Good morning.
Bookshelf ideas .
National pride and the Skoda (and the jokes ).
Mistakes in regulations can be harmful .
Medieval actuarial practice .
One of the things the Dems can do that the GOP can’t .
Back to the future .
Hate speech, democratic version ?
A book by a blogger .
Who squashed that car ? Oh. It was built that way.
The academic bluff .
Cows on the new farm .
Musing on Jerusalem .
Wallpaper links .
Paradox: most of the blogs on my feed are admittedly Christian with a right wing leaning. I have a few left leaning secular blogs I read as well. If the “fundamentalist” right wingers are supposed to be the “haters” then why is anger and hate normally found on those on the left ?
Mr Obama and the AIG .
Is the economy bad? Perhaps not so much . Oh, and my comment was still lost, but my reply to Mr Kuznicki’s question is to buy index funds and yes, buy them now too, dollar cost averaging works.
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Post Date: 2008-03-26 13:10:54
Waterboarding as torture, apparently, is terrifying but leaves no non-psychological damage.
If it was used in conjunction with a drug which prevents short term memory from forming long term memory … so that tomorrow (or even a few hours later) the victim/subject nor longer has any memory of the event.
Does that affect the morality of the torture?
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more Question on TortureFrom: pseudopolymath.com
Post Date: 2008-03-26 11:36:51
Joe Carter brings up a number of points , some of which I might return to, but this torture issue made me think of a question. Mr Carter writes:
Four — I can’t make excuses for us on this one anymore: Christians have to take a firm stand against torture. Yes, there is a debate about what exactly is meant by that term. Let’s have that debate. Let’s define the term in a way that consistent with our belief in human dignity. And then let’s hold every politician in t...
more Wednesday (and Tuesday) HighlightsFrom: pseudopolymath.com
Post Date: 2008-03-26 06:01:47
Good morning.
A new Patristics resource (HT: Mike Aquilina ).
My (not entirely) guilty pleasure … a webcomic I read regularly. What do y’all read?
On science and the new atheists .
Apples and Quartz, a phrase borrowed, but applicable here .
So … what’s eating you ?
An old story which is not what you thought it was .
A memory and hospitality .
Obama: taxes noted , an epistle , and hate-filled speech .
On modern Christian apologetics , it i...
more He’s WrongFrom: pseudopolymath.com
Post Date: 2008-03-25 17:34:58
Douglas Wilson , blogger and noted theologian, writes :
One more quick comment on penitential seasons. I do believe it is possible for good, sound Protestants to observe such seasons, provided they redefine everything and do something very different from what gave rise to the historical practice in the first place. But it seems to me this is done with success rarely, and when it is successfully done, the question “why?” naturally arises.
In my view, the impulse behind peniteni...
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