Posted in Canada, Ethics, Law, Politics, Uncategorized on November 2, 2007 | 2 Comments »
This is the dumbest thing the Tories have done since winning their current minority government.
It is simply wrong to rely on courts to achieve a high enough standard of justice to warrant the taking of a human life.
It is logically inconsistent to hold that our courts should not have the right to apply [...]
Posted in Tech, Writing on November 2, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The New Yorker still does great prose:
The Google Library Project has so far received mixed reviews. Google shows the reader a scanned version of the page; it is generally accurate and readable. But Google also uses optical character recognition to produce a second version, for its search engine to use, and this double process has [...]
Posted in Atheism, Catholicism, Christianity, Evolution, Philosophy, Science, Uncategorized on October 31, 2007 | 11 Comments »
Here Theodore Darymaple takes on the new atheists and finds the arguments not only weak, but weaker than arguments for atheism need to be - except, perhaps, that of Daniel Dennett. Kicking over the view typified by Dennett was instrumental in overcoming a life of agnosticism for me, so I find this sort [...]
Posted in Atheism, Christianity, Ethics, Philosophy, Science, Uncategorized on October 16, 2007 | 2 Comments »
This book review, found on an aggregator, is on a subject that is irresistible to a certain kind of geek - such as myself. What’s more, this is a good question to ponder on the day that our Parliament issues its throne speech, setting out its agenda for the coming sitting of the lower house: [...]
Posted in Quizzes and tests, Uncategorized on October 16, 2007 | No Comments »
Let’s see… very little activity here of late. Considered ending this project a few times but can’t bring myself to do it. Then, in the last two days I came across a number of stories that are worth sharing.
Lets start with a quiz, shall we?
From the virtual pages of Crunchy Con, What kind [...]
Posted in Ethics, Pro Life, Religion, Uncategorized on September 29, 2007 | No Comments »
Unbelievable. What a bitch this Maier woman is. “A stalwart member of the left…” says The Globe; I never would have guessed.
globeandmail.com- ‘I really regret it. I really regret having children‘
And this story of hers is funny and sad, but not in the way she thinks:
“We went to a family dinner in the suburbs [...]
Posted in Blogging, Uncategorized on September 13, 2007 | No Comments »
A test post using journaler, a donation ware journal program for Mac.
Posted in Arts, Catholicism, Christianity, Conservatism, Religion, Uncategorized on August 1, 2007 | No Comments »
Here’s the conclusion to Camille Paglia’s exploration of “what is wrong with the arts today.” It’s taken from a journal called Arion:
Supporters of the arts who gleefully cheer when a religious symbol is maltreated act as if that response authenticates their avant-garde credentials. But here’s the bad news: the avant-garde is dead. It was killed [...]
Posted in Catholicism, Christianity, Conservatism, Pro Life, Religion, Social science, Uncategorized on August 1, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Naomi Wolf has some interesting things to say about life in a sex saturated culture in New York magazine:
Pornography works in the most basic of ways on the brain: It is Pavlovian. An orgasm is one of the biggest reinforcers imaginable. If you associate orgasm with your wife, a kiss, a scent, a body, [...]
Posted in Catholicism, Religion, Uncategorized on July 30, 2007 | No Comments »
Rod Dreher has a question.:
What is it about our time that makes the heavy old forms of Christianity — Orthodoxy and Catholicism — so apparently ill-suited to compete with the amorphous Pentecostalism that’s sweeping the poor? Is it the case that the very complexity and depth that appeals to middle-class North American intellectuals makes the [...]
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