Archive for January, 2008
Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Sorry to see that John Edwards is Pulling Out of the race. I would have voted for him. The media attention on the sexiness of the Obama/Clinton fight has pushed him from the limelight, I'm afraid. But consistently, he's been the candidate who has carried the banner for ...
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Monday, January 28th, 2008
I've been tagged by P.D. with the "Why do you teach and why is academic freedom critical to that effort?" meme; so here goes.
I too am first inclined to the glib response, that I teach because I'm a philosopher, and how the hell else am I going to make a ...
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Monday, January 21st, 2008
From the excellent xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.
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Sunday, January 20th, 2008
The only thing we have to change is change itself.(This meme is all over the place; this is a nice edit of it.)
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Saturday, January 19th, 2008
Bobby Fischer is dead at 64. Chris Bertram at Crooked Timber gets it right ("Bobby Fischer"), I think:
Maybe [it's] a generational thing. If you were of the right age—and I was 13 in the summer of 1972—then what you’ll remember is something different. The daily drama in Reykjavík stretched over ...
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
The excellent Saint Gasoline combines two of my favorite targets, behaviorism and God in the Book of Job, in The Story of Job if God Were a Behaviorist:
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
Big Think is kind of interesting -- YouTube with 30 extra IQ points. Lots of bite sized video morsels of intellectual content; from Steven Pinker on Human Nature to Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer on this and that. Seems like a good place to point an intellectually curious ...
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
I'm not sure they're the "top" 50, but they're kind of cute; check out the Top Fifty Atheist T-Shirt and Bumper Sticker Aphorisms. A few of my favs:#7: God Doesn't Kill People. People Who Believe in God Kill People.#15: People Who Don't Want Their Beliefs Laughed at Shouldn't Have ...
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Saturday, January 12th, 2008
In case you have questions and you've never been there, I highly recommend The Official God FAQ.
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Friday, January 11th, 2008
Here's a shocker: On Electoral Compass USA, which plots your views and compares them to the presidential candidates, I'm where the little pencil is pointing.
That's right. The top left corner. Imagine that.
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