Daily Archives: August 4, 2009

The View from Adam’s Window

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Mental Health Break

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The View from My Dream Window

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Gay Liberation and Drama on the Starship Enterprise

Spock and Captain Kirk? Really? An amusing mash-up here.

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To Reduce Your Risk of Death from Swine Flu This Fall, Should You Get a Pneumonia Vaccine?

The Los Angeles Times today reports that a widely available pneumonia vaccine might substantially reduce your risk from dying of the swine flu virus (H1N1) this fall. My family is planning to request the vaccine from our physician. Money quote from … Continue reading

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Is God the Ultimate 747? Richard Dawkins v. William Lane Craig

In The God Delusion, one of Richard Dawkins’s arguments against the value of positing a deity as an explanation for the universe’s existence is this: The deity would be more complex than the universe you’re attempting to explain, and so to say “God created the … Continue reading

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Mr. Abercrombie on President Barack Obama’s Birth in Hawaii

This today in the New York Times: There are no living family members to testify to the events of Aug. 4, 1961, at the Kapiolani Maternity and Gynecological Hospital in Honolulu. The president’s parents are both deceased, as are his … Continue reading

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Health Insurance Reform

I like the new framing, by Democrats, of health care reform as “health insurance reform.” It’s harder to be against health insurance reform, isn’t it?

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Quote of the Day

Steven Mikulan today in the LA Weekly: The poster, which bears a very superficial resemblance to Shepard Fairey’s famous Obama Hope illustration, has been pasted on freeway supports and other public surfaces. It has a bit of everything to appeal … Continue reading

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