Freethinkers, in their attempts to cast light on culture’s many logical foibles, can lose focus. Like the more traditional naysayers, who bemoan our times while looking foggily to those good-old-days that never existed, liberal critical thinkers can come to a similarly deluded doom-and-gloom conclusion. Of course, the evidence used by…
According to this article, Barry Goldwater’s book, The Conscience of a Conservative, is being reissued. Timely reading? Depends on what audience at which this is aimed. I seriously doubt conservatives of the Rove/Norquist stripe will have much sympathy with Goldwater, who now seems admirable and even iconic compared to the…
In a recent poll, reading in America is revealed to be, well, less than appreciated by large swaths of the population. This ought come as no surprise. We live in a time of stupendous ignorance, which allows for the expression of epic stupidity. The Founding Fathers were suspicious of democracy…
I caught this on Andrew Sullivan's site, The Daily Dish. The premise? What if Mary Poppins was made into a horror film? Here's what: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T5_0AGdFic[/youtube]
This is the title of a newspaper commentary column that I stumbled onto recently. It was less annoying than I thought it would be. The "New Facts" turn out to be mainly the testimony of Ken Ham's Creation Museum (Here's my earlier post about that). One gripe I have is…