We disapprove of the invasion of Iraq…
… so we’ll protest against the leaders of countries that mostly opposed the invasion, including the current US president who both opposed the invasion at the time, and has set a timetable for withdrawal.
We disapprove of corporate greed…
… so we’ll protest against a summit aimed at more closely monitoring [...]

A few months ago, I volunteered to be on a review panel for NIH. This means I evaluated grant proposals, and helped determine whether they were suitable for funding. It is generally considered part of one’s professional responsibilities in academia to do this. If you are submitting grants, then you should review [...]

Barrack Obama recently was defending mandatory health care coverage by explicitly stating that it was not a backdoor tax. Not only is that deceptive, but its stupid. The people who (correctly) consider it a tax will still consider it a tax despite his statement - all that he’s doing is losing credibility. [...]

Yale University Press, at the bequest of the university itself, just removed cartoons of the prophet Muhammad from an academic text exploring the reasons behind the violence incited by the cartoons in 2005. Obviously, removing the cartoons reduces the ability of readers to evaluate the quality of the arguments - they are, after all, [...]

I have a new hobby: actually listening to the ads on the radio. In the past, I’ve ignored them when they come on, and apparently so does everybody else, or they wouldn’t be able to get away with some of the things I’ve heard this weekend:
1) This dietary supplement is healthy, because its made [...]