I really tried to resist writing this post. I left it alone with Vitter and Florida’s Bob Allen but with the latest Republican sex scandal, I just can’t hold it in any more. The hypocrisy is just so thick and sticky that it’s starting to feel like a public mens’ room around the Capitol.
It’s certainly [...]
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Political Friday: Randy Republicans
How do you afford your rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle?
“Excess ain’t rebellion.
You’re drinking what they’re selling.
Your self-destruction doesn’t hurt them.
Your chaos won’t convert them.
They’re so happy to rebuild it.
You’ll never really kill it.”
-Cake – “Rock ‘n’ Roll Lifestyle”
I was listening to Cake’s wonderful 1994 album “Motorcade of Generosity” yesterday and that album as well as the imminent college football season (Gooooooo Dawgs! Sic ‘em!) [...]
Wordless Wednesday: Rome
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Science Tuesday: OCD Mice and the Nature of Fear
Today, I’m starting a new feature here at chrisdellavedova.com – trying my hand at scientific writing for a lay audience. Each week I’ll try to distill an article or two from one of the big scientific journals. This new theme corresponds a bit with a recent post about career goals, so I would be eternally [...]
New Music Monday: M.I.A. – “Kala”
“People on the internet
A new life for the intellect
People judge me so hard
Coz I dont floss my titty set
I was born out of dirt like im porn in a skirt
I was a little girl who made good with all that I blurt
I put people on the map that never seen a map
I show em somin [...]
MP3s of the Week: Blitzen Trapper – “Sci-Fi Kids” and “Wild Mountain Nation”
Portland, Oregon of the first part of the naughties is like the Seattle of the early 90’s or the Athens, Georgia of the early 80’s – it is churning out some of the best bands in the world right now. The Decemberists, Modest Mouse, The Dandy Warhols and The Gossip are all based out of [...]
Political Friday: Putin posing and primary positioning
What’s going on with Vladmir Putin? In the last few weeks ago I’ve seen this cheesecake photo of him fishing in Siberia (won’t nobody call him Dobby the house elf anymore). There’s been this sort of Cold War posturing with the US over the missile defense and with the UK over spies and expulsion of [...]
Misery is optional.
Some of you may know that I have fallen out of love with academic science. This is hardly a new break up and there are lots of reasons for the cooling of my passions. But lest this post become an indictment of all the things wrong with academia, I’ll refrain from bitching. I kind of [...]
Political Friday: Turkish Delight
“No, you can’t go back to Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That’s nobody’s business but the Turks…”
-They Might Be Giants – “Istanbul (Not Constantinople)”
Turkey’s been at the center of some political melodrama this week, partially of its own doing and partially in response to the increasingly impotent US Congress. Earlier [...]
Wordless Wednesday: Punts
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