The Oprah Presidency?

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Conservative columnist Kathleen Parker must hate that she doesn't have a penis. What else could I infer from her vapid column in today's Washington Post, "Obama: Our first female president".…

Vulcans Rule, Klingons Drool

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The Obama Administration has set a new course for US Space policy that embraces arms control. Actually the arms control policy is an old course favored by Reagan, Bush I and Clinton, but not Bush II (is anyone surprised?). President Obama's team will look to international cooperation instead of the "Go it alone" attitude favored by Bush and Cheney.

The Politics of Science

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Science writer Chris Mooney (Unscientific America and The Republican War on Science) has a recent column in The Washington Post about how scientists need to approach the general populous in…