Archive for the ‘religion’ Category
Monday, September 29th, 2008
Writes Ari Armstrong on why Libby Szabo lost his vote for Colorado's State Senate District 19:
In races across the country, voters face terrible choices, with theocrats on one side, socialists on the other.
Nearly a year ago, I sent a letter to various candidates asking them to endorse the separation of ...
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Sunday, September 2nd, 2007
Last night Liz and I watched an episode of Darren Brown's Mind Control on the SciFi Channel. There were three remarkable segments in this show. In one of them he used his skill in detecting lies to navigate an obstacle course, and (if you believe him) was confident ...
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Tuesday, December 28th, 2004
John Stossel has an article about Michael Crichton's new novel, State of Fear, which is critical of whether human acitivities are causing global warming. Crichton also has a speech on the subject, Aliens Cause Global Warming, which he gave at Caltech. I have not read this one yet, ...
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Saturday, August 7th, 2004
Wednesday morning was quite frustrating for reasons not worth elaboration, but around noon, as I was walking on campus a Mormon Missionary accosted me and began to walk with me. Perhaps I was so exhausted from the morning I did not have the energy to argue with him or ...
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