Sunday, May 10, 2015

A Classic of Its Genre

In a horrifying article about the efforts of the Republican-controlled US Congress to limit scientific research in areas related to climate change, the Washington Post commits a great example of Broderific both-sides-do-it-ism, with a mention to alleged Democratic antiscience sentiment that cites, of all things, Politico.  Well done.

Friday, May 1, 2015

Line of the Day

From Roy Edroso, at the end of a post about the mainstreaming of paranoid conspiracy theories such as Jade Helm:

"This will be a difficult period in American history to describe to our descendants, if we have any."