Tête-à-Tête-Tête

Dan Harper briefly addresses what I think is among the more pivotal points about religion in the context of debate about its value, here… namely, that religion doesn’t necessarily mean “belief” (about God, the supernatural, etc… or about objective reality at all, per se).
In fact, I think that one of the tasks religion is most [...]

When I looked at the t-t-t home page this morning, the random quote at the top was this one:
“If human beings don’t keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up. After a few months’ consideration and observation he abandonded this theory in favor of a new one. If they don’t keep on [...]

Barry over at the Inn of the Last Home asks himself the question all bloggers ask themselves at some time or another. Why do I do this?
I’m struggling to define my blogging existence, and this will help.
I hope it does Barry. I really do. I have noticed this question popping up in a few other blog [...]

I notice a front page post on Red State from U.S. Representative Thaddeus McCotter, lamenting the lack of passion about last year’s bogey-man.
Let me just say that I don’t have a strong position on trade relations with communist and other oppressive governments. I strongly disagree with embargoes or long-term sanctions against entire nations. [...]

… but only after a pleasant weekend, away from work. Truth be told, Saturday kind of sucked for me. It was a beautiful day, and I felt too crappy to get out, do anything, or enjoy it. I blame the preceding Monday through Friday. I saved alll my outings and chores for Sunday. [...]

Strides of March AIDS Walk, Sunday - 1p.m. or thereabouts. Come on.

NYT on primate’s moral building blocks.
Very interesting stuff about what amounts to a relatively new field of research in biology - and one that may have strong implications for philosophy. Fun stuff. I’ll try to come back & update this post with some interesting excerpts & maybe even a comment. (Update: the [...]

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 [...]

Mike Huckabee get’s one wrong… might be thought of as a biggie (via Atrios). Of course, the clueless, godless liberals defend him, and also get it wrong. The Golden Rule is none of the “commandments” - not even the “Second Greatest”. It’s a pretty good one, though, as is the “Second Greatest”.
This screw-up [...]

Interesting comment in the previous thread from Thomas at NewsRack Blog. It appears that Chattanooga based IT firm, SmarTech may run some of the e-mail servers that were used to skate presidential record-keeping requirements on some communications related to Attorney-Gate. So, if anybody local to here knows anything about this firm, and/or recent [...]