Saturday night's all right for blogging.
* How we kill geniuses. Via MetaFilter.
* Eleanor Clift loses one of her uncountably many demerits in agitating for Howard Dean to HHS.
* The unsustainability of sustainable energy.
* It looks like Michael Steele was the perfect person to head up the Republican party—a week on the job and he's already embroiled in a corruption scandal.
* Yes we can. Yes we did, now leave us alone.
* The University of Ottawa's Denis Rancourt has been suspended from teaching and is facing possible dismissal for promising all students an A+ on the first day of class. I think it was the + that did it—if he'd just promised them As it would have been business as usual... (via Pharyngula)
* Science fiction as religion. Via io9.
Saturday, February 07, 2009
Posted by Gerry Canavan at 10:25 PM
Labels: academia, community organizers, corruption, ecology, Eleanor Clift, energy, genius, grade inflation, health care, Howard Dean, Michael Steele, myth, pedagogy, religion, Republicans, science fiction
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