What’s the deal with actuaries? Whenever a new list of the best jobs is compiled—like the recent rankings by Career Cast —they are always near the top. What could really be so great about interpreting statistics to determine probabilities of accidents, sickness, and death, and loss . . . . Continue Reading »
I was struck by this powerful remark:The ways of destroying the church are many and colorful. Raw factionalism will do it. Rank heresy will do it. Taking your eyes off the cross and letting other, more peripheral matters dominate the agenda will do it-admittedly more slowly than frank heresy, but . . . . Continue Reading »
The public is growing increasingly skeptical about the supposed crisis we face from human-caused global warming. From the story:The drop off in public support for the idea that global warming is a fact mostly caused by human activity looks most pronounced in Canada. In November, 63% of . . . . Continue Reading »
I can’t speak for David Hart, Joe, but I don’t think he was expressing (to use your words) “opposition to considering [the] possibility” of “Intelligent Design.” I think he was saying that the ID arguments lack the kind of rigor that some ID people seem to . . . . Continue Reading »
Is handwriting a dying technology? Anne Trubek explores that possibility and explains why it may not matter: If we define writing as a system of marks to record information (and discount petroglyphs, say), handwriting has been around for just 6,000 of humanity’s some 200,000 years. Its . . . . Continue Reading »
This is the sharpest (and strangest) example I’ve ever seen of how to explain that nonsensical performance art is not really art at all: The segment that made the greatest impression was that about Marco Evaristti. This fellow had his fat liposuctioned, turned into meatballs, canned and then . . . . Continue Reading »
Ever been stuck in traffic behind a car displaying this annoying bumper sticker? If so, you’ll want to read Jake Hunt’s dissection of what it really means . (Via: The Corner ) . . . . Continue Reading »
What a hoot!Part 2:And the finale:Those bad winters seem like the current one. Oh, oh!Dr. Stephen Schneider, who appears at the end of the video to worry that the cure for the ice age might be worse than the disease, is now a global warming alarmist. Ha!HT: . . . . Continue Reading »
A book based on presentations made two years or so ago at the Holocaust Museum of Houston has been released, by the name of Medicine After the Holocaust. I have a chapter on assisted suicide, which is a written version of my presentation at a public debate—link below—against Compassion . . . . Continue Reading »
The Big Hollywood blogger and actor Adam Baldwin, recently of the television series Chuck and Firefly, has taken up his virtual pen to defend Britt Hume from those who have criticized him for suggesting that Tiger Woods should consider Christianity in his time of crisis. Hume made the . . . . Continue Reading »
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