Slactivist rolls out some demographic info and asks:
NASCAR has become a potent symbol for populist appeals. When politicians seek to exploit this symbol, we should ask what kind of populism they’re pursuing.
There is more on the political bent of the NASCAR folks here.
Lambert ran the bush-cheney campaign slogan, “Steady Leadership in a Time of Change,” through an anagram server. It gave 8 results and Lambert likes number 1 best:
I’m a hypertense, death-dealing fiasco
Via Atrios.
Update (2/16): George Must Go has a top 10 list of additional suggestions.
I am sure that there is a lot of junk science being performed in the world but the web site junkscience.com may not be the best place to get an objective evaluation of scientific research:
Unsuspecting visitors might think that Milloy�s site is devoted to criticizing shoddy science, but they would be wrong. If you look at what he �debunks� you will find that the real criterion for deciding what is �junk science� is not the quality of the work, but the political agenda that it might support.
As usual apply your critical thinking skills when visiting sites like junkscience.com and, well, apply them all the time.
Via John Quiqqin at Crooked Timber.
Keep your knives sharp and use them correctly:
Aside from pots and pans, knives are the most important tools in a kitchen in which any cooking beyond heating canned soups is being done. Treat them with care and use them correctly, and there’s no need to ever spill your own blood upon the counter and thus be forced into a phase of light blogging!
There is more courtesy of Jaquandor who write’s after reading about Jim Capozzola’s knife work.
For the FDA it appears that ‘B’ stands for babies. Why else would the FDA ignore the 23-4 vote of its scientific advisory panel and continue to withhold the morning after drug ‘Plan B’ from the over the counter retail market?
Well, perhaps babies and, as Mark Kleiman suggests, politics:
I’m prepared to bet that the FDA will eventually do the right thing. But how many unwanted pregnancies, leading to how many abortions, will result from this obviously political decision?
Yep, politics, and one more example of why such decisions should not be in the hands of political hacks.
Mark also says:
Once again, we can expect a deafening silence from the libertarians, whose sincerity about personal liberty I keep doing my level best not to doubt.
I don’t know if there will be a deafening silence or not. However, I suspect that most real libertarians not only would object to this decision but also argue that the FDA should not have any say in the matter at all, that it should not even exist as a government function.