I haven't been posting much lately--deadlines on other things, etc.--but I'm working on a couple of fairly thorny ones. In the meantime, since it IS Super Bowl Sunday, I thought I might suggest a review of an older post of mine on the subject. Link is here: http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=402 I haven't…
Molly Ivins has passed away. We’ve lost one of the sharpest voices in political journalism, an erudite and empassioned observer. The CNN report is here. I’ve followed Molly’s words on and off for the better part of two decades and I have found her cool judgment and sound reasoning cause…
This link is to an article on a recent example of ongoing human evolution. It's a month old, so many may already be aware, but I post it to point out that in the debate with IDers and Creationists, we who suspect there's something to evolution are too often caught…
Did you see Virginia Sen. Jim Webb's response to the President's State of the Union address last night? Here's the text. The President took us into this war recklessly. He disregarded warnings from the national security adviser during the first Gulf War, the chief of staff of the army, two…
Here’s one perspective. It’s an excerpt from an article from The Economist, entitled: “Who Killed the Newspaper?”: Having ignored reality for years, newspapers are at last doing something. In order to cut costs, they are already spending less on journalism. Many are also trying to attract younger readers by shifting…