Hi, I'm Rory.
I'm sure most of you know me already, but for those of you who don't, I'm a bioinformatician working at the University of Notre Dame. My areas of (trained) expertise are Computer Science, Bioinformatics, and English (in no particular order). My primary emotion is righteous indignation, but I try to temper it with open-mindedness (strictly after the point of confrontation) and an attempt to recognize and account for my own biases. I think ideas get better the more you challenge them, which kind of leads me into the point of this blog.
This is meant to be a record of and expansion upon arguments, discussions, and diatribes in which I participate. The point is to get down ideas about politics, policy, morality and ethics that I encounter or come up with in my day to day life, and maybe expand upon or comment on them. Hopefully this will give me a chance to fess up to my friends and sparring partners when I get something wrong, and gloat when I get something super extra mega right. It might even give me a chance to synthesize complicated ideas, and engage with things I encounter on the intarwebs.
So here's what to expect: Arguments regarding policy and politics. Supporting information for those arguments, and links to thought provoking materials. I'd also like to see some spirited debate in the comments (which I will never moderate or censor, but in which I may be an active participant).
Hope you enjoy yourselves.
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