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Mad rantings about politics, evolution, and microbiology. Comment policy: say what you want, but back it up with an email address. I don't like anonymous trolls.
Recent Posts
- Does Anyone Know If the HCR Does Anything to Stop Hospital Price Gouging? The Coakley Report Edition
- Why Policy Wonks and Academics Need to Understand Politics: The Diane Ravitch Edition
- There Will Be Books: Raven Used Books Opens in Boston
- Racism Is Still the Republican Base: The Healthcare Edition
- Saturday Links
- The Failure of the Progressive Bloc
- What's the Matter with the Boston Public Library?
- Education and Not Racing to the Bottom
- Thursday Links
- Income Inequality, Regression, and Understanding the Residual
- Happy Evacuation Day!
- Federal Educational Standards Will Weaken Massachusetts Schools
- Tuesday Links
- Hannity and Carlson's War on Entomology
- David Brooks Gets Obama Wrong
- Fear Mongering with Bad Statistics: NY Times and the Cato Institute Confuse Current and Future Obligations
- Sunday Links
- What Incessant Propaganda About Education Yields: The Boston Phoenix Makes Stuff Up
- Saturday Links
- Heavy Metal Zebra Finches
Recent Comments
- Sledgehammer Joe on Does Anyone Know If the HCR Does Anything to Stop Hospital Price Gouging? The Coakley Report Edition
- Donna B. on Does Anyone Know If the HCR Does Anything to Stop Hospital Price Gouging? The Coakley Report Edition
- Andrew on Racism Is Still the Republican Base: The Healthcare Edition
- JThompson on Does Anyone Know If the HCR Does Anything to Stop Hospital Price Gouging? The Coakley Report Edition
- JThompson on Why Policy Wonks and Academics Need to Understand Politics: The Diane Ravitch Edition
- 6EQUJ5 on Does Anyone Know If the HCR Does Anything to Stop Hospital Price Gouging? The Coakley Report Edition
- John Doe on Why Policy Wonks and Academics Need to Understand Politics: The Diane Ravitch Edition
- BaldApe on Why Policy Wonks and Academics Need to Understand Politics: The Diane Ravitch Edition
- DonkeyKong on Racism Is Still the Republican Base: The Healthcare Edition
- skeptifem on Racism Is Still the Republican Base: The Healthcare Edition
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