Archive for June, 2005
Thursday, June 30th, 2005
Show and Tell Music is "a site that serves as sort of an orphanage for thrift store music and album cover art". It's got lots of fun and yuks, and even some strange MP3s as well, but best of all are the galleries of strange cover art from Christian ...
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2005
Oz is facinated by maps, routes, and local geography. He's also growing up with late-boomer parents and the schlocky pop from our youth. So, today, we set the trip odometer to see how far some things are on the drive to pre-K. As we pass what will ...
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Tuesday, June 28th, 2005
I posted a handful of religion-related comments at God is for Suckers! in the last day or two: Silly little miscommunications at the Air Force Academy, on the internal "investigation" that whitewashes the harassment of non-Xians at the Air Force Academy; and Supremes go both ways and Naked Scalia, ...
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Friday, June 24th, 2005
Once again, the U.S. House of Demagogues passes a constitutional amendment that would empower Congress to criminalize flag-burning. And this time, the Senate might muster up the 67 votes needed to pass it. Because, in times like these, the most important act a government can take is to ...
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Monday, June 20th, 2005
I took the "What is your world view?" quiz. I am, of course, a Modernist, with Existentialist a close second. But "Postmodernist" in third, ahead of Materialist? I think not.You scored as Modernist. Modernism represents the thought that science and reason are all we need to carry ...
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Sunday, June 19th, 2005
Crooked Timber reports and comments in the post "Separation of powers" on a bit of theocratic absurdity (which they apparently got via "A twisted approach to undermining the judiciary" from The Carpetbagger Report):
A state-sponsored 10 Commandments display in front of a courthouse in Indiana was ruled unconstitutional. But Indiana ...
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Thursday, June 16th, 2005
The most recent job-approval numbers on the Evil Moron Dubya are lookin' good: The Pew Center poll from June 8th-12th has approval at 42%, disapproval at 49%, with 10% undecided; The A.P. poll for June 6-8 has him at 43% approval, 55% disapproval, 1% mixed, and 1% don't know. ...
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Wednesday, June 15th, 2005
Very nice piece by Chris Hedges in the May Harpers about going to the meeting of the National Religious Broadcasters: "Feeling the hate with the National Religious Broadcasters". I'll share just the closer here -- a warning from Hedges' Div School prof from 25 years ago:
...fascism, Adams ...
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Sunday, June 12th, 2005
This study is a couple of months old, but I was busier and couldn't comment then. It's worth revisiting:
Seems that the "abstinence pledges" that the 'Publican tight-asses like as a substitute for sex education are, so to speak, backfiring: Boys pledging virginity until marriage were four times more ...
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Thursday, June 9th, 2005
The 10th Skeptics’ Circle is up over at Skeptico, and among many other worthwhile pieces, includes my little rant from last week, Trust me, I’m a doctor — of Philosophy!. Lots of skeptical goodies to shake your faith in everything you thought you knew -- even that J. Edgar ...
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