More of the same at Ezra Klein's blog

An excellent post from Ezra Klein on Obama and toughness, with a good discussion.

The state of the blog debate on Obama

An excellent post by Neil at Ezra Klein's blog about skepticism about Obama, with a lively discussion in comments.

It's interesting how, after years of life on liberal blogs being simple (because Bush-directed) and ultimately stultifying, there's a return to debate.

Bad-tasting medicine and evolution

If you are ever confronted by the choice between two otherwise equivalent antibacterial medications, choose the one that tastes bad. Fewer patients will have taken it (and some of them will have given up using it earlier), reducing the chance that drug-resistant bugs have had a chance to evolve.