The key to insight is figuring out the right question to ask. This essay outlines a very interesting question. But one answer is unacceptable.
Essay of the Week: 11/22/09-11/28/09
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Shows how much they really care about human rights. If there is any justification for hauling foreign dignitaries to the docket for human rights abuses these guys should have been at the top of the list.
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Essay of the Week: 11/15/09-11/21/09
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This might be next week’s essay of the week. But if you have the time, you might want to read it now. The question of the hour is who told what and why. You can’t believe anything you read in such articles and yet it might all be true.
From Megan McArdle:“California has come up with a novel way to close this year’s budget gaps: it’s increasing withholding from the paychecks of its citizens.”
You can leave, but you can never talk. What would happen if a church tried to slap such a legal injunction on a pastor?
Lines that make you lose respect for Scientists: “”Early paleontologists recognised the distinction between adults and juveniles, but people have lost track of looking at ontogeny – how the individual develops – when they discover a new fossil.”
Rant of the Week: 11/1/09-11/7/09
This week’s rant of the week is “Going Norm Galt.”
Essay of the Week: 11/1/09-11/7/09
Did you know that there is lots of good evidence questioning whether the flu vaccine does any good? Did you know that in spite of this fact most of the medical profession considers it unethical to test the flu vaccine the way that other medical drugs are tested?
These facts come from this essay from Atlantic Monthly that should be required reading for those who buy into the flu vaccine hype. Most of the rest of us know from our own experience that it does not do much good.
Heaven forfend
You have sunk pretty low when a popular movie can tell you why what you are doing is a bad idea. In this case, extrapolating a crime from a fact.