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Monthly Archives: July 2014
Will Hillary Run on a $12.50 Minimum Wage?
I favor a $12.50 national minimum wage, and would like to see Hillary Clinton make it a platform position in 2016. Why? Because globalization has put enormous downward pressure on American wages over the past 20 years. This means that … Continue reading
A Prophetic Film from 1940
It’s title: To New Horizons. The logic is sunny and simple, but it has proven (thus far) to be pretty much dead on.
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Tagged futurism, happiness, hope, optimism, the future, the rational optimist
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Bayes Rule, Julia Galef, and TAM 2014
I went to TAM 2014 in Las Vegas over the weekend and saw Julia Galef of the Center for Applied Rationality on a panel with philosopher Daniel Dennett. I’d never heard of Galef before this weekend, but she has a … Continue reading
God and Evolution?
As an agnostic, I never have any problem with somebody who says, “13.7 billion year-old cosmos and evolution, yes, obviously, but not, ‘It all happened via the combination of chance and natural selection.’ Something more is up, and I think … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, creation, evolution, religion, science, young earth creationism
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Christopher Hitchens Recites From Memory Wilfred Owen’s Great Anti-War Poem, “Dulce et Decorum est”
The great Hitch reciting Owens. __________ And here’s the text of the poem from 1917 or 1918: Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned our … Continue reading
Un-Fricken-Believable
Seriously. __________ Okay, I have to comment. First, before you can even get this sort of logic going, Adam and Eve would need to have actually existed in a garden in Mesopotamia 10,000 years ago. They never did. Second, you’ve … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, atheism, God, Jesus, philosophy, psychology, reason
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Sea Ice Going, Going …
Just 18 years. It’s hard not to look at these two images together (via National Geographic) and not be stunned: 2012:
