Another dubious milestone
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January 2008
Christian dentists?
WTF is going on in the UK? According to Terry Sanderson in CiF: In an obscure little debate in the House of Lords last week,… Read More »Christian dentists?
Exhausted, but in a good cause
I had forgotten how tiring it can be to drive. Back home in Seattle, it’s so rare for me to get behind the wheel of… Read More »Exhausted, but in a good cause
Obama, Hillary, and Bill: Josh nails it
Over at Talking Points Memo Josh deflects the kind of shrill anti-Clinton stuff we’ve been hearing from Andrew Sullivan et al, and gets the three… Read More »Obama, Hillary, and Bill: Josh nails it
Priorities
On the one hand: UK astronomers will lose access to two of the world’s finest telescopes in February, as administrators look to plug an £80m… Read More »Priorities
Tufte on the iPhone
Essential viewing.
The war on tourists continues
OK, here’s the situation. An English woman and her two teenage daughters visit New York on holiday. The woman is taken ill. What happens next?… Read More »The war on tourists continues
Pre-rational filtering and foundational beliefs
Via Greta Christina, here’s a nice piece by the Chaplain entitled: What’s So Bad About Religion?. Here’s the central idea: Even though the vast majority… Read More »Pre-rational filtering and foundational beliefs
Bush as horse-thief
Or perhaps bandit. It’s all in his favourite painting. As Paul Simon put it so succinctly, “a man hears what he wants to hear and… Read More »Bush as horse-thief
The inherent contradiction in Libertarian thinking
Larry nails big-Ell Libertarians: Libertarians tend to be upper-middle-class professionals. What these Libertard upper-middle-class professionals fail to realize is that their status and wealth is… Read More »The inherent contradiction in Libertarian thinking