One Sweet DreamSoon we'll be away from here.(Untitled)- January 29, 2005 Helping Us Over the Wall It's ironic to me that so many of the cruxes that shape our world are the result of almost miraculous coincidence. All the oil just happens to be under Islamic soil. After the Jews are nearly exterminated in the middle of the last century, they are compensated by being awarded the very land they were promised in the Bible, a land which also houses the most holy shrines of Christianity and Islam. And the very seat of the flowering of a way for humans to live in peace is..http://blogs.salon.com/0003800/2005/01/29.html#a87 (Untitled)- January 18, 2005 The New Communists Listening to NPR last week, they were discussing the upcoming inauguration, discussions with various players about the way the people who don't believe in the emperor's clothes are being kept away from the action. One guy - the head of the Republican Inauguration Committee or something - said, and from memory, I think this is a direct quote, "Groups like ANSWER and Code Pink have aligned themselves with the terrorists and Saddam Hussein. They have no business at the...http://blogs.salon.com/0003800/2005/01/18.html#a86 (Untitled)- January 17, 2005 The Intelligence of Intelligent Design From today's New York Times: Following is a statement on evolution and an alternative that a school administrator in Dover, Pa., is expected to read to high school biology students this week: The Pennsylvania Academic Standards require students to learn about Darwin's theory of evolution and eventually take a standardized test of which evolution is a part. Because Darwin's theory is a theory, it continues to be tested as new evidence is discovered....http://blogs.salon.com/0003800/2005/01/16.html#a85 (Untitled)- January 15, 2005 New Job Yep, a new job. Same company (a daily newspaper) but different job. Better job. But less time for blogging. How about those Europeans They landed a spacecraft on Titan, one of the moons of Saturn, over a light-hour away from Earth. And it's sending back picutres. Looks kind of like coming in for a landing in Santa Barbara, nohttp://blogs.salon.com/0003800/2005/01/15.html#a84 |