Wonderland or Not

My old blogging friend I. M. Dedd, (Paul Malden for the purposes of this), submitted a cartoon to a national contest and it was selected as one of 12 finalists! The contest was sponsored by the Union of Concerned Scientists and the topic was: “How Government Interferes with Science.” Hundreds of entries were submitted nationwide and were judged by a panel of prominent cartoonists including Wiley Miller (the creator of Non Sequitur) and Pulitzer Prize winner Signe Wilkinson (Philadelphia Daily News). The 12 finalists will be featured on a 2009 calendar from the UCS.

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For those unfamiliar with I.M. Dedd, he ran a the great political cartoon blog Dead Guy Lives until November of 2006 when much to the dismay of many he left the seemingly increasingly manure filled pastures of the blogesphere for places more pristine.

Rumor has it Dedd will be back on the blogging air waves soon.

I encourage you to go to the link and vote for #9 Paul Malden. It takes not a minute to vote for # 9.

Peace

This is another public service announcement.

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I got an “Urgent message from Hugh Hewitt” email today.

Hugh Hewitt is so upset about the young people of America’s fascination with Obama he is sending notices to his readers about his “Letters to a Young Obama Supporter“. He explains all his concerns in these letters. He so wants to save America he is is offering those letters in a nice little package ( a $66 value for only $34.95), and you’ll even get 12 months of Townhall thrown in. He hopes you act quickly, subscribe and get all three in your hands before it’s too late. .

What a peach he is.

Via MoJo - Even those supposedly in the know good blogs are crap. No shit.

Blogosphere

Those people still don’t get that most people now can read a the news and research everything on line, so it hardly matters. Most of what is out there is just the queen bee gathering her drones or entertaining punditry. Most blogs suck no matter what genre they are, even the ones written by people who have some journalistic skill and no agenda. Some good points made though.

I don’t do much linking here.
I do read Science Blogs routinely, and I have read Pharyngula
since I first started blogging. For those of you so inclined and with decent credentials ( just kidding), feel free to help out a science blogger in the name of common sense.

You will have to read the whole story, which I am not going to post here as I’ve been following it for some time. It involves a witch burning campaign that stems from being rude to a cracker ( The Eucharist ).

If you haven’t read Doug’s splendid prose ( Open letter to the cowards, idiots and reprobates in the U.S. Congress), do so.

And don’t forget Pia’s work in Our Children’s Brains Part XVII: More Than Just Clumsy: What It’s Like to Live With Nonverbal Learning Disorder in the long Island Press.

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