Having had about a month now to cool down, it's about time for me to properly abash myself.  Barack Obama has been provided the opportunity to be a truly great president, and his decisions so far as president-elect have demonstrated some real intelligence and responsibility.  I don't like many of his proposed policies, but he just might be good.  ( Read more... )

There's nothing quite like dissecting a freshly-deceased human being to give some perspective on obesity in America.  I was relatively lucky--I got an only slightly overweight cadaver, but still, once you get down toward the lower abdomen / pubic symphysis, you're cutting through a good inch and a half thick sheet of fat.  Also, human flesh, ( Read more... )

I've been right about pretty much everything so far.  I predicted the housing market collapse over 2 years ago and got out of the stock market this past February.  I predicted when McCain was nominated that he had no chance at being elected president, whether Hillary or Obama was his opponent (I wanted Romney--I fully believe he would have won the ( Read more... )

Barack Obama, I'm pretty-well convinced, has already won the election.  I frankly can understand why the average American would be inclined to vote for him; George Bush has been a spectacularly miserable president.  I know he truly believes he's doing what's best for America, but he's simply so stupid that I don't think he can comprehend just how ( Read more... )

I don't understand how someone can live through 30, 40, 70 years of life and still believe in a god.  What the hell is wrong with these people?  Why on earth would they?  I would swear that they had never been exposed to modern biology and physics nor had an introductory course to philosophy, religion, or rational thinking, but they're here in med ( Read more... )

I guess there's just something about making and keeping friends that I never learned.  Everyone else did, but I was too involved in keeping my own counsel to bother with understanding what binds minds together.  It would be miserable without the unending work to keep my mind off it.  I suppose I'll never be able to retire. 

I'm getting really pissed off at the federal government.  Bush apparently just asked congress not only to allocate $0.7 trillion for bailouts of businesses, but also to raise the debt ceiling to $11.315 trillion so he can still spend all the other money he's...not collecting.  Seriously, we're planning on spending more than 11 trillion, 11 trillion ( Read more... )

From an email sent out by the school:

[The school] is streamlining its proteomics and bioinformatics resources to enhance synergies between the programs.

Count the redundancies and big words used to make this seem important.  They're combining two departments?  No, no, they're "streamlining" their "resources" in order to "enhance synergies."

This ( Read more... )

It's funny how we mature.  I remember in high school, which is as recently as I've seen a couple people who read this, arguing that gay marriage would be the bane of mankind nation-wide.  Now I see evangelists on the news holding up signs citing Leviticus and I wonder how they can be so fucking stupid (and on so many levels ( Read more... )

How is it possible that this isn't a story from "The Onion"? 
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080811/od_afp/switzerlandoffbeatart