growth will immediately shrink.
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Remind me again why we listen to a damn thing Republicans have to say?
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Thought of the day
Posted on August 29, 2011 by Michael
No textbook is worth $251.
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Thought of the day
Posted on August 25, 2011 by Michael
Bigots will often argue that homosexuality is a choice. It isn’t, but let’s pretend it is. Then heterosexuality must also be a choice. So what convincing reason do we have to give marital protections to one choice over another? It surely has nothing to do with children. Gay people have kids, too. And besides, we know straight couples over, say, 80 cannot have children, yet no bigots are clamoring to deny them the right to marry. So what other distinctions do we have? Any? Any at all?
Bueller? Bueller?
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For the Sake of Science 