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Turns out our guy isn’t a sore winner.
Archive for January, 2009
January 17th, 2009
Category: Uncategorized
Sensible, constructive, respectful, and convincing.
January 17th, 2009
Category: Science and its methods
Aritotle’s celestial sphere is back as the limit of the observable universe.
January 16th, 2009
Category: Spirituality and Religion
Did he mean that it would be better to remain silent than to speculate about the nature of the Divine?
January 16th, 2009
Category: Policy Analysis
The Economist was wrong, but there are probably better unused ideas for aircraft safety.
January 15th, 2009
Category: Torture
All right, Senator, I’ll take your “ticking-bomb” hypo. Let’s imagine that the person who might know where the ticking bomb is happens to be named “John Cornyn.”
January 15th, 2009
Category: Wayward press
Watch him take down Joe the Plumbing-school Dropout on the question of war correspondents.
January 15th, 2009
Category: Literature
Jefferson blamed Plato for the neo-Platonist accretions to Christian theology.