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Well, if they didn't want to be

Posted on June 28, 2010
Well, if they didn't want to be falsely accused of committing rape, they shouldn't have been someplace where they could have been falsely accused of committing rape. English women jailed after falsely accusing two men of raping her. A lying mother-of-one who claimed she had been raped because she wanted to get rid of her husband has been jailed for 18 months...

This could be really, really bad. Perhaps,speculates

Posted on June 27, 2010
This could be really, really bad. Perhaps,speculates Enerty and Capital, the BP well has causes a weakening and fissuring of the surrounding geological strata, which will cause a mass release of oil outside of the BP well. Geologists are pointing to other fissures and cracks that are appearing on the ocean floor around the damaged wellhead...

Parodoxically, it seems that a

Posted on June 27, 2010
Parodoxically, it seems that a population's risky sexual behavior is somehow mysteriously related to whether that population will have higher levels of AIDS. First Things points out the data that distributing condoms causes an increase in AIDS: The predominant Western approach to preventing the spread of AIDS in Africa has failed...

The historical background to Agora. Faith

Posted on June 27, 2010
The historical background to Agora. Faith L. Justice has some interesting posts on the actual history concerning the history distorted in the film Agora.

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Concerning arguments about "going

Posted on June 27, 2010
Concerning arguments about "going beyond the text" and "stealing second base." A little while ago, over at Theology for Dummies, I attempted to respond to Russ's buried argument that Aquinas - and other attempts to reason to theological doctrines - were suspect because they "went beyond Scripture": Likewise, when Russ says that we have to be careful about "going beyond the text" that assumes

The Parasite's morality: A tapeworm

Posted on June 27, 2010
The Parasite's morality: A tapeworm is shocked - shocked! - at his host's ingratitude. Vice President Biden calls frozen custard store owner an "asshole" for saying "lower our taxes." Here's the video. The serious point is made by John Hinderaker at Powerline blog: If you are a government employee, you have little reason to favor tax cuts: taxes pay your salary...

Anonymous oil industry insider

Posted on June 27, 2010
Anonymous oil industry insider points to apocalyptic scenario. From Mother Nature Network: With BP's recent admission that 100,000 barrels of oil are leaking into the Gulf per day, confirmation that the wellhead is now tipping as much as 11 degrees, and new video evidence that sea floor has begun cracking under the pressure, I am starting to believe the semi-apocalyptic worst case scenarios now

Small mistakes can have huge consequences

Posted on June 27, 2010
Small mistakes can have huge consequences when a 14 inch drill bit hits the wrong geological formation. From Io-9: "When an oil-drilling team on the lake hit a salt mine beneath it, the ensuing whirlpool sucked up not only the water, but a good bit of the land around it as well...

Flores "Hobbits" were distinct

Posted on June 27, 2010
Flores "Hobbits" were distinct species. Scientists claim to have ruled out the idea that their small size was due to an iodine deficiency.

Weigel, the Washington Post, Journolist

Posted on June 26, 2010
Weigel, the Washington Post, Journolist and the myth that there is a "myth of media bias." The critical point about the defenestration of Washington Post's "conservative" blogger Dave Weigel is that it puts the lie to the liberal cantrip that liberal bias is only a myth concocted by sour grapes conservatives...

A business model designed to bankrupt

Posted on June 26, 2010
A business model designed to bankrupt the company. The Washington Post's ombudsman acknowledges: Alas, it took only one listserv participant to bundle up Weigel?s archived comments and start leaking them outside the group. The result is that Weigel lost his job...

A rose in the slaughter-house. Steven

Posted on June 26, 2010
A rose in the slaughter-house. Steven Greydanus reviews the new movie on Germany's "White Rose," which is based on transcripts of Scholl's interrogation and which Greydanus gives an A+: The sheer intellectual and emotional rigor of the back-and-forth between this terrible old lion and his cagey young prey is both crushing and exhilarating; my friend and colleague Jeffrey Overstreet compared it

Al Gore, the "Crazed Sex Poodle." The

Posted on June 25, 2010
Al Gore, the "Crazed Sex Poodle." The Smoking Gun on the sex assault claim made against the former Vice President Noble Prize Winning Carbon-Offset Billionaire: JUNE 24--In a bizarre statement to police, the Oregon woman who claims that Al Gore fondled and groped her during a massage session described the former Vice President as a giggling "crazed sex poodle" who gave a "come hither" look

A Classic. Greeks v. Germany in

Posted on June 25, 2010
A Classic. Greeks v. Germany in Philosophy Soccer!

Surprise! It turns out that the

Posted on June 25, 2010
Surprise! It turns out that the Washington Post journalist chosen to cover conservatives was.... ...a liberal masquerading as a conservative. This was the guy who tried to defend Rep. Etheridge's assault and battery. From Big Journalism: The flap has created a furor in the blogosphere, and for lots of reasons, few of them having anything to do with the unimpressive Weigel himself, other than

I blame Global Warming. Your worst

Posted on June 25, 2010
I blame Global Warming. Your worst nightmares realized!  A Taiwanese re-enactment of the Al Gore "crazed sex poodle" incident.

Great Moments in Crisis Management. From

Posted on June 24, 2010
Great Moments in Crisis Management. From the Christian Science Monitor: Mr. Robinson told the Monitor that requests for more help after a large swath of oil washed up on Pensacola Beach Tuesday night were initially rebuffed because central command in Mobile said they couldn't put certain kinds of equipment on a national seashore...

"If we had to summarize Christianity's

Posted on June 24, 2010
"If we had to summarize Christianity's history, we would probably reference the apostle Paul, Billy Graham, and our congregation's building committee." Carl Olson on a particular kind of historical illiteracy.

Victor Davis Hanson: "McChrystal

Posted on June 24, 2010
Victor Davis Hanson: "McChrystal had to go." As a thought experiment, imagine if Bush was President: would liberals and Democrats have supported the decision to fire a field commander who had said the same thing about Bush that McChrystal said about Obama? In general, conservatives have supported Obama's decision...

This may explain why McChrystal

Posted on June 24, 2010
This may explain why McChrystal wanted an interview published in a magazine with Lady Gaga on the cover. Atlantic magazine reports that McChrystal was really an unabashed liberal: Even more about McChrystal: now it can be told. The story about him voting for Obama is not contrived...

Unless you were hoping for the

Posted on June 24, 2010
Unless you were hoping for the destruction of Western Civilization, this counts as "Good News." "Peak Oil" postponed by human ingenuity. So there is plenty of oil and gas after all. Prices will bumble along gently until well into the next decade. We are becoming more efficient in our use of energy, with 3pc extra savings annually...

McChrystal out, Petraus in. Victor

Posted on June 23, 2010
McChrystal out, Petraus in. Victor Davis Hanson notes:  A final note: It is one of ironies of our present warped climate that Petraeus will face far less criticism from the media and politicians than during 2007?8 (there will be no more ?General Betray Us? ads or ?suspension of disbelief? ridicule), because his success this time will reflect well on Obama rather than George Bush...

Calvin and the Development of Freedom

Posted on June 22, 2010
Calvin and the Development of Freedom of Conscience. The usual narrative is that Americans owe their ideas of Freedom of Conscience to their Protestant heritage.  I think that there is a great deal of truth to this, inasmuch as Freedom of Conscience seems to be an implicit value in democracy and grass-roots democracy was nurtured in many ways in the tradition of electing pastors and

Chimp Warfare. Scientists have

Posted on June 22, 2010
Chimp Warfare. Scientists have observed bands of Chimpanzees using raid and ambush techniques similar to those used by foraging cultures. There have been several books that have demolished the "peaceful savage" model, which argues that it was civilization - or religion if you are a nutcase New Atheist - that led to war...

"Amid crises, Obama declares war

Posted on June 22, 2010
"Amid crises, Obama declares war -- on Arizona" Byron York explains: The Obama administration has a lot of fights on its hands. Putting aside real wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, there's the battle against leaking oil in the Gulf, the struggle against 9...

Defaming a first-rate intellectual

Posted on June 21, 2010
Defaming a first-rate intellectual was the best thing that ever happened to American Constitutional law... ...according to Elena Kagan. See for yourself. Via Breitbart.

There would be long thoughtful

Posted on June 21, 2010
There would be long thoughtful op-eds about how these people constituted a trend for the Republican party .... ....if they were Republican. According to Hot Air: Republicans have had a huge laugh at the expense of South Carolina Democrats, who nominated Alvin Greene to challenge for Jim DeMint?s Senate seat despite the fact that Greene didn?t campaign, has a pending felony obscenity

Holding Paper - R.C. Sproul. R.

Posted on June 21, 2010
Holding Paper - R.C. Sproul. R. C. Sproul is one of the big names in Reformed theology/apologetics.  Unfortunately, as David Meyer - who is leaving the Reformed PCA for Catholicism after engaging some theological heavy lifting - points out, Sproul is not above "playing to the base" by setting up strawmen to knock down...

Useful Idiots on the Affirmative

Posted on June 21, 2010
Useful Idiots on the Affirmative Action President. Bill Quick observes: You know, folks like Noonan and Mort Zuckerman whining about Obama, after they praised him, pushed him, and voted for him in the face of all the evidence that led less besotted observers to see him for the empty suit he was, and is, leave me stone cold...

Happy Father's Day. Ignore the

Posted on June 21, 2010
Happy Father's Day. Ignore the odd-looking red-headed man and watch my uber-talented daughter's latest video creation.

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