Lib’s vs. Con’s: Why Blog at all?

In response to Dean Barnett and Patrick Ruffini  on the point of Conservative Blogging, Andrew Sullivan says:
Personally, I’ve always thought the great advantage of the blogosphere is that you don’t have to be conservative or liberal. You can just be yourself, which turns out to require a little more cojones than many seem interested in.
AMEN, [...]

Atlas, Theory, and Math Blogging

A New Mathematics Blog has been started by Jeff Morton, PhD.  He’s currently a post-doc in Ontario.  Here’s a post about why he named his blog what he named it that I found interesting:  Theoretical Atlas
… A “theory” can be seen as a way of taking some standard, pre-existing structure, and trying to “map” it [...]

Nasal Art: Popularizing Science Data

Science doesn’t have to be all facts and no fun.  And to prove it, Science magazine this week is giving us a plethera of groovy science photos, visualizations, and other eye candy based on scientific data.
Scientific data are the currency of science, but they often buy little understanding outside science itself–or even outside the narrow [...]

Back to School, and a Free Real Analysis E-Book

Well, my lack of consistent blogging this week indicates the arrival of the new school term.   By Wednesday I was already behind!  But, don’t worry, I got up at 6am on Thursday to catch up.
I’m taking:

Real Analysis
Quantum Game Theory
Set Theory

I’m also taking Tai Chi, which is FANTASTIC!!  I am now a total Tai Chi Convert.
My [...]

Republicans Losing the Black Vote? Or Is It Already Lost?

A long time reader of the Proletarian weighs in:
Well, I’m not angry at the Republican front-runners. In fact, I admire their refreshing honesty. They are not interested in black voters. They know that the Republican nominee, whoever he is, is unlikely to get more than 10% of the black vote. And with a short primary [...]

Republican Presidential Debate: MIA, Republicans Miss Opportunity

All 4 of the top Republican Candidates for President Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, Fred Thompson and Senator John McCain, missed a debate centered around minority issues yesterday, held at Morgan State University.
 “Let me take a moment right here and now to say hello to those of you viewers from home: Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Senator John [...]

Clarence Thomas: Abortion, Democracy, and Pubic Hair

Judge Clarence Thomas in an interview with 60 Minutes, slated for Sunday, Sept. 30, at 7:30 p.m. ET, 7 p.m. PT. , suggested that the “elephant in the room” during his confirmation hearings was not Anita Hill and the Sexual harassment charges she brought against him (remember the coke can?), but rather his views on [...]

More Pro Bush Fascism

From John Yoo:
“The greatest presidents are those who exercise executive power most aggressively,” he said, contending that George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Roosevelt and Truman, like Bush, seized power in wartime and acted without the authorization of Congress.
(hat tip: Balkinization)

Jesus is a Dead Iraqi Child

Christians Protest the war. More at the Proletarian.

Rudy Giuliani: “Freedom is about Authority”

Move over Stalin, let Rudy come over:
We look upon authority too often and focus over and over again, for 30 or 40 or 50 years, as if there is something wrong with authority. We see only the oppressive side of authority. Maybe it comes out of our history and our background. What we don’t see [...]