By the way, the mysterious disappearance of this week’s Tangled Bank host is still unexplained, but Thoughts from Kansas has stepped forward to fill in the gap (thanks to you others who volunteered, too—I went through the list in the order the offers were received, and Josh was first). Give him a little time, he’s doing this on very short notice, and I’ll put up an announcement whenever it’s done.
I have forwarded to him all the submissions that were sent via me or host@tangledbank.net, but if you sent anything to metaanalysis directly, you might want to resend it to me.
Despite the absence of congress, duplicity and moronic behavior are still the rules of the day in DC.
In almost direct opposition to Bush’s platform, the Fed has come out in favor of same-sex proms.
Meanwhile, Bush was caught not paying close enough attention to a Discovery Channel program.
No surprise that reactionary draft-dodging chickenhawk Rethuglican Limbaugh attacks Michael J. Fox, even though Fox did a similar ad for Arlen Specter in 2004. Here is another interview with Fox that shows what a scumbag–as if we didn’t know–Limbaugh is.
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=2210587
Is Fox “acting” here too?
Stewart Lee who wrote “Jerry Springer the Opera” tells about his encounters with xians.
http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/
Just scroll to the video.
Buying pork on Eid
Stop the Presses!
A rock formation has been found with a clear resemblance to a human figure, and it doesn’t look like either Jesus or his mother the virgin Mary!
I just finished The God Delusion and, while I disagree with the points made in most every negative review I’ve read of it, I didn’t find it particularly great. It seemed rushed; he skims over things that would have been interesting, dwells on others that really aren’t, and frequently goes off on wild tangents. The very last section, which I just read, with the odd burka analogy (which, given the current “veil debate” here in Britain, I just found bizarre and jarring) did absolutely nothing for me. I think the point was to offer some sense of the inspirational scope of science, but instead it just seemed to regurgitate all those awful, not-particularly-inspiring ideas Computer and Cognitive Scientists have given the world. Still, it might be worth giving to someone who’s “on the fence” about these issues.
Stop the Presses!
A rock formation has been found with a clear resemblance to a human figure, and it doesn’t look like either Jesus or his mother the virgin Mary!
Nobelist Peter Agre appears on the Colbert Report
A third hand criticism of Dawkins’ book
How lame can you get?
Quork, the Agre quote is the funniest thing I’ve seen since Kids First in Virginia. Is there any way to put Agre up for the Peace IgNobel? Have any Nobels ever won an IgNobel? There must be a first time for everything…
Go stuff yourself, sir.
Philip Paulson, 59; atheist, Vietnam veteran fought to have hilltop cross removed
Listener’s alert: apparently both Richard Dawkins and Deepak Chopra get interviewed (not together) next week (Oct 30+) on KQED radio’s talk-show program “Forum”. This is an hour-long format for each guest, two each morning, with listener emails and call-ins. The host is Michael Krasny, and he’s very good usually.
The web schedule page doesn’t list either for Monday’s preview, but this page does include the web streaming link and several-year archive (with an 11/04 Dawkins interview about ‘Ancestor’s Tale’). Perhaps Chopra will get his on Halloween?
Here is a nice photo of a sea creature. There are others along with it. However, the competition is hypocritally sponsored by Shell. It is called the Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year.
http://www.smh.com.au/ftimages/2006/10/19/1160851065882.html
Remember Rabbi Avi Shafran, who commented on atheism and morality? PZ already tore into that one. Now Shafran is back, just in time for Halloween, explaining how all his critics are misguided.
Do you think?