Sex, Science and the Bush Administration

Over at Mark Kleiman's old blog, now The Reality-Based Community, Mark asks two important questions (and I quote):

1. Is it possible that the combination of the South Dakota abortion law, the Plan B fiasco, and the HPV vaccine scandal can start to convince suburban "security moms" that reproductive freedom is really at risk if they keep voting Republican? How about a nice TV spot with a cervical cancer victim and a scientist in a white jacket explaining that the vaccine is ready but is being held up by bureaucrats and politicians?

A link about that vaccine: http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/13812775.htm

The second question?

2. Is it possible to organize scientists as an active political force? There are lots of them, and they're paid decently. They have two important sets of interests at stake: a direct material interest in funding for research and education, and what Weber called an "ideal interest" in having decisions made on scientific grounds. But they've never been mobilized. Has someone started a Science PAC?

Good questions.

The universe is ours --

Go see what your tax dollars purchased.

We are star stuff . . .

http://hytaipan.home.comcast.net/hubble640.html

Yup, those Amazon Reviews...

I didn't know someone had gleaned the best one-star reviews out of Amazon and put them together. They're all for books included in Time magazine's best 100 books 1923 -- present.

I think my favorite was the one for The Sun Also Rises. She couldn't take a chance, now could she?

http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/reviews/lone_star_statements.php

Roger Zelazny cheered me up after my first bout with reviewers by sending me ROTTEN REVIEWS. I still have it somewhere. I stopped taking reviews seriously after that.