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"The madman is not the man who

Posted on February 16, 2011
"The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. He is the man who has lost everything except his reason."    - G.K. Chesterton. BadUFO points to an example of the lunacy of the true believer.  Radical Lawyer/Ufologist Peter Gerstner intends to leap from the top of a 200 foot Bells Rock in Sedona, Arizona on the Winter Solstice of 2012 because he is certain that at that time and at that place

Oh, goodie.... NPR is getting

Posted on February 16, 2011
Oh, goodie.... NPR is getting more money from our taxes. NPR STATEMENT ON THE PRESIDENT'S FY 2012 BUDGET Public broadcasting received a vote of confidence today from the Obama Administration. The President's FY 2012 budget submission to Congress included $451 million for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) for the two year advance appropriation for FY 2014, an increase of $6

The Republican "Agenda" against

Posted on February 16, 2011
The Republican "Agenda" against Science. Second round with Anthroslug. My points were: 1. There is a history of what might be called ?Democrat anti-science? in the example of William Proxmire. 2. Although we may disagree with Proxmire, as an elected representative, he had a public duty to represent the public vis a vis what he considered to be fraud, corruption and waste...

Swords and Sandals. Evangelical

Posted on February 15, 2011
Swords and Sandals. Evangelical scholar Ben Witherington likes the latest Roman epic flick, "The Eagle."

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More things that everyone knows

Posted on February 15, 2011
More things that everyone knows packaged as faith shattering news. Bart Ehrman's next book is coming out in March and is entitled "Forged: Writing in the Name of God--Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are." We're probably going to discover that the Gospels do not have a title page with their author's name! Shocking! And some of the Pauline epistles may have been written by

The Wonderful World of Disney.... ...destroying

Posted on February 15, 2011
The Wonderful World of Disney.... ...destroying the lives of child actors for over 50 years! Billy Ray Cyrus admits that his daughter is a trainwreck of Anna Nicole Smith proportions: In a shockingly candid GQ interview, Billy Ray Cyrus slams Hannah Montana, the smash Disney series that catapulted his daughter Miley Cyrus to the spotlight...

Scientist Roger Penrose Criticizes

Posted on February 15, 2011
Scientist Roger Penrose Criticizes Stephen Hawkings' Recent Book. "M-Theory" isn't a theory. Here is the site. Here is the video.

Child born without cerebellum is

Posted on February 15, 2011
Child born without cerebellum is learning to walk. Wesley Smith points to an amazing story about a child who was born without the portion of his brain that controls the human ability to learn is learning to walk.  He's also learning to talk and is potty-trained...

A Rabbi Answers Dawkins. Rabbi

Posted on February 15, 2011
A Rabbi Answers Dawkins. Rabbi Moshe Averick discusses the argument from design. The entire plot of the classic film, 2001: A Space Odyssey is based on this obvious principle. At a dramatic moment in the film, when a rectangular monolith is discovered buried on the moon, it is clear to those who discover it (and accepted as absolutely logical and reasonable by everyone watching the movie) that

Tolerance is not enough.  You.

Posted on February 14, 2011
Tolerance is not enough.  You. Must. Approve. England proposes new law "ending the ban" on same-sex marriage in religious institutions: Gays and lesbians will be able to 'marry' in church under new laws to be unveiled this week. The historic decision by Liberal Democrat Equalities Minister Lynne Featherstone will end the legal definition of marriage as a relationship between a man and a woman.

More accurate than all the Sociological

Posted on February 14, 2011
More accurate than all the Sociological faculties at every major university. From the Volokh Conspiracy: OKCupid?s datamining blog is a source of amusement, politically incorrect insight, and horror in equal measure.  But what strikes me is the enormous power that comes from the democratizing of data-mining...

Those Anti-Science Republicans. Anthroslug

Posted on February 14, 2011
Those Anti-Science Republicans. Anthroslug writes: Hell, it is telling that the Republican Party went from an organization that once respected science and scientists to one where prominent members in elected office can publicly call for the use of criminal prosecution in an attempt to bully scientists into silence...

Memory Lane. The evolution of

Posted on February 13, 2011
Memory Lane. The evolution of the automobile sound system.

Who is John Galt? This may be

Posted on February 12, 2011
Who is John Galt? This may be a timely movie, but "Atlas Shrugged" was a long and very silly book.  The characters are deliberately written in no more than one dimension so that there would be no confusion about who were the good guys and who were the bad guys...

Questions no man is asking... ..."Why

Posted on February 12, 2011
Questions no man is asking... ..."Why are women's breasts getting bigger?" Oddly, the article suggests various reasons, but doesn't mention "plastic surgery."

Back Alley Abortions after Roe. Mark

Posted on February 12, 2011
Back Alley Abortions after Roe. Mark Steyn observes: This is a remarkable moment in American life: A man is killing actual living, gurgling, bouncing babies on an industrial scale - and it barely makes the papers. Had he plunged his scissors into the spinal cord of a Democrat politician in Arizona, then The New York Times, ABC, CBS, NBC and everyone else would be linking it to Sarah Palin's

It slowly dawns on one writer that

Posted on February 12, 2011
It slowly dawns on one writer that Stalin may have been worse than Hitler. Writing a review of "Bloodlands" for Slate, author Ron rosenbaum observes: How much should the cannibalism count? How should we factor it into the growing historical-moral-political argument over how to compare Hitler's and Stalin's genocides, and the death tolls of communism and fascism in general...

Well, if that's the case, maybe

Posted on February 11, 2011
Well, if that's the case, maybe we can cut the deficit by eliminating the CIA and outsourcing to CNN. According to the New York Times, our President and CIA Chief based their intelligence estimates of the almost certainty of Mubarak resigning on what they saw on television: Mr...

Christianity increasing; atheism

Posted on February 11, 2011
Christianity increasing; atheism declining. George Weigel writes: For 27 years, the International Bulletin of Missionary Research has published an annual "Status of Global Mission" report, which attempts to quantify the world Christian reality, comparing Christianity's circumstances to those of other faiths, and assaying how Christianity's various expressions are faring when measured against

More on Scientology. Isteve notes

Posted on February 11, 2011
More on Scientology. Isteve notes the irony of Haggis' reason for quitting Scientology: That's pretty funny when you think about it: a major player in Hollywood is a Scientologist for his entire career, but he finally rebels because ... one Scientologist staffer in another city signed a petition against gay marriage...

Looking pretty good for being dead

Posted on February 11, 2011
Looking pretty good for being dead for 130 years. The "creep factor" on this is pretty high.  So, if you cand' exorcism flicks like rite, you might want to give this hand-shot video of St. Bernadette's incorruptible body a miss.

Or just forget all that. Mubarak

Posted on February 11, 2011
Or just forget all that. Mubarak resigns...it is reported...for now.

Should Protestants Read Aquinas? Yes. 1.

Posted on February 11, 2011
Should Protestants Read Aquinas? Yes. 1. Synthesis instead of mere critique. While we moderns specialize in breaking down ideas into their component parts, the masters of the high middle ages had the opposite strength: They excelled at putting ideas together and building up larger masses of interconnected ideas...

This seems more inauspicious today

Posted on February 10, 2011
This seems more inauspicious today than it did 14 days ago. Egypt withdraws its ambassador to the Vatican because of the Vatican's protest against the failure to protect Coptic Christians from being murdered. When it was reported on January 14, 2010, it seemed like a headscratcher...

Mubarak/Obama Speeches on Egypt. Obama

Posted on February 10, 2011
Mubarak/Obama Speeches on Egypt. Obama according to NRO: At a speech today at Marquette University, Pres. Barack Obama opened the talk about economic growth with a few brief remarks about Egypt. They are paraphrased below: We are following today?s events in Egypt very closely...

Lord Jim. Two days ago, Barry

Posted on February 10, 2011
Lord Jim. Two days ago, Barry Rubin - director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center and editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) Journal - pondered the possibility of Mubarak not stepping down from power as the script called for...

Hell, hath no fury like the fan

Posted on February 10, 2011
Hell, hath no fury like the fan of a nihilistic author of Goth vampire stories scorned. Anne Rice made a few caustic comments against the Catholic Church inspired by her commitment to the magisterium of nihilism.  A few Catholic bloggers responded.  Anne Rice's  fans respond with diatribe based on the idea that responding to a public criticism is mean and judgmental...

Father Barron on "The Exorcist"

Posted on February 10, 2011
Father Barron on "The Exorcist" and "The Rite."

Reproductive/Privacy Rights. Glenn

Posted on February 09, 2011
Reproductive/Privacy Rights. Glenn Reynolds writes: REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS: Chinese Woman Seeks Asylum In The US Over Forced Birth Control. ?Back in 1991, the Chinese government forced her to get an IUD implanted as part of its one child per family population control policy...

Holding Paper - Christopher Hitchens. Listening

Posted on February 08, 2011
Holding Paper - Christopher Hitchens. Listening to a debate between Hitchens and Shmuley Boteach, Hitchens made his perennial claim that the Vatican was the first country to enter into a treaty with Nazi Germany, thereby implying that this was some type of official recognition of the Nazis and all they stood for...

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