Ex Cathedra

Washington University in St. Louis, better known to most people as “I remember them, I almost applied to grad school there,” is planning give an honorary doctrorate to Phyllis Schlaffly, professional antifeminist, better known as “James Dobson with a wig, big shoes, and a rubber nose. ” There’s a [...]

Sorry, life here in the pollen capital of the universe has put me down temporarily, but I’ll be back posting soon.
Perhaps somebody will   post about  the National Day of Prayer. I looked at the application to be a coordinator, but while I was delighted to see that convicted felons could be coordinators, Jews couldn’t. Nerither  could [...]

Deborah Jeane Palfrey, perhaps best known as the DC Madam was Found Dead, Apparently in a Suicide
There’s a community tribte to her at Bound, not Gagged.

h/t to Blog for Democracy and Amber Rhea
And thanks to fegg on b3taboard for this:

Hey, authors! Picture uploading works again. Maybe. Wait. It works, it’s my brain that doesn’t. I originally posted this as a page, not a post. Also, posting and editing work way better in Opera.
OK, I’m going over my quota of words, but did anybody catch on that Miley Cyrus is 15 years old?   Did anybody catch on that the young girls in that fundamentalist Mormon compound [...]

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn’t work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me. - Emo Phillips
I went looking for a quote for a reply to Ted Goas, who was kind enough to visit [...]

Coming up on Thursday.
Why not observe the National Day of Prayer? I know what that gets you: Madeline Kara Neumann

I’ve upgraded to the current version of Wordpress (2.5.1) which fixes an obscure security problem and fixes some other bugs, among them, the bug that gave authors problems uploading images

You know those tourists who have somebody take a picture of them standing next to the Statue of Liberty? NASA is exactly like that. The Greenbelt: Nova: So proud of us — more pictures there, including the picture of us.

In the two weeks leading up to the Indiana primary, a Democratic strategist familiar with the Obama campaign said aides are likely to turn to the controversies of Bill Clinton’s White House years — Hillary Clinton’s trading cattle futures, Whitewater and possibly impeachment. “Everyone knows the history of the Clintons,” the strategist said. - [...]

In an earlier exchange on the old blog Tim took great exception with an author I’d cited who claimed that even in the hallowed halls of science, gender bias against women was a a problem today and may have gotten worse over the decades.
I found an MIT study that Tim landed [...]