Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- chino otsuka – double self portrait – Okay, this is both fascinating and creepy — combined self-portraits from 1976 and 2005.
- YouTube – Muslim Demographics – WE’RE DOOMED! DOOOOOOOMED!DOOOOOOOOOOOOMED!!!
- Gompertz Law of Mortality, or, your body wasn’t built to last – There’s a modern misperception that if only we find the right diet, the right medicine, the right feng shui, the right something, then we will have “perfect health” and, barring being hit by a meteor, never die. Um … no.
- A Modern Abraham-Isaac Story – I am glad that I do not possess such certainty of God’s will that I would be willing to stand by and watch my daughter die in this way, or in any way that I could prevent.
- Dr. Valerie Tarico- Non-theists and Evangelicals: The IM Interview | internetmonk.com – Highly recommended discussion of evangelism, non-theism, and how dialog between them can actually occur.
- Pity… – We bought our Subaru from Burt Subaru. We most definitely did not buy our Toyota from Burt Toyota (home of the “go ahead and wander out back, we’re on our cigarette break” school of car sales).
- Wet trailer gives us a shot at love – Okay, that’s very funny. Disturbing to the violence-averse, but funny.
- Slobber And Spittle: If We Can Put Men On The Moon … – It’s not so much that we have demanded to be consumers vs. citizens (as George frames it), but that private and politically powerful interests have convinced us that’s the only way to look at government: “What’s in it for me?”
- They’re Just Despicable. Scaring Seniors into Thinking They’ll be Euthanized is Worse Than Evil. – “And the people who are using it to frighten seniors for their own political benefit (or a talk-radio paycheck) should rot in hell.” Yes.
- Creating Outrage – Thus distinguishing between “democracy” on the one hand and “PR” and “demagoguery” on the other hand.
- Ambivalent about the “Like” feature, but definitely not fond of “Friending” – I really don’t get the “Like” feature in Google. It doesn’t seem to do much, and it is ambiguous as to whether it means “I found this story worth reading” vs. “This story made me happy.” I’d rather see a way to share with a note stream.
- Purity Fail – This is … amazing. Where is this from? The non-English text appears Arabic, but that’s certainly a guelo female model there. Bizarre …
- 50% of Southerners Don’t Think Obama Was Born in U.S.: Why Republican Politicians Are Skittish in Opposing the Birthers : Mike the Mad Biologist – (Boggles.)
- FCC Asks Apple, AT&T To Explain Why They Rejected Google Voice App [Investigations] – I, too, am interested in ‘how do you spin “because the only way we can make money off of our subscribers is if we keep out disruptive innovation that offers great value”?’
- Another way to tell Republicans and opponents of health care reform have lost their minds, or their hearts, or their conscience – Government for the sake of government is wrong, and usually counter-productive. But we seem to have come a long way from the Founders and their inspiration by Enlightenment minds like Hobbes, Locke, Hume, and Rousseau — who saw government as a way of folks banding together against external and internal threats. The Reagan mantra that “government is the problem” is fine in specific cases, but as an overall philosophy it leads to the sort of horrors mentioned in the article.
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Wow… I just watched the Muslim birthrate video. What a patchwork of half-truths and outright propaganda. For one thing, “The Muslim Birthrate” is only 8.1 in Afghanistan, where many of the children sadly don’t survive and certainly can’t afford to come to Europe. For another thing, they’re underestimating the corrupting power of Western culture. I think we could practically stop having kids altogether and the immigrants would soak up the Hollywood. Maybe they said something worthwhile toward the end.
No wonder they disabled comments on that video.
Yeah, the Mulim vid went around two weeks ago work. I told them I look forward to their vid on the Elder Scrolls of Zion…
From an earlier Culture War:
If you believe your faith is is God’s will, then it will ultimately triumph. If you’re that terrified that another belief system will supplant yours, then clearly your faith is rooted in something pretty darned weak.