By • May 04,2007

Hardball? More like Hard-head

Let’s play word association: Buffoon. If the first thing that popped into your head was “Chris Matthews,” you probably watched the Republican presidential debate last night. Among the questions Matthews...

By • May 01,2007

Nastygram? Delete it like spam

Last week, Shelley Batts, the Neuroscience PhD candidate and ScienceBlogs contributor, posted a response to the much-linked BBC article, “Alcohol ‘Makes Fruit Healthier.'” Unlike most bloggers that skimmed the article...

By • Apr 27,2007

Did God Misspeak?

Who would have thought that John Kerry and Charlie Rangel would both give interviews speaking out against gun control, right after a major shooting tragedy? Who would have thought that...

By • Apr 23,2007

Judgment Daze

The actual harm caused in the Virginia Tech shooting is bad enough, but if we are not aware of our hurdles to judgment we make ourselves more vulnerable to tragic...

By • Apr 20,2007

Words Are Just As Good As Actions

For some reason, Don Imus lost his job last week for a comment that, by the standards of a guy who once called Howard Kurtz a “boner-nosed… beanie-wearing Jewboy,” was...