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...
View ArticleTest Tube Phoenix: David vs. Goliath
So it's just about done - my over one-year journey to get my educational card game published is about at an end.Things have been unexpectedly good here - in a previous diary, I described a scientific...
View ArticleA wonderful life: Suicide from the inside.
Lately I've been musing a lot about suicide.It's not, as you might think, my own, though I've survived multiple suicidal crises - and one attempt - in my life. In these dark economic times, and...
View ArticleWorthless.
I'm not someone who writes diaries often, and most of my rare diaries are of a personal nature. But I've never actually written a serious rant before, and it's hard for me to bare myself like this....
View ArticleFor a newly minted scientist, where to go from here?
Previously, I've written under the nom de plume of Test Tube Phoenix. The scientist reinventing himself for a recession economy which had very little room (or jobs) for scientists. In way, this is a...
View ArticleLosing my job in the worst possible way.
I don't write diaries very often. For the most part, I find writing difficult - funny, because as a Research Specialist in molecular virology, writing is part of my life.But some things move me to...
View ArticleLosing my job in the best possible way. (pt. 2)
Well, as promised, here's a diary posting the end result of my round with Human Resources, my bosses, and the entire convoluted situation I posted the last time. It turned out far better then I...
View ArticleThe Face of the Unemployed: Me.
This diary definitely isn't for everyone: it's part personal rant, part fearful outburst, and part puncturing of many, many myths out there about the long-term unemployed. Most of all, perhaps, it's a...
View ArticleThe phoenix cycle.
So I'm a pretty rare diary writer here on Daily Kos. Most of my diaries haven't been about politics, after all; I'm much more of a science and nature writer, and we already have a superb...
View ArticleI was laid off yesterday.
So the latest chapter in the sad, strange arc of my career has come to a close. I was laid off from my (temporary) tax position with New York State yesterday, after 4 months. It was a pretty bitter...
View ArticleThe Grim Reaper is my new next-door neighbor.
This is the first diary I’ve written in quite some time, and it may well be my last. No fancy graphs. No blizzard of links and sources. All this is is me bearing witness, before my time on this...
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