Unqualified Offerings

By Mona
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Yet another reason why schools, libraries & etc that employ “blocking” software for the young ‘uns can be so stoopidly counterproductive. Of the sites youth should be reading for info about “cults” and “superstition,” James Randi’s is among the top ten, as is talkorigins.org.

What if the Beatles had been Irish?

Jim Lobe highlights a blog entry at Commentary showing that the GOP’s biggest clowns and knaves are signing on with John McCain. The Commentary blogger, Jennifer Rubin, is apparently impressed that Robert McFarlane and Larry Kudlow, to name only the most ridiculous people in her summary, are vouching for Mr. Straight Squawk. She must be [...]

Britain gags its Olympians. It’s the Daily Mail, but they do quote named sources. As a values clarification exercise, given the choice of confronting China by:
1) spending a trillion dollars to plant as much American military force as possible around the country’s perimeter;
2) letting Paula Radcliffe slag the Chinese leadership for free;
I’ll take the latter.
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I agree with Daniel Larison about how annoying so-called “Restless and Anxious Moderates” are. Their assumptions are stupid: that there’s an objective “fix” for their complaints beyond reference to and dispute over values, and that the political process could somehow deliver such a fix without political means. When you object to “political rhetoric” and “five-point [...]

By Mona
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Suicidal ideation has ceased for much of the non-reading public.