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Science in the age of Obama will be even more politicized than it is now…. and it is already very politically driven.  There are a great many questions that are probably answerable with suitable research, and many of these questions are just to un-PC to even be asked, let alone funded.  John Derbyshire has a provocative article on this point, and here are some key graphs:

[W]e are passing from the Age of Physics to the Age of Biology. It is not quite the case that nothing is happening in physics, but certainly there is nothing like the excitement of the early 20th century. Physics seems, in fact, to have got itself into a cul-de-sac, obsessing over theories so mathematically abstruse that nobody even knows how to test them.

The life sciences, by contrast, are blooming, with major new results coming in all the time from genetics, zoology, demography, biochemistry, neuroscience, psychometrics, and other “hot” disciplines. The physics building may be hushed and dark while its inhabitants mentally wrestle with 26-dimensional manifolds, but over at biology the joint is jumpin’.

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Whether it will go on jumpin’ may depend on the result of November’s election. There is a widespread feeling in the human sciences â€” particularly in genetics, population genetics, evolutionary biology, and neurophysiology â€” that the next five to ten years will see some sensational discoveries. Unfortunately those discoveries will have metaphysical implications more disturbing than were those of quantum mechanics. Heisenberg, Schrödinger, Pauli, and Dirac may have seriously upset our ideas about matter and energy, but at least they left our psyches and our political principles intact.

Those items may not remain intact much longer. The conceptual revolution among human-sciences researchers has in fact already taken place. This is not widely understood because (a) news outlets are very reluctant to report it, (b) powerful political forces have an interest in suppressing it, and (c) researchers prefer getting on quietly with their work to having their windows broken by mobs of angry protestors.
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UPDATE:  So, the raving lunatics at Daily Kos are, predictably, attacking Joe the Plumber.  So much for being on the side of “working class families”.

It seems to trouble these nitwits that Joe is actually his middle name.  It’s as if they think someone whose legal name is Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, who chooses to go by “Joe”, must be somehow deceptive.  This is really funny coming from a crowd half of whom use ONLY a first initial, then a middle name and last name.  You know, things like J. Pingpong Pierpants, and the like.

So what’s wrong with going by “Joe”?  The nutroots don’t say…  but they find it “veddy, veddy suspicious”.

But there is even more horror in Joe’s deception.  He doesn’t even have a plumber’s license!  He’s not a member of the plumber’s union!  So they say he isn’t really a “plumber”.

This is classic.  In the world of the Left, if you aren’t part of the collective, you don’t exist, have no function, and possess no identity.  You’re simply nobody.  Joe doesn’t NEED the license at this point, under Ohio law, because he works for someone else who has one.  Simple as that.  But, you see, he isn’t REALLY a plumber, because he doesn’t have his union card.  Imagine that: practicing piping without a license.  Simply criminal!  And more proof Joe is not to be trusted.

And then, the final straw:  Joe owes back taxes!  The Daily Kos calls him a tax cheat.  One can only wonder what we’d discover if we had access to all the tax records of Kos diarists…  but in the meantime, I thought a tax cheat was someone who avoided paying in some illegal way, not simply someone who was officially behind, and working on it.  Not good enough for Kos:  if you aren’t caught up on donating blood to the collective, you’re a bad little worker bee, and had better drain a few more ounces, right now.

What this is, of course, is the same kind of treatment Sarah Palin got, minus the sexist references that the “feminists” on the Left thought it appropriate to hurl at the single most popular Governor in the USA, who got to her position on her own, without piggy-backing on her husband’s name, purely on her own guts, drive and intelligence.

It sounds to me like Joe has those same characteristics, which is why, of course, the Left will do its best to destroy him, as soon as possible.  They’re only for “working people” who salute properly, line up for the dole in good order, and don’t get uppity.

Resistance is futile.

I am really impressed with Joe the Plumber.  Do you notice how clear he is?  How easy to understand?  How unflappable?  Calm in the storm?

This guy should run for office.

Why don’t our politicians sound this?  Simple.   They’re mostly trying to hide what they really think, so they stumble around trying to figure out how to keep you from finding out what they believe, down deep.

Joe just speaks from the heart, out of his worldview, without reservation.

“Joe the Plumber” Calls Obama a Socialist for his “Spread the Wealth” Comment on Fox Nexs

UPDATE:  This is not, of course, the first time plumbers have affected elections.

UPDATE:  Here’s Michelle Malkin’s take.

Then, suddenly, the journalists who wouldn’t lift a finger to investigate Obama’s longtime relationships with Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright sprang into action rifling through citizen Joe Wurzelbacher’s tax records. Politico.com reported breathlessly: “Samuel J. Wurzelbacher has a lien placed against him to the tune of $1,182.92. The lien is dated from January of ’07.” Press outlets probed his divorce records. The local plumbers union, which has endorsed Obama, claimed he didn’t do their required apprenticeship work and didn’t have a license to work outside his local township.

Hang him!

After Wurzelbacher told Katie Couric that Obama’s rhetorical tap dance was “almost as good as Sammy Davis, Jr.,” the inevitable cries of “bigotry” followed. (There are now tens of thousands of hits on the Internet for “Joe the Plumber racist.”)

Welcome to Joe the Plumber Derangement Syndrome. If you can’t beat him, smear him. It’s the Obama way.

If you didn’t see it yet, go here and watch the video!  Then continue below for some thoughts.

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