Christians, Lighten Up!
Some of this was pretty clever:
Wiki Wednesday – Orch-OR
Orchestrated Objective Reduction: Orchestrated objective reduction (Orch-OR) is a controversial 20-year-old theory of consciousness conceptualized by the theoretical physicist Sir Roger Penrose and anesthesiologist Stuart Hameroff, which claims that consciousness derives from deeper level, finer scale quantum activities inside the cells, most prevalent in the brain’s neurons. It combines approaches from the radically different angles…
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Elizabeth Warren, Dolt
Ms. Warren gave a speech at an internet lefty forum the other day, laying out her ideal vision for the ideology. Needless to say, this woman is not the brainy heavy hitter that mainstream progressives believe her to be. Just mind-numbing, this… – “We believe that Wall Street needs stronger rules and tougher enforcement, and…
DetailsWhat If It Was Poison?
Does our demand for instant gratification in the realm of sex supersede all other concerns? Will we even examine the effects of the birth control pill? Not on nature, it seems…: At first glance, most fish caught in the Delaware River look perfectly normal. But scientists who investigated further discovered something very unusual. A sampling…
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Be a GOOD Economist
Not a Paul Krugman. Hazlitt explains what makes good and what makes terrible: Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man. This is no accident. The inherent difficulties of the subject would be great enough in any case, but they are multiplied a thousandfold by a factor that is insignificant…
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Scaling Everest
Insane, this mountain. Late prayers for the 16 sherpas.
Tolstoy’s Anarcho-Pacifism
Your lecture this week is the eminent Bob Higgs of the independent institute, commenting on Leo Tolstoy’s last great work, The Kingdom of God Is within You. I would very highly recommend the book as not only a political reflection but also a spiritual one, re-aiming man’s nature and destiny toward more than the usual…
DetailsKnow What You Support
I find myself neatly aligned against both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but many friends support Israel. Fine. Know what you support, the bombing of first responders after an initial hit:
God, save us.