My first diary -- whither science?
I hope that this comes out okay; after all, I'm not Armando. :) There's been alot of talk lately about the U.S. losing ground in scientific research to Asia. Right now, the hot-button issues being...
View ArticleWhat, really, can be done about the Bush administration?
I've read many, many comments here about how the Katrina catastrophie will be the end of the Bush Administration. How finally, this will be the straw that breaks the camel's back. Much crowing of...
View ArticleA humble suggestion for the Democratic Primary in Ohio.
Now that Sherrod Brown has done the classy thing and suggested all donations go to ActBlue, I have a suggestion from the peanut gallery for BOTH candidates...and for the netroots. I sincerely hope some...
View ArticleA personal diary: Why I might still leave the U.S.
This is a reposting of a comment that I made in a diary long passed. It's in response to a commenter that essentially called me a traitor to the cause for wanting to leave the U.S. It may not say...
View ArticleOn being surplus population.
After a comment that I made this morning, I've decided to post the first diary I've done in nearly a year. For the last seven years, I've been working toward getting a PhD in molecular virology at Ohio...
View ArticleA request for advice on campaign volunteering.
With all the grim news as of late (though the latest, for a change, seems to be grim news for Republicans) I finally found the courage to do what I've wanted to do many years. I volunteered for a...
View ArticleOH-15: Canvassing on a sunny Sunday
So it was on a sunny Sunday afternoon that I completed my first canvassing assignment for the Kilroy campaign. It was a most interesting experience. Read on below the fold...
View ArticleOH-15: Sunny Sunday Part II -- no solo mio!
First of all, this diary has a somewhat darker tone then my last one, and it's a bit more personal; a mea culpa more then anything. However, bear with me through the personal stuff; there's good news...
View ArticleOH-15: Blogging the Congressional Debate.
Here's a summary of my debate impressions. It's turned out fairly length, and is close to a liveblogging blow-by-blow as I can provide. I hope that it's informative to my fellow OH-15 Kossacks!
View ArticleOH-Var: Advice on Absentee ballot?
This is a very short diary, but one that many of us Kossacks must be asking in Ohio: what does one do with an absentee ballot once we receive it?
View ArticleOH-15: Smells like desperation!
In today's Columbus Dispatch was a story that highlighted just how desparate the Pryce campaign is getting after the dynamite Constituency Dynamics polling showing Pryce 12 points down.
View ArticleOH-15: (Partly) Sunny Sunday III: GOTV!
Just a few reports from the field out here in cloudy Columbus, Ohio, doing GOTV canvassing for Mary Jo Kilroy. You could subtitle this "the fledging of a canvasser". I've finally earned my bona fides.
View ArticleLiberal radio stations dropping like flies in Ohio.
It appears Ohio is about to lose, or has already lost, all but one of it's progressive talk stations. This is a travesty, particularly in light of the near-total sweep of the Democrats in the state in...
View ArticleNew fundamentalist Trojan Horse?
Today at my lab at Ohio State University, my boss (as well as several other professors in my building) received a most interesting book, labeled "Complimentary Gift", and "Scientific Atlas". We...
View ArticleAmidst the darkness, a 15 year quest comes to an end.
This is a personal diary. I don't really expect many to read it, but I do hope that at least DarkSyde sees it; he's been following my story.Being a political junkie and in general, liking to keep up...
View ArticleWho would ever want to be a scientist?
This is the first diary I've ever written on request; it was a diary to give some idea of why us young scientists, those few Americans among us that have stood by the profession for as long as we have,...
View ArticleThe Phoenix in the Test Tube
It's been ages since I've written a diary, and this is going to be a really odd one -- a mix of hope and despair, of pleading and cynicism, a request for reassurance and even a bit of a sales...
View ArticleTest Tube Phoenix: Teacher help request.
It's been about two months since I wrote about my situation, as yet another displaced postdoc in the biosciences, the job market essentially frozen, hundreds of postdocs for every open position, and so...
View ArticleTest Tube Phoenix: No unemployment for you.
Well, my plans for surviving the recession have just collapsed around me. This is not going to be an easy diary for me to write, but at this point, ranting to DailyKos beats the alternatives, which is...
View ArticleHow I managed to get unemployment.
When last we left the intrepid Test Tube Phoenix, he'd just be denied the unemployment that was going to be keeping him alive and insured, and he was looking to go down hard. Martyrdom wasn't outside...
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