Daily Archives: October 19, 2009

I Got My Swine Flu Shot Today (and Albert Camus Would Have Gotten His Swine Flu Shot Too)

“No man is an island. Each is a part of the main.” This afternoon my wife, my three and five year old daughters, and I all went to the doctor to get our swine flu shots. We got our regular flu … Continue reading

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“I dislike being a foot soldier”: Freddie the Atheist on the Awful Quiet of Actual Atheism

Freddie, at The League of Ordinary Gentlemen, is not a movement New Atheist. He’s just an atheist. And he likes it that way: [T]here is an elementary consonance between evangelist religion and evangelist antitheism that I find inarguable, that both insist … Continue reading

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Barack Obama: The Muhammad Ali of American Politics

Andrew Sullivan this weekend wrote an admiring piece on Barack Obama’s rope-a-dope political shrewdness here. Money quote: He is thinking further ahead than the Republicans. . . . And . . . when you look at it closely, you see that … Continue reading

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