I just read a delightful (in a black humored sort of way) post up at Balloon Juice.  It offers a way to calculate the number of “crazies” on the political right, people for whom no fact or logic will work at getting them to question a belief and whose partisanship is completely blind. A much…

UPDATE I & II As I have been reading discussions about what happened in Arizona, over and over again those on the right or those not wanting to admit we have a genuine problem in this country claim Jared Loughner was a “lone crazed individual” as if that somehow absolves Ann Coulter, Michael Savage, Glenn…

Bees are under considerable threat these days, and we are not sure whether it is due to one or two pathogens  or maybe to a complex series of interrelationships. Two recent discussions of possibly very complex relations are in Wired and  at Treehugger.  But that is ultimately a scientific questuon I have no expertise on. …

F. A. Hayek, a famous but little understood economist sheds light on one of the scandals of our time.  There is a well deserved outrage building over the current Pope’s blaming “the 1970s” for rampant pedophilia and child molestation by Vatican employees.    Some of us remember that time, and the Pope’s statement is at best an…

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