Month: March 2006

Future generations will shake their heads…

That Ted Rall, he’s such a kidder. Oh. Wait. It appears he’s not, and we’re really in that retroactive legalization period. From the NYT, last week: Moving to tamp down Democratic calls for an investigation of the administration’s domestic eavesdropping program, Republicans on the Senate Intelligence Committee said Tuesday that they had reached agreement with the White House on proposed… Read more →

Countering errant nonsense

As a kind of response to the recent heart-breaking polls, I present a classic article from Scientific American, 15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense, which in turn presents 15 common anti-evolution arguments and then proceeds to answer and refute each one. Here’s the list of “common arguments” that are answered: Evolution is only a theory. It is not a fact or… Read more →

Grabbing viral video

Have you ever been watching a video on Google Video, or YouTube, or somewhere and wanted to snag yourself a copy of the video? Maybe you want it because you want watch it again later and don’t want to lose the URL. Maybe you want to convert it to some other video format for another use. Maybe you want to… Read more →

Impeachment Forum

Remember that post about the Lapham’s essay on impeachment, and the report, etc.? If you were interested in that, you should see SixThreeFive.com, which tells you how to do your bit for impeachment. It also hosts an audio and video that you can dowload of the recent Harper’s Forum on the subject of impeachment. The forum was entitled “Is There… Read more →

CBN: Orphan shank

(“Mr. X” is an alias, since I don’t actually have permission from the other party to identify him. If you want to be identified, you can speak up in the comments.) [10:18] “Doc” McLaren: Orphans are a wise investment in a turbulent economy. [10:18] Mr. X: Yeah, they give you a lot of options [10:19] “Doc” McLaren: The irony is… Read more →

Book Notes: Agony Column

OK, time to do some initial clean up on my “To Blog” folder. The first thing on the menu is a set of pointers to Agony Column content, to thin out the “Books” subfolder. I’ve mentioned before that Rick Kleffel might be the reviewer who most constantly lines up with my eclecticism, and looking at my “To Blog” folder I… Read more →

Roach’s Rib Secrets

I don’t even really like ribs, but this (lengthy) post from my pal Roach makes me both hungry (and thirsty–I want a patio day now!): TwoBlog » Let the Ribfests begin! I’ve been cooking Ribs for several years now and I must say that I am no slouch. I can state with confidence that every person who has tasted ”Ribs… Read more →

You Have GOT To Be Kidding Me!

Gallup: More Than Half of Americans Reject Evolution, Back Bible A Gallup report released today reveals that more than half of all Americans, rejecting evolution theory and scientific evidence, agree with the statement, “God created man exactly how Bible describes it.” Another 31% says that man did evolve, but “God guided.” Only 12% back evolution and say “God had no… Read more →

SF Authors say smart things: Scalzi on the Judiciary

SF author John Scalzi is doing “reader request week” over at his popular blog Whatever, an annual event where he posts in response to reader requests (duh!). Today’s post is on the question of “activist” judges, and Scalzi’s response is great. I’ve noticed that my political opinions and Scalzi’s have some overlap but they certainly aren’t congruent; this piece is… Read more →

PhD women all around me

This week I am suffering from some academic jealousy. First, we found out last week that Trish has been accepted into the highly competitive management PhD program at SMU. While I can’t imagine being interested in the subjects she’s studying, I am a little jealous of her going back to school. Not that I would actually give up any of… Read more →

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