Does corn count as an amber wave of grain? It would seem that Mitt Romney delivered his “rousing, impromptu” stump victory speech enough times before the Iowa caucus to know for sure.
Uh-oh … I can only assume DeRogatis is going to have a problem with this too.
“For the record, I believe Sarah Palin is a true statesman whose experience as a failed vice presidential candidate, half-term governor, and eight-episode reality show star has fully prepared her to take control of our nuclear arsenal.”
“It could have happened to anyone … whose producers can’t tell black people apart.”
The Republican Party has a serious infection of anti-science syndrome. And, scientists have noted the The Republican War on Science. The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press came out, last week, with a report
entitled Public Praises Science; Scientists Fault Public, Media. This is an interesting polling report, on a number of levels.
As per the title, let us focus on one item: Scientists and Party affiliation. Once, there were sizable portions of the scientific community in basically all portions of the American political scene. No longer. As can be seen in the table to the right, “Partisan and Ideological Differences”, of 2500 polled scientists, just 6 percent of the polled identify themselves as Republicans (as opposed to 23 percent of the overall population).
As Stephen Colbert put it, “reality has a well-known liberal bias”. (Although, perhaps it truly is that liberals have a bias toward reality?) Scientists work in, specialize in understanding reality. Should it shock anyone that they have a liberal bias?
“My guest is Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman. Well, if he knows so much about money, why is he working for a newspaper?”
“If you’re serious about wanting to compete on the Internet, why don’t newspapers have a huge porn section?”
Leonard Pitts offers a counterpoint to the Wall Street Journal piece that made me want to puke:
Because these days, truth comes in two flavors. We have red truth and blue truth, but we are fresh out of the truth, the facts, unimpeachable and inarguable. Instead, Bush has overseen a government of legendary intellectual incoherence, where ideology is valued above competence, accountability is valued not at all and one is daily dared to believe the evidence of one’s lying eyes. Bush seems to agree with Stephen Colbert: Reality has a liberal bias.
“California banned gay marriage. Whats next, Iowa bans corn?”
“I for one appreciate the McCain campaign treating us like children. McCain will bring us back to a simpler time. A time when you could identify your neighbors’ jobs by the hats they wore. Like Sam the Fireman, Bill the Cowboy and Jose the stereotype. These are the people in your neighborhood. The people that you meet when you’re walking down the street. They’re the people that you meet each day. And what the people in your neighborhood, the Joe the Plumber, the Wendy the Waitress need are tax cuts for the wealthy and off shore drilling. They don’t need universal health care or last names.”
