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Breaking Heartland?s Heart
2008-05-25 21:38:00 The Heart land Institute is a not uncommon source for climate ’skepticism’, which term, by the way, I put is scare quotes as climate ’skepticism’ makes a mockery of skepticism and I find that offensive. Climate ’skepticism’ is an insult to skeptics everywhere. You see, the skeptic questions, the climate ’skeptic’ fabricates and misrepresents in an ... More About: Politics , Global Warming , Climate Change , Activism
Let?s at Least Be Honest About ID
2008-05-24 21:32:00 I found a decently done review of Ben Stein’s idiocy, ‘Expelled’, but the reviewer has swallowed a little bit of the ID Kool-Aid and it happens to be a bit of Kool-Aid that annoys me greatly. Having now watched the film — which is terrible, filled with specious reasoning, false dichotomies, and self-contradiction — I ... More About: Intelligent Design , Politics , Christianity , Creationism , Honest
John Pendleton: Creationist Extraodinaire
2008-05-23 01:58:00 John Pendleton has a series of videos on YouTube spotlighting his scientific inadequacies. Sadly, his video freezes several minutes in, at least on my system, so I’m linking to an analysis posted by ExtantDodo which reproduces (nearly) Pendleton’s entire film plus commentary. It is a long video, weighing in at over thirty minutes. If you ... More About: Video , Asia , North Korea , Creationist
YouTube for Democracy
2008-05-23 00:52:00 Its tempting to post my own ‘free speech‘ rant but… “Senator Lieberman stated his belief, in a letter sent today, that all videos mentioning or featuring these groups should be removed from YouTube — even legal nonviolent or non-hate speech videos,” YouTube’s blog post states. “While we respect and understand his views, YouTube encourages free speech ... More About: Google , Politics , Terrorism , Youtube , Joe Lieberman
Weird s*^% like integrity and honor and oaths and such
2008-05-21 22:40:00 A quick redirect to an interesting bit of news. Ray McGovern, “veteran Army intelligence officer and a former CIA analyst for 27 years’ as per his signature line, has written a letter to Gen. Fallon about attacking Iran. In this letter he talk about oaths taken to uphold the constitution and about the general stupidity ... More About: Google , Politics , Weird , Middle East , United States
The Frog-amander isn?t Transitional
2008-05-21 22:34:00 Image via WikipediaMay 21, 2008 starts the clock. Let’s see how long it takes for the creationists to cook up some way to claim that this latest ‘transitional’ fossil isn’t in fact transitional at. Sure it has that “overall amphibian gestalt. ? You know, kind of a froggy salamander-y sort of look” but I’m sure that’s ... More About: Christianity , Creationism , Frog , Perspectives , Transitional
Science Is Wrong … Only God Knows The Truth
2008-05-21 19:44:00 Not long ago I promised to post some creationist videos I’ve scratched up from YouTube. Well, here is the fulfillment of that promise. Ok. I’m going to go out on a limb and say that that one is satire. But this one… this one… Oh, ok. That one is satire too. This next one isn’t. Fun facts: At 00:37 we find that “It is commonly thought that canyons are formed by rivers.” Guess not since a canyon at Mt. St. Helens formed in ’soft rock’ in hours– never mind that by ’soft rock’ they mean ‘fine volcanic ash‘. And then there is the distribution of animals, which evolution can’t explain– 01:26. I mean, can’t explain except by appeal to grade school geography. By the way, my botany isn’t good enough that I can identify the plants at 01:45, so I can’t look them up , but these plants don’t look ‘identical’ to me, as the museum video exclaims. I’d be ... More About: Science , Truth , Wrong , The Truth
Hasta la Vista
2008-05-20 17:34:00 Ah… Microsoft … two words no wants to hear… I’ve whined about Vista before, notably in this post where I chronicle my adventure with a new laptop and describe how said brand new laptop running Vista gets its ass kicked by several boxes built of geriatric crap found lying around the house. I can’t help myself. ... More About: Companies , Windows Vista , Tech
Carnival of the Libertarians: Mother?s Day Edition
2008-05-11 17:31:00 Welcome to the May 11, 2008 edition of carnival of the libertarians. I was invited a month or more ago to host this carnival. I’m happy to do so. I’ve got libertarian leaning myself, as well as some not so libertarian ones as those who’ve crawled the blog might be ... More About: Politics , America , Business , United States , Carnival
Reasons to Hate My Species
2008-05-10 16:53:00 “Animal abusers are cowards,” says PETA Manager Martin Mersereau. “They take their issues out on the most defenseless beings available to them. Seattle residents have reason to be concerned. According to leading mental health professionals and law enforcement agencies, perpetrators of violent acts against animals are often repeat offenders who pose a serious threat to ... More About: Society , Murder , Religion , Crime , Battery
Sex and Ringtones
2008-05-09 15:05:00 Image via WikipediaAskimet catches virtually all of the spam that hits this blog but sometimes I scan the logs just to see what’s coming through and to assure myself that nothing genuine is being flagged as spam. And what have I found lately? Well, sex. Lots of sex. And drugs– most of which concern sex. ... More About: Society , Advice , Adult , Sexuality , Ringtones
Lets see what that invisible hand is up to today
2008-05-07 05:28:00 Anyone running a Word Press blog has likely seen at least a mention of this article, as its floating through the WP Admin Dashboard RSS feed right now, but no matter, my point is not Microsoft bashing. No, my point is Adam Smith bashing. Actually, to be fair I’m not bashing Adam Smith. I’m just bashing ... More About: Politics , Economics , People
This is not my Country: May 2008
2008-05-04 17:36:00 Welcome to the May 1, 2008 edition of this is not my country. This edition is much shorter than the past two or three but we’ve lost nothing in quality. War: jkrane82 presents Pentagon Spin, Much to Our Chagrin posted at We Op-Ed, saying, “Exploring the impact and significance of the Pentagon’s use of military analysts for ... More About: Politics , United States , Country , Barack Obama , Hillary Clinton
Another Naked Teenage Girl
2008-05-03 17:45:00 Once again the nation is convulsing over a celebrity sex scandal. Racy photos of yet another teen star are making the news, and boy is it shameful! Except that the whole thing is nonsense. Hannah Montana star Miley Cyrus was photographed showing her back. Yes, that’s right. She was photographed exposing that thing with the ... More About: United States , Lesbian , Recreation , Girl , Vanity Fair
Why bother with making sense? when you have peanut butter
2008-04-29 15:52:00 This must be one of the more amusing ‘debunkings’ of evolution I’ve seen thus far. Have a look. think of it as a kind of ‘how many layers of stupid can you find’ game. I love the little speech given by the frumpy lady starting about ten seconds in. Several videos follow the break. This ‘peanut ... More About: Politics , Sense , Peanut , Creationism , Butter
This is not my country: The ?spring is in the air? edition
2008-04-05 18:41:00 April 1, 2008. (Well… Ok. Its actually April 5th. Let’s just say that April 1 is the nominal date.) Spring is in the air. I’m not all that happy about it, but such is the way it is. Here at the the ‘This Is Not My Country Carnival’ we’ve got a new set of post ... More About: Politics , Carnivals , Edition
Imagine a vat of liquid cow manure
2008-03-31 14:59:00 I’ve written here and there about climate change and I also think that I’ve mentioned my fetish for technology. The problem, rather obviously, is that technology requires power. I like power. I do not wish to return to those halcyon days when long distance travel meant going to the next town and ingrown toenails were ... More About: Politics , Global Warming , Liquid , Imagine
Instantiated in Perfection
2008-03-25 14:56:00 Short but hopefully inflammatory. The United States was founded on a strong set of principles, most if not all of which I favor by the way. But lets think about something else. Since its founding, people in the United States have had a kind of religious zeal about those founding principles. Politics seems to be eternally ... More About: Society , Perfection
Wanna bet he was gay?
2008-03-18 22:31:00 I’m guessing. Absolutely. I know no more about this case than is written in the article cited, but I’d bet that he was beaten and burned for liking ‘outies’ instead of ‘innies’. Any takers? The victim, 27-year-old Michael Lee Williams of North Richmond, was unrecognizable when firefighters found his body burning Sunday night next to ... More About: Sexuality
?the chrome has worn off the turd?
2008-03-11 15:16:00 I’ve been running Vista for six to nine months now. I can’t remember exactly. The OS came installed on a laptop, and I was scared when I bought it. Turns out the fear was justified. That laptop was new when I bought it and is, physically, the best box in my collection– the rest of the ... More About: Turd , Chrome
Bush and Cheney Arrested
2008-03-08 18:31:00 Well, not really but maybe if theystop for gas in the wrong towns in Vermont. Yes, this is a symbolic gesture. It isn’t the first though. I?d prefer we go after his boss but? Democrats.com has a petition, which I’ve already written about in Now that the Democrats have the House? but which is worth reprinting: ... More About: Bush , Iraq , Arrested , War , Impeachment
Climb out of the bottle
2008-03-08 16:43:00 And pick up with Acid, X, and weed. A new study of recreational drug use out of the UK has reached some startling conclusions. The study headed up by professor David Nutt of Britain’s Bristol University and his colleagues have proposed a new framework for classifying recreational drugs and harmful substances. Within this new framework alcohol ... More About: Bottle , Climb
I am not feeling the love
2008-03-06 06:24:00 She did. Six times. Won it in an auction. Or maybe sold it in an auction. Either way I’m not feeling much sympathy for anyone involved in this mess. Not the girl. Not the guys. Not the site that hosted the sale. A woman in Germany who became pregnant after an online sex auction has won ... More About: Love , Feeling
I kill children
2008-03-03 19:42:00 I kill children I love to see them die I kill children And make their mamas cry Crush ‘em under my car I wanna hear them scream Feed ‘em poison candy To spoil their Halloween Dead Kennedys I can’t quite figure out when it became OK to kill kids in the name of “gettin’ the job done”. The U.S. launched a military missile strike Monday ... More About: Children , Kill
This is not my Country: March
2008-03-03 15:37:00 Welcome to the March 1, 2008 edition of this is not my country. Once again I am too busy to breathe and so once again the carnival is somewhat raw. But enjoy. Freddie L. Sirmans, Sr. presents COLD STEEL RAW BUCK NAKED ECONOMICS 101. posted at CAN US ECONOMY SURVIVE DOOMSDAY?. DrGizmondo presents The puppet masters: Who?s pulling ... More About: Country , Carnivals
Reactions to the Candidates?
2008-03-03 04:32:00 I was contacted a couple of days ago by a PhD. candidate from Stony Brook University asking if I’d help promote a survey that is to become part of a dissertation. Sure. Why not? I’ve also been asked to disable comments on this post and I understand why, so comments are disabled for this post. Immediately ... More About: Candidates
9/11? Iraq? From the ass?s mouth
2008-02-27 15:29:00 Take a peek at 01:10 to about 01:20. That isn’t the story I heard. More About: Iraq , War , Impeachment , Corruption , Mouth
YouTube as a Force for Democracy: Mccain
2008-02-27 15:19:00 YouTube: Curious collection of mostly stupid homemade ranting, pseudoporn and general nonsense, but it is also becoming a kind of collective memory. This is unfortunate for some. More About: Politics , Youtube , Force , Democracy
the ?words of the servants of the ministers of the kings of yo momma?
2008-02-15 04:48:00 What could be better than Anarcho-Judaism: Dildos in the Bible I ask you? Well, the eating excrement is good, but really the dildos trump it. Dildos trump most everything. More About: Words , Ministers , Kings , Momma
Emotional Logic
More articles from this author:2008-02-14 14:38:00 Here is another one written for the environmental ethics class with Rolston. All of the references are to ‘Nature, Value, Duty: Life on Earth with Holmes Rolston, III’. Emotions were a primary guide to human behavior long before we formalized reasoning. Long before we came to consider ourselves rational animals, fear told us what was dangerous ... More About: Logic , Emotional 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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