One of the main jobs top civil servants have – arguably the only main job – is to tell politicians that their policies are reckless if that is the way a sober look at things adds up. If the politicians then ignore the advice, civil servants have all sorts of […]
Which category of believers is the more irrational? A brilliant passage: If the point is that Jones has the right to burn the book, but he should refrain from exercising it and be sensitive to the feelings of others, then Obama is contradicting the approach he took to the close-to-Ground-Zero […]
BBRU 280 is up at Redemption Blues. The host, Chameleon, loves to take these blog links on their merits (and, yes, many of them do have merits!) and mull over the ideas they prompt. Plus she has this excellent passage on the idea that we have too many consumerist ‘choices’: […]
Does Science prove or at least entail the unexistence of God(s)? Graham Farmello elegantly points out that they are all about different things: God did not create the universe, Stephen Hawking revealed yesterday. In the flurry of publicity preceding his new book, The Grand Design, to be published next week, […]
In Las Vegas later this month and looking for something cool to do away from the casinos? This could be interesting.
An interesting piece at NRO which reviews a new book by Robert Reilly, The Closing of the Muslim Mind. It traces features of Islam (and indeed Christianity) back to the very deepest roots, namely core assumptions about God’s nature laid down centuries ago: While Christianity recognizes the possibility of miracles, when […]
Should women be allowed to go topless? That’s the question posed by National Go Topless Day. Which maybe you missed last week. Too bad. Yet it somehow seems to me to be the wrong question, or at least it is replete with all sorts of curious assumptions which may need challenging: […]
UK Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg offers this thought: All parents have a responsibility to nurture the potential in their children. I know how difficult it can be to find the time and the energy to help with homework at the end of a busy day. But if we give […]
The grim profile of the US Federal Reserve’s balance sheet. Volcanic?
Is hosted by a Very British dude. Including a deft analysis by The Melangerie about the impact (or not) on the British economy of abolishing slavery in the C19. It responds to a piece by Johann Hari which attacks working conditions in China. And farewell Nee Naw. Oh, and here […]
