Scientists and politics

In news of note, Bill Foster will join reps Holt and Ehlers as the third card-carrying physicist in the legislature. What fun it is to have people who care about understanding the world, and maybe even do so, participating in running it.

Meanwhile, John McCain picks on some nifty biology research as a waste of money, as described in this Post article. I defer to my standard argument on this one: read a book! [*] Seeing first-hand the recent effect of increased bomb turnover on the state of bioscience funding, I have strong feelings about present and future governmental incompetence (or short-sightedness) in this area, and, therefore, that of the average amercun voter. Bah; meh; yargh.

[*] Quoth The Tick