I haven’t done this in a while, but here are some things that caught my eye today while I was updating my blogroll. Loosely grouped by topic, here ya go… I have a special fondness for these open letters to George W. Bush from his ardent admirer Belacqua Jones. The latest is no exception. Pastor Dan at Street Prophets has video and transcript of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid rebuking the President. At Reconstitution, a news roundup – including that…
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How will you be defined in the dictionary? Just enter your name – it’s a random generator. VirusHead — [adjective]: Pretentiously academian Yikes! Aww……man…. I’m going to try it again… VirusHead — [noun]: A poltergeist sent back in time to change the course of history forever. Whew! That’s much better. The other one is…wrong, but too close! lol Heidi N — [noun]: A person with a sixth sense for detecting the presence of goblins Well, that’s pretty accurate… Thanks Laureth….
This is a fun thing from Defenders of Wildlife, whose current projects include working to end aerial gunning of wolves in Alaska and the slaughter of wolves in in the Northern Rocky Mountains of Idaho and Wyoming, trying to prevent the extinction of Florida panthers and protect polar bears from global warming (and Big Oil’s disastrous drilling plans). Watch me turn into aJaguar at YouWild.org Now… watch me pull a rabbit out of this hat (obscure reference to amuse my…
The trouble with philosophical abstraction is that it tries to create a space separated from the world. The metaphor of the slippery slope, for example, has become almost literal. That’s why it is often effective. Who wants to slide down a slippery slope? What is unstated but operative is that this metaphor encourages the reader/hearer to assume – without question – that there exists a place that is not slippery, where one cannot slide or fall. In our complex world…
Ominous development… Fifteen British Royal Marines on patrol in the Persian Gulf have been “seized” by the Iranian navy, the British Ministry of Defense said. The Marines were “engaged in routine boarding operations of merchant shipping in Iraqi territorial waters,” the ministry said in a statement on Friday. A U.S. military official who monitors the region told CNN the Marines stopped an Iranian ship suspected of smuggling automobiles, and boarded it for an inspection. While the Marines were on board,…