Weekend Pictures, #2
May 16, 2005
See these same pictures on my Flickr account: Blue flowers, My best friend’s dog, Helicopter seeds, Sigma Chi frat house, and a nice sunset.
On History
May 10, 2005
Victor Davis Hanson, lifelong student of history, on history: Finally, there is a radically new idea that most occurrences of the past are of equal interest — far different from the Greeks’ notion that history meant inquiry about “important” events that cost or saved thousands of lives, or provided ideas and lessons that transcended space… Continue reading this entry
Self-writing joke, II (Dave W(h)iner edition)
May 8, 2005
Les Jones: LATER: At the after hours event John Cox was showing us his sketch book. His comment was that Dave Winer leading a conference on “Respectful Disagreement” was like a drunk leading an AA meeting. The hissy spell he had from the Blog Nashville talk is monumental—it reminds me of children sitting at the… Continue reading this entry
This weekend’s batch of pics
May 7, 2005
UPDATE: Here are the pics as Flickr postings, by the way. Respectively for the: Turtles, Sky On Glass, UMCP Admin Building, Floral Fuzz, and Abstract: Headlights.
What’s in your Firefox?
May 7, 2005
I’m late to the meme but it’s still fun to do. Thanks, Jason C.
Media bias?
May 6, 2005
I’ve been railing about the Religious Right—so much so that I’m back to using the term—in the past three posts (here, here and here) but it just occured to me: does the media give these religious wingnuts a free pass to a lot of presstime so that they could be laughed at? I know that… Continue reading this entry
A curse on both houses
May 6, 2005
Radley Balko: I ask you, which is worse? The American left won’t let agri-firms develop biotech products that could save millions of lives in the developing world because it upsets their delicate notions of what’s “natural” (never mind how many of the world’s poor have succumbed to malaria because of the green left’s objections to… Continue reading this entry
Blood out of the stone
May 6, 2005
Sometimes it’s really hard to give the loud, boohooey “Christian Right” the benefit of the doubt when it comes to their antics about governance. Yesterday, three articles made waves among political bloggers: Why I’m Rooting Against the Religious Right, by Christopher Hitchens, The Christian Complex by George F. Will (probably my favorite columnist these days)… Continue reading this entry
If I may split some hairs
May 5, 2005
So it’s “unladylike” for the FLOTUS to engage in some sexual humor at a venue where the President is generally the subject of a humorous roast (stoked by himself as well) but it is “unmanly” for any male to be less than boorish? More substantial opinions: Jeff Goldstein, Bill of INDC Journal, and Prof. J.… Continue reading this entry
Is this what science education in this country is like?
May 5, 2005
Political correctness in our science textbooks: But then there’s lots that’s puzzling about the science textbooks used in American classrooms. A sloppy way with facts, a preference for the politically correct over the scientifically sound, and sheer faddism characterize their content. It’s as if their authors had decided above all not to expose students to… Continue reading this entry