Critical posts on Sarah Palin's Facebook page are deleted almost as soon as they appear, but a post celebrating the death of the 9-year-old victim in Tucson remains. The blogger calls this "inexplicable," but of course there's no mystery here. This is how Republicans think. Forget this at/…

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I'm rather proud of this one, actually:

A skeptic is someone who is dubious of a claim, but is willing to be persuaded by sufficient evidence. A denier is someone who will never be persuaded by any amount of evidence. There's precious little skepticism with regards to climate change these days, becaus… Read full post »

Most of my writing these days is scientific, and in scientific writing, and academic writing generally, we try to be as detached as possible. Scientists themselves are anything but detached -- we're not Frankenstein, neither are we Spock -- but that's the way the journal game is played. And… Read full post »

Well, that was a nice surprise. A few days ago, I finally received a response to my feedback:

We are sorry that you are unhappy with our redesign. We are working as quickly as possible to address user concerns on appearance and functionality. We expect to make these changes… Read full post »

I have been a Salon reader nearly since the site first went live, and a subscriber since the earliest days of the subscription option.  Salon has always informed and entertained me.  It's also often made me angry, which is something a good news source ought to do.

It has never, until now,… Read full post »

Use the feedback link, everybody. That's assuming it works, of course. Also assuming that anyone actually reads it. But we have to try.

 

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At least the CSS layout works in SeaMonkey now ...

Everything else about the new design is still terrible. The jumbled,… Read full post »

September 21, 2009 11:21:10 AM MDT

To whom it may concern:

The new design is cluttered, and it's very buggy on Firefox and SeaMonkey. A site that doesn't work well with the Gecko rendering engine isn't much use to a large portion of the Web-browsing population! Looking at the page… Read full post »

Glenn Greenwald does a beautiful job here of explaining why "partisanship" can be a good thing and "bipartisan" isn't all it's cracked up to be. The key paragraph:

Partisan disputes happen because people are very different and have very different views. Partisanship is about advocating for your ow… Read full post »