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Abuse is bad for the emotional health? Really?
2007-08-17 05:55:00 Psychologists apparently think that mentally and physically abusing people is generally a bad thing. Who could have guessed? The American Psychological Association, the world’s largest professional organization of psychologists, is poised to issue a formal condemnation of a raft of notorious interrogation tactics employed by U.S. authorities against detainees during the so-called war on terror, from ... More About: Health , Abuse , Emotion , Ally , Heal
You can never have too many translations of the Bible
2007-08-14 17:59:00 I found this via a post at the brilliantly titled Dubito Ergo Sum. Dubito found it via Pharangula. Incestuous little monsters aren’t we? What is it of which I speak? PZ, at Pharangula, thinks the image is fake. It probably is. Personally, it strikes me as a translation of the Bible into “Jar Jar Binks”. The faithful ... More About: Translations , The Bible , Translation , Tran
Machiavelli and the Concept of Virtue
2007-08-13 17:43:00 The concept of ‘virtue’ leading up to the Renaissance was a concept drawn from antiquity and it was a concept with a complicated mix of meanings, some moral– as is typically the case in modern usage– and some not moral. A good sense of this latter meaning can be gained from a consideration of Dante’s ... More About: Concept , Virtue , Chia , Mach , The Con
What?s to be afraid of?
2007-08-11 17:09:00 Another Republican caught looking for love in all the all the wrong faces. His excuse? “I was skeered of the black men.” hmmm… so you offer to suck some penis? Not the first thing that would come to my mind. Wait… wait… you are scared of the black men so you intentionally enter a bathroom stall ... More About: Raid
A Bush Team Update
2007-08-10 18:09:00 Here are a few stories that have been on my desk for a few days and which really kinda speak for themselves. Let’s start with justice. One part of the Justice Department mess that requires more scrutiny is the growing evidence that the department may have singled out people for criminal prosecution to help Republicans win ... More About: Bush , Team , Update
The Bible Summarized by a Smartass
2007-08-09 13:56:00 I really had to point this out. Electronic Cerebrectomy: The Bible Summarized by a Smartass, Part One: Genesis 1-27 More About: The Bible , Mari , Marta
Women, feminism, liberation?
2007-08-09 13:54:00 Sicily Scene has a great post, truly one of the best I’ve ever seen, on such like things. More About: Women , Feminism , Libera , Liberation
Better Give Our Signs Back
2007-08-08 20:26:00 Some people have apparently never heard of “choosing one’s fights wisely”. Some people, it seems, have never encountered the idea of “wisely” at all. Take the following, which I came across via AtheismCentral: We know Minneapolis and Minnesota very well, having picketed there many times. Twice they stole our picket signs violently, and right out of ... More About: Signs , Back , Give
No water for you my friend
2007-08-07 18:34:00 I’m not going to jump into this one with the shrill “See! Look what Global Warming has caused” as some might expect. Lake Mead’s little dry spell may or may not be partly caused by global warming. That isn’t the point I want to argue. That’s the problem at North America’s largest artificial reservoir, Lake Mead, ... More About: Friend , Water
Who says we haven?t done anything for the people of Iraq?
2007-08-07 16:51:00 Not so, I say. In fact, we’ve armed them. What could be more friendly? The Pentagon has lost track of about 190,000 AK-47 assault rifles and pistols given to Iraq i security forces in 2004 and 2005, according to a new government report, raising fears that some of those weapons have fallen into the hands of insurgents ... More About: People , The People , Anything , Haven
Tancredo is bloody insane
2007-08-06 18:46:00 Of course I’m no doctor and my pronouncements as to the Colorado politician’s sanity should not be taken as medical advice, but… “If it is up to me, we are going to explain that an attack on this homeland of that nature would be followed by an attack on the holy sites in Mecca and Medina…” Iowa ... More About: Terrorism , Insane , Tancredo , Bloody
Yet more evidence that coffee cures everything
2007-08-06 06:15:00 Drinking coffee and exercising may prevent cancer in sun-damaged skin cells by spurring production of a tumor-blocking protein in the body, a study found. Exercise and caffeine, used in combination, doubled levels of a tumor-suppressing protein called phospho-p53, researchers found. Exercise alone spurred an 18 percent increase, and drinking the equivalent of two cups of coffee ... More About: Coffee , Evidence , Cure
Abstinence is for the fool-hardy
2007-08-05 16:58:00 Nicest Girl and Destroyer of Planets has a short, but biting, post on abstinence only education. We GET ITNicest Girl and Destroyer of Planets - Sunday, 05 August 2007 © Nicest Girl and Destroyer of Planets More About: Fool , Sexuality , Abstinence , Hardy
Blogs for Bull S**t
2007-08-04 17:15:00 The formula with some people seems to be ‘Investigation’ == ‘Anything Goes’. This time it is Matt Margolis, who writes: I’m starting to get concerned that William Jefferson, like so many other Democrats, will get away with his corruption. Blogs for Bush: The White House Of The Blogosphere: Bull S**t Ignoring the supreme irony of a Bush supporter ...
Planet Of The ?
2007-08-03 18:28:00 … racists? … paranoid nutballs? … just good citizens telling a sad truth? Planet Of The Muslims I found the image quite by accident, at the link above. There is no context that might offer some explanation. It just sits alone on its page, a sad testament– apparently– to human nature. Let’s think about this. First… Muslim == Ape. ... More About: Anet
August 1: This is not my country
2007-08-01 18:54:00 Welcome to another fine edition of this is not my country. A lot of people seem to be unhappy with the state of the nation, though not always for the same reasons. Terrorism: Jon Swift presents Do We Need Another Terrorist Attack? posted at Jon Swift, saying, “many conservatives are coming to the reluctant conclusion that, regretfully, ... More About: Country , August
An Experiment with a Viral Thingie
2007-07-30 16:52:00 Since I am in Utah at the moment getting PADI dive certified and hence won’t likely be publishing anything substantial until Tuesday or Wednesday, I thought I’d take the chance to run a kind of experiment with viral marketing. =======Copy and Paste below this line======== Instructions: 1. ) Copy and paste the matrix of ?Viral Tags? below courtesy ... More About: Politics , Experiment , Peri , Rime
?The Great Global Warming Swindle? wasn?t accurate? NO?
2007-07-29 17:04:00 For months, global warming skeptics have been touting The Great Global Warming Swindle as a balanced and fair counterpart to those calling for urgent action on the issue of climate change. In reality, The Swindle is a misleading, dishonest and ill-conceived work of propaganda that is chock full of paid industry mouth pieces while being ... More About: Ming
Weed makes ya crazy
2007-07-28 17:38:00 A new study linking marijuana to “psychotic illness” is out. Using marijuana increases the risk of one day developing a psychotic illness such as schizophrenia, according to a study that provides some of the strongest evidence yet linking the drug to a mental disorder. Smoking marijuana ups risk of schizophrenia: study Very scary. Drugs make you stupid. Some ... More About: Crazy , Weed
The Duke Rape Case
2007-07-28 05:47:00 Looks like the Duke lacrosse team rape case was a horrible sham. Michael B. Nifong, the former Durham County district attorney, acknowledged that ?there is no credible evidence? that three Duke lacrosse players committed any of the crimes he accused them of more than a year ago, offering for the first time a complete and unqualified ... More About: Case , Rape , The D
Things we don?t have to worry about?
2007-07-27 18:08:00 … here in the Good Ole United States. First, we’d never have this problem in the States. I mean, without the lawyers and the media and the trials and such, this guy wouldabeen locked up and good riddance. But, hell, you get the lawyers in there and pretty soon you get whining about ‘fabricating evidence’ and ... More About: Worry , Things , Thing
Immigrants Don?t Pay Taxes
2007-07-26 18:36:00 Immigrants– illegal ones– don’t pay taxes. They work off the books, freeload off our health care system, take from welfare, benefit from our legal system and infrastructure, and don’t pay for any of it. Right? Let’s think about taxes. I go to work. Twice a month, let’s say, I get paid. My check doesn’t match the number ... More About: Taxes , Immigrant , Immigrants
Can you tell The difference?
2007-07-24 18:37:00 Fun post at ‘import Mind.Reason’: After reading a discussion about different beliefs I realized that the difference between an atheist, an agnostic and a theist can be summarized with their responses to the simple question “Do you have a dog?” The difference between an atheist, an agnostic and a theist More About: Difference , Tell , Ferenc , The D , Diff
War as Altruism
2007-07-22 20:04:00 I’ve been thinking a lot about war. And I’ve been think a lot about a particular justification for the war in Iraq. More precisely, I suppose, it is a justification for staying in Iraq. That justification takes several forms grouped in two primary classes. If we leave, it will get worse. We broke it, we bought it, ...
Wicked Godless Trash
2007-07-22 17:39:00 The latest Carnival of the Godless 71 is up at Aardvarchaeology. More About: Wicked , Trash
Bush wants your Bank
2007-07-21 20:29:00 Nice and unsettling this: US to crack down on ?terror bankrolls? More About: Bush , Bank
Cartoonish Super-villainy 2006
2007-07-20 18:30:00 Hat tip to MINISTER OF RANTS. The YouTube link is : Bush Poll Worst than Satan. Very amusing. On the upside, though, and in all fairness, Bush also topped the ‘hero’ chart with a vote of 13%. So… let’s see… subtract the one from the other and Bush still beats Osama, Saddam, Ahmadinejad, Kim Jong II and ... More About: Super , Cart , Villa , Nish
ECLJ? why is that familiar?
2007-07-20 07:01:00 I wonder if the ECLJ is at all related to the American Center for Law and Justice which put out a frantic warning not long ago that, to paraphrase, “Religion is under assault. Christianity is under attack. The nation is collapsing. The Lib?rals are guttin our values, stomping on our Bible-based Constitution, educating our children, ... More About: Familia
Lets not become ?Them?
2007-07-19 18:13:00 I spend a lot of time on this blog writing about tolerance. I try to argue tolerance for everyone not actively harming someone else. I try to press the point that we’ve got to get along or we’ll all go down in flames together. I try to stress that tolerance means co-existing with people you ...
The ?National Intelligence Estimate?: With Translations into English
More articles from this author:2007-07-19 05:18:00 The most recent ‘National Intelligence Estimate‘ is out. Perhaps some of you have seen it. I took a read. It was shorter than I expected, only seven pages, but for those extremely read-ophobic out there, the first five pages concern how the document was compiled, who compiled it, and such like. Skip to page six. ... More About: Translations , English , National Intelligence Estimate 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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