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This blog is not only about off-the-wall criticism. Not at all. I also have off-the-wall ideas.
For a walk through how to run the world (think big!) I've posted my evolving ramble on government.
Please comment and tell me where all the wrong turns are! And, if you're feeling generous, the right ones.
- Global Warming
- The real moral hazard of medical insurance
- Shoot Me Now: health care in the new millenium
- You can't believe in evolution
- A Choice or a Child?
- Are Women Human?
- God is no excuse
- Conservatives: What's wrong with them?
- We're All Gay
- Losing it in Iraq [Mar03]
- Weaponized free speech
- Hummingbirds [no politics at all]
- SpaceShipOne First Flight
The Best(?) of the Rest
- Africa
- energy
- finance
- gender
- government
- human rights
- Iraq, Middle East
- medicine
- personal
- politics
- politics meets personal
- religion
- science
- science meets politics
- tech-computers-blogging
- Thinking out loud
- Tibet
- why-did-I-do-that
Categories
About me
Biologist, lifelong denizen of academe, science fiction writer, world-class procrastinator, and proudly lazy.
Links
Astronomy - Space
- Astronomy -- Picture of the Day
- Mars renders - Veenenbos (Simply amazing)
- Explore Mars
All over the map
- Cartalk Links
- slashdot
- Random Acts of Reality
- Nee Naw - London ambulance dispatcher
- Stephen Fry
- Reclusive Leftist
- Electric Blues
- Arun's Blog
- Tombuntu
- Firefox Entension Guru
- The Confluence
- Shakesville
Politics
Some useful tech info:
I'm an occasional contributor to:
Dreamers
- Take To The Hills (collects and takes clothing to poor communities in Mexico)
- Medicins sans Frontieres
- Oxfam
- Transparency International
- Project Gutenberg
- Electronic Frontier Foundation - Bloggers’ Rights
- Global Voices
The Realist at work . . .
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