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Monthly Archives: October 2009
New York’s 23rd Congressional District: Dump the Moderate Female for Another Rigid Authoritarian Dude in High Rush Limbaugh Mode!
The purge of moderate Republicans from the Republican Party continues: That’s just what the Republican Party needs: fewer female politicians okay with gay equality! It’s getting worse for the Republicans, isn’t it? Here’s the lowdown from MSNBC: Hoffman’s rise infuriated … Continue reading
Galt’s Gulch: As Neoliberalism and Barack Obama Ascend, Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” Sees a Dramatic Increase in Sales
A sign of anxiety and nostalgia? Conservatives in a time of advancing liberalism are escaping into the “Galt’s Gulch” of Ayn Rand’s fiction. This at the Ayn Rand Institute website: “The spike in sales of Atlas Shrugged more than a … Continue reading
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Tagged atlas shrugged, Ayn Rand, conservatism, Red State, Republican, Republican party
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Yet Another Good Reason to Get Your Swine Flu Shot
It works really, really well. This today in Spiegel: The researchers who develop vaccines hope, of course, that their products will work. This time around, however, even the developers themselves were surprised to see just how effective their products have … Continue reading
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Tagged fitness, flu, flu shots, H1N1, health, swine flu, wellness
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Trick or Treaters, New York City, Circa 1910
But they don’t have trick or treat bags, do they? Did kids used to go around and shill for candy back then? Link with more of these: http://www.flickr.com/photos/opiummuseum/4033581631/in/set-72157622380888091/
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Tagged 1910, 20th century, candy, children, family, Halloween, history, life, trick or treat
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Tiny Tim was a Super Freak!
And the original Tiny Tim: Hattip: CCM104 Oh, and the original, original Tiny Tim: It’s okay to be different.
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Tagged divas, evolution, freedom, gay liberation, Halloween, laugh in, rick james, superfreak, tiny tim
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For Halloween, a Super Freak Comes to the Rescue (of Evolution)?
Sometimes we think that if we could just have a stunning visual demonstration of something we believe in, that it would convince the nonbelievers in our midst. So it is that alien enthusiasts fantasize about UFOs on the White House lawn, and Evangelical … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, atheist, biology, circus, creationism, evolution, Halloween, monsters, science, second coming, UFOs
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A Muslim Imam Who Once Advocated Violence Now Renounces Terror
The heart intervenes. This today in Spiegel: In 2001, imam Mohammed El Fazazi of Morocco preached that it it is a Muslim obligation to “slit the throats of non-believers” in a Hamburg mosque. Among his listeners and star pupils were … Continue reading
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Tagged gandhi, Islam, Muslim, nonviolence, nonviolent protest, protest, violence
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Is Faith Ever a Virtue?
It might be, especially if you think of acts of faith as akin to fantasy. Faith, like fantasy, may function to do real work in the psyche. I think this observation of Ethel Spector Person, from a book of essays titled Imagination and Its … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, atheist, don quixote, faith, fantasy, Freud, God, Jesus, reason, science, the ontological mystery, virtue
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Religious Primitivism in a Nuclear Weaponized World
On Monday Major Adrian Agassi, one of the military court judges who holds jurisdiction over the West Bank, bluntly told the Guardian that God gave the land of Israel to the Jews, and that’s basically that: In an unusually frank interview, … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, atheist, God, Israel, land, nuclear weapons, psychology, religion, the middle east
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A Quote for October
Faith Baldwin: Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees. __________
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Tagged faith, faith baldwin, fire, life, october, seasons, the sun, trees
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Halloween is Coming
Look busy.
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Tagged 1970s, 1976, carrie, film, Halloween, high school, horror
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Today’s Question
If patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, is faith the last refuge of a failed thesis? Or might faith be that place where you reach the end of all that you can figure and do, and, in … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, belief, Christianity, faith, God, Islam, Jesus, Judaism, reason, religion, skepticism
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The Last Daily Newspaper in the United States?
Kevin Drum at Mother Jones makes a prediction: I’ll stick with 2025 for now. There may be small local papers around for longer than that, but no big city dailies. New York will be the last to go, but in … Continue reading
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Tagged 2025, advertising, America, death, internet, life, media, news, newspapers
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“You Made Me Hate Myself!”
Happy Halloween!
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Tagged 1970s, fall, Halloween, horror, mice, october, rats, scary films, willard
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Halloween is Almost Here!
Wow!
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Tagged 1973, advertising, eros, film, Halloween, horror, thanatos, the exorcist
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