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  • Well, bah. This is hardly the sort of thing to devote a post to. It belongs in some second-tier WordPress tab labeled “Things Muttered by A [...]

    Leaving to spend more time with my baby-flavored doughnuts

    February 22, 2010
  • Ohferbleepssake. This Christmas, the Pennsylvania Medical Society is asking children to ease up on the milk and cookies for Santa Claus. That [...]

    Friday Semi-Fluff: Letters to Santa

    December 18, 2009
  • Yaaaaaaaaaaaawn. This is almost, but not quite, so weary-eyeroll-inducing that it’s not worth the effort of typing it all out. (And the [...]

    My Heart Aches – ACHES! – For Men Who Act Like Douchebags

    December 14, 2009
  • I’ve been thinking about Stupak, and compromises, and patriarchal religious groups inserting themselves into the legislative process. I’d [...]

    I Can Be Reasoned With

    November 23, 2009
  • Listen, my children. You already know Of Paul Revere’s midnight ride, and so I won’t rehash how, “in Seventy-five…” For hardly a U.S. [...]

    Friday Fluff: Longfellow Edition

    October 16, 2009
  • During the presidential campaign I checked www.fivethirtyeight.com, like, several times a day. As one whose gifts lie not with the maths* I [...]

    ‘Nuther Quick Hit: Nate Silver Temporarily Suspends Mathematical Rigor

    October 14, 2009
  • Hey! Y’all! [lowers voice to a conspiratorial whisper] Guess what I’m doing RIGHT NOW. [chuckles furtively] Dude, I’m staying [...]

    Friday Fluff: Cheaper Than A Palatial Spa

    October 9, 2009
  • This thread contained a number of stories of Shapelings’ experiences of discrimination from doctors – including stories of patients [...]

    Quick appeal: Stories of weight discrimination and health care

    October 2, 2009
  • So here’s a blurb on a new study, courtesy of Washington Post’s “The Checkup.” It opens: Women, want to enjoy good health in your golden [...]

    The Vision Chart Effect

    September 30, 2009
  • Shapelings, in a few weeks I’ll be giving a public lecture at my new academic institution. In the lecture I plan on doing a [...]

    Appeal: Examples of progressive religious people behaving badly (or goodly)

    September 23, 2009

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