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Who killed Shatner? 2008-11-17T23:32:44-05:00 Have you ever seen a literary character eclipse an author? Take Captain Kirk, for example: though he is only a fictional character, he's much more frequently remembered than his creator, Gene Roddenberry. Nearly everyone recognizes Kirk, but not everyone knows...
The (Circus) Arena of Ideas 2008-11-14T17:12:48-05:00 By Robin Dembroff Hearts should be breaking. In a story released yesterday, November 13, on FoxNews, a report was given of an elderly woman who attended a "No on Prop 8" rally in order to support traditional marriage. Sixty-nine year...
Interesting and Amusing (v.2) 2008-11-14T08:00:00-05:00 Interesting: The physics of this dunk by LeBron James Amusing: Sound smarter than you are. Smugopedia. Bling "Although all the rage today, bling couldn't have existed a few years ago; FDR, after all, made the private ownership of gold illegal...
Plato blogging: The Phaedo 2008-11-12T20:33:54-05:00 Thanks to projects like archive.org, this post will probably still be online when you are dead. Weird, huh? In the beginning of Plato's Phaedo Phaedo describes to Echectrates the conversation Socrates had with his friends in his prison cell while...
Tolerance 2008-11-12T16:23:09-05:00 Tolerance: "A fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward opinions and practices that differ from one's own." From the Desert Sun: The woman at the center of a disturbance that erupted at a protest against the gay marriage ban on Friday...
Thank you, veterans 2008-11-11T14:34:13-05:00 Thank you to all of our readers here who are veterans. I appreciate the work you have done and the sacrifices you have made for the rest of us. Thank you to my brother-in-law John, who ships out to Iraq...
Attention, bloggers! 2008-11-06T21:46:11-05:00 Are you trying to launch the next best place in the blogosphere? Hoping to attract a few new readers? Or perhaps just experiencing writer's block (blogger's block?) and looking for some new material? Boy have I been there. That's why...
Soils for the Seeds of Doctrine: Chesterton's Orthodoxy Turns 100 2008-11-06T17:11:34-05:00 By Matthew Anderson I have always thought that every academic--or wannabe, such as myself--ought have one or two hypotheses that are held very loosely, are somewhat defensible but impossible to prove, and just fringe enough to make academic parties mildly...
God Save the President Elect 2008-11-05T17:01:20-05:00 By Robert Stevenson Last night, for the first time, a black man accepted his election as the next President of the United States. In that sense, today is a glorious and redemptive day in American history. As I look forward...
Prop 8 Is About the Kids 2008-11-04T12:14:45-05:00 Californians, today you are being asked to vote on one of the most critical pieces of legislation that we have yet seen. I have given an extensive argument for why I believe it is moral and just to support proposition...
