George Bush's bioethics advisor, Leon Kass, would rather we all die! Kass is heating up his rhetoric on the fight to end life. While an avid critic of...
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Howdy all, Well, I'm back from hacking my way through sub-Saharan jungles--and, remarkably enough, none of the big cats, the raging endemic diseases, nor the...
... Muness - Thanks very much, and for your very thoughtful comments. A couple ... Terrific correction, and I'm very happy to stand before it. 8^) As you are...
I found it very liberating, many years ago, to realize that the meaning of life can not be found "out there." I often use the metaphor of leaving the world of...
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/16/business/media/16BIZC.html This seems to be the Rip Van Winkle group lately, but I thought that this article may appeal to...
I just finished Steven Pinker's latest contribution to our growth as a species, "The Blank Slate - The Modern Denial of Human Nature." Really stellar, which...
... While I haven't gotten around to reading the Pinker book yet, damn video editing is giving me fits, there was an interesting negative review in The New...
... I think there's some validity to this criticism. However, the man in question is not all straw. Pinker goes to some lengths to tie these views to all kinds...
To: Ryan Canolty <ryan_canolty@...> Subject: Re: inspector on inspections Ryan, Thanks very much for your thoughts on this. Obviously it's important to ...
Dammit, Michael, I've got tons of work to do, and here you are tempting me with this un-nonreplyable-to post... ... I'm puzzled by the equating of the Sept 11...
... <snip> ... I'm about to hit the road on a multi-day trip (where I'll be thinking about appropriate responses) but wanted to post a link to this report ...
Michael Fuchs and Ryan Canolty said in a smashed together message: [S] ... [M] ... Do not be fooled by your perceptions. I'm vaguely pro-war. The above ...
"Unveiled: The Thugs Bush Wants in Place of Saddam" www.sundayherald.com/27877 "Analysts Discount Attack by Iraq" October 9, 2002 www.washingtonpost.com...
While trying to think of how to reply to Michael, Gavrielle's post landed in my box and suddenly I realized that I didn't have to -- a more eloquent and...
... I suppose it depends on how far into the future you look and what kind of world you want. The immediate effects of a "regime change" (man, I sure do love...
... I find it difficult to believe that any group of people could be quite this irrational, unless their position is based solely on religion/culture. That's...
Gavrielle has suggested that the prospective war with oil is largely about oil. This is a view widely held in the Middle East, and some parts of Europe and...
I'm glad Gavrielle speaks for Ryan, so I can wallop you both with one swing. 8^) Though, I do agree with Ryan: as ever, Mms Perry, you are as well-informed on...
... Then you, like most, are either ignoring--or giving them a pass on--the extent of Jew hatred in the Arab Middle East. Mein Kampf is (to this day) a ...
Michael, ... As you said about Ryan, we're obviously poles apart, so rather than swing back in any serious way, I'll just make a few quick comments. ... <snip>...
Michael, ... You clearly have more knowledge in this area than I do and I bow to that. However, would you query that this hatred has at least in part a...
... Pinker was obviously aware that the straw man criticism would be raised against the book, and indeed spends quite some pages defending himself on the...
. . . by conceding them. (Hey, this is more space-efficient than quoting each one and agreeing!) As usual, Gavrielle is too infernally reasonable and...
Hold on a minute Michael Maybe the US does produce 25% of the world's economic output. I haven't got the figures to hand to verify that. But I think what you...
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