Thursday, December 27, 2007
Sunday, December 23, 2007
Saturday, April 14, 2007
Saturday, March 10, 2007
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Picking the Neocon's Brain
I'm beginning to think that trying to understand the current American administration's approach to foreign policy with any sort of pragmatic framework, no matter how jaded, is a complete waste of time. George Bush has a fragile grip on reality. Dick Cheney has lost that grip entirely.
I don't think it takes a war strategist to determine that an American attack on Iran would be devastating for all involved. (The irony is that Iran's sudden rise of regional power is largely due to the American 'intervention'.) The only countries that would possibly benefit, as far as I can see, would be the Sunni strongholds in the region; particularly Saudi Arabia. So what is going on with all the posturing, and saber rattling? Is the American administration trying to manufacture some sort of leverage? Are they looking for some sort of distraction from the Iraq debacle? Or should I toss aside the pragmatism and surmise that they are not just dumb, but crazy, delusional, war-mongering megalomaniac mofos, who behave like a modern-day Don Quixote, running around looking for windmills to attack? Tony Blair would then be Sancho Panza. Everything is making more sense already.
We've heard claims that Iran is providing Shiite groups with weapons, and these weapons have killed American soldiers. This is likely true, but here's a news-flash to the seemingly clueless American media; Saudi Arabia is providing Sunnis with weapons. While I don't know the percentages, I'm certain it stands to reason that more American soldiers have been killed by Sunnis than by Shiites. So why on earth is Iran being singled out? On top of this, Al Queda is the product of Wahhabism. Wahhabism is the product of Saudi Arabia. Its obvious that in order to make it in American politics, ignorance of history and the world around you is an asset. Your average mid-western hick should have this all figured out by now, let alone the politicians. And the media who can't seem to identify the hypocrisy in front of their noses don't deserve the title of 'news outlet'.
Friday, February 23, 2007
Monday, January 15, 2007
Places I've Been Lately
"Massive Resource List for All Autodidacts"
"Evolution of the Mammalian Vagina"
Teach the Controversy...All of Them
"Dinosaurs, Humans Coexist in U.S. Creation Museum"
The American Geological Society on Evolution
Quantum Mechanics Lecture: To Be Read When I Want a Migraine
Monday, January 08, 2007
Sunday, January 07, 2007
Saturday, January 06, 2007
The Archimedes Palimpsest
| Google TechTalks March 7, 2006 Will Noel Roger L. Easton, Jr. Michael B. Toth ABSTRACT The Archimedes Palimpsest is a 10th Century medieval manuscript that is the subject of an ongoing technical, scientific and conservation effort at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland. Since 1999, the multidisciplinary team has been disbinding, conserving, imaging, analyzing, transcribing and studying the 174 parchment folios – yielding approximately 400Gb of data to date. The Palimpsest, which the team affectionately calls “Archie,” includes at least seven treatises by Archimedes: The only copies of two of his Treatises, /The Method/ and /Stomachion/; the only copy in Greek of /On Floating Bodies;/ and copies of the /Equilibrium of Planes/, /Spiral Lines/, /The Measurement of the Circle/, and /Sphere and Cylinder/. It also contains 10 pages of text by the 4th century B.C. Attic Greek orator Hyperides; six folios from a Neo-Platonic philosophical text that has yet to be identified, but may be commentaries on Aristotle; four folios from a liturgical book; and twelve pages from two different books, the text of which has yet to be deciphered. | |
University of Kansas: Humanities Lecture Series
I've listened to the following two; both are very good. Kenneth Miller gives a good lesson in evolution, as well as, interestingly enough, some of the better aspects of Catholic theology.
Os Guinness does a good job convincing the listener that perhaps 'thinking Christian' is not an oxymoron after all.
Kenneth Miller, Professor of Biology, Brown University
“God, Darwin, and Design: Creationism’s Second Coming"
Os Guinness, Theologian & Author; Co-Founder of The Trinity Forum
"A World Safe for Diversity: Living with our Deepest Differences in an Age of Exploding Pluralism"
There are also lectures by Richard Dawkins and Judge John E. Jones that I haven't listened to yet. There is also a lecture by Michael Behe for some reason. He certainly seems the dim bulb in the group, but I haven't listened to them all yet.
Thursday, January 04, 2007
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