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I’ve been listening to the highly anticipated upcoming U2 album No Line On The Horizon, which is due to drop March 1st. It represents quite a change for U2 in some significant ways, though there are several instances where you can tell they’ve tried to put some of their classic ...

Famously, it took the Church about 400 years to concede that Galileo was right to reject geocentricity, the idea that the earth is at the center of the universe.  Now the Vatican is restating its view of recent years that Darwin was right about the origin of species, that human ...

Intelligent people are the target audience for Mac marketing:

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Once upon a time, on a farm in Virginia, there was a little red hen who scratched about the barnyard until she uncovered a few grains of wheat.  She called all of her neighbors together and said,  ‘If we put in the work to plant this wheat, we shall have bread to eat. ...

As seen from my office at work.

Check out Politifact’s Obameter, a reference tool which tracks about 500 of President Obama’s campaign promises and marks them as: Promise kept Compromise Promise broken Stalled In the works No action This should be interesting!  There are some promises I wish he would break, like the tax hikes he talked ...

For some reason, I feel like I should like Rick Warren.  He represented for me, in the nineties, what I believed to be a progressive force in the Christian church. Although I’m now something of a post-evangelical (old-fashioned term I know), I still feel some fondness for Warren; I now ...

I posted on W&T the below response to this story, regarding a home video taken by Prince Harry who was filming his army comrades and referred at one point to “…our Paki friend…” Ahmed, trigerring a firestorm of self-righteous moralising. For those of you who don’t know, Paki is a ...

See the Firearms section on the right for more on why banning guns is counterproductive and wrong in general, and see this video from the UK aptly titled ‘The British Called: They Want Their Guns Back!’

How to cure the common cold, below. From what I’ve gleaned from my various correspondences with people, one thing people tend to appreciate about me (among all the other things they can’t stand) is that I hold a high view of reason. In other words, I don’t say much on ...