Someone's defacing our legal tender...

...by writing thoughtful comments on it. (Via.)

Stephen Fincher is the Small Mind of the Day...again!

Representative Stephen Fincher (Republican-Tennessee) is now a two-time Small Mind. (His hypocritical stance on food stamps gained him recognition last time around.)

And now Fincher has passed his “Sound Science” legislation (H.R. 1287) through the House of Representatives. Sounds good! But what does his sound science bill do? It prevents federal agencies from using science to protect public health, safety, and the environment.

This happens by setting up a series of procedural hurdles “that would make science at federal agencies subject to endless challenges by special interests that do not want to see agency regulations move forward.”

But why would Fincher want to hamstring scientists and advance the causes of moneyed special interests? Dude, he’s a Republican!