Links With Your Coffee - Thursday
- Comparison Shopping: Fred vs. "Fred" - Indecision 2008
Some pundits have speculated that Fred Thompson's popularity may be largely due to his career in television and movies, and wonder whether voters are really able to separate the real Thompson from his Hollywood persona. To sort out the confusion, here are some examples of how Fred the candidate stacks up against Fred the character actor...
- BBC NEWS | UK | UK Politics | Clegg 'does not believe in God' An honest politician
- Top 100 Science Stories of 2007 | DISCOVER Magazine
- Science, Religion, and John Haught « Fear of Ignorance
- Most memorable quotes of 2007 - Ask...
A Pause From Death - New York Times
The United Nations General Assembly voted on Tuesday for a global moratorium on the death penalty. The resolution was nonbinding; its symbolic weight made barely a ripple in the news ocean of the United States, where governments’ right to kill a killer is enshrined in law and custom. . .
The United States, as usual, lined up on the other side, with Iran, China, Pakistan, Sudan and Iraq. Together this blood brotherhood accounts for more than 90 percent of the world’s executions, according to Amnesty International. These countries’ devotion to their sovereignty is rigid, as is their perverse faith in execution as a criminal deterrent and an instrument of civilized justice. But out beyond Texas, Ohio, Virginia, Myanmar, Singapore, Saudi Arabia and Zimbabwe, there are growing numbers who expect better of humanity.- At 71, Physics Professor Is a Web Star - New York Times
Professor Lewin’s videotaped physics lectures, free online on the OpenCourseWare of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have won him devotees across the country and beyond who stuff his e-mail in-box with praise.
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As I posted over at Fear of Ignorance, the theologian apparently doesn't know Nietzsche.
As I remember, Nietzsche associated xianity with nihilism since it denied life in favor of an illusionary after-life. Mr. Haught should do a bit of reading on the subject.
As to Haught’s statement, “Science is simply not equipped to deal with the dimensions of purposefulness, love, compassion, forgiveness”, except perhaps for “purposefulness”, Steven Pinker for one thinks that those things probably can be dealt with by science.
Basically Haught’s argument seems to be that belief in illusionary beings is a useful, even necessary, fiction.
For more on Nietzsche, http://www.brianleiternietzsche.blogspot.com/
I am often purposefully horny.
Like they say…use it or lose it.
Yawn. It's the new reducto ad Hitlerum. Makes sense though: since there's no logical argument against the death penalty, what is a death penalty opponent to do? Admit they're wrong and accept the truth? Nah, better to engage in logically flawed argumentation and character assassination.
Arguing to save the lives of rapists and murderers, at the cost of innocent lives, just to feel good about yourself. What a hero.
Why not actually confront and address the points being made instead of talking to yourself.
Well, Callgirl has been running away from a discussion ever since he was posting as Joe. Ain't gonna happen.
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