Monthly Archives: October 2013

Call it Fred

Posted on October 28, 2013 by Pat Bowne

I hang around on a conservative blog, and every now and then its members get into a flurry of definition.  It suddenly matters, more than anything else, whether a particular thing is ‘conservative’ or not.  Is unbridled capitalism conservative? Is … Continue reading →

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Kicking and Screaming

Posted on October 19, 2013 by Pat Bowne

Here’s what I want: I want a dollar for every hour I’ve spent changing my life to cope with unnecessary upgrades. Why am I ranting?  Right now, it’s because of Windows 7. Our school implemented Windows 7 over the summer, … Continue reading →

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The Tone Argument

Posted on October 11, 2013 by Pat Bowne

When I was in research science, nobody had yet identified the ‘tone argument.’  Nevertheless, I understood that it was irrelevant.  The value of somebody’s paper lay in the Materials and methods and Results sections, not in the Introduction and Discussion … Continue reading →

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