Out of the Country
Friday, November 23, 2007
For anyone stumbling upon this blog, I am out of the country in Peace Corps for the next two years. To find out what I am doing go here:
peace
links for 2007-09-25
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
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Several current presidential candidates have insisted that they oppose the scientific account of earth’s natural history as a matter of principle. In the present cultural climate, altering one’s beliefs in response to anything (facts included) is consider
links for 2007-09-20
Thursday, September 20, 2007
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A military watchdog organization filed a lawsuit in federal court Tuesday against the Pentagon, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, and a US Army major, on behalf of an Army soldier stationed in Iraq. The suit charges the Pentagon with widespread constitut
Francis Collins vs. Richard Dawkins
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Francis Collins, former head of the Human Genome Project (and onetime atheist), rejects the notion that science is sufficient to disprove the existence of God. Biologist Richard Dawkins, aka Darwin’s Rottweiler, insists that anyone who believes in an omnipotent creator is suffering a “delusion.” Can the gloves of God defeat the punch of proof?
Click on the heads to score each round.
Click on the link above to read the arguments and score.
links for 2007-09-18
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
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Almost 16 percent of Americans do not have health insurance. According to Ah Quon McElrath, a local health care lobbyist, of these 47 million people, college-age students represent the largest group. Today, the United States stands as the only developed n
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DEMOCRATIC presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has unveiled a proposal to provide health insurance to all Americans and offer generous subsidies to help pay for it.
links for 2007-09-16
Sunday, September 16, 2007
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If you know anything at all about the federal student loan program, you will not have been surprised by the scandal of recent months. The only amazing thing is that it has taken so long to arrive. Here’s how the program works: Banks and other private comp
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Political realignment in Iraq’s volatile Anbar province was Exhibit A for President Bush’s argument Thursday that Iraq is a fight that the United States is winning. A look at some of Bush’s assertions.
links for 2007-09-15
Saturday, September 15, 2007
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On Sunday’s edition of Hannity’s America, host Sean Hannity rolled out a FOX News “investigation” that focused on former Vice President Al Gore’s role as the leading spokesman for reducing global warming. Naturally, this was nothing more than a “hit piece
links for 2007-09-14
Friday, September 14, 2007
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The year is 1800. Americans go to the polls to elect a President. Which Founder do you favor? The Federalist incumbent, sixty-four-year-old John Adams, or the Republican challenger, fifty-seven-year-old Thomas Jefferson, who, awkwardly enough, is currentl
links for 2007-09-10
Monday, September 10, 2007
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When was the last time you couldn’t put down a book of literary criticism or didn’t want it to end? Ever? In Time, Space, and Motion in the Age of Shakespeare, Angus Fletcher, a magically gifted teacher in whose presence we hear what thinking feels li
links for 2007-09-06
Thursday, September 6, 2007
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“One of the things I discovered while I was writing Pattern Recognition [Gibson’s previous novel] is that I now think that any contemporary novel today has a kind of Google novel aura around it, where somebody’s going to google everything in the text …
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The health of a society is always best measured by how it treats its weakest and most vulnerable citizens. The same test may be usefully applied to America’s beleaguered newspapers.
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It should surprise no one that England’s Special Branch — the police intelligence unit — was watching George Orwell during most of his adult life. It is certainly what Orwell, a student of political paranoia, would have expected.
