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Clear­ly, Lord Vad­er has been busy. See Vad­er Chokes Offi­cer — I find your lack of faith dis­turb­ing for details.

Cen­sus reveals more peo­ple iden­ti­fy as Jedi Knights than athe­ists

The num­ber of Jedi Knights appears to have near­ly halved in the last decade, but still beats the amount of peo­ple who pos­i­tive­ly iden­ti­fy as athe­ists in Eng­land and Wales, accord­ing to results of the …

I find this argu­ment plau­si­ble.

Roger Ebert on the medi­a’s cov­er­age of school shoot­ings

From his review of Gus Van San­t’s Ele­phant, a fic­tion­al­ized account of a Columbine-like school shoot­ing, here’s Roger Ebert on the

This is one of the most mar­velous exam­ples of peo­ple respond­ing to incen­tives that I can think of. Sur­pris­ing and yet obvi­ous in ret­ro­spect.

Snitch­ing mar­kets in every­thing

The pris­on­ers in Atlanta’s hulk­ing down­town jail had a prob­lem. They want­ed to snitch for fed­er­al agents, but they didn’t know any­thing worth telling. Fel­low pris­on­er Mar­cus Watkins, a…

Basic Instruc­tions deliv­ers again.

Basic Instruc­tions — Basic Instruc­tions — How to Gra­cious­ly Receive an Hon­or

As I told the sub­scribers when they saw this com­ic, some­one I know asked me to be the execu­tor …

He makes a very good point in the final pan­el.

Basic Instruc­tions — Basic Instruc­tions — How to Talk Some­one out of Mak­ing a Wretched Mis­take

Thanks as always for using my Ama­zon Affil­i­ate links ( US , UK , Cana­da ).

I must con­fess that the truth behind the first myth was a sur­prise to me, and I con­sid­er myself very well informed on these issues. 

5 Myths about Jubilee

Found in Leviti­cus 25, the bib­li­cal prac­tice of Jubilee is becom­ing ever more promi­nent in dis­cus­sions about jus­tice, pover­ty, and debt relief. Many evan­gel­i­cal authors men­tion Jubilee as a bib­li­cal exam­ple of debt for­give­ness and redis­tri­b­u­tion of land. It has also gained pop­u­lar atten­tion in the news media.

Jubilee has been offered by sev­er­al sources as a solu­tion to our cur­rent eco­nom­ic cri­sis. At Forbes, Erik Kain asked, “Could a debt jubile…

There are some help­ful thoughts here about the chal­lenge of mak­ing his­tor­i­cal films. Leav­ing aside the specifics about the movie Lin­coln (which I have not seen), I agree with Douthat’s broad­er points.

Spiel­berg’s “Lin­coln” and Its Crit­ics

Is this fal­l’s big his­tor­i­cal film unfair to rad­i­cal­ism?

Some of these num­bers are amaz­ing. I’m not sur­prised at the way the study was report­ed, though. This is like those stud­ies that tell peo­ple cof­fee is good for them: they so want it to be true that they don’t look at the details.

The Naked Truth about Self-Esteem?

About a week ago a curi­ous sto­ry began to make the media rounds. Appar­ent­ly porn stars’ lives aren’t near­ly the mess they are often pre­sumed to be. Instead, the news cycle declared, they dis­play great…

This is an inter­est­ing way to think about it, although I must con­fess that I have qualms about those who pro­fess to love all of mankind and yet do not love the peo­ple around them.

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Group of Nor­mal High School Girls Call Them­selves the Cra­zi­est

The Stan­ford Flip­side is a week­ly satir­i­cal pub­li­ca­tion at Stan­ford Uni­ver­si­ty.