Quoted: ome evolutionists are arguing, for example, that 'there seems to be no natural law sufficient to describe Darwinian pre-adaptations', as evolutionary theorist Stuart Kauffman puts it. A Darwinian pre-adaption is a property that has no selection value in one environment, it's value only emerging in another later. 'An example is human middle-ear bones, which are derived from three adjacent jawbones of an early fish,' Kaufmann continues. And its not just ears. Lungs, hearts, livers and much more besides fall in the same category. (The battle over spandrels will be familiar to many, recently stirred up by Jerry Fodor.)

Quoted: It's hard to come up with an objective measure of which candidates are being attacked the most, but this ought to be a reasonably interesting proxy.

Quoted: Without editorial comment, here's a list of quotes and statements about the 1992 Democratic nomination battle from March and April of that year.

A summary of--and rant on--recent Clinton bullshit.

Quoted:This is a secret bet between Bill and Hillary ala Trading Places in which they bet how much bullshit they can make the electorate swallow.

Quoted: How Hillary's latest math hurts the party.

Quoted: Currently pregnant with the next generation, let me just say this: There is no greater wish that a mother can have for her daughter than that she will exploit poor people, obliterate Iran, and win rigged class president elections, Putin-style. (Mom, I won 100 percent of the vote!)

Quoted: Danielle Ross was alone in an empty room at the Obama campaign headquarters in Kokomo, Ind., a cellphone in one hand, a voter call list in the other. She was stretched out on the carpeted floor wearing laceless sky-blue Converses, stories from the trail on her mind. It was the day before Indiana's primary, and she had just been chased by dogs while canvassing in a Kokomo suburb. But that was not the worst thing to occur since she postponed her sophomore year at Middle Tennessee State University, in part to hopscotch America stumping for Barack Obama.

Quoted: Over the last week, an anonymous blogger who writes under the pseudonym Poblano did something bold on his blog, FiveThirtyEight.com. He posted predictions for the upcoming primaries based not on polling data, but on a statistical model driven mostly by demographic and past vote data. His model predicted a 17-point victory for Barack Obama in North Carolina and a 2-point edge for Hillary Rodham Clinton in Indiana.

Quoted: Sen. Hillary Clinton’s mailing attacking Sen. Barack Obama’s record on guns appears to include a striking visual gaffe: The image of the gun pictured on the face of the mailing is reversed, making it a nonexistent left-handed model of the Mauser 66 rifle.

To make matters worse, a prominent gun dealer said, it’s an expensive German gun with customized features that make it clearly European.