halfway

what do you get when you combine privilege, leisure, and trendy with a sympathetic reporter? almost too cool

oh, i admit it, i'm jealous. :P

George Monbiot is one of the Guardian's resident demagogues, a man with admirably progressive political views, but, alas, whose grasp of modern science (complexities, sociology, and practice) leaves much to be desired. is there anything quite as irritating as one person who doesn't know science railing against others for the (self)same sin? their misconceptions vary only in degree of egregiousness.

"There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear."
- Daniel Dennett


But if M is even a little bit right about this

... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!!!!


no, running away screaming didn't help as much as i thought it would.

::sigh::