Tête-à-Tête-Tête

An absolutely fascinating documentary from the U.K.
It takes an hour and 15 minutes to watch this thing but I do hope that some of you global warming enthusiasts will take the time to watch it and report back to me as to why this is all just a bunch of hooey.
I am not a scientist but many [...]

This teapot sized tempest got me thinking. I think it really does all depend on what qualifies as “real”, “knowledge”, blah blah blah. Take this simple test, and then spend the rest of the day wondering why you did:
1. a) Do you agree that the Mona Lisa is good art?
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But it is dead-on. Lots of vertigo here. And applications far outside academic development.

I have a lot of it. Go Vols, you know. But Senator Finney really isn’t a source of it.
I hope the BoE gives him the smack-down he deserves.

They Found Jesus’ Bones, and his family’s, including his kid’s.
Let’s go back 27 years, when Israeli construction workers were gouging out the foundations for a new building in the industrial park in the Talpiyot, a Jerusalem suburb. of Jerusalem. The earth gave way, revealing a 2,000 year old cave with 10 stone caskets. [...]

Not George Washington. Not George W. — though they have discussed both today.
Global Warming, and how it is like eugenics. Seriously. Don’t switch to green power, or you’ll get sterilized. Or something.

dKos diary is a good read, unless you don’t like hearing these things. If that’s the case, plug your ears good - because it’s going to get more difficult to ignore this.
…Another good one

I don’t know exactly why I wasn’t invited to the Salk Institute forum on science & religion, or asked to participate in the TSN special, Beyond Belief. Maybe because I’m not [mockingly] famous enough. Or maybe because I didn’t hang around for my PhD (or my BS, for that matter). Whatever the reason, [...]

The wife e-mailed me some of the reading she has been doing on how our society deals with mental health issues (i.e. wait until someone who has an illness kills someone, then lock them up or kill them)… Depressing, I know, but people need to be aware. So make yourself that way:
The Unhealthy [...]

Just added this one to the list of random quotes that appears in the banner up top (does anyone read those?)
It is an excellent rule to be observed in all disputes that men should give soft words and hard arguments; that they would not so much strive to vex, as to convince an enemy.
-John Wilkins
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