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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?

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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…

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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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Heh.

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I believe this. There has prob­a­bly nev­er been a bet­ter time in the his­to­ry of the world to be an autis­tic youth than today.

The Autism Advan­tage

That is a new and excel­lent fea­ture sto­ry by Gareth Cook. Much of the arti­cle con­cerns Spe­cial­is­terne, a Dan­ish com­pa­ny which spe­cial­izes in hir­ing autis­tic indi­vid­u­als to per­form tech­ni­cal tasks.……

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This is a good insight. I had nev­er thought deeply about the image before.

Sow­ing in Tears

I recent­ly came across these words writ­ten by John Piper 21 years ago regard­ing Psalm 126:5–6. Many a God-lover has paused over these two vers­es, chew­ing on the real­i­ty they rep­re­sent. Piper’…

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Heh: “Do you trust a lawyer whose job descrip­tion involves manip­u­lat­ing the truth? Or do you trust the free press whose mis­sion is to bring you accu­rate and use­ful news? I’m going with the lawyer on this one.”

Scott Adams Blog: The Shirt­less FBI Guy 11/15/2012

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I vouch for this method. It real­ly is sur­pris­ing­ly effec­tive.

Scott Adams Blog: The Go-Back Pre­ven­tion Mem­o­ry Trick 11/19/2012

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I don’t know much about Mark Cuban, but I almost always find his analy­ses insight­ful.

Face­book Needs To Accept That It’s Just A Time Waster

Don’t mess with what works.