Author: Glen

I think I will file this one under “Com­mon-sense obser­va­tion by a judge.” In relat­ed news, see http://i.imgur.com/RtLy8.jpg

Amid Flu Shot Debate, Court Says Veg­an­ism Could Qual­i­fy as Reli­gious Belief: Court refus­es to dis­miss hos­pi­tal work­er’s reli­gious dis­crim­i­na­tion case after she was fired for refus­ing a flu shot.

At Chris­tian­i­ty Today, we’re con­stant­ly track­ing impor­tant devel­op­ments in the church and the world. Often we use our net­work of reporters around the world (and for that, vis­it our main site). But we …

Heh.

MAINLINE/REFORMED-FROM-BIRTH CONGREGANT ATTENDS A PENTECOSTAL REVIVAL FOR THE FIRST TIME

MAINLINE/REFORMED-FROM-BIRTH CONGREGANT ATTENDS A PENTECOSTAL REVIVAL FOR THE FIRST TIME

The eco­nom­ic deba­cle seems very sim­ple at one lev­el — but it seems that I am reg­u­lar­ly learn­ing new facts that illus­trate just how com­plex it all was.

David Hen­der­son reviews the new Alan Blind­er book

The review is here, here is one inter­est­ing para­graph: Mr. Blind­er omits a cru­cial fact about Lehman, one that, by itself, explains why the huge drop in val­ue of Lehman’s mort­gage-backed secu­ri­ties le…

This reminds me of an obser­va­tion some­one made a few months ago, “The prob­lem we have is that one par­ty is dan­ger­ous and the oth­er is stu­pid.”

Lib­er­als accord­ing to con­ser­v­a­tives, con­ser­v­a­tives accord­ing to lib­er­als

A 2006 CBS News sur­veys asked peo­ple who said they were con­ser­v­a­tive a few ques­tions about lib­er­als and asked peo­ple who said they were lib­er­als the same ques­tions about con­ser­v­a­tives (peo­ple who said…

This reminds me of some arti­cles I read back in school about epis­te­mol­o­gy. The mouseover text on this one is par­tic­u­lar­ly illu­mi­nat­ing.

xkcd: Debug­ger

Prev · Ran­dom; Next >; >|. Per­ma­nent link to this com­ic: http://xkcd.com/1163/ Image URL (for hotlinking/embedding): http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/debugger.png. Select­ed Comics. Search com­ic …

I’m not shar­ing this because of the top­ic or the author’s point of view. Instead, he made a fas­ci­nat­ing obser­va­tion: “How much free speech do we have? It depends on the medi­um. Maybe the sequence from less to more cen­sored is: 1. Con­ver­sa­tion. 2. Email and oth­er pri­vate writ­ing. 3. Blog post. 4. Poor­ly-writ­ten book. 5. Arti­cle in minor mag­a­zine. 6. Well-writ­ten book. 7. Arti­cle in pres­ti­gious mag­a­zine. 8. Text­book. From one step to the next (e.g., from con­ver­sa­tion to email), views become less diverse.” I am not sure I buy the mid­dle points of his con­tin­u­um (although maybe he means by “well-writ­ten book” some­thing more like “con­tro­ver­sial book writ­ten by some­one oth­er­wise cul­tur­al­ly respectable”).

Seth’s Blog » Blog Archive » “The Most Influ­en­tial Tree in the World”

When the fig­ures were pub­lished the extra­or­di­nary lack of data under­ly­ing the blade of the Yamal hock­ey stick caused a minor sen­sa­tion. In fact the high point at the end of the graph was shown to have…

Some­times it feels like this try­ing to get a meet­ing with a stu­dent. 😉

Dil­bert com­ic strip for 01/22/2013 from the offi­cial Dil­bert com­ic strips archive.

The Offi­cial Dil­bert Web­site fea­tur­ing Scott Adams Dil­bert strips, ani­ma­tion, mashups and more star­ring Dil­bert, Dog­bert, Wal­ly, The Pointy Haired Boss, Alice, Asok, Dog­bert’s New Rul­ing Class and mor…

This is a very inter­est­ing analy­sis of Cit­i­zens United. 

AsABlack­Man com­ments on I’m Con­gress­man Jim McGov­ern, and I just intro­duced two con­sti­tu­tion­al amend­ments to over­turn Cit­i­zens Unit­ed, get the mon­ey out of pol­i­tics, and restore “We, the peo­ple.”

**Edit** So I guess it’s not as unpop­u­lar as I thought it would be >_> Thank you for the red­dit gold! For those of you who want a TLDR, I’m *real­ly…

This is well-put. For pos­i­tive Chris­t­ian per­spec­tives on free mar­kets, google Robert Siri­co and Jay Richards.

Chief Rab­bi Sacks on Com­par­a­tive Advan­tage

In this short video, Jonathan Sacks, the Chief Rab­bi for the British Ortho­dox syn­a­gogues, explains how the “beautiful idea” of com­par­a­tive advan­tage pro­motes peace, coop­er­a­tion and tol­er­ance among all…