Day April 22, 2007

Warming climate reverses sex of lizards

High temperatures can reverse the sex of dragon lizards before they hatch, turning males into females. Leading neocons used this to angrily denounce “the liberal agenda that perverts our basic values, as well as our friends in the dragon lizard…

The politics of saying ‘genocide’

More than 90 years after the Armenian genocide, the U.S. is deadlocked in a humiliating linguistic debate. The L.A. Times has an excellent backgrounder on why D.C. still refuses to call it genocide. The primary reason is they don’t want…

Tech bloggers and Virginia Tech

Cluetrain derails in Blacksburg, Virginia, says Rogers Cadenhead, citing a number of tech bloggers who appeared to use the tragedy as a way to hype their favorite technologies, apparently oblivious of the carnage or the impression they were giving. He…

The needle and the damage done

Call them Fred and Sally. They met in Alcoholics Anonymous, both were drug addicts trying to stay clean. They didn’t get it, couldn’t get it. Instead they went back to drugs, while their friends (including me) watched as they ended…