Archive for January, 2005
Saturday, January 29th, 2005
Multiple Choice: The fact that the "Voices of Faith" column on today's Albany Times-Union's Religion page is a not-excessively-polemical piece by me called "Evolution can coexist with faith" is a sign thatI am mellowing in my autumn yearsMy atheistic propaganda is getting more deviousMy meds need to be adjustedWe've ...
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Wednesday, January 26th, 2005
One of my favorite polls I've seen recently: Americans were asked "Which one of the current U.S. Supreme Court justices do you most admire or agree with?" The responses:
Sandra Day O’Connor: 13%
Clarence Thomas: 8%
William H. Rehnquist: 6%
Antonin Scalia: 5%
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: 5%
Anthony M. Kennedy: 1%
Stephen G. Breyer: 1%
David Souter: ...
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Wednesday, January 26th, 2005
Yesterday I was forty-something; today I am forty-something-else. Argh.
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Tuesday, January 25th, 2005
BattleTech goes real-world: US plans 'robot troops' for Iraq
...the robot warrior is fast, accurate and will track and attack the enemy with relatively little risk to the lives of US soldiers. Unlike its human counterparts, the armed robot does not require food, clothing, training, motivation or a pension... the robot ...
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Monday, January 24th, 2005
I was interviewed on camera for about a half an hour today by a producer from the local Fox affilliate about...
Alien abductions!
No, I'm not kidding. They're doing a bit on alien abduction stories, and because I occasionally teach Philosophy in Science Fiction, and have done occasional talks and panels ...
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Monday, January 24th, 2005
Spring semester has started -- although the 14" of snow outside make it seem misnamed. And as with every January, I'm struck by how different the start of the semester feels than the start of fall. Fall always has a touch of freshness and excitement -- coming back ...
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Sunday, January 23rd, 2005
I carry one of these 512MB SanDisk Mini Cruzer drives in my pocket. Why? Because I can.
So, you know that eventually, it would go through the wash. Hot wash, cotton cycle in the dry. Lots of hot water, lots of really hot air. Came through ...
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Thursday, January 20th, 2005
Another term of lies, creeping theocracy, wars for God and money, and the darkness that W the antichrist brings.
Just to remind you of what we should expect 4 more years of, I point you to the earlier post "Bush by the numbers".
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Tuesday, January 18th, 2005
Wow.
Courtesy of Monkey Methods, an actual photo spread of Bill Gates in Teen Beat Magazine, 1983.
Any witty little comment I might make would surely be gilding the lily.
UPDATE: Turns out this is partially hoax. It's indeed Bill, cavorting coyly on his desk. But the spread wasn't ever in ...
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Sunday, January 16th, 2005
My op-ed about God, natural evil, and the tsunami (mentioned in this earlier post), appeared in the The Baltimore Sun today, under the slightly more descriptive but less elegant title of "Horrors such as tsunami tragedy pose difficult questions for faithful".
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