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| Indian Cowboy |
| Classical liberalism from the perspective of an evolutionary biologist turned future psychiatrist. If I had a tagline, it'd be 'more thoughts, fewer soundbites' |
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| Selective Hiring Isn’t Discrimination |
| 2008-07-02 11:59:23 |
Classical Values, a regular read of mine, posted an excellent piece about a salon owner who’s been sued for failing to hire a burqa-wearing applicant.
Values sums it up well:
The owner here was placed in a classic damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don’t position. Had she hired this whining, covered woman, and had her trendy urban hipster customers felt [...]...
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| Thoughts on Obesity (1): The First Step In Fighting Obesity Is… |
| 2008-05-14 00:18:54 |
…Actually measuring it accurately. This goes for research as well as in clinical practice.
This is a huge pet peeve of mine. Possibly because I was trained in a much more rigorous science before I started on my way in the medical profession (third year medical student). Also possibly because I’m kind of [...]...
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| Not Dead Yet |
| 2008-05-13 22:10:57 |
It’s been a busy umm 15 months? Third year of medical school is winding down. I still haven’t revived my primatology career. The endless and painful process of rehabilitating myself and staying as functional as possible, as long as possible, while living with RSD is–well–endless and painful. And the spectre of [...]...
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| Elegy |
| 2007-02-02 00:57:03 |
One of the best friends I’ll ever have died on October 31, 2006. Eric Shockley drowned in his own body fluids in a hospital bed, in his early 30’s. A couple years ago his aorta started to balloon. They were able to patch it and replace the damaged valve, but we always [...]...
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| What If I Were Like Them? |
| 2006-12-18 15:05:54 |
I’ve been arguing with anti-gunnies for a few years now. And the one thing that strikes me about these people is they have no fear of being violently attacked. Whether or not this fear is rational is beside the point. The thing is that they are unable to understand why others don’t [...]...
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| Private Property And The Right To Bear Arms |
| 2006-11-30 12:43:01 |
With the growing popularity of concealed carry licenses has also come a ballooning number of establishments that prohibit firearms upon their premises.
Employee and customer alike must obey these dictates. And–often angrily–they wonder why their ‘right to bear arms’ doesn’t extend to these places of business. The answer of course is that this is [...]...
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| Damage Control: Why We Need To Lock Down The Borders |
| 2006-11-29 08:34:49 |
My first contribution at the Liberty Papers in months
The essence of the post has been seen on this blog a hundred times before. Intellectimpure will soon be complaining that I’m not saying anything new. Which is true.
But liberty papers now gets more readers than I do. So I thought I’d say it [...]...
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| ‘Victims’ of Credit Card Debt |
| 2006-11-28 07:06:56 |
Amazingly enough within a couple of hours of writing yesterday’s post and heading to school, I was assaulted by yet another piece on the horrors of debt. This one in the OU student newspaper.
Apparently ’some students don’t realize future implications of frequent credit card use.’ Not going to deny that. But yet [...]...
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| Living Beyond Your Means |
| 2006-11-26 20:19:08 |
Headline News had a little spiel about how more people are cutting back on holiday spending and are worried about credit card debt than this time last year. They blame the usual culprit: cost of living. What they didn’t ask was what level people are living at.
What I’d like to see would be [...]...
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| Lifestyle Modification In Psychiatric Illness: Quick Comment |
| 2006-11-17 03:53:09 |
For just about any other kind of health problem, we talk about how lifestyle (diet, exercise, etc.) plays a huge role in the etiology of disease. Lifestyle changes can prevent disease, they can slow its progression, and in some cases even reverse it, depending on what we’re talking about.
Diabetes, cancer, heart disease…all are illnesses [...]...
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| Faith Or Fear |
| 2006-11-15 23:25:59 |
Rosie O’Donnell made a comment today about how we shouldn’t fear the terrorists:
Faith or fear, that’s your choice. You can walk through life believing in the goodness of the world, or walk through life afraid of anyone who thinks different than you and trying to convert them to your way of thinking.
I figure most people [...]...
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| A Quick Note On Stereotyping |
| 2006-11-01 03:04:32 |
We were talking about The 300 on the med school discussion board. Of course, a couple of the meatheads mentioned that we would’ve loved to be born in such a time. Which incited me to mention that the Velamas today are a far cry from our warrior past, namely engineers, doctors, and mid-level [...]...
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| Racist comment? What? |
| 2006-10-31 07:43:24 |
Yeah, limited blogging until at least the end of this week. Possibly forever. *shrug*
Anyway, I heard an Orlando Magic fan had his season ticket revoked because he called Dikembe Mitumbo a monkey. Apparently that’s racist. I’ve had a lot of racial slurs thrown at me over the years, including pretty much everything [...]...
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| Voting Strategies |
| 2006-10-27 07:11:33 |
So. This is an ugly time in our Nation’s history. Far uglier than the Civil War and Reconstruction. Much worse than the Depression–although the seeds of today were planted by FDR, his four freedoms, and even moreso his massive ego.
Claire Wolfe puts it succinctly in the opening lines of 101 Things To [...]...
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| My Philosophy |
| 2006-10-25 04:15:04 |
Ben Folds Five - Philosophy
Go ahead you can
Laugh all you want
I got my philosophy
Keeps my feet on the ground
And I trust it like the ground
And thats why my philosophy
It keeps me walking when Im falling down
I see that there is evil
And I know that there is good
And the inbetweens
I never understood
Wont you look at me
Im [...]...
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| It’s Not An Either/Or Proposition |
| 2006-10-18 10:30:54 |
You know what pisses me off?
Being called conservative.
You know what pisses me off even more?
When pseudosocialists call themselves ‘liberal’.
Do you know what pisses me off more than either of those?
Being told to vote for Democrats since I’m fed up with Republicans.
That one exposes just how statist and juvenile the modern so-called liberal is.
Everywhere around me [...]...
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| Subverting Campaign Advertising Law |
| 2006-10-17 17:10:48 |
At the moment we’re well within that 60 day period during which our First Amendment rights cease to exist courtesy of Sen. McCain’s insane publicity-driven political posturing. Which makes me angry. But I saw an ad air on TV that cleverly sidesteps that bit of legislative retardation. Which makes me smile.
Imagine an [...]...
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| What Would You Do If You Were In Charge? |
| 2006-10-13 10:52:30 |
Guy on a Focaljet asked this question and posted his top ten. Mine were slightly different. The one commonality, healthcare reform, showed just how different our ideologies and thought processes were. I wanted to reform it into a true market system with posted prices and employer-insurance decoupling. He of course wanted [...]...
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| Why You Shouldn’t Buy Norinco |
| 2006-10-11 16:24:21 |
If you’re a firearms enthusiast you’ve probably heard of Norinco.
They’re a chinese manufacturer of a lot of weapon-related tech. What makes buying Norinco different from buying other Chinese stuff is that they are a profit center for the People’s Liberation Army. Who they’re liberating and who they’ve kept liberated I don’t know. [...]...
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| On Buddhism |
| 2006-10-10 10:15:47 |
This is my personal take on buddhism, a combination of a strong spiritual upbringing and some scholarly dabbling in college. The Dalai Lama almost certainly has a different interpretation. I hope this clears up some of the misconceptions about Buddhism, and explains somethign of the differences between the Buddhist sect of Hinduism and [...]...
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| I Want My Good Name Back |
| 2006-10-09 04:14:39 |
70 years ago, the Indian symbol for good fortune was appropriated by an ambitious German politician to denote his Third Reich. The symbol that had graced everything from doorways to jewelry for thousands of years was in a moment’s space twisted into a representation of one of the most evil regimes in history. [...]...
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| If Hindus Killed Other People For Being Different… |
| 2006-10-04 01:13:25 |
…maybe we’d finally get included in these massive diversity initiatives all over the place.
Thanks to the apologists at CAIR who’d much rather guilt trip Americans than actually reform their own religion, the bleeding hearts who think that if we all just hold hands and sing Kumbaiah around a campfire world peace will appear out of [...]...
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| The Equalizer |
| 2006-10-03 11:15:51 |
For people who are more nuanced and intellectual than men like me, with our benighted concepts of individual liberty, leftists sure seem unable to understand that a weapon is never solely an instrument of offense. In fact, many of the most popular martial art forms began as a form of defense. Kung Fu, [...]...
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| Lawyers At Gitmo |
| 2006-09-29 12:28:40 |
So 1000 lawyers have shown up at the detention center at Guantanamo Bay to defend the 400 some inmates, for free. Screw the inmates, lets focus on those lawyers.
I’m going to go ahead and make the assumption that probably upwards of 90% of those lawyers are flaming leftists. With maybe the remainder made [...]...
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| Tangled Bank #63 |
| 2006-09-27 02:39:26 |
Welcome to Tangled Bank #63. Probably a pretty good reason to start scienceblogging again. I was going to do a clever little theme, but I’m neither clever nor little. I thought about doing something primate-related. But I’m too obsessed with monkeys as it is; I research them with no funding, no [...]...
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| The Importance Of Evolution In Medicine |
| 2006-09-27 00:30:30 |
First science post in a long time. Expect more though. Because I feel like I’m in a political rut.
I get more than a little frustrated when doctors and fellow medical students tell me they don’t see how evolution has any bearing on the practice of medicine. Perhaps it’s because they’re taught to [...]...
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| Random Thoughts On Religion |
| 2006-09-26 01:27:04 |
It seems a lot of people think that when it comes to Christianity, open hearts and open minds are only supposed to go one way. While I’m supposed to keep an open mind about their religion, they have no duty to return the favor, let alone even consider that Jesus might possibly be only [...]...
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