Unqualified Offerings

(posted by Jennifer)
I haven’t believed in God for years. But when I did, I believed in one seriously damned impressive God. All-knowing! All-powerful! A God who could alter the concepts of time and space itself if He so chose.
In short, my God was a God worth worshiping. So if Satan tried to send [...]

They’re baaaAAAAACK!
Via Polytropos, who is also sort of back. And do read Michael Hall on parental ideologues.

Just cause I manage two quick posts, you guestbloggers aren’t off duty! I still won’t be back in the States until Friday night.
I will take time to say that I’m very pleased and grateful about how you all are doing, though.

Greg Stolze brings a twist to the distributed patronage model and extends it to fiction. I wrote about his adventures in distributed-patronage game design last year.

They took me to dinner tonight at Schwartz’s Charcuterie Hebraique, a genuine Montreal landmark and one of the relics of the city’s dwindling Jewish community. (Largely anglophone, it has decamped to Toronto.)
Yummy! I had the “smoked meat” sandwich. (They are vague on which part of the cow produces it; you’d think brisket, but my host [...]

[posted by Kn@ppster]
Jim’s been poking at the fabric of this phenomenon called “liberaltarianism” a bit, and he’s not alone. Libertarian ideas are picking up advocates on the Left, and “southpaw libertarians” are becoming an increasingly credible force in the libertarian movement.
Why? Well, a guest post on someone else’s blog isn’t the place to rehash [...]

[posted by Leonard]
At Catallarchy, Patri Friedman has posted the results of an interesting study he performed. Data were taken from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth.

OBJECTIVE: The goal was to determine the relationship between the parental use of sunscreen products and the skin color of children in first grade.
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RESULTS: … Children of High sunscreen-using [...]