More News about Coma Patient
An excerpt from the latest Bad Reporter: [I'll return to blogging about my experience at the creationism seminar in a day or two. Right now I'm sick, so I don't feel like writing. I'm pretty sure I have whine flu. It's not as bad as swine flu. It's just bad enough to make me complain.]

The Public Option is Irreducibly Complex
On a scale of 1–10, the health care reform bills currently in Congress are about a 2. They accomplish very little reform. They get rid of the pre-existing condition exclusion and little else. This is because the Democrats suck at governance. And politics. And consensus-building. And using the fleeting momentum they had. And even being aware that they are in the majority. So now we’re stuck with reform-that-isn’t. That means we won’t get another shot at this again until

Darwin Was Wrong, Part 2: Plans and Precautions
After reading the press release about the Darwin Was Wrong seminar, I had to run off to work. While I’m sitting there at work, my mind is coming up with all of the reasons I shouldn’t go. It takes place in one of their churches. I’d be surrounded by fundies! What if my head exploded? What if they tried to gang-save me? What if I got cooties? (This is what psychologists call c

Darwin Was Wrong, Part 1: The Vacation
I had been planning to take a short vacation for a while, but I didn’t want to go away while the contractor was busy not fixing my condo. I knew if I left, what little he was doing would stop completely until I got back. When I finally got to move back home, I knew I needed a vacation (because if you’ve been living in a hotel for nine weeks, the perfect vacation is to go somewhere and live in a hotel for another week! Gosh, I’m clever!) I had to come up with something fast, because I had to ta

Looking for a Date?
When I changed the appearance of this blog back in January, there were a number of little bugs that I had yet to fix. I haven’t had the time or energy to fix any of them. I already spend too much time on this blog; any time spent fixing means less time writing. One of the smallest problems, yet one of the most annoying, was the tendency for long titles to overrun the date, making it hard to read either. I “fixed” this by making shorter titles. It finally wore me down, so I spent some time today mucking with the CSS and trying to move