I’m off 24 hour news channels pretty much as a rule, but I still tune into some CNN at the Gym. I was unfortunate enough to catch a Larry King roundtable on intelligent design. The lineup went like this: On the “The earth is between five and ten thousand years old” team: Some idiot minister. […]
Month: August 2005
The most charming part of the University of Oregon campus is Pioneer Cemetery. The Cemetery was established in 1873 and the University grew around it. The tallest, and oldest, trees on campus grow on
Matt has the single best line: WHO WOULD JESUS CAP? It worth taking a moment to remember that, whatever he is, Hugo Chavez is not a dictator. He’s been elected four times, and every election has
I admit that the anecdotes in this story could make a marginally palatable throwaway NYT style n’ health column. But the angle would have to be more along the lines of “boy, narcissism and passive-aggressive sensitivity sure is an annoying combination” or “So you’ve married a man with a Jake LaMotta-sized virgin/whore complex.” Ye gods. […]
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Shorter Glenn Reynolds and Charles Johnson: Iraq is about to get a theocratic constitution with the assent of the American government, and George Bush has nothing to do with it.
I like Juan Cole’s Iraq withdrawal proposal, both for the seriousness with which is takes the potential consequences of a full withdrawal and for its detail. I also quite agree with his recognit
Shorter Michael Lind: The idea that women should make the same money as men for performing work of similar skill is nuttier than anything proposed by Stalin or Mao. And worse than that, the idea of women working and sending their children to “baby kennels” is contrary to nature. So, as a New Deal liberal, […]
New York Times headline: G.I. Death Toll in Afghanistan Worst Since ’01 That would seem to imply that there were more deaths in 2001 than there have been this year. Otherwise, the headline could
I didn’t know this: Detractors dismiss Discovery as a fundamentalist front and intelligent design as a clever rhetorical detour around the 1987 Supreme Court ruling banning creationism from curr