One thing that has made my new job even harder is dealing with the financial fallout in Michigan as it affects state and university budgets. A review of several books that deal with University funding appeared in the New York Review of Books last week, and it pretty well describes some of the pressures I’m [...]
Yay! Big props to Vermont, Iowa (??? who knew), and DC for recognizing marriage between any two people that love each other–regardless of parts.
Rather predictably, while most of us rejoice, some others think the world is ending. I just loved this graphic from Pam’s House Blend illustrating fundamentalist reactions–It make me laugh very much. [...]
I haven’t had a WTF in a while, and I do try to keep the blog “all bugs, all the time.” But.
People.
If one more person tells me we are in a “post-racial America” because a person of color is running for president, I’m gonna slap em. How can ya’ll not see that some ugly [...]
I was going to try to stay on the insect topic all week, but enough stuff keeps happening that I just can’t.
On the 45th anniversary of the 16th Street Bombing, Angry Black Woman connects the deaths of black children in the past to an assault on the nursery in a Mosque in Ohio Last week. [...]
I happened to run into Michigan’s Head of Public Deliberation last night, and she introduced me to the National Issues Forums publications:
National Issues Forums (NIF) is a nonpartisan, nationwide network of locally sponsored public forums for the consideration of public policy issues. It is rooted in the simple notion that people need to come together [...]
Today, July 1st, 150 years ago, the joint paper of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace was read to the Linnean Society of London: “On the tendency of species to form varieties, and on the perpetuation of varieties and species by natural means of selection.”
Nature had a nice essay about Wallace, who tends to be [...]
If you don’t know what Juneteenth is, it’s the day that word of the Emancipation Proclamation finally reached Texas. Slaves in texas had actually been “free” for several months before they found this out.
From the Texas State Library:
Juneteenth, celebrated on June 19, is the name given to emancipation [...]
Michigan, unfortunately, has become a home to many neo-nazi types recently. So I’ve had to deal with not only noose incidents, but an actual, bona fide, student hate group. Ugh.
The student hate group invited Ryan Sorba, author of a (unpublished) book called “The Born Gay Hoax”, to Michigan State University. (The talk was [...]
Two skeptical things to read for Tuesday:
The Skeptic’s Circle is up at Andrea’s blog! Check it out!
And–
I’ve written a long navel-gazing post at Skepchick about race, skepticism, and the F word.
Photo from Porifera, since some people think I don’t post about insects enough. Hmpf.
:p
Fagbug! What an awesome story of someone taking an act of hate and turning it into something positive.
From a news article covering her story, and the rainbow makeover courtesy of Volkswagen:
“Fag Bug has become much more than when it started. And to be able to transform it into something positive, rather than have people look [...]
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