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For an executive order prohibiting the use of “enhanced interrogation” aka torture. See Waterboarding Is Torture…Period from a source that, to say the least, can’t be accused of being either naive or ignorant on the subject. (I’ve previously written about torture here and here.) And one quiet sigh of relief that Wednesday has come and…
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As I never tire of saying, I am not a philosopher or theologian. But to the extent that I understand it, I’ve always thought St. Anselm’s ontological argument for the existence of God strange, intriguing, and unconvincing. I didn’t know until this morning that Anselm’s is not the only ontological argument, and that they all…
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From Julianne Wiley via Daniel: Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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Ok, the whole country, even those of us who were not Obama supporters, is justified in feeling a warm glow about the fact that a man of mixed race has been elected to our highest office. (I find it difficult to refer to him as “black,” since he really isn’t, in either the literal or…
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I’ve been thinking of these two lines since posting the anecdote below. They were all I could remember of the poem, and I wasn’t sure who wrote it, so it took me a bit of looking to find it. Women are really much nicer than men:No wonder we like them. —Kingsley Amis, “A Bookshop Idyll”…
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I picked this up on a whim at the library a couple of weeks ago, when my daughter was home from college and the only Netflix movies we had at home were very serious, heavy things (e.g The Machinist). This looked like a pleasant light romance that all three of us—wife, daughter, and self—might enjoy.…
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In a comment yesterday (somewhere in Janet’s Undead Thread, I think) Francesca mentioned a female student who was uncomfortable as the only woman in a class. It reminded me of something that happened to me quite a few years ago, in the early 1980s when I was maybe 35 or so. I was participating in…
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This Christmas my wife decided to put these big globes covered with tiny lights in the live oak tree in the front yard and in the vines over the swing. The effect was rather enchanting. I tried to take pictures of it but without a tripod I got a lot of blurring. Still… Click through…
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Second in a whenever series. I’m not so sure this one is true but it’s funny: Angst Is Not A Weltanschauung. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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…tell me our new president is not going to own a breed of dog known as the “labradoodle.” Why can’t he just get a basic all-American kind of dog? Like, you know, a German shepherd? Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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