Observations on conservatism, politics, education, cosmology, astrobiology, evolution and the environment. Monday, March 16, 2015. The curse attributed to the Chinese - May you live in interesting times - seems to be especially apt today. The fetish and totem of the extraordinarily puffed-up nerd.

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