Gen X vs. Gen Y throwdown over on Metafilter - they agree on nothing except their contempt for the Boomers.
Comments thread is ostensibly a discussion of this video (an AARP ad):
Hat tip: Carrie
31 January 2009
30 January 2009
Taleb's rules for successful living
Via BoingBoing's link to an interview in the Times of London, Nassim Nicholas Taleb's top ten rules for living:
1 Scepticism is effortful and costly. It is better to be sceptical about matters of large consequences, and be imperfect, foolish and human in the small and the aesthetic.2 Go to parties. You can’t even start to know what you may find on the envelope of serendipity. If you suffer from agoraphobia, send colleagues.
3 It’s not a good idea to take a forecast from someone wearing a tie. If possible, tease people who take themselves and their knowledge too seriously.
4 Wear your best for your execution and stand dignified. Your last recourse against randomness is how you act — if you can’t control outcomes, you can control the elegance of your behaviour. You will always have the last word.
5 Don’t disturb complicated systems that have been around for a very long time. We don’t understand their logic. Don’t pollute the planet. Leave it the way we found it, regardless of scientific ‘evidence’.
6 Learn to fail with pride — and do so fast and cleanly. Maximise trial and error — by mastering the error part.
7 Avoid losers. If you hear someone use the words ‘impossible’, ‘never’, ‘too difficult’ too often, drop him or her from your social network. Never take ‘no’ for an answer (conversely, take most ‘yeses’ as ‘most probably’).
8 Don’t read newspapers for the news (just for the gossip and, of course, profiles of authors). The best filter to know if the news matters is if you hear it in cafes, restaurants... or (again) parties.
9 Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or a private jet.
10 Answer e-mails from junior people before more senior ones. Junior people have further to go and tend to remember who slighted them.
29 January 2009
Run for cold climate!
An Austin road sign meant to warn motorists about road conditions instead read: "The end is near! Caution! Zombies ahead!"Austin road sign warns motorists of zombies (Dallas Morning News, 29 Jan 2009)
Vandals broke off a lock on the sign in central Austin early Monday and then hacked into the computer to change the words, said Sara Hartley, a city spokeswoman.When they were done, the sign read: “The end is near! Caution! Zombies ahead! Run for cold climate!”Before leaving, the vandals reset the password so the city could not easily change the sign. The sign's humorous warning stayed up for several hours before the manufacturer of the computer could reset the password.
I'm sorry, but I must point out that the sign flashes three messages in sequence, not a single line of text:
The End
Is Near
Caution
Zombies
Ahead
Run For
Cold
Climate
liberally seasoned with exclamation points.
I know that tampering with signs intended to enhance the public safety is Not Cool but OMG that's funny.
Pick me
As James Fallows observes, "These people are different from the rest of us." [ed - link to original post removed; see update below.]
And how.
Update: This is, um, enhanced - and Fallows has removed the original link from his blog. ;-)
And how.
Update: This is, um, enhanced - and Fallows has removed the original link from his blog. ;-)
28 January 2009
25 Random Things
[Originally posted @ Facebook]
Rules: Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it's because I want to know more about you.
(To do this, go to “NOTES” under tabs on your "PROFILE" page (you may have to add the tab by clicking on the + sign), click on "Compose New Message" and paste these instructions in the body of the note, type your 25 random things, tag 25 people (in the right hand corner of the app) then click publish.)
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I was tagged by SulaAnne Kosacky. (Hi, Sula!)
1. Five adjacent names in my MP3 library when "sorted by artist": George Carlin, George Clinton, George Harrison, George Jones, George Michael. That would be an interesting way to spend a couple of hours.
2. I make legendary oatmeal. (Use regular old Quaker oatmeal, although you will not be sorry if you make this with expensive steel-cut whatever, either. Just before removing from pot: add small amt of honey or maple syrup - your choice - to cooked oatmeal, and whip in a raw egg with a whisk; the hot oatmeal cooks the egg quickly and it imparts a silky sort of texture. Top with bananas and raisins if you like - I like that but there's no need; this oatmeal is heavenly unadorned and right from the ladle. The acclaim will be deafening. Trust me on this.)
3. I always overcook fish.
4. I smoke five cigarettes a workday. At this point, the addiction is *clearly* psychological. I go for days on end without smoking. I always smoke at work.
5. Earliest pop-culture memory: my babysitter crying because The Beatles were breaking up (would've been 1970, I think)
6. I will drive long distances and endure considerable hardship for good barbecue.
7. I would like to learn more about wine but am blessed with friends who know lots and the results of letting them order for the table are almost always good.
8. My Shelf of Shame is getting out of control. I am working on reading all the books I bought and haven't read yet before I buy any more books.
9. The first thing I do when I move to a new place is get a library card.
10. The second thing is figure out where I can buy okra.
11. My mother (librarian and Southern cook) is to blame for both #9 and #10.
11. Somewhere, my dear departed father is laughing his ass off because I am now doing for a living what he did for the last ten years of his career, and I never quite believed his stories about how batshit crazy a thing it is to do for a living.
12. I owned not one, but *two*, Apple Newtons.
13. My favorite cheap meal to cook at home: pinto beans, dirty rice, and cornbread.
14. I took a run at teaching myself to cook Indian food (out of a cookbook, a very good one actually) and let it drop a few years back. Goal for 2009: find cooking classes.
15. At some near future point I want to take flying lessons.
16. Playlist for a longish flight (as a passenger!) - a lot of early jazz and hillbilly music interspersed with bad 80s pop tunes.
(Reading back over the list so far... No, I am not attempting to write a bad parody of "Stuff White People Like." It is what it is.)
17. My PC history: 70's hobbyist (dad was an IBM lifer, tried to interest me in building projects involving soldering irons), Apple II at school, TRS-80, IBM PC, original Macintosh, forced over to Windows by work, now (from 2006-present) back to Macintosh.
18. I passed up chances to travel, as a younger person, that I am still kicking myself over. I have tried not to miss a chance to travel since and am trying to make up for lost time as I slide down the banister of life into middle age.
19. Won't keep house without a cat or dog and I prefer at least one of each. My wife and I have one of each in a 400 sq ft NYC apartment, along with the two of us. We're all very close. :-)
20. Guilty pleasures: kung fu movies, Popeye's fried chicken, Billy Joel records.
21. The Billy Joel thing, I had concealed successfully from my wife until just now.
22. Usually I wrote "notes" on Facebook by importing blog posts. This is the first Facebook note that's going in the other direction (cut-and-pasted into the blog.)
23. Dr. Bronner's Peppermint Soap (liquid) - A big bottle is always sitting on the edge of my tub or hanging from my shower caddy, ever since I first bought some at the original Wellspring Grocery up the street from NCSSM.
24. As a recent North Carolina transplant to New York City, had never been more amazed than the day I saw the Krispy Kreme sign (complete with glowing red neon HOT DONUTS NOW) at their first Manhattan outpost. Major. Cognitive. Dissonance.
25. I'm surprised at how hard it is to come up with 25 random things.
Rules: Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it's because I want to know more about you.
(To do this, go to “NOTES” under tabs on your "PROFILE" page (you may have to add the tab by clicking on the + sign), click on "Compose New Message" and paste these instructions in the body of the note, type your 25 random things, tag 25 people (in the right hand corner of the app) then click publish.)
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I was tagged by SulaAnne Kosacky. (Hi, Sula!)
1. Five adjacent names in my MP3 library when "sorted by artist": George Carlin, George Clinton, George Harrison, George Jones, George Michael. That would be an interesting way to spend a couple of hours.
2. I make legendary oatmeal. (Use regular old Quaker oatmeal, although you will not be sorry if you make this with expensive steel-cut whatever, either. Just before removing from pot: add small amt of honey or maple syrup - your choice - to cooked oatmeal, and whip in a raw egg with a whisk; the hot oatmeal cooks the egg quickly and it imparts a silky sort of texture. Top with bananas and raisins if you like - I like that but there's no need; this oatmeal is heavenly unadorned and right from the ladle. The acclaim will be deafening. Trust me on this.)
3. I always overcook fish.
4. I smoke five cigarettes a workday. At this point, the addiction is *clearly* psychological. I go for days on end without smoking. I always smoke at work.
5. Earliest pop-culture memory: my babysitter crying because The Beatles were breaking up (would've been 1970, I think)
6. I will drive long distances and endure considerable hardship for good barbecue.
7. I would like to learn more about wine but am blessed with friends who know lots and the results of letting them order for the table are almost always good.
8. My Shelf of Shame is getting out of control. I am working on reading all the books I bought and haven't read yet before I buy any more books.
9. The first thing I do when I move to a new place is get a library card.
10. The second thing is figure out where I can buy okra.
11. My mother (librarian and Southern cook) is to blame for both #9 and #10.
11. Somewhere, my dear departed father is laughing his ass off because I am now doing for a living what he did for the last ten years of his career, and I never quite believed his stories about how batshit crazy a thing it is to do for a living.
12. I owned not one, but *two*, Apple Newtons.
13. My favorite cheap meal to cook at home: pinto beans, dirty rice, and cornbread.
14. I took a run at teaching myself to cook Indian food (out of a cookbook, a very good one actually) and let it drop a few years back. Goal for 2009: find cooking classes.
15. At some near future point I want to take flying lessons.
16. Playlist for a longish flight (as a passenger!) - a lot of early jazz and hillbilly music interspersed with bad 80s pop tunes.
(Reading back over the list so far... No, I am not attempting to write a bad parody of "Stuff White People Like." It is what it is.)
17. My PC history: 70's hobbyist (dad was an IBM lifer, tried to interest me in building projects involving soldering irons), Apple II at school, TRS-80, IBM PC, original Macintosh, forced over to Windows by work, now (from 2006-present) back to Macintosh.
18. I passed up chances to travel, as a younger person, that I am still kicking myself over. I have tried not to miss a chance to travel since and am trying to make up for lost time as I slide down the banister of life into middle age.
19. Won't keep house without a cat or dog and I prefer at least one of each. My wife and I have one of each in a 400 sq ft NYC apartment, along with the two of us. We're all very close. :-)
20. Guilty pleasures: kung fu movies, Popeye's fried chicken, Billy Joel records.
21. The Billy Joel thing, I had concealed successfully from my wife until just now.
22. Usually I wrote "notes" on Facebook by importing blog posts. This is the first Facebook note that's going in the other direction (cut-and-pasted into the blog.)
23. Dr. Bronner's Peppermint Soap (liquid) - A big bottle is always sitting on the edge of my tub or hanging from my shower caddy, ever since I first bought some at the original Wellspring Grocery up the street from NCSSM.
24. As a recent North Carolina transplant to New York City, had never been more amazed than the day I saw the Krispy Kreme sign (complete with glowing red neon HOT DONUTS NOW) at their first Manhattan outpost. Major. Cognitive. Dissonance.
25. I'm surprised at how hard it is to come up with 25 random things.
He could tell you what your parents were thinking!
Bunny Smedley, writing at Fugitive Ink, on John Updike:
Go and read the whole thing.
And: Yes.
As I read Bunny's remembrance of Mr. Updike, the thought occurred to me: one of the reasons that so many Gen X "serious" fiction writers held writers of Mr. Updike's generation in more-or-less veiled contempt might have been that, as the literary avatars of suburban adultery, Updike and his contemporaries were chronicling (if not precisely celebrating) the kind of parental behavior that was causing them direct suffering as children.
A few thoughts about John Updike (Fugitive Ink, 28 Jan 2009)For me, however, Updike’s passing speeds the end of an era — not my own era, but that of my parents, born 1925 and 1930 respectively, and their contemporaries. Probably, I read more Updike before I turned 18 than I ever have thereafter. The point about Updike, for a bookish child growing up in the South in the 1970s, was that his writing had the reputation of being dangerously, enticingly risqué. He used swear-words (is there anyone alive who’ll believe that the first time I ever encountered the word ‘fuck’ was while taking surreptitious peeps, aged 9 or so, at Erica Jong’s Fear of Flying?), he wrote about sex, his books were full of adultery and divorce and self-doubt. His subject, in other words, was adults and what they did.
And this, more than anything else, was what was both dangerous and enticing in his work. Truly, Updike’s prose (I’m thinking here of the Rabbit books, Couples and also the short stories then available in book form) functioned as the lexicon that rendered a succession of otherwise unintelligible, mysterious events taking place around me all at least a little bit comprehensible. Apparently one can buy, these days, books that purport to tell you what your cat is thinking. Updike, even more miraculously, could tell you what your parents were thinking!
Go and read the whole thing.
And: Yes.
As I read Bunny's remembrance of Mr. Updike, the thought occurred to me: one of the reasons that so many Gen X "serious" fiction writers held writers of Mr. Updike's generation in more-or-less veiled contempt might have been that, as the literary avatars of suburban adultery, Updike and his contemporaries were chronicling (if not precisely celebrating) the kind of parental behavior that was causing them direct suffering as children.
Global financial meltdown update
A pair of articles of interest in the Financial Times this morning:
Global crisis "could cost 50m jobs" (Financial Times, 28 Jan 2009)Global unemployment and poverty are set for a “dramatic increase” in the coming year as the world economic crisis deepens, according to a new report.Projections by the International Labour Organization, a UN agency, on global employment trends predict that on a worst-case scenario, recorded unemployment could rise by more than 50m from baseline 2007 levels to 230m or 7.1 per cent of the world’s labour force by the end of 2009.
In the same scenario the number of people in “working poverty”, earning less than $2 a day, could rise to 1.4bn or 45 per cent of all workers, from 1.2bn in 2007.
This would leave as many people below the poverty line as there were in 1997, wiping out all the gains over the past decade and marking “a return to a situation in which more than half of the global labour force would be unemployed or counted as working poor.”
Juan Somavia, ILO director-general, said its message was “realistic, not alarmist”. “We are now facing a global jobs crisis…Progress in poverty reduction is unravelling and middle classes worldwide are weakening. The political and security implications are daunting.”
Davos kicks off amid deep gloom (Financial Times, 28 Jan 2009)Economists and some policy-makers displayed little confidence that the fiscal stimulus programmes in many advanced countries would be very effective in mitigating the degree of decline in global output in 2009 and no hope that a coordinated strategy would be agreed among rich and poor countries.The political and business leaders gathered in the Swiss mountain resort would be “very foolish” if they assumed that the crisis was over, [News Corp. chairman Rupert] Murdoch said: The “binge” the western word had been on had come to an end, he added, leaving people around the world “depressed and traumatised” by the damage done to their personal wealth.
27 January 2009
Rabbit, R.I.P.
John Updike died today.
A few (not many) of the self-styled literary types I met in New York were kinda snooty about him.
I loved him and read his books with pleasure, and I think that people who snub him as "middlebrow" are full of shit.
He was the poet and bard of suburbia, which badly needs poetry and lyric ballads.
His commercial success was one of the exceptions proving the "rule" that if lots and lots of people like [some_form_of_artistic_expression] it tends to be some form of debased crap.
Rest in peace, Mr. Updike.
A few (not many) of the self-styled literary types I met in New York were kinda snooty about him.
I loved him and read his books with pleasure, and I think that people who snub him as "middlebrow" are full of shit.
He was the poet and bard of suburbia, which badly needs poetry and lyric ballads.
His commercial success was one of the exceptions proving the "rule" that if lots and lots of people like [some_form_of_artistic_expression] it tends to be some form of debased crap.
Rest in peace, Mr. Updike.
26 January 2009
L'audace, toujours l'audace, et encore l'audace
I have refrained from comment on the Blagojevich matter (except to report on a friend of a friend's genius solution to the problem: if proved guilty in a court of law, Blago must go to prison, but the hair goes free!)
I watched with amusement as he gamed the system and actually got Roland Burris seated in the Senate, through the simple strategy of establishing the procedural upper hand and refusing to be shamed. An honorable man couldn't have done it, but he did it in style.
But now, as he begins his television campaign tour and starts talking about things like Senator Oprah, I would like to ask a simple question:
What color do you suppose the sun is on Blago's World?
I watched with amusement as he gamed the system and actually got Roland Burris seated in the Senate, through the simple strategy of establishing the procedural upper hand and refusing to be shamed. An honorable man couldn't have done it, but he did it in style.
But now, as he begins his television campaign tour and starts talking about things like Senator Oprah, I would like to ask a simple question:
What color do you suppose the sun is on Blago's World?
Just the guy to handle your business affairs
Lawyer Says He Is a "Capital-D Dumbass" For Losing $182K in E-mail Scam" (ABA Journal, 26 Jan 2009)A Houston lawyer has taken a home equity loan to repay his law firm for $182,500 lost in a variation of what has become known as the Nigerian e-mail scam.
In the case of lawyer Richard Howell Jr., the scammer claimed to be a Japanese businessman who needed help collecting $3.6 million from four customers in the United States, Texas Lawyer reports. Howell checked and found websites of the collecting company and the four U.S. debtors. His firm Buckley, White, Castaneda & Howell, would get a contingency fee of one-third for any money collected. "To me, it sounded like it could be a potentially lucrative client from Japan," Howell told the legal publication.
The firm received a collections check of $367,500 and, believing the check had cleared, sent $182,500 to the supposed Japanese client in Hong Kong, according to a suit Howell’s firm has filed against Citibank in Houston court. The suit contends the check was labeled "Citibank Official Check" and a Citibank employee verified that the money had been paid, a representation that turned out to be wrong when the check bounced.
Words fail me.
Hat tip: Carrie, who kindly cc'ed me on this story in an e-mail addressed to every attorney who is a first-degree relative of hers.
Fond memories of early experiments with hypertext
This one will really resonate with Mac users of a certain age -
Miss Hypercard? Try Tilestack.
Stacks can be published to Blogger, Facebook, Wordpress, and your (or somebody else's) iPhone, among other places.
Miss Hypercard? Try Tilestack.
Stacks can be published to Blogger, Facebook, Wordpress, and your (or somebody else's) iPhone, among other places.
25 January 2009
Yes, we have no free bananas in the kitchen
Misadventures with e-mail distribution lists and reply-all, via PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE ME FROM THIS LIST!!!!!!!! @ Metafilter:
...some poor underpaid secretary back in the UK had, on finishing her lunch, found that she had some fruit spare. Rather than see it go to waste, she helpfully put it in the kitchen of the floor she was in, and sent an email to everyone on her floor:
"Free bananas in the kitchen!!!"
Sadly, however (and yes - it's obvious where this is going), she sent it to the wrong list.
It didn't just go to her floor.
It didn't just go to her office.
It didn't jusk go to the UK offices.
It went GLOBAL.
What followed was the most ridiculous, slow motion email catastrophe I've ever seen.
First the UK replies streamed in - the standard emails that occur in this situation as already described by many posters above. The Out-of-Offices, the angry threats, the requests for removals, the threats to people requesting removals all - of course - fully utilising the "Reply All" and list functions.
Obviously the system collapsed and for hours the UK IT guys struggled to sort things out - everytime it came back up, email war would break out again and the situation would be repeated.
Finally, at about four in the afternoon, and thanks (I'm reliably informed) to the intervention of several members of the web team (who had been exchange administrators in a previous lives [sic]) they had just about managed to get things going again...
...just in time for the US IT guys to get THEIR servers working for the first time, at which point the flood of mails from US people demanding removal from lists etc. took everything down AGAIN.
This was to be the pattern for the next twenty eight hours or so. Thanks to a ridiculous lack of safeguards and indeed basic communication, every time one office somewhere in the world woke up, or managed to get a server back up it would kick off the whole email war anew and everything, everywhere would die a fiery electronic death.
For three whole days Senior Managers the world over were howling at people to stop sending emails (after about the second day they seemed to cotton on to the fact that doing this by EMAIL probably wasn't helping), IT departments the world over were howling in pain and frantically trying to sort things out and general users were engaging in an email war of global scale, with angry individuals flinging racially dubious emails across nations at each other to the horror of HR departments everywhere.
Finally, finally on the evening of the third day the crisis started to pass.
Workers the world over breathed a sigh of relief and newly calm managers and techies from across the globe sat down together to try and heal their wounds and come up with policies to prevent it from happening again - a kind of Corporate version of Versailles.
By day four, policies had been written and technical plans made, which they would begin implementing on day five. This would not happen again - the world would be saved and civilization would reign once more! "Peace in Our Time!" the newly created Head of Global IT proclaimed, waving a copy of Exchange Server For Dummies enthusiastically above his head...
...as at the same time, in his palatial office in the Headquarters back in the UK, the CEO (the rather old school UK establishment figure who will go unnamed) decided that what everyone needed after recent events was a little joke. Nothing fancy - just something to make everyone chuckle and break the tension caused by the previous few days.
Sitting down to his desk, he casually opened up his email and, chuckling at his own brilliance, typed five, simple words...
"Who ate the bananas then?!"
...and clicked "Reply All"
posted by garius at 6:36 AM on January 12 [243 favorites]
PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE ME FROM THIS LIST!!!!!!!! @ Metafilter
I've had days like that.
Genius list on iTunes
First eleven Genius recommendations, based on Nick Lowe's Cruel to Be Kind:
Yes, I am the last blogger on earth to post "Genius" playlists from iTunes. Deal with it.
Discuss.
- I Got You -- Split Enz
- Pulling Mussels (From the Shell) -- Squeeze
- Good Girls Don't -- The Knack
- Train In Vain (Stand By Me) -- The Clash
- In a Big Country -- Big Country
- While You See a Chance -- Steve Winwood
- Blood & Roses -- The Smithereens
- I Love The Nightlife (Phillip Damien Ext. Vox Mix) -- Alicia Bridges
- Harden My Heart -- Quarterflash
- Life During Wartime -- Talking Heads
- No More Words -- Berlin
Yes, I am the last blogger on earth to post "Genius" playlists from iTunes. Deal with it.
Who reads this blog and also Twitters?
Are you on Twitter? Out yourself in the comments if you like. (No obligation.)
A pilot's-eye view of Flight 1549 [UPDATED]
The BBC commissioned a computer simulation of Captain Sullenberger's miracle "water landing" (always loved that FAA euphemism) of US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River. It includes some harrowing views from the point of view of the pilot in the cockpit.
(via Kottke)
This would be one hell of a scenario to add to the next version of Microsoft Flight Simulator X.
Update: Somebody's done it. Well.
Hat tip: Chap (in the comments)
(via Kottke)
This would be one hell of a scenario to add to the next version of Microsoft Flight Simulator X.
Update: Somebody's done it. Well.
Hat tip: Chap (in the comments)
Tough room
...Four or Five Hours After You Report Them
Woman with migraine: Help me! I'm dying! I'm dying!
Triage nurse: Alright ma'am, just calm down and tell me what the problem is.
Woman with migraine: I'm fucking dying, what are you, stupid?
Triage nurse: Well, as soon as you develop some signs or symptoms other than being obnoxious, we'll talk.
--NYU Medical Center ER
Overheard by: Turn their ankles
via Overheard in New York, Jan 25, 2009
Doffing the enrevanche skully (it's COLD outside) to Greg.
24 January 2009
Family truckster
In preparation for the shift of our little family's center of gravity from NYC to RDU...
Bought a car. Parked at Mom's place for now.
Urgent question: Darwin Fish, or Flying Spaghetti Monster emblem, to be mounted on the back?
Bought a car. Parked at Mom's place for now.
Urgent question: Darwin Fish, or Flying Spaghetti Monster emblem, to be mounted on the back?
This is a hell of a trick if you can pull it off
Jim Leff, on reconciling being a professional critic (in his case, a restaurant critic) and accepting things as they are:
...I found the key in a story written by a woman who'd worked as a driver for some Buddhist monks traveling around California for a series of meditation programs. The monks had fallen crazily in love with a certain brand of coffee they'd discovered during the trip. But while they practically jumped for joy whenever they came upon some, she found it interesting that they never showed the slightest trace of disappointment if they failed to find any. Even when days went by without finding their coffee, they were no less happy. It began to dawn on her that if they never drank that coffee again, it wouldn't bother them in the least. Yet each time they found it they positively basked in the delight.The Monks and the Coffee (Jim Leff's Slog)
23 January 2009
Science: It's back in style
US allows use of embryonic stem cells (Financial Times)US regulators have approved the first use of embryonic stem cells in humans.
The move raises the prospect of a groundbreaking approach to medical treatment that had been blocked since 2001 by George W. Bush as president. Just two days after the inauguration of President Barack Obama, who opposed his predecessor’s ban on federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research, the Food & Drug Administration authorised Geron, a US biotech company, to begin clinical trials for patients with severe spinal cord injuries.
I have my doubts about Obama, but at least he's put an end to the policy of pandering to the Luddites, mouthbreathers and know-nothings on this issue.
Related: Previously on enrevanche (1, 2)
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