George Bush spoke about that the other day and Dan Froomkin pointed out that as people don't have confidence in Bush as a president they are unlikely to have confidence in what he says about restoring confidence. Bush is not the only voice which has asked for confidence to be returned. Confidence is that magical thing which would stop people

By Michael J.W. Stickings Well, it's now the fourth day of a knock-out sinus infection, or something like that, and I've been spending most of the day alternately sleeping and watching The Food Network. I tried to watch CNN this afternoon, but it just made me nauseous. Partly because of the over-the-top countdown to "Debate Night in America,"

Site problems Category: Administrative Scienceblogs is experiencing some technical difficulties right now: the guts of the machine are being very recalcitrant and generating time-out errors all over the place. Please be patient and heed the message when making comments: getting an error when posting does not necessarily mean the comment did not

Very peculiar Category: Evolution I've read Steve Jones' books and enjoyed them — so I'm really baffled by this bizarre report of a talk he gave. It's either a massive example of misreporting, or Jones has a solid grip on everyone's ankles and he's straining to pull our legs right off. He claims human evolution is over. The reason?

Did you ever see this picture of the blogosphere? This blog is there, right at the knee of that weird boot with the sharp heel (called Artemis' boot though everyone knows that Artemis wears steel-toed loggers' boots). Right below Chomsky! How odd is that? I'm not sure what I should feel or think about this.

Do you get the image of Liza Minelli in a top hat when you read that title for this post? The point of the song wasn't quite to tell us that firms and consumers need liquid assets, something that can be used to ease transactions in general and to make barter unnecessary, something that allows a firm to pay its employees this month while waiting

My creative juices tapped out last time around. Plus who doesn’t like interactive internet stuff? Leave your drinking game suggestions in the comments and I’ll put them all together and publish them in another post tonight. As a reminder, RyanR (also known in the comments as KnifeGhost) will be live-blogging the debates right here

change we want to believe in...

not so good, apparently... the latest gallup poll daily tracking poll shows registered voters preferring barack obama to john mccain for president by 51% to 42%. the nine percentage point lead in oct. 4-6 tracking matches obama's highest to date for the campaign, and the highest for either candidate. obama led mccain by 49% to 40% near the